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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 289 412
Rank change year-on-year -74 +123 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 399 433 521
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.04% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.15% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 292 271 450
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £51,700
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 £129,250 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £108,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year -26.44% +20.83% -

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 80,906 37,725 87,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.30% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,953 22,407 64,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,945 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 3 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 3 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 -63 220 £90,000 -18.18% 63
North of England +36 113 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North West +35 75 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South West -101 26 £60,000 -50.00% 6
South East -21 25 £90,000 +28.57% 21
North East -30 21 £24,000 -63.08% 1
Midlands -20 20 £58,750 -2.08% 3
Yorkshire -22 17 £80,000 +128.57% 5
West Midlands -25 14 £50,000 -16.67% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £60,000 +150.00%
East of England -13 2 £73,750 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 399 (100.00%) Java
2 210 (52.63%) Software Engineering
3 158 (39.60%) AWS
4 151 (37.84%) Spring
5 127 (31.83%) Spring Boot
6 121 (30.33%) Microservices
7 115 (28.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 109 (27.32%) Test Automation
9 106 (26.57%) Agile
10 102 (25.56%) CI/CD
11 75 (18.80%) Mentoring
12 74 (18.55%) SQL
13 70 (17.54%) Kubernetes
14 65 (16.29%) Kafka
15 53 (13.28%) NoSQL
16 51 (12.78%) Event-Driven
16 51 (12.78%) Python
17 50 (12.53%) BDD
18 49 (12.28%) AI
19 47 (11.78%) DevOps
19 47 (11.78%) React
20 46 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
21 43 (10.78%) Docker
22 37 (9.27%) Azure
22 37 (9.27%) TypeScript
23 35 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
24 34 (8.52%) Coaching
24 34 (8.52%) REST
24 34 (8.52%) TDD
25 33 (8.27%) PostgreSQL

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 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.00%) Camunda
1 4 (1.00%) 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
1 158 (39.60%) AWS
2 37 (9.27%) Azure
3 28 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.52%) GCP
5 25 (6.27%) SaaS
6 23 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (5.76%) Serverless
7 21 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (2.26%) GitHub
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.50%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.00%) dbt
12 4 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.50%) 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 53 (13.28%) NoSQL
2 33 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.51%) MySQL
4 14 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.75%) Redis
6 6 (1.50%) 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
Development Applications
1 29 (7.27%) GitLab
2 28 (7.02%) Cucumber
3 22 (5.51%) Claude Code
4 14 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 13 (3.26%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.51%) Git
7 9 (2.26%) Selenium
8 8 (2.01%) JIRA
8 8 (2.01%) JUnit
9 5 (1.25%) Maven
10 4 (1.00%) JMeter
10 4 (1.00%) 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 85 (21.30%) Finance
2 35 (8.77%) Banking
3 26 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.51%) Front Office
5 18 (4.51%) Financial Institution
6 17 (4.26%) Social Skills
7 16 (4.01%) Retail
8 14 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.51%) Law
9 13 (3.26%) Health Technology
10 9 (2.26%) Back Office
10 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.75%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Marketing
14 3 (0.75%) Games
15 2 (0.50%) Digital Health
16 1 (0.25%) Advertising
16 1 (0.25%) Automotive
16 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (37.84%) Spring
2 127 (31.83%) Spring Boot
3 65 (16.29%) Kafka
4 47 (11.78%) React
5 34 (8.52%) REST
6 27 (6.77%) Node.js
6 27 (6.77%) RESTful
7 21 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.51%) Vue
9 12 (3.01%) GraphQL
10 11 (2.76%) HTML
11 8 (2.01%) Akka
11 8 (2.01%) OAuth
11 8 (2.01%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.01%) Redux
11 8 (2.01%) YAML
12 7 (1.75%) Hibernate
12 7 (1.75%) JSON
12 7 (1.75%) Playwright
12 7 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 93 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 56 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.76%) e-Learning
5 17 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.51%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.25%) Blog
8 5 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.75%) Equities
9 3 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.75%) NHS
10 2 (0.50%) Derivative
11 1 (0.25%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.25%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.25%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.25%) Robotics
11 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 121 (30.33%) Microservices
3 115 (28.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 109 (27.32%) Test Automation
5 106 (26.57%) Agile
6 102 (25.56%) CI/CD
7 75 (18.80%) Mentoring
8 51 (12.78%) Event-Driven
9 50 (12.53%) BDD
10 49 (12.28%) AI
11 47 (11.78%) DevOps
12 46 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
14 34 (8.52%) Coaching
14 34 (8.52%) TDD
15 32 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (7.52%) Clean Code
16 30 (7.52%) Containerisation
17 28 (7.02%) CQRS
18 24 (6.02%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 399 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (18.55%) SQL
3 51 (12.78%) Python
4 37 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.01%) Go
7 19 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.51%) C++
9 6 (1.50%) Rust
10 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.75%) C#
12 2 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
13 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (8.27%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.76%) AWS Certification
3 23 (5.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.26%) Degree
6 5 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.51%) QA
2 4 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (10.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.02%) Terraform
3 18 (4.51%) Grafana
4 4 (1.00%) Kibana
4 4 (1.00%) Packer
4 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.26%) Palantir
2 6 (1.50%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.25%) Oracle
3 5 (1.25%) Splunk
4 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.75%) Adobe
5 3 (0.75%) 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