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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 307 378
Rank change year-on-year -78 +71 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 414 421 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.96% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.06% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 297 258 380
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 88,788 39,586 68,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.58% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 62,342 23,878 46,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,201 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -65 241 £90,000 -18.18% 321
North of England +34 113 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North West +36 72 £80,000 +6.67% 25
South East -18 28 £90,000 +28.57% 16
South West -107 24 £60,000 +26.32% 28
North East -40 23 £24,000 -63.08% 7
Yorkshire -15 18 £80,000 +142.42% 8
Midlands -34 17 £60,000 - 25
West Midlands -31 14 £62,500 +4.17% 19
East Midlands -22 3 £60,000 +150.00% 6
East of England -22 1 £72,500 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 414 (100.00%) Java
2 177 (42.75%) Software Engineering
3 159 (38.41%) Spring
4 156 (37.68%) AWS
5 136 (32.85%) Spring Boot
6 121 (29.23%) Microservices
7 115 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 109 (26.33%) CI/CD
9 102 (24.64%) Agile
10 101 (24.40%) Test Automation
11 83 (20.05%) Kafka
12 70 (16.91%) Mentoring
13 69 (16.67%) Event-Driven
13 69 (16.67%) SQL
14 62 (14.98%) Kubernetes
14 62 (14.98%) Python
15 61 (14.73%) AI
15 61 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (13.04%) NoSQL
17 52 (12.56%) DevOps
18 51 (12.32%) Security Cleared
19 46 (11.11%) BDD
20 43 (10.39%) React
20 43 (10.39%) SC Cleared
21 41 (9.90%) Docker
22 39 (9.42%) GitLab
23 38 (9.18%) Azure
23 38 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
23 38 (9.18%) CQRS
23 38 (9.18%) REST

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 (1.69%) Camunda
2 4 (0.97%) Confluence
3 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) JBoss
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 156 (37.68%) AWS
2 38 (9.18%) Azure
3 37 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (6.76%) GCP
5 21 (5.07%) Serverless
6 19 (4.59%) SaaS
7 17 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.62%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.66%) GitHub
10 8 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.45%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.45%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.97%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.45%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 18 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 16 (3.86%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.90%) Redis
6 6 (1.45%) MySQL
6 6 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.72%) KDB
8 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.48%) Db2
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Flink
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (9.42%) GitLab
2 35 (8.45%) Cucumber
3 19 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.86%) Claude Code
5 14 (3.38%) Git
5 14 (3.38%) Selenium
6 9 (2.17%) JUnit
7 8 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.69%) JIRA
9 6 (1.45%) Mockito
10 4 (0.97%) JMeter
11 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.72%) Maven
12 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.48%) Mocha
12 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 88 (21.26%) Finance
2 43 (10.39%) Banking
3 34 (8.21%) Social Skills
4 23 (5.56%) Front Office
5 20 (4.83%) Health Technology
5 20 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.14%) Retail
8 12 (2.90%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.66%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.93%) Law
11 4 (0.97%) Back Office
11 4 (0.97%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.97%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Games
14 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (38.41%) Spring
2 136 (32.85%) Spring Boot
3 83 (20.05%) Kafka
4 43 (10.39%) React
5 38 (9.18%) REST
6 27 (6.52%) RESTful
7 21 (5.07%) Node.js
8 20 (4.83%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.14%) Vue
10 12 (2.90%) HTML
11 11 (2.66%) Playwright
11 11 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.93%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.93%) YAML
13 7 (1.69%) Akka
13 7 (1.69%) CSS
13 7 (1.69%) OAuth
13 7 (1.69%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.45%) Hibernate
14 6 (1.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 91 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 73 (17.63%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.25%) e-Learning
3 30 (7.25%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.14%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.97%) Blog
10 4 (0.97%) Equities
10 4 (0.97%) NHS
10 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (42.75%) Software Engineering
2 121 (29.23%) Microservices
3 115 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 109 (26.33%) CI/CD
5 102 (24.64%) Agile
6 101 (24.40%) Test Automation
7 70 (16.91%) Mentoring
8 69 (16.67%) Event-Driven
9 61 (14.73%) AI
9 61 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 52 (12.56%) DevOps
11 46 (11.11%) BDD
12 38 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (9.18%) CQRS
13 36 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 33 (7.97%) Containerisation
15 30 (7.25%) Performance Testing
16 29 (7.00%) Observability
17 26 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 414 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (16.67%) SQL
3 62 (14.98%) Python
4 37 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.07%) Kotlin
7 17 (4.11%) Go
8 13 (3.14%) C++
9 6 (1.45%) C#
9 6 (1.45%) Rust
10 5 (1.21%) Scala
11 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.25%) AWS Certification
3 30 (7.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (3.86%) Degree
5 15 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) OCP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.62%) QA
2 5 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (9.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (14.98%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.52%) Terraform
3 12 (2.90%) Grafana
4 4 (0.97%) Kibana
4 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.72%) Ansible
6 2 (0.48%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.17%) Palantir
2 7 (1.69%) Google
2 7 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.45%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.21%) Splunk
5 4 (0.97%) AppDynamics
5 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.97%) IBM
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle
6 3 (0.72%) Adobe
6 3 (0.72%) Revolut
7 2 (0.48%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.48%) Solace
8 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.24%) Databricks
8 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) Sybase
8 1 (0.24%) Wonderware