Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 305 352
Rank change year-on-year -8 +47 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 579 390 482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.90% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.00% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 416 234 342
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +8.64% +22.73%
75th Percentile £93,750 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% +25.00%

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 96,512 39,065 63,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 90.52% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,878 23,017 36,945
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 October 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 October 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 -32 287 £90,000 -18.18% 281
North of England +66 184 £75,000 +3.45% 81
North West +59 117 £75,000 -14.77% 52
South West -81 49 £70,000 +22.81% 70
Yorkshire -4 34 £80,000 +12.28% 14
Midlands -32 34 £77,500 +29.17% 23
North East -37 33 £45,000 -25.00% 15
South East -46 30 £90,000 +28.57% 17
West Midlands -38 27 £85,000 +41.67% 14
East Midlands -29 7 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -29 4 £85,000 +6.25% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 579 (100.00%) Java
2 262 (45.25%) Software Engineering
3 181 (31.26%) AWS
4 169 (29.19%) Spring
5 152 (26.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 148 (25.56%) Agile
7 145 (25.04%) Spring Boot
8 137 (23.66%) Microservices
9 134 (23.14%) CI/CD
10 112 (19.34%) Test Automation
11 90 (15.54%) Kafka
12 88 (15.20%) Event-Driven
13 80 (13.82%) SQL
14 79 (13.64%) Mentoring
15 70 (12.09%) Python
16 69 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 68 (11.74%) Kubernetes
18 65 (11.23%) NoSQL
19 63 (10.88%) AI
20 61 (10.54%) BDD
21 57 (9.84%) Security Cleared
22 56 (9.67%) GitLab
23 54 (9.33%) DevOps
24 52 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
25 49 (8.46%) Azure
25 49 (8.46%) CQRS
26 48 (8.29%) Cucumber
27 45 (7.77%) AWS Certification
28 44 (7.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
28 44 (7.60%) Performance Testing

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 (1.04%) Camunda
2 4 (0.69%) Confluence
2 4 (0.69%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.69%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.35%) JBoss
4 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 181 (31.26%) AWS
2 52 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (8.46%) Azure
4 33 (5.70%) GCP
5 24 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (3.63%) Serverless
7 19 (3.28%) GitHub
7 19 (3.28%) SaaS
8 13 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.04%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.38%) DMARC
2 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.23%) NoSQL
2 27 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.63%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.90%) Redis
6 8 (1.38%) MySQL
7 5 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.52%) KDB
8 3 (0.52%) Power BI
9 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.35%) Db2
9 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (9.67%) GitLab
2 48 (8.29%) Cucumber
3 23 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.11%) Git
5 16 (2.76%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.25%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.90%) Selenium
8 8 (1.38%) JUnit
9 7 (1.21%) JIRA
9 7 (1.21%) Mockito
10 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.69%) JMeter
11 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.52%) Maven
11 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.35%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.35%) Mocha
13 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.17%) NetBeans
General
1 108 (18.65%) Finance
2 84 (14.51%) Banking
3 37 (6.39%) Social Skills
4 25 (4.32%) Financial Institution
5 23 (3.97%) Front Office
6 21 (3.63%) Health Technology
7 20 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.45%) Retail
8 18 (3.11%) Law
9 15 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.07%) Tech for Good
11 11 (1.90%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (0.69%) Back Office
13 4 (0.69%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.52%) iGaming
14 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.52%) Marketing
15 2 (0.35%) Aviation
16 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (29.19%) Spring
2 145 (25.04%) Spring Boot
3 90 (15.54%) Kafka
4 39 (6.74%) REST
5 36 (6.22%) React
6 32 (5.53%) RESTful
6 32 (5.53%) Terraform
7 20 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.28%) Node.js
9 13 (2.25%) Vue
10 12 (2.07%) HTML
11 11 (1.90%) Hibernate
11 11 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.73%) YAML
13 9 (1.55%) OAuth
13 9 (1.55%) OAuth2
14 8 (1.38%) Playwright
15 7 (1.21%) Akka
15 7 (1.21%) CSS
16 6 (1.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 111 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 89 (15.37%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.77%) Public Cloud
4 44 (7.60%) e-Learning
5 28 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.42%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.90%) Blog
8 10 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.55%) Equities
9 9 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.04%) Derivative
11 6 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.86%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (0.86%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (45.25%) Software Engineering
2 152 (26.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 148 (25.56%) Agile
4 137 (23.66%) Microservices
5 134 (23.14%) CI/CD
6 112 (19.34%) Test Automation
7 88 (15.20%) Event-Driven
8 79 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 69 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 63 (10.88%) AI
11 61 (10.54%) BDD
12 54 (9.33%) DevOps
13 49 (8.46%) CQRS
14 44 (7.60%) Performance Testing
15 42 (7.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 37 (6.39%) Architectural Patterns
17 34 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (5.53%) Containerisation
19 31 (5.35%) Observability
19 31 (5.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 579 (100.00%) Java
2 80 (13.82%) SQL
3 70 (12.09%) Python
4 31 (5.35%) TypeScript
5 28 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.97%) Kotlin
7 20 (3.45%) C++
8 15 (2.59%) Go
9 8 (1.38%) Scala
10 6 (1.04%) Rust
11 5 (0.86%) C#
12 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.52%) Groovy
14 1 (0.17%) Bash
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.77%) AWS Certification
3 44 (7.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 44 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.28%) Degree
5 11 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.35%) PhD
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.17%) OCP
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.59%) QA
2 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.86%) GDPR
4 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (7.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.94%) Grafana
3 4 (0.69%) Ansible
3 4 (0.69%) Kibana
4 3 (0.52%) Argo
5 2 (0.35%) Packer
5 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.17%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (1.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.55%) Palantir
3 8 (1.38%) SendGrid
4 7 (1.21%) Google
4 7 (1.21%) Oracle
5 6 (1.04%) AppDynamics
6 5 (0.86%) IBM
6 5 (0.86%) Splunk
7 4 (0.69%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.69%) OutSystems
7 4 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.52%) Adobe
8 3 (0.52%) Revolut
9 2 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.17%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.17%) Databricks
10 1 (0.17%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.17%) Solace
10 1 (0.17%) Sybase
10 1 (0.17%) Wonderware