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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 361 439
Rank change year-on-year -1 +78 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 364 299 441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.85% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 267 243 385
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +43.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £121,750 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +44.83% -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 75,853 35,072 79,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.55% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51,141 20,807 60,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +7.59% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,725
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 May 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 May 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 +21 222 £90,000 -18.18% 48
North of England +30 88 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North West +46 63 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South East -21 21 £82,500 +17.86% 21
Midlands -15 20 £53,750 -10.42% 2
North East -24 18 £24,000 -63.08% 2
South West -76 18 £60,000 -31.43% 8
West Midlands -34 15 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -52 7 £52,130 +48.94% 6
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -15 1 £75,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 364 (100.00%) Java
2 204 (56.04%) Software Engineering
3 140 (38.46%) AWS
4 127 (34.89%) Spring
5 115 (31.59%) Spring Boot
6 100 (27.47%) Microservices
7 90 (24.73%) Agile
8 88 (24.18%) Test Automation
9 86 (23.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 80 (21.98%) CI/CD
11 66 (18.13%) SQL
12 65 (17.86%) Kubernetes
13 63 (17.31%) Mentoring
14 55 (15.11%) Kafka
15 46 (12.64%) React
16 44 (12.09%) BDD
17 42 (11.54%) Docker
17 42 (11.54%) NoSQL
18 39 (10.71%) DevOps
19 38 (10.44%) AI
19 38 (10.44%) Python
20 36 (9.89%) TDD
21 35 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
22 34 (9.34%) Event-Driven
23 32 (8.79%) Security Cleared
24 31 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
25 30 (8.24%) Fintech
25 30 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
25 30 (8.24%) REST
25 30 (8.24%) Terraform

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 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) Camunda
3 1 (0.27%) JBoss
3 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 140 (38.46%) AWS
2 28 (7.69%) SaaS
3 27 (7.42%) Azure
4 24 (6.59%) GCP
5 22 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (5.77%) Anthropic Claude
7 20 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (4.40%) Serverless
9 10 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.10%) dbt
12 4 (1.10%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.82%) GitHub
14 2 (0.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 1 (0.27%) AWS Step Functions
15 1 (0.27%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.27%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) AMQP
2 1 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 30 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.02%) MySQL
6 6 (1.65%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.10%) Redis
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.27%) DB2
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 22 (6.04%) Claude Code
2 20 (5.49%) Cucumber
3 19 (5.22%) GitLab
4 14 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.02%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.20%) JUnit
7 7 (1.92%) Git
8 6 (1.65%) Selenium
9 5 (1.37%) JIRA
9 5 (1.37%) Maven
10 4 (1.10%) JMeter
10 4 (1.10%) Mockito
11 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.27%) Gradle
12 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
General
1 78 (21.43%) Finance
2 36 (9.89%) Banking
3 25 (6.87%) Front Office
4 24 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.12%) Financial Institution
5 15 (4.12%) Retail
5 15 (4.12%) Social Skills
6 14 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.85%) Law
7 9 (2.47%) Back Office
7 9 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.47%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.20%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.65%) Marketing
10 4 (1.10%) Games
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Automotive
11 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (34.89%) Spring
2 115 (31.59%) Spring Boot
3 55 (15.11%) Kafka
4 46 (12.64%) React
5 30 (8.24%) REST
6 23 (6.32%) Node.js
6 23 (6.32%) RESTful
7 18 (4.95%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.02%) GraphQL
8 11 (3.02%) Vue
9 10 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.47%) Hibernate
10 9 (2.47%) JSON
11 8 (2.20%) Akka
11 8 (2.20%) HTML
11 8 (2.20%) J2EE
11 8 (2.20%) Redux
11 8 (2.20%) Web Services
11 8 (2.20%) XML
12 7 (1.92%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 65 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.12%) e-Learning
5 14 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 11 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.47%) Blog
8 6 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.65%) NHS
9 5 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.10%) Derivative
10 4 (1.10%) Equities
11 3 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.27%) Credit Risk
13 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.27%) Market Risk
13 1 (0.27%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (56.04%) Software Engineering
2 100 (27.47%) Microservices
3 90 (24.73%) Agile
4 88 (24.18%) Test Automation
5 86 (23.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 80 (21.98%) CI/CD
7 63 (17.31%) Mentoring
8 44 (12.09%) BDD
9 39 (10.71%) DevOps
10 38 (10.44%) AI
11 36 (9.89%) TDD
12 35 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (9.34%) Event-Driven
14 31 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (8.24%) Fintech
16 29 (7.97%) Architectural Patterns
16 29 (7.97%) Clean Code
17 27 (7.42%) Coaching
18 24 (6.59%) Continuous Deployment
18 24 (6.59%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 364 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (18.13%) SQL
3 38 (10.44%) Python
4 25 (6.87%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.59%) Kotlin
6 15 (4.12%) Go
7 4 (1.10%) C++
7 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.82%) C#
9 2 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.95%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.12%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.75%) Degree
6 5 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.92%) QA
2 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.24%) Terraform
3 18 (4.95%) Grafana
4 4 (1.10%) Kibana
4 4 (1.10%) Packer
4 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.82%) Ansible
6 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (1.37%) Splunk
2 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle
3 3 (0.82%) Adobe
3 3 (0.82%) Palantir
4 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.55%) Google
4 2 (0.55%) IBM
4 2 (0.55%) Solace
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft