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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 317 350
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 591 370 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.86% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.95% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 426 215 336
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £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 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +7.50% +29.03%

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 96,332 38,980 61,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 90.58% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 67,219 23,193 35,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 11 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 IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -26 283 £87,500 -20.45% 267
North of England +80 197 £75,000 +3.45% 78
North West +73 122 £75,000 -11.76% 55
South West -73 50 £70,000 +16.67% 34
North East -32 39 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Yorkshire -12 36 £78,500 +8.28% 13
Midlands -35 33 £70,000 +16.67% 20
South East -32 28 £92,500 +32.14% 23
West Midlands -40 26 £70,000 +16.67% 15
East Midlands -24 7 £60,000 +150.00% 5
East of England -42 4 £85,000 +6.25% 8
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 591 (100.00%) Java
2 267 (45.18%) Software Engineering
3 182 (30.80%) AWS
4 164 (27.75%) Spring
5 153 (25.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 147 (24.87%) Agile
7 141 (23.86%) Spring Boot
8 137 (23.18%) Microservices
9 134 (22.67%) CI/CD
10 109 (18.44%) Test Automation
11 90 (15.23%) Kafka
12 86 (14.55%) Event-Driven
13 76 (12.86%) Mentoring
14 73 (12.35%) SQL
15 70 (11.84%) Python
16 66 (11.17%) AI
17 65 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 65 (11.00%) Kubernetes
18 62 (10.49%) NoSQL
19 59 (9.98%) BDD
20 56 (9.48%) Security Cleared
21 55 (9.31%) GitLab
22 53 (8.97%) DevOps
23 51 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
24 50 (8.46%) Azure
25 49 (8.29%) CQRS
26 46 (7.78%) AWS Certification
26 46 (7.78%) Cucumber
27 45 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
27 45 (7.61%) Performance Testing

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 7 (1.18%) WebLogic
2 6 (1.02%) Camunda
3 4 (0.68%) Tomcat
3 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 182 (30.80%) AWS
2 51 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
3 50 (8.46%) Azure
4 32 (5.41%) GCP
5 23 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (3.55%) GitHub
7 19 (3.21%) Serverless
8 17 (2.88%) SaaS
9 13 (2.20%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.35%) Azure Storage
12 7 (1.18%) ChatGPT
12 7 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.02%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.35%) DMARC
2 2 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.49%) NoSQL
2 27 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.69%) Redis
6 7 (1.18%) MySQL
7 4 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.51%) KDB
8 3 (0.51%) Power BI
9 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.17%) Db2
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 55 (9.31%) GitLab
2 46 (7.78%) Cucumber
3 19 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.88%) TeamCity
5 15 (2.54%) Git
6 13 (2.20%) Claude Code
6 13 (2.20%) JUnit
7 12 (2.03%) Mockito
8 9 (1.52%) Selenium
9 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.68%) JIRA
9 4 (0.68%) JMeter
10 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.34%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.34%) Maven
11 2 (0.34%) Mocha
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (17.60%) Finance
2 88 (14.89%) Banking
3 37 (6.26%) Social Skills
4 26 (4.40%) Financial Institution
5 23 (3.89%) Front Office
6 21 (3.55%) Retail
7 20 (3.38%) Health Technology
8 19 (3.21%) Law
9 17 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.86%) Tech for Good
12 9 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.68%) Back Office
14 4 (0.68%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.51%) iGaming
15 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.34%) Advertising
16 2 (0.34%) Aviation
16 2 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (27.75%) Spring
2 141 (23.86%) Spring Boot
3 90 (15.23%) Kafka
4 38 (6.43%) REST
5 29 (4.91%) React
5 29 (4.91%) RESTful
5 29 (4.91%) Terraform
6 17 (2.88%) Node.js
7 16 (2.71%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.03%) Vue
9 11 (1.86%) Hibernate
10 10 (1.69%) HTML
11 9 (1.52%) OAuth
11 9 (1.52%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.35%) YAML
13 7 (1.18%) Playwright
14 6 (1.02%) Jest
14 6 (1.02%) JPA
14 6 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 116 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 87 (14.72%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (7.78%) Public Cloud
4 45 (7.61%) e-Learning
5 31 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.71%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.03%) Blog
8 11 (1.86%) Equities
9 10 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.18%) Derivative
11 7 (1.18%) Equity Derivative
11 7 (1.18%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.68%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (45.18%) Software Engineering
2 153 (25.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 147 (24.87%) Agile
4 137 (23.18%) Microservices
5 134 (22.67%) CI/CD
6 109 (18.44%) Test Automation
7 86 (14.55%) Event-Driven
8 76 (12.86%) Mentoring
9 66 (11.17%) AI
10 65 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 59 (9.98%) BDD
12 53 (8.97%) DevOps
13 49 (8.29%) CQRS
14 45 (7.61%) Performance Testing
15 42 (7.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 33 (5.58%) Architectural Patterns
16 33 (5.58%) TDD
17 32 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (5.41%) SDLC
18 30 (5.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 591 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (12.35%) SQL
3 70 (11.84%) Python
4 31 (5.25%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.40%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.72%) C++
6 22 (3.72%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.54%) Go
8 10 (1.69%) Scala
9 6 (1.02%) Rust
10 5 (0.85%) C#
11 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) Bash
12 1 (0.17%) Groovy
12 1 (0.17%) Perl
12 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.78%) AWS Certification
3 45 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 44 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.88%) Degree
6 9 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.17%) OCP
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.03%) QA
2 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.85%) GDPR
4 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (6.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.05%) Grafana
3 4 (0.68%) Kibana
4 3 (0.51%) Argo
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.17%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (1.86%) Oracle
2 10 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.52%) Palantir
4 8 (1.35%) SendGrid
5 6 (1.02%) Google
6 5 (0.85%) Splunk
7 4 (0.68%) AppDynamics
7 4 (0.68%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.68%) OutSystems
7 4 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.51%) IBM
8 3 (0.51%) Revolut
9 2 (0.34%) Adobe
9 2 (0.34%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.17%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.17%) Databricks
10 1 (0.17%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.17%) Solace
10 1 (0.17%) Sybase
10 1 (0.17%) Wonderware