Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 376 395
Rank change year-on-year -46 +19 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 191 348 279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.69% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.74% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 154 233 236
10th Percentile £55,375 £52,750 £44,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £74,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year - +44.40% -20.86%
75th Percentile £115,000 £128,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,850 47,323 41,068
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 93.36% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,378 25,530 32,168
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -8 151 £105,000 -2.33% 30
North of England -8 14 £62,500 -3.85% 17
South East +21 11 £63,750 -15.00% 12
Yorkshire 0 7 £71,250 +35.71% 2
Midlands +22 6 £24,000 -58.26% 2
North West +14 5 £67,500 +3.85% 11
South West -23 5 £60,000 -18.64% 5
West Midlands +30 3 £24,000 -58.26% 2
East Midlands 0 3 £32,000 -28.89%
North East 0 2 £39,500 -50.63% 5
East of England - 1 £80,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, 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.

1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 128 (67.02%) Software Engineering
3 123 (64.40%) AWS
4 88 (46.07%) Agile
5 66 (34.55%) Spring
6 58 (30.37%) JavaScript
6 58 (30.37%) Python
7 55 (28.80%) Microservices
8 53 (27.75%) TypeScript
9 51 (26.70%) Spring Boot
10 47 (24.61%) CI/CD
11 45 (23.56%) Investment Management
12 43 (22.51%) Kubernetes
13 42 (21.99%) Snowflake
14 41 (21.47%) Amazon Athena
14 41 (21.47%) Apache
14 41 (21.47%) Apache Airflow
14 41 (21.47%) Apache Arrow
14 41 (21.47%) Apache Iceberg
14 41 (21.47%) Apache Ignite
14 41 (21.47%) Asset Management
14 41 (21.47%) Data Lake
14 41 (21.47%) dbt
14 41 (21.47%) Dremio
14 41 (21.47%) gRPC
14 41 (21.47%) NumPy
14 41 (21.47%) Pandas
14 41 (21.47%) Protocol Buffers
14 41 (21.47%) SciPy
15 39 (20.42%) Mentoring

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 41 (21.47%) Apache
1 41 (21.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) Camunda
2 1 (0.52%) CMS
2 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 123 (64.40%) AWS
2 42 (21.99%) Snowflake
3 41 (21.47%) dbt
4 20 (10.47%) SaaS
5 11 (5.76%) GCP
6 8 (4.19%) Azure
6 8 (4.19%) GitHub
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.57%) Serverless
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.52%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) AMQP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.47%) Amazon Athena
1 41 (21.47%) Apache Arrow
1 41 (21.47%) Apache Iceberg
1 41 (21.47%) Apache Ignite
1 41 (21.47%) Data Lake
1 41 (21.47%) Dremio
2 16 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.05%) MySQL
6 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.52%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.66%) Cucumber
2 7 (3.66%) TeamCity
3 6 (3.14%) Git
3 6 (3.14%) GitLab
3 6 (3.14%) JUnit
4 4 (2.09%) JMeter
5 2 (1.05%) Appium
5 2 (1.05%) Gradle
5 2 (1.05%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.05%) Selenium
5 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.52%) Storybook
6 1 (0.52%) TestNG
6 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 108 (56.54%) Finance
2 63 (32.98%) Banking
3 50 (26.18%) Front Office
4 43 (22.51%) Investment Banking
5 28 (14.66%) Financial Institution
6 19 (9.95%) Social Skills
7 11 (5.76%) Retail
8 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.66%) Back Office
9 7 (3.66%) Law
10 6 (3.14%) Games
11 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Marketing
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.52%) Advertising
14 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.55%) Spring
2 51 (26.70%) Spring Boot
3 41 (21.47%) gRPC
3 41 (21.47%) NumPy
3 41 (21.47%) Pandas
3 41 (21.47%) Protocol Buffers
3 41 (21.47%) SciPy
4 36 (18.85%) Kafka
5 17 (8.90%) React
6 16 (8.38%) Akka
6 16 (8.38%) RxJava
6 16 (8.38%) Spring WebFlux
7 15 (7.85%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (7.33%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (6.81%) JMS
10 11 (5.76%) RESTful
11 10 (5.24%) Node.js
12 7 (3.66%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.14%) Hibernate
13 6 (3.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.56%) Derivative
1 45 (23.56%) Equities
1 45 (23.56%) Fixed Income
2 44 (23.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 43 (22.51%) Hedge funds
4 41 (21.47%) Pricing Data
5 28 (14.66%) Cloud Native
6 13 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.66%) Blog
8 6 (3.14%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.57%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.57%) NHS
11 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (67.02%) Software Engineering
2 88 (46.07%) Agile
3 55 (28.80%) Microservices
4 47 (24.61%) CI/CD
5 45 (23.56%) Investment Management
6 41 (21.47%) Asset Management
7 39 (20.42%) Mentoring
8 30 (15.71%) Fintech
8 30 (15.71%) Test Automation
9 25 (13.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (12.57%) BDD
11 22 (11.52%) TDD
12 20 (10.47%) Event-Driven
13 19 (9.95%) DevOps
13 19 (9.95%) Multithreading
13 19 (9.95%) Pair Programming
14 18 (9.42%) Concurrent Programming
15 16 (8.38%) High Availability
16 14 (7.33%) Collaborative Culture
17 13 (6.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (30.37%) JavaScript
2 58 (30.37%) Python
3 53 (27.75%) TypeScript
4 20 (10.47%) SQL
5 18 (9.42%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.19%) Go
7 2 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) C
8 1 (0.52%) C++
8 1 (0.52%) Groovy
8 1 (0.52%) Ruby
8 1 (0.52%) Rust
8 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (6.81%) Degree
2 10 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.71%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (14.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (22.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.33%) Terraform
3 10 (5.24%) Grafana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.52%) Istio
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (1.05%) Splunk
1 2 (1.05%) VMware
2 1 (0.52%) Databricks
2 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
2 1 (0.52%) Google
2 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle
2 1 (0.52%) SAP
2 1 (0.52%) Solarflare