Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £79,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 294 353
Rank change year-on-year -57 +59 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 496 398 490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.93% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.03% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 362 243 360
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £110,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.95% +7.32% +20.59%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £114,250 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +17.65%

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 93,904 38,815 65,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.34% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,374 23,183 40,037
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -46 262 £87,500 -20.45% 377
North of England +54 147 £75,000 +7.14% 98
North West +48 91 £75,000 -14.77% 56
South West -94 40 £60,000 +9.09% 72
North East -36 30 £45,000 -30.77% 13
Midlands -40 29 £70,000 +16.67% 29
Yorkshire -21 26 £80,000 +14.29% 29
South East -30 26 £90,000 +28.57% 28
West Midlands -36 21 £85,000 +41.67% 18
East Midlands -22 8 £60,000 +150.00% 11
East of England -32 1 £72,500 -9.38% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 496 (100.00%) Java
2 211 (42.54%) Software Engineering
3 164 (33.06%) AWS
4 163 (32.86%) Spring
5 142 (28.63%) Spring Boot
6 128 (25.81%) Microservices
7 126 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 123 (24.80%) Agile
8 123 (24.80%) CI/CD
9 109 (21.98%) Test Automation
10 87 (17.54%) Kafka
11 82 (16.53%) Event-Driven
12 74 (14.92%) Mentoring
13 72 (14.52%) SQL
14 68 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 63 (12.70%) Kubernetes
16 62 (12.50%) NoSQL
17 61 (12.30%) Python
18 55 (11.09%) AI
19 53 (10.69%) BDD
19 53 (10.69%) DevOps
20 52 (10.48%) Security Cleared
21 48 (9.68%) GitLab
22 46 (9.27%) AWS CloudFormation
22 46 (9.27%) CQRS
23 42 (8.47%) Cucumber
23 42 (8.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
24 41 (8.27%) REST
24 41 (8.27%) SC Cleared
25 40 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns

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 6 (1.21%) Camunda
2 4 (0.81%) Confluence
3 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.40%) JBoss
4 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 164 (33.06%) AWS
2 46 (9.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 39 (7.86%) Azure
4 31 (6.25%) GCP
5 22 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (4.23%) Serverless
7 18 (3.63%) SaaS
8 11 (2.22%) GitHub
9 10 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.21%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.21%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.21%) DMARC
2 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.20%) Modbus
2 1 (0.20%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 23 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.43%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.82%) Redis
4 14 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.21%) MySQL
5 6 (1.21%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.60%) KDB
6 3 (0.60%) Power BI
7 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.40%) Db2
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.20%) Flink
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (9.68%) GitLab
2 42 (8.47%) Cucumber
3 21 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.23%) Git
5 13 (2.62%) Selenium
5 13 (2.62%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.02%) Claude Code
7 7 (1.41%) JIRA
7 7 (1.41%) JUnit
8 6 (1.21%) Mockito
9 4 (0.81%) JMeter
10 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.40%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) Mocha
11 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 90 (18.15%) Finance
2 66 (13.31%) Banking
3 35 (7.06%) Social Skills
4 22 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 19 (3.83%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.63%) Front Office
6 18 (3.63%) Retail
7 16 (3.23%) Law
7 16 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.02%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Back Office
12 4 (0.81%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.60%) iGaming
13 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.60%) Marketing
14 2 (0.40%) Aviation
15 1 (0.20%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (32.86%) Spring
2 142 (28.63%) Spring Boot
3 87 (17.54%) Kafka
4 41 (8.27%) REST
5 39 (7.86%) React
6 31 (6.25%) Terraform
7 28 (5.65%) RESTful
8 21 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 18 (3.63%) Node.js
10 13 (2.62%) Vue
11 12 (2.42%) HTML
12 11 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (2.02%) Hibernate
13 10 (2.02%) Playwright
14 8 (1.61%) YAML
15 7 (1.41%) Akka
15 7 (1.41%) CSS
15 7 (1.41%) OAuth
15 7 (1.41%) OAuth2
16 6 (1.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 103 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 82 (16.53%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (7.66%) e-Learning
3 38 (7.66%) Public Cloud
4 25 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.81%) Blog
5 9 (1.81%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.81%) Clustering
9 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.81%) Equities
9 4 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.02%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (42.54%) Software Engineering
2 128 (25.81%) Microservices
3 126 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 123 (24.80%) Agile
4 123 (24.80%) CI/CD
5 109 (21.98%) Test Automation
6 82 (16.53%) Event-Driven
7 74 (14.92%) Mentoring
8 68 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 55 (11.09%) AI
10 53 (10.69%) BDD
10 53 (10.69%) DevOps
11 46 (9.27%) CQRS
12 42 (8.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 40 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
14 38 (7.66%) Performance Testing
15 37 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (6.25%) Observability
17 30 (6.05%) Containerisation
18 29 (5.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 496 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (14.52%) SQL
3 61 (12.30%) Python
4 32 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.64%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.23%) C++
8 15 (3.02%) Go
9 6 (1.21%) Rust
9 6 (1.21%) Scala
10 5 (1.01%) C#
11 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 41 (8.27%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.66%) AWS Certification
3 38 (7.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (3.63%) Degree
5 12 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.20%) OCP
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.82%) QA
2 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.01%) GDPR
4 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.40%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (8.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.02%) Grafana
3 4 (0.81%) Kibana
4 3 (0.60%) Ansible
5 2 (0.40%) Argo
5 2 (0.40%) Packer
5 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (2.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.81%) Palantir
3 7 (1.41%) Google
4 6 (1.21%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.21%) Oracle
4 6 (1.21%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.01%) Splunk
6 4 (0.81%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.81%) IBM
6 4 (0.81%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Revolut
8 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.20%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.20%) Databricks
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.20%) Solace
9 1 (0.20%) Sybase
9 1 (0.20%) Wonderware