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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 407 414
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 251 265 380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 189 181 339
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £51,250
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 £137,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.62% +50.00% -20.00%

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 55,600 39,498 63,358
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 91.23% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 35,900 21,132 50,551
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 23 February 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 February 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 +26 159 £100,000 -6.98% 33
North of England -14 46 £61,250 -2.00% 9
North West +7 27 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East -5 17 £81,250 +16.07% 24
Midlands +7 12 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Yorkshire -26 12 £55,000 +57.14% 4
South West -40 10 £60,000 -42.86% 13
West Midlands +14 8 £50,000 -11.11% 3
North East -13 7 £53,565 -33.04% 3
East Midlands -19 3 £70,000 +55.56% 3
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 February 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.

1 251 (100.00%) Java
2 167 (66.53%) Software Engineering
3 124 (49.40%) AWS
4 93 (37.05%) Spring
5 81 (32.27%) Microservices
6 77 (30.68%) Spring Boot
7 75 (29.88%) Agile
8 72 (28.69%) CI/CD
9 65 (25.90%) Test Automation
10 58 (23.11%) Kubernetes
11 55 (21.91%) Mentoring
12 47 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (17.53%) SQL
14 37 (14.74%) Kafka
15 35 (13.94%) BDD
16 32 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (12.75%) SaaS
17 31 (12.35%) TDD
18 30 (11.95%) Fintech
19 29 (11.55%) Docker
19 29 (11.55%) NoSQL
19 29 (11.55%) Terraform
20 28 (11.16%) DevOps
20 28 (11.16%) React
21 27 (10.76%) Event-Driven
22 26 (10.36%) Continuous Deployment
23 25 (9.96%) Python
24 24 (9.56%) Coaching
24 24 (9.56%) RESTful
24 24 (9.56%) TypeScript

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 11 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.19%) Apache
3 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 124 (49.40%) AWS
2 32 (12.75%) SaaS
3 20 (7.97%) Azure
4 19 (7.57%) GCP
5 16 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (4.78%) Snowflake
7 11 (4.38%) dbt
8 9 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.79%) GitHub
10 6 (2.39%) Anthropic Claude
10 6 (2.39%) Serverless
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.80%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.40%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.40%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.59%) AMQP
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.40%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.55%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.76%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.78%) MySQL
5 8 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.19%) Apache Arrow
5 8 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (3.19%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.19%) Dremio
6 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.40%) Big Data
9 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.37%) TeamCity
2 11 (4.38%) Cucumber
2 11 (4.38%) GitLab
3 6 (2.39%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.39%) Git
3 6 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.59%) JUnit
5 3 (1.20%) JMeter
6 2 (0.80%) Maven
6 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.80%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.40%) Appium
7 1 (0.40%) Gradle
7 1 (0.40%) JIRA
7 1 (0.40%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 82 (32.67%) Finance
2 38 (15.14%) Banking
3 29 (11.55%) Financial Institution
4 20 (7.97%) Retail
5 19 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.17%) Social Skills
7 17 (6.77%) Front Office
7 17 (6.77%) Public Sector
8 16 (6.37%) Law
9 13 (5.18%) Back Office
10 10 (3.98%) Investment Banking
11 8 (3.19%) Games
12 6 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (1.99%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.20%) Health Technology
14 3 (1.20%) Marketing
14 3 (1.20%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.40%) Advertising
16 1 (0.40%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (37.05%) Spring
2 77 (30.68%) Spring Boot
3 37 (14.74%) Kafka
4 28 (11.16%) React
5 24 (9.56%) RESTful
6 17 (6.77%) Node.js
7 15 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (3.98%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (3.98%) Akka
8 10 (3.98%) JMS
8 10 (3.98%) REST
8 10 (3.98%) RxJava
8 10 (3.98%) Spring WebFlux
9 9 (3.59%) Hibernate
10 8 (3.19%) gRPC
10 8 (3.19%) J2EE
10 8 (3.19%) NumPy
10 8 (3.19%) Pandas
10 8 (3.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 8 (3.19%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.78%) Derivative
3 12 (4.78%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.98%) Blog
4 10 (3.98%) Equities
4 10 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.19%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.19%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.19%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.99%) NHS
8 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.40%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (66.53%) Software Engineering
2 81 (32.27%) Microservices
3 75 (29.88%) Agile
4 72 (28.69%) CI/CD
5 65 (25.90%) Test Automation
6 55 (21.91%) Mentoring
7 47 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (13.94%) BDD
9 31 (12.35%) TDD
10 30 (11.95%) Fintech
11 28 (11.16%) DevOps
12 27 (10.76%) Event-Driven
13 26 (10.36%) Continuous Deployment
14 24 (9.56%) Coaching
15 23 (9.16%) Clean Code
16 20 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (7.97%) Investment Management
17 17 (6.77%) AI
17 17 (6.77%) Deployment Automation
17 17 (6.77%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 251 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (17.53%) SQL
3 25 (9.96%) Python
4 24 (9.56%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.16%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.16%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.38%) Go
7 2 (0.80%) C#
8 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (6.37%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.98%) Degree
4 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.79%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.20%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (11.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (23.11%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.55%) Terraform
3 21 (8.37%) Grafana
4 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.80%) Ansible
6 2 (0.80%) Packer
7 1 (0.40%) Istio
7 1 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.59%) Oracle
2 2 (0.80%) Splunk
2 2 (0.80%) VMware
3 1 (0.40%) Databricks
3 1 (0.40%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.40%) OpenAI