Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 397 407
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 232 271 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.66% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 177 181 341
10th Percentile £54,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +46.15% -25.84%
75th Percentile £105,000 £128,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £147,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £83,750 £97,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -14.10% +47.17% -24.29%

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 53,129 40,956 62,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.52% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34,017 21,669 49,845
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,600 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,973 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 February 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 February 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 +36 158 £100,000 -6.98% 33
North of England -23 32 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North West +13 20 £70,000 +7.69% 9
South East +2 15 £81,250 +16.07% 20
Midlands +21 10 £50,000 -2.44% 13
South West -35 10 £60,000 -38.46% 16
Yorkshire -25 9 £62,500 +78.57% 3
West Midlands +20 7 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -12 3 £70,000 +55.56% 3
North East -12 3 £39,500 -50.63% 5
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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.

1 232 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (64.22%) Software Engineering
3 119 (51.29%) AWS
4 90 (38.79%) Spring
5 73 (31.47%) Microservices
5 73 (31.47%) Spring Boot
6 69 (29.74%) CI/CD
7 67 (28.88%) Agile
8 53 (22.84%) Kubernetes
9 52 (22.41%) Test Automation
10 44 (18.97%) Mentoring
11 42 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 34 (14.66%) Kafka
13 33 (14.22%) SQL
14 32 (13.79%) Fintech
15 30 (12.93%) SaaS
16 29 (12.50%) Python
17 28 (12.07%) BDD
17 28 (12.07%) Docker
17 28 (12.07%) JavaScript
18 27 (11.64%) DevOps
18 27 (11.64%) TypeScript
19 26 (11.21%) Event-Driven
20 25 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
20 25 (10.78%) TDD
21 24 (10.34%) React
21 24 (10.34%) Terraform
22 23 (9.91%) Investment Management
23 22 (9.48%) Kotlin
24 20 (8.62%) NoSQL

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 15 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.03%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.43%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 119 (51.29%) AWS
2 30 (12.93%) SaaS
3 16 (6.90%) GCP
3 16 (6.90%) Snowflake
4 15 (6.47%) dbt
5 14 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (5.17%) Azure
7 8 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.45%) GitHub
8 6 (2.59%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (2.16%) Serverless
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.29%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.43%) LangSmith
12 1 (0.43%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) AMQP
2 1 (0.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.62%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.33%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (6.03%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (6.03%) Apache Iceberg
4 14 (6.03%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (6.03%) Data Lake
4 14 (6.03%) Dremio
5 4 (1.72%) MySQL
5 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.43%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (6.03%) TeamCity
2 11 (4.74%) GitLab
3 10 (4.31%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.59%) Claude Code
4 6 (2.59%) Git
4 6 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.16%) JUnit
6 3 (1.29%) JMeter
7 2 (0.86%) Gradle
7 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) Appium
8 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.43%) JIRA
8 1 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 84 (36.21%) Finance
2 41 (17.67%) Banking
3 28 (12.07%) Financial Institution
4 21 (9.05%) Front Office
5 18 (7.76%) Retail
6 17 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.33%) Social Skills
7 16 (6.90%) Investment Banking
8 14 (6.03%) Law
9 11 (4.74%) Back Office
10 8 (3.45%) Games
10 8 (3.45%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.72%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.29%) Marketing
12 3 (1.29%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Aviation
14 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (38.79%) Spring
2 73 (31.47%) Spring Boot
3 34 (14.66%) Kafka
4 24 (10.34%) React
5 17 (7.33%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (6.90%) RESTful
7 15 (6.47%) Node.js
8 14 (6.03%) gRPC
8 14 (6.03%) NumPy
8 14 (6.03%) Pandas
8 14 (6.03%) Protocol Buffers
8 14 (6.03%) SciPy
9 13 (5.60%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.17%) Akka
10 12 (5.17%) JMS
10 12 (5.17%) RxJava
10 12 (5.17%) Spring WebFlux
11 10 (4.31%) REST
12 9 (3.88%) Hibernate
13 8 (3.45%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.76%) Derivative
4 16 (6.90%) Equities
4 16 (6.90%) Fixed Income
5 14 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (6.03%) Hedge funds
5 14 (6.03%) Pricing Data
6 10 (4.31%) Blog
7 9 (3.88%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.02%) e-Learning
10 5 (2.16%) NHS
11 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (64.22%) Software Engineering
2 73 (31.47%) Microservices
3 69 (29.74%) CI/CD
4 67 (28.88%) Agile
5 52 (22.41%) Test Automation
6 44 (18.97%) Mentoring
7 42 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (13.79%) Fintech
9 28 (12.07%) BDD
10 27 (11.64%) DevOps
11 26 (11.21%) Event-Driven
12 25 (10.78%) TDD
13 23 (9.91%) Investment Management
14 19 (8.19%) Clean Code
15 16 (6.90%) Continuous Deployment
15 16 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (6.90%) Pair Programming
16 15 (6.47%) Deployment Automation
16 15 (6.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 15 (6.47%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 232 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (14.22%) SQL
3 29 (12.50%) Python
4 28 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.48%) Kotlin
7 9 (3.88%) Go
8 2 (0.86%) C#
9 1 (0.43%) C
9 1 (0.43%) C++
9 1 (0.43%) Ruby
9 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.74%) Degree
4 7 (3.02%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.02%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.02%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.29%) QA
2 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (22.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.34%) Terraform
3 18 (7.76%) Grafana
4 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.86%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Packer
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.72%) Oracle
2 2 (0.86%) Splunk
2 2 (0.86%) VMware
3 1 (0.43%) Databricks
3 1 (0.43%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.43%) Solarflare