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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 352 448
Rank change year-on-year -33 +96 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 318 295 406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.79% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.88% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 227 236 351
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
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 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,500 £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 72,201 33,355 77,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.27% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 47,190 21,366 59,531
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £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% -10.74%
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 21 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 21 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 -4 196 £90,000 -18.18% 54
North of England -24 70 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North West -11 44 £75,000 +15.38% 10
South East -46 20 £82,500 +17.86% 13
Midlands -24 17 £53,750 -10.42% 1
South West -82 17 £60,000 -36.60% 3
North East -25 16 £24,000 -63.08% 2
West Midlands -23 12 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -54 10 £55,000 +57.14% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 -
East of England -36 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 318 (100.00%) Java
2 197 (61.95%) Software Engineering
3 133 (41.82%) AWS
4 103 (32.39%) Spring
5 93 (29.25%) Spring Boot
6 88 (27.67%) Microservices
7 85 (26.73%) Test Automation
8 84 (26.42%) CI/CD
9 82 (25.79%) Agile
10 73 (22.96%) Full-Stack Development
11 65 (20.44%) Kubernetes
12 60 (18.87%) Mentoring
13 57 (17.92%) SQL
14 48 (15.09%) React
15 42 (13.21%) DevOps
16 40 (12.58%) Kafka
17 37 (11.64%) Docker
17 37 (11.64%) NoSQL
18 36 (11.32%) Security Cleared
18 36 (11.32%) Terraform
19 33 (10.38%) AI
19 33 (10.38%) Clean Code
20 32 (10.06%) BDD
20 32 (10.06%) SaaS
21 30 (9.43%) Azure
21 30 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
21 30 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
21 30 (9.43%) Python
21 30 (9.43%) TDD
22 29 (9.12%) SC Cleared

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 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.63%) 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
1 133 (41.82%) AWS
2 32 (10.06%) SaaS
3 30 (9.43%) Azure
4 28 (8.81%) GCP
5 23 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (5.03%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (3.46%) Serverless
9 7 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.26%) dbt
11 4 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.94%) GitHub
13 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.63%) Vercel
14 1 (0.31%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.31%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.64%) NoSQL
2 30 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.66%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.77%) MySQL
5 11 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.26%) Redis
6 4 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.63%) 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 (5.66%) TeamCity
2 17 (5.35%) Claude Code
3 13 (4.09%) GitLab
4 12 (3.77%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.46%) Git
6 9 (2.83%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.20%) Selenium
8 6 (1.89%) JUnit
9 4 (1.26%) JIRA
9 4 (1.26%) Maven
10 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.63%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.31%) Appium
11 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.31%) Gradle
11 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 77 (24.21%) Finance
2 36 (11.32%) Banking
3 21 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (6.60%) Public Sector
3 21 (6.60%) Social Skills
4 19 (5.97%) Front Office
4 19 (5.97%) Retail
5 18 (5.66%) Financial Institution
5 18 (5.66%) Law
6 14 (4.40%) Back Office
7 8 (2.52%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.89%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.57%) Games
11 4 (1.26%) Marketing
12 3 (0.94%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Advertising
13 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (32.39%) Spring
2 93 (29.25%) Spring Boot
3 48 (15.09%) React
4 40 (12.58%) Kafka
5 26 (8.18%) Node.js
5 26 (8.18%) REST
6 21 (6.60%) RESTful
7 14 (4.40%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (2.83%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.52%) J2EE
10 8 (2.52%) Redux
11 7 (2.20%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.20%) Playwright
11 7 (2.20%) Web Services
12 6 (1.89%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.89%) HTML
12 6 (1.89%) JSON
12 6 (1.89%) SOAP
13 5 (1.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.14%) Fixed Income
3 10 (3.14%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.83%) Blog
5 8 (2.52%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.89%) NHS
7 5 (1.57%) Derivative
7 5 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.63%) Equities
10 1 (0.31%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.31%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.31%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (61.95%) Software Engineering
2 88 (27.67%) Microservices
3 85 (26.73%) Test Automation
4 84 (26.42%) CI/CD
5 82 (25.79%) Agile
6 73 (22.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 60 (18.87%) Mentoring
8 42 (13.21%) DevOps
9 33 (10.38%) AI
9 33 (10.38%) Clean Code
10 32 (10.06%) BDD
11 30 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (9.43%) TDD
12 28 (8.81%) Continuous Deployment
12 28 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.49%) Event-Driven
13 27 (8.49%) Fintech
14 26 (8.18%) Coaching
15 24 (7.55%) Design Patterns
16 23 (7.23%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 318 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (17.92%) SQL
3 30 (9.43%) Python
4 25 (7.86%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.29%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.09%) Go
8 4 (1.26%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Ruby
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.12%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.14%) Degree
5 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.52%) QA
2 4 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (11.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (20.44%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.32%) Terraform
3 22 (6.92%) Grafana
4 4 (1.26%) Packer
4 4 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.94%) Ansible
6 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.26%) Oracle
2 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.63%) Google
2 2 (0.63%) 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