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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 286 402
Rank change year-on-year -80 +116 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 414 453 458
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.04% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.15% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 299 287 374
10th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,625 £60,000
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 £130,500 £138,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 85,120 39,347 72,795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 90.63% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59,761 23,819 51,484
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 £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,500
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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -72 234 £90,000 -18.18% 112
North of England +38 116 £70,000 +7.69% 10
North West +47 75 £85,000 +13.33% 6
South East -5 27 £90,000 +28.57% 13
South West -98 23 £60,000 - 7
Yorkshire -23 21 £80,000 +128.57% 1
North East -30 20 £24,000 -63.08% 3
Midlands -36 20 £60,000 - 18
West Midlands -20 14 £62,500 +4.17% 16
East Midlands -20 5 £60,000 +150.00% 2
East of England -18 1 £72,500 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 414 (100.00%) Java
2 196 (47.34%) Software Engineering
3 169 (40.82%) AWS
4 158 (38.16%) Spring
5 138 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 132 (31.88%) Microservices
7 118 (28.50%) Agile
8 115 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (27.78%) Test Automation
9 111 (26.81%) CI/CD
10 83 (20.05%) Kafka
11 82 (19.81%) Mentoring
12 80 (19.32%) SQL
13 70 (16.91%) Kubernetes
14 64 (15.46%) Event-Driven
15 62 (14.98%) NoSQL
16 60 (14.49%) AI
16 60 (14.49%) Python
17 59 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 57 (13.77%) BDD
19 53 (12.80%) DevOps
20 46 (11.11%) React
21 44 (10.63%) Azure
21 44 (10.63%) Docker
22 41 (9.90%) TypeScript
23 40 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
24 39 (9.42%) Security Cleared
25 37 (8.94%) Architectural Patterns
25 37 (8.94%) CQRS
25 37 (8.94%) GitLab

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 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.97%) 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 (40.82%) AWS
2 44 (10.63%) Azure
3 34 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.28%) GCP
5 23 (5.56%) Serverless
6 19 (4.59%) SaaS
7 18 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
8 11 (2.66%) 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 (0.97%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.97%) 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 62 (14.98%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.76%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.62%) MySQL
4 15 (3.62%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.42%) 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 (8.94%) GitLab
2 34 (8.21%) Cucumber
3 19 (4.59%) Claude Code
4 18 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.90%) Git
5 12 (2.90%) Selenium
6 9 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.93%) JUnit
8 7 (1.69%) JIRA
9 4 (0.97%) JMeter
9 4 (0.97%) Maven
9 4 (0.97%) Mockito
10 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.48%) Mocha
10 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.48%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.24%) Gradle
11 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.24%) NetBeans
General
1 94 (22.71%) Finance
2 38 (9.18%) Banking
3 27 (6.52%) Front Office
3 27 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.28%) Social Skills
5 19 (4.59%) Financial Institution
5 19 (4.59%) Health Technology
6 14 (3.38%) Retail
7 11 (2.66%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.42%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.17%) Law
10 6 (1.45%) Back Office
11 4 (0.97%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.97%) Marketing
12 2 (0.48%) Games
12 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (38.16%) Spring
2 138 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 83 (20.05%) Kafka
4 46 (11.11%) React
5 35 (8.45%) REST
6 31 (7.49%) RESTful
7 24 (5.80%) Node.js
8 20 (4.83%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.14%) GraphQL
9 13 (3.14%) Vue
10 11 (2.66%) 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 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.91%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.00%) e-Learning
3 29 (7.00%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.11%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.97%) NHS
10 3 (0.72%) Blog
10 3 (0.72%) Equities
10 3 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.48%) Derivative
11 2 (0.48%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (47.34%) Software Engineering
2 132 (31.88%) Microservices
3 118 (28.50%) Agile
4 115 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 115 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 111 (26.81%) CI/CD
6 82 (19.81%) Mentoring
7 64 (15.46%) Event-Driven
8 60 (14.49%) AI
9 59 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 57 (13.77%) BDD
11 53 (12.80%) DevOps
12 40 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (8.94%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (8.94%) CQRS
14 36 (8.70%) Coaching
15 34 (8.21%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.21%) TDD
16 30 (7.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 29 (7.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 414 (100.00%) Java
2 80 (19.32%) SQL
3 60 (14.49%) Python
4 41 (9.90%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.49%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.59%) Go
6 19 (4.59%) Kotlin
7 11 (2.66%) C++
8 6 (1.45%) C#
8 6 (1.45%) Rust
9 4 (0.97%) Scala
9 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) Perl
11 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.21%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.00%) AWS Certification
3 29 (7.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (3.38%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.90%) Degree
6 6 (1.45%) 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 (3.62%) QA
2 4 (0.97%) 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 (10.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (16.91%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.25%) Terraform
3 15 (3.62%) Grafana
4 6 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.97%) Kibana
5 4 (0.97%) Packer
6 3 (0.72%) Ansible
7 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.17%) Palantir
2 6 (1.45%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.21%) Google
3 5 (1.21%) Splunk
4 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe
5 3 (0.72%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle
6 2 (0.48%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.48%) IBM
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