Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 403 404
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 246 274 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 187 184 341
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £96,250 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.51% -21.85%
75th Percentile £105,000 £130,938 £96,250
90th Percentile £123,500 £148,375 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £98,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.46% +41.07% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 53,649 41,053 62,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 91.52% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 34,515 21,746 49,940
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,658 £45,000 £39,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in England

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +45 162 £100,000 -6.98% 32
North of England -5 40 £65,000 - 13
North West +4 24 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East +18 16 £81,250 +16.07% 23
Midlands +16 11 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -28 11 £55,000 +57.14% 1
South West -37 10 £60,000 -40.00% 20
West Midlands +20 7 £50,000 -11.11% 8
North East -7 5 £53,565 -33.04% 4
East Midlands -11 3 £70,000 +55.56% 3
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 February 2026, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 246 (100.00%) Java
2 161 (65.45%) Software Engineering
3 127 (51.63%) AWS
4 93 (37.80%) Spring
5 81 (32.93%) Microservices
6 77 (31.30%) Spring Boot
7 74 (30.08%) Agile
8 72 (29.27%) CI/CD
9 59 (23.98%) Kubernetes
9 59 (23.98%) Test Automation
10 51 (20.73%) Mentoring
11 44 (17.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (15.45%) SQL
13 35 (14.23%) Kafka
14 33 (13.41%) BDD
15 32 (13.01%) Fintech
15 32 (13.01%) SaaS
16 31 (12.60%) Docker
17 30 (12.20%) TDD
18 29 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
18 29 (11.79%) Python
19 28 (11.38%) JavaScript
19 28 (11.38%) Terraform
19 28 (11.38%) TypeScript
20 27 (10.98%) DevOps
20 27 (10.98%) Event-Driven
21 25 (10.16%) React
22 24 (9.76%) Investment Management
22 24 (9.76%) NoSQL
23 23 (9.35%) Kotlin

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.41%) Camunda
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 127 (51.63%) AWS
2 32 (13.01%) SaaS
3 19 (7.72%) GCP
4 17 (6.91%) Snowflake
5 16 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (6.50%) Azure
5 16 (6.50%) dbt
6 8 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.25%) GitHub
7 6 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
7 6 (2.44%) Serverless
8 4 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.41%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.41%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.63%) AMQP
2 1 (0.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.41%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 21 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.69%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (5.69%) Apache Iceberg
4 14 (5.69%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (5.69%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.69%) Dremio
5 8 (3.25%) MySQL
6 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.41%) Big Data
9 1 (0.41%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.50%) TeamCity
2 10 (4.07%) Cucumber
2 10 (4.07%) GitLab
3 6 (2.44%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.44%) Git
3 6 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.63%) JUnit
5 3 (1.22%) JMeter
6 2 (0.81%) Maven
6 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.81%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.41%) Appium
7 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.41%) Gradle
7 1 (0.41%) JIRA
7 1 (0.41%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.41%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 88 (35.77%) Finance
2 44 (17.89%) Banking
3 31 (12.60%) Financial Institution
4 21 (8.54%) Front Office
5 20 (8.13%) Retail
6 19 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (7.32%) Social Skills
8 16 (6.50%) Investment Banking
8 16 (6.50%) Law
9 13 (5.28%) Back Office
10 12 (4.88%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.25%) Games
12 4 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.63%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.22%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.22%) Marketing
13 3 (1.22%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Aviation
15 1 (0.41%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (37.80%) Spring
2 77 (31.30%) Spring Boot
3 35 (14.23%) Kafka
4 25 (10.16%) React
5 20 (8.13%) RESTful
6 17 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (6.10%) Node.js
8 14 (5.69%) gRPC
8 14 (5.69%) NumPy
8 14 (5.69%) Pandas
8 14 (5.69%) Protocol Buffers
8 14 (5.69%) SciPy
9 13 (5.28%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (4.88%) Akka
10 12 (4.88%) JMS
10 12 (4.88%) RxJava
10 12 (4.88%) Spring WebFlux
11 10 (4.07%) REST
12 9 (3.66%) Hibernate
13 8 (3.25%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.32%) Derivative
4 16 (6.50%) Equities
4 16 (6.50%) Fixed Income
5 14 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (5.69%) Hedge funds
5 14 (5.69%) Pricing Data
6 10 (4.07%) Blog
7 9 (3.66%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.85%) e-Learning
10 5 (2.03%) NHS
11 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.81%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.41%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (65.45%) Software Engineering
2 81 (32.93%) Microservices
3 74 (30.08%) Agile
4 72 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 59 (23.98%) Test Automation
6 51 (20.73%) Mentoring
7 44 (17.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (13.41%) BDD
9 32 (13.01%) Fintech
10 30 (12.20%) TDD
11 27 (10.98%) DevOps
11 27 (10.98%) Event-Driven
12 24 (9.76%) Investment Management
13 22 (8.94%) Clean Code
13 22 (8.94%) Continuous Deployment
14 19 (7.72%) Coaching
14 19 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (6.91%) Deployment Automation
16 16 (6.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 16 (6.50%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 246 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (15.45%) SQL
3 29 (11.79%) Python
4 28 (11.38%) JavaScript
4 28 (11.38%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.35%) Kotlin
6 9 (3.66%) Go
7 2 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.41%) C
8 1 (0.41%) C++
8 1 (0.41%) Ruby
8 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (6.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.47%) Degree
4 7 (2.85%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.85%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.85%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.22%) QA
2 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 31 (12.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (23.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.38%) Terraform
3 20 (8.13%) Grafana
4 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.81%) Ansible
5 2 (0.81%) Packer
5 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) Istio
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.63%) Oracle
2 2 (0.81%) Splunk
2 2 (0.81%) VMware
3 1 (0.41%) Databricks
3 1 (0.41%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.41%) Solarflare