Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 349 388
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 -79
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 322 437 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.76% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 179 297 279
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £97,290
90th Percentile - £148,750 £130,250
UK median annual salary £106,250 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +33.33% -14.29%

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 39,503 57,609 45,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.92% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 25,237 32,617 34,902
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +4 233 £110,000 -4.35% 133
South West +21 30 £60,000 +4.35% 12
North of England -6 30 £71,250 +5.56% 54
North West +19 21 £80,000 +28.00% 36
Midlands +54 13 £60,000 +4.35% 19
South East +11 11 £62,500 -10.71% 73
West Midlands +56 10 £61,250 +6.52% 10
Yorkshire +13 6 £71,250 - 15
East Midlands +24 3 £32,000 -28.89% 8
North East -1 3 £55,000 -31.25% 3
East of England +30 1 £80,000 - 5
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 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.

1 322 (100.00%) Java
2 254 (78.88%) Software Engineering
3 225 (69.88%) Agile
4 213 (66.15%) AWS
5 116 (36.02%) Spring
6 111 (34.47%) TypeScript
7 108 (33.54%) JavaScript
8 105 (32.61%) Python
9 99 (30.75%) Microservices
10 97 (30.12%) CI/CD
11 96 (29.81%) Kubernetes
12 87 (27.02%) SDLC
13 83 (25.78%) Investment Management
14 82 (25.47%) Asset Management
15 81 (25.16%) Apache Iceberg
15 81 (25.16%) Pandas
16 80 (24.84%) Spring Boot
17 77 (23.91%) Amazon Athena
17 77 (23.91%) Apache Airflow
17 77 (23.91%) Apache Arrow
17 77 (23.91%) dbt
17 77 (23.91%) Dremio
17 77 (23.91%) NumPy
17 77 (23.91%) SciPy
18 75 (23.29%) Kafka
19 70 (21.74%) gRPC
19 70 (21.74%) Protocol Buffers
20 66 (20.50%) Apache
20 66 (20.50%) Snowflake
21 65 (20.19%) Apache Ignite

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 77 (23.91%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (20.50%) Apache
3 7 (2.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.24%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 213 (66.15%) AWS
2 77 (23.91%) dbt
3 66 (20.50%) Snowflake
4 28 (8.70%) GCP
5 25 (7.76%) GitHub
6 16 (4.97%) SaaS
7 13 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.04%) Serverless
8 12 (3.73%) Azure
9 8 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.24%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon MSK
15 2 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 2 (0.62%) BlazeMeter
15 2 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
16 1 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) SSL
2 2 (0.62%) AMQP
2 2 (0.62%) Broadband
2 2 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (25.16%) Apache Iceberg
2 77 (23.91%) Amazon Athena
2 77 (23.91%) Apache Arrow
2 77 (23.91%) Dremio
3 65 (20.19%) Apache Ignite
3 65 (20.19%) Data Lake
4 43 (13.35%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (10.87%) NoSQL
6 28 (8.70%) MongoDB
7 15 (4.66%) Big Data
8 9 (2.80%) MySQL
9 8 (2.48%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.48%) KDB
9 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.17%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.86%) Redis
12 4 (1.24%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (5.90%) Git
2 16 (4.97%) JUnit
3 15 (4.66%) Cucumber
3 15 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.35%) GitLab
5 10 (3.11%) Selenium
6 7 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.86%) IntelliJ
7 6 (1.86%) JIRA
7 6 (1.86%) Maven
7 6 (1.86%) Mockito
8 4 (1.24%) git-flow
8 4 (1.24%) JMeter
8 4 (1.24%) Vite
9 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.62%) Spock
General
1 240 (74.53%) Finance
2 152 (47.20%) Banking
3 94 (29.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (28.57%) Front Office
5 91 (28.26%) Law
6 82 (25.47%) Investment Banking
7 45 (13.98%) Social Skills
8 37 (11.49%) Financial Institution
9 21 (6.52%) Public Sector
10 18 (5.59%) Marketing
11 13 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (2.80%) Legal
12 9 (2.80%) Retail
13 5 (1.55%) Back Office
13 5 (1.55%) Electronics
13 5 (1.55%) Games
13 5 (1.55%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.24%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.24%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (36.02%) Spring
2 81 (25.16%) Pandas
3 80 (24.84%) Spring Boot
4 77 (23.91%) NumPy
4 77 (23.91%) SciPy
5 75 (23.29%) Kafka
6 70 (21.74%) gRPC
6 70 (21.74%) Protocol Buffers
7 60 (18.63%) React
8 26 (8.07%) AngularJS
8 26 (8.07%) Node.js
8 26 (8.07%) RESTful
9 20 (6.21%) Akka
9 20 (6.21%) JMS
9 20 (6.21%) RxJava
9 20 (6.21%) Spring WebFlux
10 17 (5.28%) REST
11 16 (4.97%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 92 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 86 (26.71%) Fixed Income
3 85 (26.40%) Equities
4 84 (26.09%) Derivative
5 67 (20.81%) Cloud Native
5 67 (20.81%) Hedge funds
6 65 (20.19%) Pricing Data
7 30 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (8.70%) Algorithms
9 27 (8.39%) Public Cloud
10 11 (3.42%) Data Structures
10 11 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
13 8 (2.48%) Equity Derivative
14 6 (1.86%) Wiki
15 5 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
17 2 (0.62%) Blog
17 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.66%) Linux
2 2 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (78.88%) Software Engineering
2 225 (69.88%) Agile
3 99 (30.75%) Microservices
4 97 (30.12%) CI/CD
5 87 (27.02%) SDLC
6 83 (25.78%) Investment Management
7 82 (25.47%) Asset Management
8 60 (18.63%) Fintech
9 49 (15.22%) Operational Stability
10 48 (14.91%) TDD
11 44 (13.66%) AI
12 43 (13.35%) Test Automation
13 42 (13.04%) Community of Practice
13 42 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (12.11%) Event-Driven
16 38 (11.80%) Mentoring
17 35 (10.87%) Multithreading
18 33 (10.25%) Machine Learning
19 32 (9.94%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 322 (100.00%) Java
2 111 (34.47%) TypeScript
3 108 (33.54%) JavaScript
4 105 (32.61%) Python
5 48 (14.91%) SQL
6 44 (13.66%) Kotlin
7 20 (6.21%) Go
8 13 (4.04%) Scala
9 10 (3.11%) C++
10 6 (1.86%) Rust
11 4 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.93%) C#
12 3 (0.93%) Groovy
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.04%) Degree
2 10 (3.11%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.17%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.17%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.24%) PhD
6 3 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.80%) QA
2 1 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 63 (19.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 96 (29.81%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.56%) Terraform
3 11 (3.42%) Grafana
4 2 (0.62%) Ansible
4 2 (0.62%) Kibana
4 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) Istio
Vendors
1 25 (7.76%) Oracle
2 11 (3.42%) IBM
2 11 (3.42%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.86%) Google
4 5 (1.55%) SAP
5 4 (1.24%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.24%) Solace
5 4 (1.24%) TIBCO
6 3 (0.93%) Databricks
6 3 (0.93%) Splunk
6 3 (0.93%) Sybase
7 2 (0.62%) VMware
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.31%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.31%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.31%) Solarflare