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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 361 459
Rank change year-on-year -30 +98 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 317 284 400
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.76% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.86% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 223 226 345
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
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 £102,500
90th Percentile £121,000 £147,500 £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 71,244 33,167 77,837
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 89.24% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 46,642 21,273 59,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +19 194 £90,000 -18.18% 46
North of England -21 70 £62,500 - 10
North West -3 44 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East -37 22 £82,500 +17.86% 15
Midlands -24 17 £53,750 -10.42% 1
North East -17 16 £24,000 -60.00% 3
South West -75 16 £60,000 -36.60% 3
West Midlands -17 12 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -62 10 £55,000 +57.14% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 -
East of England -34 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 317 (100.00%) Java
2 195 (61.51%) Software Engineering
3 135 (42.59%) AWS
4 105 (33.12%) Spring
5 93 (29.34%) Spring Boot
6 91 (28.71%) Microservices
7 86 (27.13%) CI/CD
7 86 (27.13%) Test Automation
8 82 (25.87%) Agile
9 72 (22.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (20.82%) Kubernetes
11 61 (19.24%) Mentoring
12 58 (18.30%) SQL
13 47 (14.83%) React
14 42 (13.25%) DevOps
15 41 (12.93%) Kafka
16 38 (11.99%) NoSQL
17 37 (11.67%) Docker
17 37 (11.67%) Terraform
18 35 (11.04%) Security Cleared
19 33 (10.41%) BDD
19 33 (10.41%) Clean Code
19 33 (10.41%) SaaS
20 32 (10.09%) AI
21 31 (9.78%) Azure
21 31 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
21 31 (9.78%) TDD
22 30 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
23 29 (9.15%) Continuous Deployment
23 29 (9.15%) GCP

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 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.63%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) JBoss
3 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 135 (42.59%) AWS
2 33 (10.41%) SaaS
3 31 (9.78%) Azure
4 29 (9.15%) GCP
5 24 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (5.05%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (3.47%) Serverless
9 7 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.26%) dbt
11 4 (1.26%) GitHub
11 4 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.63%) Vercel
14 1 (0.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.32%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.95%) AMQP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.99%) NoSQL
2 31 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.79%) MySQL
5 11 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.58%) Redis
7 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.26%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.95%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.32%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.32%) DB2
10 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.32%) Flink
10 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (5.99%) TeamCity
2 17 (5.36%) Claude Code
3 13 (4.10%) Cucumber
3 13 (4.10%) GitLab
4 11 (3.47%) Git
5 10 (3.15%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.21%) Selenium
7 6 (1.89%) JUnit
8 4 (1.26%) JIRA
8 4 (1.26%) Maven
9 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.63%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.32%) Appium
10 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.32%) Gradle
10 1 (0.32%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 77 (24.29%) Finance
2 37 (11.67%) Banking
3 22 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.62%) Social Skills
5 20 (6.31%) Retail
6 19 (5.99%) Financial Institution
6 19 (5.99%) Law
7 18 (5.68%) Front Office
8 15 (4.73%) Back Office
9 7 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.21%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.89%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.58%) Games
12 4 (1.26%) Marketing
13 3 (0.95%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Advertising
14 1 (0.32%) Automotive
14 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (33.12%) Spring
2 93 (29.34%) Spring Boot
3 47 (14.83%) React
4 41 (12.93%) Kafka
5 26 (8.20%) Node.js
6 25 (7.89%) REST
7 22 (6.94%) RESTful
8 13 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.84%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.52%) J2EE
11 8 (2.52%) Redux
12 7 (2.21%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.21%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.21%) Playwright
12 7 (2.21%) Web Services
13 6 (1.89%) HTML
13 6 (1.89%) JSON
13 6 (1.89%) SOAP
14 5 (1.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.15%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.84%) Blog
5 9 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.52%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.21%) NHS
8 5 (1.58%) Derivative
8 5 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.63%) Equities
11 1 (0.32%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.32%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.32%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.32%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (61.51%) Software Engineering
2 91 (28.71%) Microservices
3 86 (27.13%) CI/CD
3 86 (27.13%) Test Automation
4 82 (25.87%) Agile
5 72 (22.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (19.24%) Mentoring
7 42 (13.25%) DevOps
8 33 (10.41%) BDD
8 33 (10.41%) Clean Code
9 32 (10.09%) AI
10 31 (9.78%) TDD
11 30 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (9.15%) Continuous Deployment
13 28 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (8.52%) Event-Driven
14 27 (8.52%) Fintech
15 26 (8.20%) Coaching
16 24 (7.57%) Deployment Automation
17 23 (7.26%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 317 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (18.30%) SQL
3 29 (9.15%) Python
4 25 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 24 (7.57%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.99%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.10%) Go
8 4 (1.26%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Ruby
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.47%) Degree
5 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.52%) QA
2 4 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (11.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (20.82%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.67%) Terraform
3 24 (7.57%) Grafana
4 4 (1.26%) Packer
4 4 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.95%) Ansible
6 2 (0.63%) Kibana
6 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (1.58%) Oracle
2 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.63%) Google
2 2 (0.63%) IBM
2 2 (0.63%) Splunk
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe
3 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.32%) Solace