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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 295 389
Rank change year-on-year -86 +94 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 415 452 460
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.04% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.15% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 301 287 373
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +2.86%

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 86,335 39,475 70,908
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.65% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,644 23,957 49,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
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 £76,075 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -69 236 £90,000 -18.18% 132
North of England +33 115 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North West +42 75 £85,000 +13.33% 8
South East -27 28 £90,000 +28.57% 14
South West -111 22 £60,000 - 7
Yorkshire -15 21 £80,000 +128.57% 1
Midlands -32 20 £60,000 - 15
North East -37 19 £24,000 -63.08% 4
West Midlands -34 14 £62,500 +4.17% 13
East Midlands -25 5 £60,000 +150.00% 2
East of England -20 1 £72,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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.

1 415 (100.00%) Java
2 194 (46.75%) Software Engineering
3 169 (40.72%) AWS
4 155 (37.35%) Spring
5 136 (32.77%) Spring Boot
6 130 (31.33%) Microservices
7 118 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 117 (28.19%) Agile
9 113 (27.23%) Test Automation
10 108 (26.02%) CI/CD
11 82 (19.76%) Kafka
12 80 (19.28%) Mentoring
13 78 (18.80%) SQL
14 69 (16.63%) Kubernetes
15 63 (15.18%) AI
15 63 (15.18%) Event-Driven
16 62 (14.94%) Python
17 61 (14.70%) NoSQL
18 58 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
19 56 (13.49%) BDD
20 53 (12.77%) DevOps
21 46 (11.08%) React
22 45 (10.84%) Azure
23 44 (10.60%) Docker
24 43 (10.36%) Security Cleared
25 42 (10.12%) TypeScript
26 39 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
27 38 (9.16%) SC Cleared
28 37 (8.92%) GitLab
29 36 (8.67%) 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 (1.45%) Camunda
2 4 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.96%) Confluence
3 2 (0.48%) 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
1 169 (40.72%) AWS
2 45 (10.84%) Azure
3 33 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.51%) GCP
5 22 (5.30%) Serverless
6 18 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (4.34%) SaaS
7 17 (4.10%) Anthropic Claude
8 11 (2.65%) GitHub
9 7 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.45%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.45%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.96%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.45%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.70%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.75%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.61%) MySQL
4 15 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.41%) Redis
6 6 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.72%) KDB
8 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.48%) Db2
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Flink
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (8.92%) GitLab
2 33 (7.95%) Cucumber
3 18 (4.34%) Claude Code
3 18 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.89%) Git
4 12 (2.89%) Selenium
5 9 (2.17%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.93%) JUnit
7 7 (1.69%) JIRA
8 4 (0.96%) JMeter
8 4 (0.96%) Maven
8 4 (0.96%) Mockito
9 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.48%) Mocha
10 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.24%) Gradle
11 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (22.17%) Finance
2 38 (9.16%) Banking
3 30 (7.23%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.51%) Front Office
6 20 (4.82%) Health Technology
7 18 (4.34%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.37%) Retail
9 12 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.65%) Tech for Good
11 9 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.17%) Law
12 5 (1.20%) Back Office
13 4 (0.96%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.96%) Marketing
14 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.48%) Games
16 1 (0.24%) Advertising
16 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (37.35%) Spring
2 136 (32.77%) Spring Boot
3 82 (19.76%) Kafka
4 46 (11.08%) React
5 35 (8.43%) REST
6 32 (7.71%) RESTful
7 24 (5.78%) Node.js
8 20 (4.82%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 13 (3.13%) Vue
10 11 (2.65%) HTML
11 9 (2.17%) Playwright
12 8 (1.93%) Akka
12 8 (1.93%) OAuth
12 8 (1.93%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.93%) Redux
12 8 (1.93%) YAML
13 6 (1.45%) CSS
13 6 (1.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 104 (25.06%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.87%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.75%) e-Learning
3 28 (6.75%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.10%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.96%) Blog
9 4 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.96%) NHS
10 3 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.72%) Equities
10 3 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.48%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (46.75%) Software Engineering
2 130 (31.33%) Microservices
3 118 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 117 (28.19%) Agile
5 113 (27.23%) Test Automation
6 108 (26.02%) CI/CD
7 80 (19.28%) Mentoring
8 63 (15.18%) AI
8 63 (15.18%) Event-Driven
9 58 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 56 (13.49%) BDD
11 53 (12.77%) DevOps
12 39 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (8.67%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (8.67%) CQRS
14 35 (8.43%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.19%) Coaching
16 33 (7.95%) TDD
17 31 (7.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 29 (6.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 415 (100.00%) Java
2 78 (18.80%) SQL
3 62 (14.94%) Python
4 42 (10.12%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.47%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.82%) Kotlin
7 19 (4.58%) Go
8 12 (2.89%) C++
9 6 (1.45%) C#
9 6 (1.45%) Rust
10 5 (1.20%) Scala
11 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (10.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.75%) AWS Certification
3 28 (6.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (3.37%) Degree
4 14 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) OCP
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.61%) QA
2 4 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (10.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (16.63%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.99%) Terraform
3 15 (3.61%) Grafana
4 6 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.96%) Kibana
6 3 (0.72%) Ansible
6 3 (0.72%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
7 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (2.17%) Palantir
2 6 (1.45%) Google
2 6 (1.45%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.20%) Splunk
4 4 (0.96%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.96%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe
6 2 (0.48%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.48%) IBM
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle
6 2 (0.48%) Revolut
6 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.48%) Solace
7 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.24%) Sybase
7 1 (0.24%) Wonderware