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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 303 368
Rank change year-on-year -85 +65 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 419 419 476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.96% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.06% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 297 257 379
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +15.79% +11.76%

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 89,383 39,648 68,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 90.60% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,829 23,898 46,485
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 19 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 19 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 -55 245 £90,000 -18.18% 120
North of England +38 113 £70,000 +7.69% 23
North West +30 73 £80,000 +23.08% 14
South East -22 28 £90,000 +28.57% 14
South West -94 25 £60,000 +17.07% 18
North East -38 22 £24,000 -63.08% 4
Yorkshire -9 18 £80,000 +158.06% 5
Midlands -41 17 £60,000 - 16
West Midlands -32 13 £45,000 -25.00% 10
East Midlands -17 4 £60,000 +150.00% 6
East of England -29 1 £72,500 - 8
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 419 (100.00%) Java
2 178 (42.48%) Software Engineering
3 159 (37.95%) AWS
3 159 (37.95%) Spring
4 136 (32.46%) Spring Boot
5 124 (29.59%) Microservices
6 115 (27.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (26.97%) CI/CD
8 106 (25.30%) Agile
9 103 (24.58%) Test Automation
10 86 (20.53%) Kafka
11 73 (17.42%) Event-Driven
12 72 (17.18%) Mentoring
13 71 (16.95%) SQL
14 63 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 62 (14.80%) Kubernetes
15 62 (14.80%) Python
16 60 (14.32%) AI
17 56 (13.37%) NoSQL
18 52 (12.41%) DevOps
18 52 (12.41%) Security Cleared
19 48 (11.46%) BDD
20 43 (10.26%) React
20 43 (10.26%) SC Cleared
21 42 (10.02%) GitLab
22 41 (9.79%) Docker
23 40 (9.55%) Azure
23 40 (9.55%) CQRS
24 39 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
24 39 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement

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 7 (1.67%) Camunda
2 4 (0.95%) Confluence
3 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) JBoss
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 159 (37.95%) AWS
2 40 (9.55%) Azure
3 39 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (6.68%) GCP
5 21 (5.01%) Serverless
6 19 (4.53%) SaaS
7 17 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.58%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.63%) GitHub
10 8 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.43%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.43%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.43%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.95%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.43%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.37%) NoSQL
2 18 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.06%) MongoDB
4 16 (3.82%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.86%) Redis
6 6 (1.43%) MySQL
6 6 (1.43%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.72%) KDB
8 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.48%) Db2
8 2 (0.48%) Power BI
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (10.02%) GitLab
2 37 (8.83%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.77%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.82%) Claude Code
5 15 (3.58%) Git
6 14 (3.34%) Selenium
7 9 (2.15%) JUnit
8 8 (1.91%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.67%) JIRA
10 6 (1.43%) Mockito
11 4 (0.95%) JMeter
12 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.72%) Maven
13 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
13 2 (0.48%) Mocha
13 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 90 (21.48%) Finance
2 45 (10.74%) Banking
3 35 (8.35%) Social Skills
4 23 (5.49%) Front Office
5 20 (4.77%) Health Technology
5 20 (4.77%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.53%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.10%) Retail
8 12 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.39%) Law
9 10 (2.39%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.95%) Back Office
11 4 (0.95%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.95%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Games
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (37.95%) Spring
2 136 (32.46%) Spring Boot
3 86 (20.53%) Kafka
4 43 (10.26%) React
5 39 (9.31%) REST
6 27 (6.44%) RESTful
7 21 (5.01%) AngularJS
7 21 (5.01%) Node.js
8 13 (3.10%) Vue
9 12 (2.86%) HTML
10 11 (2.63%) Playwright
10 11 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.91%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.91%) YAML
12 7 (1.67%) Akka
12 7 (1.67%) CSS
12 7 (1.67%) Hibernate
12 7 (1.67%) OAuth
12 7 (1.67%) OAuth2
13 6 (1.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 92 (21.96%) Cloud Native
2 76 (18.14%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.64%) e-Learning
3 32 (7.64%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.10%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.95%) Blog
10 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.95%) Equities
10 4 (0.95%) NHS
10 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (42.48%) Software Engineering
2 124 (29.59%) Microservices
3 115 (27.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 113 (26.97%) CI/CD
5 106 (25.30%) Agile
6 103 (24.58%) Test Automation
7 73 (17.42%) Event-Driven
8 72 (17.18%) Mentoring
9 63 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 60 (14.32%) AI
11 52 (12.41%) DevOps
12 48 (11.46%) BDD
13 40 (9.55%) CQRS
14 39 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (9.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 37 (8.83%) Architectural Patterns
17 33 (7.88%) Containerisation
18 32 (7.64%) Performance Testing
19 29 (6.92%) Observability
20 27 (6.44%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 419 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (16.95%) SQL
3 62 (14.80%) Python
4 38 (9.07%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.01%) Kotlin
7 17 (4.06%) Go
8 13 (3.10%) C++
9 6 (1.43%) C#
9 6 (1.43%) Rust
10 5 (1.19%) Scala
11 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.64%) AWS Certification
3 32 (7.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (3.82%) Degree
5 15 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) OCP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.58%) QA
2 5 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (9.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.44%) Terraform
3 12 (2.86%) Grafana
4 4 (0.95%) Kibana
4 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.72%) Ansible
6 2 (0.48%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.15%) Palantir
2 8 (1.91%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.67%) Google
4 6 (1.43%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.19%) Splunk
6 4 (0.95%) AppDynamics
6 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.95%) IBM
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle
7 3 (0.72%) Adobe
7 3 (0.72%) Revolut
8 2 (0.48%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.48%) Solace
9 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.24%) Databricks
9 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.24%) Sybase
9 1 (0.24%) Wonderware