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 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 394 424
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 264 253 387
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.61% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.68% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 198 178 347
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,100
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,000 £148,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -21.43% +52.73% -21.43%

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 58,440 37,452 66,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 90.91% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 37,876 20,898 52,390
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,996 £45,000 £39,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +37 168 £100,000 -6.98% 36
North of England -26 46 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North West -9 28 £70,000 +7.69% 4
South East -18 21 £80,000 +14.29% 16
Midlands -3 12 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Yorkshire -35 12 £55,000 +57.14% 4
South West -41 10 £60,000 -42.86% 8
West Midlands +6 8 £50,000 -11.11% 2
North East -8 6 £52,130 -22.77% 3
East Midlands -27 3 £70,000 +55.56% 2
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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.

1 264 (100.00%) Java
2 174 (65.91%) Software Engineering
3 132 (50.00%) AWS
4 98 (37.12%) Spring
5 84 (31.82%) Microservices
6 83 (31.44%) Agile
7 81 (30.68%) Spring Boot
8 78 (29.55%) CI/CD
9 69 (26.14%) Test Automation
10 61 (23.11%) Kubernetes
11 57 (21.59%) Mentoring
12 55 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 49 (18.56%) SQL
14 44 (16.67%) Kafka
15 36 (13.64%) BDD
16 34 (12.88%) React
16 34 (12.88%) SaaS
17 33 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
18 32 (12.12%) DevOps
18 32 (12.12%) Docker
18 32 (12.12%) TDD
19 31 (11.74%) Terraform
20 30 (11.36%) Fintech
20 30 (11.36%) NoSQL
21 29 (10.98%) Python
21 29 (10.98%) TypeScript
22 28 (10.61%) Event-Driven
23 27 (10.23%) JavaScript
24 26 (9.85%) Continuous Deployment
25 24 (9.09%) Coaching

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 10 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.27%) Apache
3 5 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 132 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (12.88%) SaaS
3 23 (8.71%) Azure
4 20 (7.58%) GCP
5 17 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (4.17%) Snowflake
7 10 (3.79%) dbt
8 9 (3.41%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.03%) GitHub
10 7 (2.65%) Serverless
11 4 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.76%) Vercel
14 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) AMQP
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.71%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.55%) MySQL
5 6 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.27%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (2.27%) Apache Ignite
5 6 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.27%) Dremio
5 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.38%) Big Data
8 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.38%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.06%) TeamCity
2 12 (4.55%) GitLab
3 11 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.41%) Claude Code
5 8 (3.03%) Git
6 7 (2.65%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.89%) JUnit
8 3 (1.14%) JMeter
8 3 (1.14%) Maven
9 2 (0.76%) Gradle
9 2 (0.76%) Selenium
9 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.38%) Appium
10 1 (0.38%) JIRA
10 1 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 85 (32.20%) Finance
2 36 (13.64%) Banking
3 29 (10.98%) Financial Institution
4 20 (7.58%) Front Office
4 20 (7.58%) Retail
4 20 (7.58%) Social Skills
5 19 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.06%) Law
7 13 (4.92%) Back Office
8 9 (3.41%) Games
9 8 (3.03%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.89%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.52%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.52%) Marketing
13 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Advertising
14 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (37.12%) Spring
2 81 (30.68%) Spring Boot
3 44 (16.67%) Kafka
4 34 (12.88%) React
5 24 (9.09%) RESTful
6 23 (8.71%) Node.js
7 15 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (4.17%) GraphQL
8 11 (4.17%) REST
9 10 (3.79%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (3.79%) Akka
9 10 (3.79%) JMS
9 10 (3.79%) RxJava
9 10 (3.79%) Spring WebFlux
10 9 (3.41%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.03%) J2EE
11 8 (3.03%) Redux
12 6 (2.27%) gRPC
12 6 (2.27%) Pandas
12 6 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 64 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.47%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.30%) Fixed Income
4 11 (4.17%) Derivative
5 10 (3.79%) Blog
5 10 (3.79%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.03%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.03%) Equities
8 7 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.65%) NHS
9 6 (2.27%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.27%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.38%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (65.91%) Software Engineering
2 84 (31.82%) Microservices
3 83 (31.44%) Agile
4 78 (29.55%) CI/CD
5 69 (26.14%) Test Automation
6 57 (21.59%) Mentoring
7 55 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (13.64%) BDD
9 32 (12.12%) DevOps
9 32 (12.12%) TDD
10 30 (11.36%) Fintech
11 28 (10.61%) Event-Driven
12 26 (9.85%) Continuous Deployment
13 24 (9.09%) Coaching
14 23 (8.71%) Clean Code
14 23 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.33%) AI
15 22 (8.33%) Investment Management
16 19 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (6.44%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 264 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (18.56%) SQL
3 29 (10.98%) Python
3 29 (10.98%) TypeScript
4 27 (10.23%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.09%) Kotlin
6 15 (5.68%) Go
7 4 (1.52%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.30%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.79%) Degree
4 8 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.52%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (23.11%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.74%) Terraform
3 22 (8.33%) Grafana
4 4 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.76%) Ansible
5 2 (0.76%) Packer
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.52%) Oracle
2 2 (0.76%) Splunk
2 2 (0.76%) VMware
3 1 (0.38%) Databricks
3 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.38%) Solace