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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 284 402
Rank change year-on-year -96 +118 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 411 449 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.04% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.14% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 298 285 394
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 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +3.07%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £138,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 83,969 39,266 76,465
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 90.73% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59,049 23,709 54,780
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 23 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 23 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 -55 229 £90,000 -18.18% 102
North of England +40 115 £70,000 +7.69% 10
North West +41 74 £85,000 +30.77% 6
South East -15 26 £90,000 +28.57% 17
South West -96 26 £60,000 - 7
Yorkshire -15 21 £80,000 +128.57% 1
Midlands -31 20 £60,000 - 17
North East -37 20 £24,000 -63.08% 3
West Midlands -35 14 £62,500 +4.17% 13
East Midlands -24 5 £60,000 +150.00% 4
East of England -10 1 £72,500 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 411 (100.00%) Java
2 198 (48.18%) Software Engineering
3 166 (40.39%) AWS
4 156 (37.96%) Spring
5 137 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 129 (31.39%) Microservices
7 117 (28.47%) Agile
8 116 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 113 (27.49%) Test Automation
10 110 (26.76%) CI/CD
11 79 (19.22%) Kafka
11 79 (19.22%) Mentoring
11 79 (19.22%) SQL
12 68 (16.55%) Kubernetes
13 61 (14.84%) Event-Driven
14 60 (14.60%) AI
14 60 (14.60%) NoSQL
14 60 (14.60%) Python
15 57 (13.87%) BDD
16 56 (13.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 54 (13.14%) DevOps
18 45 (10.95%) React
19 43 (10.46%) Docker
20 42 (10.22%) Azure
21 40 (9.73%) TypeScript
22 39 (9.49%) Security Cleared
23 38 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
24 37 (9.00%) Architectural Patterns
25 36 (8.76%) Coaching
25 36 (8.76%) GitLab

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 5 (1.22%) Camunda
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.97%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 166 (40.39%) AWS
2 42 (10.22%) Azure
3 33 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.33%) GCP
5 23 (5.60%) Serverless
6 20 (4.87%) SaaS
7 19 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (4.38%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.68%) GitHub
10 7 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.46%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.46%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.97%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.46%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.60%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.41%) MySQL
4 14 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.19%) Redis
6 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.49%) Db2
7 2 (0.49%) KDB
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Flink
8 1 (0.24%) Power BI
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (8.76%) GitLab
2 33 (8.03%) Cucumber
3 19 (4.62%) Claude Code
4 17 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.16%) Git
6 11 (2.68%) Selenium
7 10 (2.43%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.95%) JIRA
8 8 (1.95%) JUnit
9 4 (0.97%) JMeter
9 4 (0.97%) Maven
9 4 (0.97%) Mockito
10 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.49%) Mocha
10 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.24%) NetBeans
General
1 92 (22.38%) Finance
2 38 (9.25%) Banking
3 27 (6.57%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.33%) Front Office
5 24 (5.84%) Social Skills
6 19 (4.62%) Financial Institution
6 19 (4.62%) Health Technology
7 15 (3.65%) Retail
8 11 (2.68%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.43%) Law
10 9 (2.19%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.70%) Back Office
12 4 (0.97%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.97%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Games
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (37.96%) Spring
2 137 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 79 (19.22%) Kafka
4 45 (10.95%) React
5 34 (8.27%) REST
6 30 (7.30%) RESTful
7 24 (5.84%) Node.js
8 20 (4.87%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.16%) GraphQL
9 13 (3.16%) Vue
10 11 (2.68%) HTML
11 8 (1.95%) Akka
11 8 (1.95%) OAuth
11 8 (1.95%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.95%) Playwright
11 8 (1.95%) Redux
11 8 (1.95%) YAML
12 6 (1.46%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.46%) JSON
12 6 (1.46%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 104 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 67 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.06%) Public Cloud
4 28 (6.81%) e-Learning
5 20 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.89%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.73%) Blog
9 3 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.73%) Equities
9 3 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.73%) NHS
10 2 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.49%) Derivative
10 2 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.24%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (48.18%) Software Engineering
2 129 (31.39%) Microservices
3 117 (28.47%) Agile
4 116 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 113 (27.49%) Test Automation
6 110 (26.76%) CI/CD
7 79 (19.22%) Mentoring
8 61 (14.84%) Event-Driven
9 60 (14.60%) AI
10 57 (13.87%) BDD
11 56 (13.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (13.14%) DevOps
13 38 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (9.00%) Architectural Patterns
15 36 (8.76%) Coaching
16 35 (8.52%) CQRS
16 35 (8.52%) TDD
17 33 (8.03%) Containerisation
18 28 (6.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 28 (6.81%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 411 (100.00%) Java
2 79 (19.22%) SQL
3 60 (14.60%) Python
4 40 (9.73%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.62%) Kotlin
7 18 (4.38%) Go
8 11 (2.68%) C++
9 6 (1.46%) C#
9 6 (1.46%) Rust
10 4 (0.97%) Scala
10 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (9.49%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.27%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.81%) AWS Certification
3 28 (6.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.92%) Degree
6 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) OCP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.65%) QA
2 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (10.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.30%) Terraform
3 16 (3.89%) Grafana
4 6 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.97%) Kibana
5 4 (0.97%) Packer
6 3 (0.73%) Ansible
7 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.19%) Palantir
2 6 (1.46%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.22%) Google
3 5 (1.22%) Splunk
4 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.97%) Oracle
5 3 (0.73%) Adobe
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.49%) IBM
6 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.24%) Revolut
7 1 (0.24%) Sybase
7 1 (0.24%) Wonderware