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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 288 415
Rank change year-on-year -90 +127 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 407 444 518
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.02% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.13% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 291 281 436
10th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
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 82,591 39,177 83,567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,075 23,624 60,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,233 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £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 16 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 16 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 -70 226 £90,000 -18.18% 55
North of England +38 111 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North West +39 71 £85,000 +30.77% 7
South East -6 27 £90,000 +28.57% 16
South West -91 27 £60,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -19 20 £80,000 +128.57% 1
Midlands -20 20 £60,000 - 5
North East -38 20 £24,000 -63.08%
West Midlands -34 14 £62,500 +4.17% 3
East Midlands -32 5 £60,000 +150.00% 2
East of England -14 2 £73,750 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 407 (100.00%) Java
2 206 (50.61%) Software Engineering
3 167 (41.03%) AWS
4 160 (39.31%) Spring
5 137 (33.66%) Spring Boot
6 129 (31.70%) Microservices
7 115 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 115 (28.26%) Test Automation
8 113 (27.76%) Agile
9 110 (27.03%) CI/CD
10 79 (19.41%) Mentoring
10 79 (19.41%) SQL
11 74 (18.18%) Kafka
12 70 (17.20%) Kubernetes
13 59 (14.50%) AI
14 58 (14.25%) NoSQL
15 57 (14.00%) Event-Driven
15 57 (14.00%) Python
16 55 (13.51%) BDD
17 53 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 51 (12.53%) DevOps
19 47 (11.55%) React
20 44 (10.81%) Docker
21 40 (9.83%) Azure
22 38 (9.34%) TypeScript
23 37 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
24 36 (8.85%) Coaching
24 36 (8.85%) GitLab
25 35 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
25 35 (8.60%) REST

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 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.98%) Camunda
1 4 (0.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.49%) 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
1 167 (41.03%) AWS
2 40 (9.83%) Azure
3 32 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.63%) GCP
5 24 (5.90%) Serverless
6 23 (5.65%) SaaS
7 22 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (4.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.70%) GitHub
10 8 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Storage
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.98%) dbt
14 4 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.47%) 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 58 (14.25%) NoSQL
2 31 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.39%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.44%) MySQL
4 14 (3.44%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.97%) Redis
6 6 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.49%) Db2
7 2 (0.49%) 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 36 (8.85%) GitLab
2 32 (7.86%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.91%) Claude Code
4 16 (3.93%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.95%) Git
7 10 (2.46%) Selenium
8 8 (1.97%) JIRA
8 8 (1.97%) JUnit
9 5 (1.23%) Maven
10 4 (0.98%) JMeter
10 4 (0.98%) Mockito
11 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.49%) Mocha
11 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.25%) NetBeans
General
1 90 (22.11%) Finance
2 38 (9.34%) Banking
3 27 (6.63%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.14%) Front Office
5 21 (5.16%) Social Skills
6 20 (4.91%) Financial Institution
7 17 (4.18%) Health Technology
8 16 (3.93%) Retail
9 13 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.19%) Law
10 11 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.21%) Back Office
12 8 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.72%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.98%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.98%) Marketing
15 3 (0.74%) Games
16 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.25%) Advertising
17 1 (0.25%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (39.31%) Spring
2 137 (33.66%) Spring Boot
3 74 (18.18%) Kafka
4 47 (11.55%) React
5 35 (8.60%) REST
6 28 (6.88%) RESTful
7 26 (6.39%) Node.js
8 21 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.44%) Vue
10 12 (2.95%) GraphQL
10 12 (2.95%) HTML
11 8 (1.97%) Akka
11 8 (1.97%) OAuth
11 8 (1.97%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.97%) Playwright
11 8 (1.97%) Redux
11 8 (1.97%) YAML
12 7 (1.72%) CSS
12 7 (1.72%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 64 (15.72%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.88%) Public Cloud
4 27 (6.63%) e-Learning
5 19 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.69%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.98%) Blog
10 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.74%) Equities
10 3 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.49%) Derivative
11 2 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.49%) NHS
11 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.25%) Robotics
12 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (50.61%) Software Engineering
2 129 (31.70%) Microservices
3 115 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 115 (28.26%) Test Automation
4 113 (27.76%) Agile
5 110 (27.03%) CI/CD
6 79 (19.41%) Mentoring
7 59 (14.50%) AI
8 57 (14.00%) Event-Driven
9 55 (13.51%) BDD
10 53 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (12.53%) DevOps
12 37 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (8.85%) Coaching
14 35 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (8.35%) TDD
16 33 (8.11%) CQRS
17 32 (7.86%) Containerisation
18 28 (6.88%) Clean Code
19 27 (6.63%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 407 (100.00%) Java
2 79 (19.41%) SQL
3 57 (14.00%) Python
4 38 (9.34%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.13%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.91%) Go
7 19 (4.67%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.70%) C++
9 6 (1.47%) Rust
10 5 (1.23%) C#
11 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) Scala
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (8.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.63%) AWS Certification
3 27 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.70%) Degree
6 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.69%) QA
2 4 (0.98%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.86%) Terraform
3 18 (4.42%) Grafana
4 5 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.98%) Kibana
5 4 (0.98%) Packer
6 3 (0.74%) Ansible
7 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.21%) Palantir
2 6 (1.47%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.23%) Oracle
3 5 (1.23%) Splunk
4 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.98%) Google
5 3 (0.74%) Adobe
6 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.49%) IBM
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware