Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 353 430
Rank change year-on-year -16 +77 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 362 310 447
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.79% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.88% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 266 246 391
10th Percentile £49,375 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +43.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,625 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +44.83% -19.44%

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 76,690 35,411 80,085
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 89.88% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51,901 20,912 60,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,086
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,519
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 May 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 20 May 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 +16 218 £90,000 -18.18% 42
North of England +22 91 £70,000 +7.69% 18
North West +45 65 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Midlands -23 21 £53,750 -10.42% 2
South East -18 20 £86,250 +23.21% 18
North East -23 19 £24,000 -63.08% 4
South West -95 18 £60,000 -31.43% 4
West Midlands -29 16 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -45 7 £52,130 +48.94% 5
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -20 1 £75,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 362 (100.00%) Java
2 201 (55.52%) Software Engineering
3 140 (38.67%) AWS
4 129 (35.64%) Spring
5 116 (32.04%) Spring Boot
6 100 (27.62%) Microservices
7 90 (24.86%) Agile
7 90 (24.86%) Test Automation
8 88 (24.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 80 (22.10%) CI/CD
10 66 (18.23%) SQL
11 65 (17.96%) Kubernetes
12 63 (17.40%) Mentoring
13 55 (15.19%) Kafka
14 47 (12.98%) React
15 44 (12.15%) BDD
16 42 (11.60%) Docker
16 42 (11.60%) NoSQL
17 39 (10.77%) DevOps
18 38 (10.50%) AI
18 38 (10.50%) Python
19 36 (9.94%) TDD
20 35 (9.67%) Infrastructure as Code
21 34 (9.39%) Event-Driven
22 32 (8.84%) Security Cleared
23 31 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
23 31 (8.56%) REST
24 30 (8.29%) Fintech
24 30 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
24 30 (8.29%) Terraform

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 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Camunda
3 1 (0.28%) JBoss
3 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 140 (38.67%) AWS
2 28 (7.73%) SaaS
3 27 (7.46%) Azure
4 24 (6.63%) GCP
5 22 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (5.80%) Anthropic Claude
7 20 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (4.42%) Serverless
9 10 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.93%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.10%) dbt
12 4 (1.10%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.83%) GitHub
14 2 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 1 (0.28%) Amazon Bedrock
15 1 (0.28%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.28%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.83%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.60%) NoSQL
2 30 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.87%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.04%) MySQL
6 6 (1.66%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.10%) Redis
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.28%) DB2
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 22 (6.08%) Claude Code
2 20 (5.52%) Cucumber
3 19 (5.25%) GitLab
4 14 (3.87%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.04%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.21%) JUnit
7 7 (1.93%) Git
8 6 (1.66%) Selenium
9 5 (1.38%) JIRA
9 5 (1.38%) Maven
10 4 (1.10%) JMeter
10 4 (1.10%) Mockito
11 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.28%) Gradle
12 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 76 (20.99%) Finance
2 37 (10.22%) Banking
3 25 (6.91%) Front Office
4 24 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.14%) Financial Institution
5 15 (4.14%) Retail
5 15 (4.14%) Social Skills
6 14 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.87%) Law
7 10 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.49%) Back Office
8 9 (2.49%) Tech for Good
9 8 (2.21%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.66%) Marketing
11 4 (1.10%) Games
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (35.64%) Spring
2 116 (32.04%) Spring Boot
3 55 (15.19%) Kafka
4 47 (12.98%) React
5 31 (8.56%) REST
6 23 (6.35%) Node.js
6 23 (6.35%) RESTful
7 19 (5.25%) AngularJS
8 12 (3.31%) Vue
9 11 (3.04%) GraphQL
10 10 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (2.49%) Hibernate
11 9 (2.49%) JSON
12 8 (2.21%) Akka
12 8 (2.21%) HTML
12 8 (2.21%) J2EE
12 8 (2.21%) Redux
12 8 (2.21%) Web Services
12 8 (2.21%) XML
13 7 (1.93%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 65 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.60%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.14%) e-Learning
5 14 (3.87%) Fixed Income
6 11 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.21%) Blog
8 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.66%) NHS
9 5 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.10%) Derivative
10 4 (1.10%) Equities
11 3 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.28%) Credit Risk
13 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.28%) Grid Computing
13 1 (0.28%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (55.52%) Software Engineering
2 100 (27.62%) Microservices
3 90 (24.86%) Agile
3 90 (24.86%) Test Automation
4 88 (24.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 80 (22.10%) CI/CD
6 63 (17.40%) Mentoring
7 44 (12.15%) BDD
8 39 (10.77%) DevOps
9 38 (10.50%) AI
10 36 (9.94%) TDD
11 35 (9.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (9.39%) Event-Driven
13 31 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (8.29%) Fintech
15 29 (8.01%) Architectural Patterns
15 29 (8.01%) Clean Code
16 27 (7.46%) Coaching
17 24 (6.63%) Continuous Deployment
17 24 (6.63%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 362 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (18.23%) SQL
3 38 (10.50%) Python
4 25 (6.91%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.35%) Kotlin
7 15 (4.14%) Go
8 4 (1.10%) C++
8 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.83%) C#
10 2 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.91%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.97%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.14%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.49%) Degree
6 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.93%) QA
2 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (11.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.29%) Terraform
3 18 (4.97%) Grafana
4 4 (1.10%) Kibana
4 4 (1.10%) Packer
4 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.83%) Ansible
6 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (1.38%) Splunk
2 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle
3 3 (0.83%) Adobe
3 3 (0.83%) Palantir
4 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.55%) Google
4 2 (0.55%) IBM
4 2 (0.55%) Solace
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft