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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 295 415
Rank change year-on-year -73 +120 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 396 423 521
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.06% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.17% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 292 261 448
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -2.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £121,125 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +34.38% -11.11%

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 79,578 36,065 89,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 89.96% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,025 21,047 66,131
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -48 221 £90,000 -18.18% 20
North of England +32 110 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North West +40 74 £80,000 +23.08% 5
South West -100 25 £60,000 -50.00% 3
South East -21 23 £90,000 +28.57% 13
Midlands -17 22 £53,750 -10.42%
North East -24 21 £24,000 -63.08%
West Midlands -13 16 £50,000 -16.67%
Yorkshire -34 15 £80,000 +128.57% 3
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 -
East of England -21 2 £73,750 - 2
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 396 (100.00%) Java
2 207 (52.27%) Software Engineering
3 156 (39.39%) AWS
4 153 (38.64%) Spring
5 130 (32.83%) Spring Boot
6 121 (30.56%) Microservices
7 114 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 108 (27.27%) Test Automation
9 102 (25.76%) Agile
10 99 (25.00%) CI/CD
11 75 (18.94%) Mentoring
12 74 (18.69%) SQL
13 70 (17.68%) Kubernetes
14 62 (15.66%) Kafka
15 52 (13.13%) NoSQL
16 51 (12.88%) BDD
17 50 (12.63%) Event-Driven
18 48 (12.12%) React
19 47 (11.87%) Python
20 46 (11.62%) AI
20 46 (11.62%) DevOps
21 44 (11.11%) Docker
21 44 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
22 36 (9.09%) TDD
23 35 (8.84%) Azure
24 34 (8.59%) REST
24 34 (8.59%) TypeScript
25 33 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
25 33 (8.33%) Coaching
25 33 (8.33%) PostgreSQL

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 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.01%) Confluence
2 3 (0.76%) Camunda
3 2 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 156 (39.39%) AWS
2 35 (8.84%) Azure
3 27 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 27 (6.82%) SaaS
4 26 (6.57%) GCP
5 23 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (5.81%) Serverless
6 21 (5.30%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (2.27%) GitHub
8 6 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (1.52%) Azure Storage
8 6 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.01%) dbt
9 4 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.52%) DMARC
2 2 (0.51%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.13%) NoSQL
2 33 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.54%) MySQL
4 14 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.52%) Redis
6 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.51%) Db2
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (7.07%) GitLab
2 27 (6.82%) Cucumber
3 22 (5.56%) Claude Code
4 14 (3.54%) TeamCity
5 12 (3.03%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.53%) Git
7 8 (2.02%) JIRA
7 8 (2.02%) JUnit
7 8 (2.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.26%) Maven
9 4 (1.01%) JMeter
9 4 (1.01%) Mockito
10 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.51%) Mocha
10 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.25%) Gradle
General
1 82 (20.71%) Finance
2 35 (8.84%) Banking
3 26 (6.57%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.56%) Front Office
5 18 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.04%) Social Skills
7 15 (3.79%) Retail
8 14 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.54%) Law
9 12 (3.03%) Health Technology
10 9 (2.27%) Back Office
10 9 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.02%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Games
13 4 (1.01%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Automotive
14 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (38.64%) Spring
2 130 (32.83%) Spring Boot
3 62 (15.66%) Kafka
4 48 (12.12%) React
5 34 (8.59%) REST
6 29 (7.32%) Node.js
7 28 (7.07%) RESTful
8 21 (5.30%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.54%) Vue
10 12 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.78%) HTML
12 9 (2.27%) OAuth
12 9 (2.27%) OAuth2
12 9 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (2.02%) Akka
13 8 (2.02%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.02%) JSON
13 8 (2.02%) Redux
13 8 (2.02%) YAML
14 7 (1.77%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.46%) Cloud Native
2 52 (13.13%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.81%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.56%) e-Learning
5 16 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.54%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.26%) Blog
8 5 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.01%) NHS
10 3 (0.76%) Equities
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.76%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.51%) Derivative
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.25%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.25%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.25%) Robotics
12 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (52.27%) Software Engineering
2 121 (30.56%) Microservices
3 114 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 108 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 102 (25.76%) Agile
6 99 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 75 (18.94%) Mentoring
8 51 (12.88%) BDD
9 50 (12.63%) Event-Driven
10 46 (11.62%) AI
10 46 (11.62%) DevOps
11 44 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (9.09%) TDD
13 33 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
13 33 (8.33%) Coaching
14 32 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (7.83%) Containerisation
16 30 (7.58%) Clean Code
17 26 (6.57%) CQRS
18 25 (6.31%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 396 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (18.69%) SQL
3 47 (11.87%) Python
4 34 (8.59%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 20 (5.05%) Go
8 10 (2.53%) C++
9 6 (1.52%) Rust
10 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.76%) C#
12 2 (0.51%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 27 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 22 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.02%) Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.54%) QA
2 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.83%) Terraform
3 18 (4.55%) Grafana
4 4 (1.01%) Kibana
4 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.27%) Palantir
2 6 (1.52%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.26%) Oracle
3 5 (1.26%) Splunk
4 4 (1.01%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.76%) Adobe
6 2 (0.51%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.51%) Google
6 2 (0.51%) IBM
6 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.51%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware