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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 355 454
Rank change year-on-year -21 +99 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 322 299 409
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.80% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.89% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 231 239 354
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £106,875
90th Percentile £121,250 £147,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -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 72,546 33,415 78,101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 89.21% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 47,462 21,467 59,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 April 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 April 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 +4 198 £91,250 -17.05% 47
North of England -23 72 £65,000 - 13
North West -4 46 £80,000 +23.08% 11
South East -38 20 £82,500 +17.86% 16
Midlands -27 18 £53,750 -10.42%
South West -74 17 £60,000 -36.60% 4
North East -31 16 £24,000 -63.08% 1
West Midlands -21 13 £50,000 -16.67%
Yorkshire -48 10 £55,000 +57.14% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 -
East of England -40 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 322 (100.00%) Java
2 199 (61.80%) Software Engineering
3 131 (40.68%) AWS
4 106 (32.92%) Spring
5 96 (29.81%) Spring Boot
6 88 (27.33%) Microservices
7 84 (26.09%) Agile
8 83 (25.78%) Test Automation
9 81 (25.16%) CI/CD
10 74 (22.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 64 (19.88%) Kubernetes
12 61 (18.94%) Mentoring
13 59 (18.32%) SQL
14 49 (15.22%) React
15 43 (13.35%) Kafka
16 42 (13.04%) DevOps
17 40 (12.42%) Docker
18 38 (11.80%) NoSQL
19 36 (11.18%) Security Cleared
20 35 (10.87%) BDD
21 34 (10.56%) AI
22 33 (10.25%) Terraform
23 32 (9.94%) TDD
24 31 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
24 31 (9.63%) Python
25 30 (9.32%) Azure
25 30 (9.32%) Clean Code
25 30 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
26 29 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
26 29 (9.01%) Fintech

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 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.62%) Camunda
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) JBoss
3 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 131 (40.68%) AWS
2 30 (9.32%) Azure
3 29 (9.01%) SaaS
4 25 (7.76%) GCP
5 20 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.28%) Anthropic Claude
7 13 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (3.42%) Serverless
9 7 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.55%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.24%) dbt
11 4 (1.24%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.93%) GitHub
13 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.62%) Vercel
14 1 (0.31%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.31%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.80%) NoSQL
2 30 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.21%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.73%) MySQL
5 11 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.24%) Redis
6 4 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.31%) DB2
9 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.31%) Flink
9 1 (0.31%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (5.59%) Claude Code
2 15 (4.66%) TeamCity
3 14 (4.35%) GitLab
4 13 (4.04%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.42%) Git
6 9 (2.80%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.17%) Selenium
8 6 (1.86%) JUnit
9 4 (1.24%) JIRA
9 4 (1.24%) Maven
10 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.62%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.31%) Appium
11 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.31%) Gradle
11 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.31%) JMeter
11 1 (0.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (24.22%) Finance
2 34 (10.56%) Banking
3 21 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.21%) Front Office
4 20 (6.21%) Social Skills
5 18 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.97%) Retail
7 15 (4.66%) Financial Institution
7 15 (4.66%) Law
8 11 (3.42%) Back Office
9 8 (2.48%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.86%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.55%) Games
13 4 (1.24%) Marketing
14 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.31%) Advertising
15 1 (0.31%) Automotive
15 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (32.92%) Spring
2 96 (29.81%) Spring Boot
3 49 (15.22%) React
4 43 (13.35%) Kafka
5 27 (8.39%) REST
6 26 (8.07%) Node.js
7 21 (6.52%) RESTful
8 15 (4.66%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.80%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.48%) J2EE
11 8 (2.48%) Redux
12 7 (2.17%) Akka
12 7 (2.17%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.17%) Playwright
12 7 (2.17%) Web Services
13 6 (1.86%) Hibernate
13 6 (1.86%) HTML
13 6 (1.86%) JSON
13 6 (1.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.42%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.11%) Fixed Income
5 9 (2.80%) Blog
5 9 (2.80%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.86%) NHS
7 5 (1.55%) Derivative
7 5 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.93%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.93%) Equities
8 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.93%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.31%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.31%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.31%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (61.80%) Software Engineering
2 88 (27.33%) Microservices
3 84 (26.09%) Agile
4 83 (25.78%) Test Automation
5 81 (25.16%) CI/CD
6 74 (22.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (18.94%) Mentoring
8 42 (13.04%) DevOps
9 35 (10.87%) BDD
10 34 (10.56%) AI
11 32 (9.94%) TDD
12 31 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (9.32%) Clean Code
14 29 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (9.01%) Fintech
15 28 (8.70%) Event-Driven
16 27 (8.39%) Coaching
17 25 (7.76%) Architectural Patterns
17 25 (7.76%) Continuous Deployment
17 25 (7.76%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 322 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (18.32%) SQL
3 31 (9.63%) Python
4 25 (7.76%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.21%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.04%) Go
8 4 (1.24%) C#
9 2 (0.62%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Ruby
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.59%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.11%) Degree
5 9 (2.80%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.48%) QA
2 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (12.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (19.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.25%) Terraform
3 19 (5.90%) Grafana
4 4 (1.24%) Packer
4 4 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.93%) Ansible
6 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.24%) Oracle
2 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.62%) Google
2 2 (0.62%) IBM
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe
3 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.31%) Solace
3 1 (0.31%) Splunk