Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 October 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 332 341
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 +65
Permanent Java Engineer jobs 626 326 451
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.76% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.84% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 454 187 323
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,625 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +31.96%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts in England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
24 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in England matching a recognised job title 98,146 38,982 58,749
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.22% 90.62% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 68,067 23,606 33,541
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,300 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +12.95% -7.08% -5.83%

Java Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Java Engineer job postings 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 Java Engineer jobs in England over the 6 months to 24 October 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 Java Engineer jobs within the England region over the 6 months to 24 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London -33 281 £85,000 -22.73% 241
North of England +103 220 £70,000 -3.45% 61
North West +70 137 £75,000 -10.45% 47
South West -58 52 £70,000 +16.67% 28
Yorkshire +4 44 £70,000 -3.45% 7
North East -36 39 £52,130 -5.22% 7
Midlands -43 34 £70,000 +16.67% 15
South East -47 33 £90,000 +38.46% 23
West Midlands -28 27 £70,000 +12.00% 11
East Midlands -40 7 £60,000 +87.50% 4
East of England -46 4 £85,000 +6.25% 16
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, Java Engineer job ads cited 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 Java Engineer job ads across the England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Java100.0%626
2Software Engineering46.8%293
3AWS30.8%193
4Full-Stack Development27.3%171
5Spring26.8%168
6Agile24.1%151
7Spring Boot23.5%147
8Microservices22.4%140
9CI/CD22.0%138
10Test Automation17.7%111
11Kafka15.2%95
12Event-Driven14.2%89
13Mentoring13.6%85
14SQL12.3%77
15AI12.0%75
16Infrastructure as Code11.5%72
16Python11.5%72
18Kubernetes10.9%68
18NoSQL10.9%68
20Security Cleared10.2%64
21GitLab9.7%61
22Azure9.4%59
23BDD9.3%58
24DevOps9.1%57
25AWS CloudFormation8.5%53
25SC Cleared8.5%53
27CQRS8.0%50
28AWS Certification7.5%47
28Cucumber7.5%47
30AWS Certified Solutions Architect7.3%46

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Java Engineer37.2%233
2Java Software Engineer34.8%218
3Full-Stack Engineer20.0%125
4Senior Java Software Engineer12.5%78
5Principal Java Engineer9.3%58
6Lead Java Engineer8.3%52
7Senior Full-Stack Engineer6.1%38
7Technical Engineer6.1%38
9Python Engineer5.4%34
10AWS Engineer5.3%33
11Full-Stack Software Engineer3.4%21
11Lead Software Engineer3.4%21
13AWS Software Engineer2.9%18
14Python Software Engineer2.4%15
15Java Developer1.9%12
15Scala Engineer1.9%12
17Java Server Engineer1.8%11
17Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer1.8%11
17Technical Leader1.8%11
20Test Engineer1.6%10
421 Java Engineer jobs in England