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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 285 410
Rank change year-on-year -90 +125 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 403 444 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.03% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.14% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 290 282 445
10th Percentile £48,289 £56,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -2.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% -

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 81,911 39,061 84,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.39% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 57,582 23,417 61,969
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,043 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +3.85% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -62 223 £90,000 -18.18% 49
North of England +33 114 £70,000 +7.69% 10
North West +42 75 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South West -92 26 £60,000 -33.33% 5
South East -36 25 £90,000 +28.57% 18
Midlands -30 20 £58,750 -2.08% 3
North East -30 20 £24,000 -63.08%
Yorkshire -18 19 £80,000 +128.57% 3
West Midlands -19 14 £47,500 -20.83% 2
East Midlands -18 5 £60,000 +150.00% 1
East of England -12 2 £73,750 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 403 (100.00%) Java
2 208 (51.61%) Software Engineering
3 163 (40.45%) AWS
4 155 (38.46%) Spring
5 132 (32.75%) Spring Boot
6 124 (30.77%) Microservices
7 115 (28.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 113 (28.04%) Test Automation
9 108 (26.80%) Agile
10 106 (26.30%) CI/CD
11 76 (18.86%) Mentoring
11 76 (18.86%) SQL
12 72 (17.87%) Kubernetes
13 68 (16.87%) Kafka
14 55 (13.65%) NoSQL
15 54 (13.40%) Event-Driven
16 53 (13.15%) AI
16 53 (13.15%) BDD
16 53 (13.15%) Python
17 49 (12.16%) DevOps
17 49 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 48 (11.91%) React
19 44 (10.92%) Docker
20 39 (9.68%) Azure
21 38 (9.43%) TypeScript
22 36 (8.93%) Architectural Patterns
23 35 (8.68%) Coaching
23 35 (8.68%) TDD
24 34 (8.44%) REST
25 33 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement

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 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.99%) Camunda
1 4 (0.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 163 (40.45%) AWS
2 39 (9.68%) Azure
3 30 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.70%) GCP
5 24 (5.96%) SaaS
5 24 (5.96%) Serverless
6 23 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (4.96%) Anthropic Claude
8 10 (2.48%) GitHub
9 8 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.99%) dbt
13 4 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.49%) DMARC
2 1 (0.25%) AMQP
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Modbus
2 1 (0.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.65%) NoSQL
2 31 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.47%) MySQL
4 14 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.99%) Redis
6 6 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.50%) Db2
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) KDB
Development Applications
1 32 (7.94%) GitLab
2 30 (7.44%) Cucumber
3 21 (5.21%) Claude Code
4 15 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.47%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.73%) Git
7 10 (2.48%) Selenium
8 8 (1.99%) JIRA
8 8 (1.99%) JUnit
9 5 (1.24%) Maven
10 4 (0.99%) JMeter
10 4 (0.99%) Mockito
11 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.50%) Mocha
11 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.25%) Gradle
12 1 (0.25%) NetBeans
General
1 87 (21.59%) Finance
2 37 (9.18%) Banking
3 26 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.96%) Front Office
5 19 (4.71%) Financial Institution
5 19 (4.71%) Social Skills
6 17 (4.22%) Retail
7 16 (3.97%) Health Technology
8 14 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.47%) Law
9 10 (2.48%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.23%) Back Office
11 8 (1.99%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Marketing
14 3 (0.74%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.74%) Games
15 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (38.46%) Spring
2 132 (32.75%) Spring Boot
3 68 (16.87%) Kafka
4 48 (11.91%) React
5 34 (8.44%) REST
6 27 (6.70%) RESTful
7 26 (6.45%) Node.js
8 21 (5.21%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.47%) Vue
10 12 (2.98%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.73%) HTML
12 8 (1.99%) Akka
12 8 (1.99%) OAuth
12 8 (1.99%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.99%) Playwright
12 8 (1.99%) Redux
12 8 (1.99%) YAML
13 7 (1.74%) JSON
13 7 (1.74%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 99 (24.57%) Cloud Native
2 59 (14.64%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 25 (6.20%) e-Learning
5 18 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.72%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.24%) Blog
9 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.74%) Equities
9 3 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.74%) NHS
10 2 (0.50%) Derivative
10 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.25%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.25%) IoT
11 1 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (51.61%) Software Engineering
2 124 (30.77%) Microservices
3 115 (28.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 113 (28.04%) Test Automation
5 108 (26.80%) Agile
6 106 (26.30%) CI/CD
7 76 (18.86%) Mentoring
8 54 (13.40%) Event-Driven
9 53 (13.15%) AI
9 53 (13.15%) BDD
10 49 (12.16%) DevOps
10 49 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (8.93%) Architectural Patterns
12 35 (8.68%) Coaching
12 35 (8.68%) TDD
13 33 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (7.69%) Containerisation
14 31 (7.69%) CQRS
15 30 (7.44%) Clean Code
16 25 (6.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 403 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (18.86%) SQL
3 53 (13.15%) Python
4 38 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.96%) Go
7 19 (4.71%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.48%) C++
9 6 (1.49%) Rust
10 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.74%) C#
12 2 (0.50%) Groovy
12 2 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 27 (6.70%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.20%) AWS Certification
3 25 (6.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.48%) Degree
6 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.72%) QA
2 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (10.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (17.87%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.19%) Terraform
3 19 (4.71%) Grafana
4 5 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.99%) Kibana
5 4 (0.99%) Packer
6 3 (0.74%) Ansible
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.23%) Palantir
2 6 (1.49%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.24%) Oracle
3 5 (1.24%) Splunk
4 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.74%) Adobe
5 3 (0.74%) Google
6 2 (0.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.50%) IBM
6 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware