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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 348 443
Rank change year-on-year -26 +95 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 335 306 424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.81% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.91% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 241 246 367
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £106,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +51.79% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £140,677 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -22.22%

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 74,248 33,643 78,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 88.94% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,779 21,258 60,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%

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 1 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 1 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 -11 208 £90,000 -18.18% 42
North of England -19 74 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North West 0 49 £80,000 +23.08% 10
South East -31 21 £82,500 +17.86% 18
Midlands -29 19 £53,750 -10.42% 2
South West -79 17 £60,000 -44.09% 5
North East -23 16 £24,000 -63.08% 1
West Midlands -25 14 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -56 9 £53,565 +53.04% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -26 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 335 (100.00%) Java
2 201 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 138 (41.19%) AWS
4 112 (33.43%) Spring
5 103 (30.75%) Spring Boot
6 91 (27.16%) Microservices
7 86 (25.67%) Agile
8 84 (25.07%) Test Automation
9 83 (24.78%) CI/CD
10 76 (22.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 66 (19.70%) Kubernetes
12 64 (19.10%) SQL
13 62 (18.51%) Mentoring
14 50 (14.93%) React
15 47 (14.03%) Kafka
16 41 (12.24%) DevOps
16 41 (12.24%) Docker
17 40 (11.94%) NoSQL
18 38 (11.34%) BDD
19 35 (10.45%) AI
19 35 (10.45%) Security Cleared
20 34 (10.15%) Python
21 33 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
21 33 (9.85%) Terraform
22 32 (9.55%) TDD
23 31 (9.25%) Event-Driven
23 31 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
24 30 (8.96%) Azure
24 30 (8.96%) REST
24 30 (8.96%) SaaS

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 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.30%) Camunda
2 1 (0.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.30%) JBoss
2 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 138 (41.19%) AWS
2 30 (8.96%) Azure
2 30 (8.96%) SaaS
3 26 (7.76%) GCP
4 21 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (5.37%) Anthropic Claude
6 15 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (3.88%) Serverless
8 8 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.19%) dbt
10 4 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.90%) GitHub
12 2 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.60%) Vercel
13 1 (0.30%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.30%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.90%) AMQP
2 1 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.94%) NoSQL
2 31 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.58%) MySQL
6 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.19%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.19%) Redis
6 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.30%) DB2
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.30%) Flink
8 1 (0.30%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Claude Code
2 16 (4.78%) GitLab
3 15 (4.48%) Cucumber
3 15 (4.48%) TeamCity
4 11 (3.28%) Git
5 10 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.09%) JUnit
6 7 (2.09%) Selenium
7 4 (1.19%) JIRA
7 4 (1.19%) Maven
8 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.60%) JMeter
8 2 (0.60%) Mockito
8 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.60%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.30%) Appium
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Gradle
9 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 80 (23.88%) Finance
2 34 (10.15%) Banking
3 22 (6.57%) Front Office
3 22 (6.57%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.67%) Social Skills
5 17 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.78%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.78%) Retail
7 15 (4.48%) Law
8 11 (3.28%) Back Office
9 9 (2.69%) Tech for Good
10 8 (2.39%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.09%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.49%) Games
12 5 (1.49%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Automotive
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (33.43%) Spring
2 103 (30.75%) Spring Boot
3 50 (14.93%) React
4 47 (14.03%) Kafka
5 30 (8.96%) REST
6 25 (7.46%) Node.js
7 23 (6.87%) RESTful
8 17 (5.07%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (2.99%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.39%) J2EE
11 8 (2.39%) Redux
11 8 (2.39%) Web Services
12 7 (2.09%) Akka
12 7 (2.09%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.09%) HTML
12 7 (2.09%) JSON
12 7 (2.09%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.09%) Playwright
13 6 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (18.51%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.15%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (3.58%) Fixed Income
3 12 (3.58%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.28%) e-Learning
5 9 (2.69%) Blog
6 6 (1.79%) NHS
7 5 (1.49%) Derivative
7 5 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.19%) Equities
8 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.90%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.30%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 91 (27.16%) Microservices
3 86 (25.67%) Agile
4 84 (25.07%) Test Automation
5 83 (24.78%) CI/CD
6 76 (22.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (18.51%) Mentoring
8 41 (12.24%) DevOps
9 38 (11.34%) BDD
10 35 (10.45%) AI
11 33 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 32 (9.55%) TDD
13 31 (9.25%) Event-Driven
14 29 (8.66%) Clean Code
14 29 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.66%) Fintech
15 27 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (8.06%) Coaching
16 25 (7.46%) Continuous Deployment
16 25 (7.46%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 335 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (19.10%) SQL
3 34 (10.15%) Python
4 25 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.87%) Kotlin
6 13 (3.88%) Go
7 4 (1.19%) C#
8 2 (0.60%) Groovy
8 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.36%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.37%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.99%) Degree
6 5 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.39%) QA
2 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (12.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.85%) Terraform
3 19 (5.67%) Grafana
4 4 (1.19%) Packer
4 4 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.60%) Kibana
6 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.19%) Oracle
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe
2 2 (0.60%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.60%) Dynatrace
2 2 (0.60%) Google
2 2 (0.60%) IBM
2 2 (0.60%) Solace
2 2 (0.60%) Splunk
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.30%) OpenAI