Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 373 396
Rank change year-on-year -48 +23 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 194 332 296
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.72% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 157 217 253
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +53.85% -25.71%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £117,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -25.71%

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 47,257 46,319 43,360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 93.21% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29,652 24,705 33,958
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -16 151 £100,000 -6.98% 117
North of England -27 15 £57,500 -11.54% 96
South East +19 11 £63,750 -20.31% 73
Midlands +25 8 £50,000 -13.04% 36
Yorkshire -4 7 £71,250 +35.71% 33
West Midlands +25 6 £50,000 -13.04% 21
North West +1 6 £57,500 -11.54% 54
South West -12 5 £60,000 -18.64% 31
North East +4 2 £39,500 -50.63% 10
East Midlands -7 2 £40,000 -11.11% 15
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 28
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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.

1 194 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (64.95%) Software Engineering
3 119 (61.34%) AWS
4 82 (42.27%) Agile
5 70 (36.08%) Spring
6 56 (28.87%) Microservices
7 55 (28.35%) Spring Boot
8 52 (26.80%) JavaScript
9 50 (25.77%) Python
10 47 (24.23%) CI/CD
10 47 (24.23%) TypeScript
11 42 (21.65%) Kubernetes
12 40 (20.62%) Investment Management
13 38 (19.59%) Mentoring
13 38 (19.59%) Snowflake
14 37 (19.07%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (19.07%) Apache
14 37 (19.07%) Apache Airflow
14 37 (19.07%) Apache Arrow
14 37 (19.07%) Apache Iceberg
14 37 (19.07%) Apache Ignite
14 37 (19.07%) Asset Management
14 37 (19.07%) Data Lake
14 37 (19.07%) dbt
14 37 (19.07%) Dremio
14 37 (19.07%) gRPC
14 37 (19.07%) NumPy
14 37 (19.07%) Pandas
14 37 (19.07%) Protocol Buffers
14 37 (19.07%) SciPy

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 37 (19.07%) Apache
1 37 (19.07%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) Camunda
2 1 (0.52%) CMS
2 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 119 (61.34%) AWS
2 38 (19.59%) Snowflake
3 37 (19.07%) dbt
4 22 (11.34%) SaaS
5 10 (5.15%) GCP
6 8 (4.12%) Azure
6 8 (4.12%) GitHub
7 7 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.55%) Serverless
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) AMQP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.07%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (19.07%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (19.07%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (19.07%) Apache Ignite
1 37 (19.07%) Data Lake
1 37 (19.07%) Dremio
2 16 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.67%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.61%) Cucumber
2 7 (3.61%) TeamCity
3 6 (3.09%) Git
3 6 (3.09%) GitLab
3 6 (3.09%) JUnit
4 4 (2.06%) JMeter
5 2 (1.03%) Appium
5 2 (1.03%) Gradle
5 2 (1.03%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.03%) Selenium
5 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.52%) Storybook
6 1 (0.52%) TestNG
6 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 102 (52.58%) Finance
2 58 (29.90%) Banking
3 44 (22.68%) Front Office
4 39 (20.10%) Investment Banking
5 28 (14.43%) Financial Institution
6 19 (9.79%) Social Skills
7 11 (5.67%) Retail
8 10 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.61%) Back Office
9 7 (3.61%) Games
9 7 (3.61%) Law
10 4 (2.06%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Marketing
12 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.03%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.52%) Aviation
13 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (36.08%) Spring
2 55 (28.35%) Spring Boot
3 37 (19.07%) gRPC
3 37 (19.07%) NumPy
3 37 (19.07%) Pandas
3 37 (19.07%) Protocol Buffers
3 37 (19.07%) SciPy
4 33 (17.01%) Kafka
5 17 (8.76%) React
6 16 (8.25%) Akka
6 16 (8.25%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (8.25%) RxJava
6 16 (8.25%) Spring WebFlux
7 14 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (6.70%) JMS
9 12 (6.19%) RESTful
10 9 (4.64%) Node.js
11 7 (3.61%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.61%) Hibernate
12 6 (3.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.13%) Derivative
2 40 (20.62%) Equities
3 39 (20.10%) Fixed Income
3 39 (20.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (19.59%) Hedge funds
5 37 (19.07%) Pricing Data
6 27 (13.92%) Cloud Native
7 12 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.61%) Blog
9 5 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.55%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.55%) NHS
12 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.52%) FPGA
13 1 (0.52%) PKI
13 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (64.95%) Software Engineering
2 82 (42.27%) Agile
3 56 (28.87%) Microservices
4 47 (24.23%) CI/CD
5 40 (20.62%) Investment Management
6 38 (19.59%) Mentoring
7 37 (19.07%) Asset Management
8 33 (17.01%) Fintech
9 32 (16.49%) Test Automation
10 28 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (12.89%) BDD
12 23 (11.86%) TDD
13 21 (10.82%) Event-Driven
14 19 (9.79%) DevOps
14 19 (9.79%) Multithreading
14 19 (9.79%) Pair Programming
15 18 (9.28%) Concurrent Programming
16 16 (8.25%) High Availability
17 14 (7.22%) Collaborative Culture
18 13 (6.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 194 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (26.80%) JavaScript
3 50 (25.77%) Python
4 47 (24.23%) TypeScript
5 20 (10.31%) Kotlin
5 20 (10.31%) SQL
6 7 (3.61%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) C
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) Groovy
7 1 (0.52%) Ruby
7 1 (0.52%) Rust
7 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (6.19%) Degree
2 10 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.12%) Master's Degree
3 8 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.09%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 27 (13.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.22%) Terraform
3 10 (5.15%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.52%) Istio
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (1.03%) Splunk
1 2 (1.03%) VMware
2 1 (0.52%) Databricks
2 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
2 1 (0.52%) Google
2 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle
2 1 (0.52%) SAP
2 1 (0.52%) Solarflare