Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 335 338
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +58
Permanent Java Engineer jobs 621 329 452
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.77% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.85% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 449 190 324
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,313 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,250 £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +31.96%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts in England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in England matching a recognised job title 98,016 38,796 58,965
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.25% 90.57% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 68,042 23,466 33,680
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,999 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%

Java Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Java Engineer job postings 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 Java Engineer jobs in England over the 6 months to 23 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 Java Engineer jobs within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London -49 280 £85,000 -22.73% 242
North of England +92 217 £70,000 -3.45% 66
North West +76 137 £75,000 -10.45% 51
South West -52 52 £70,000 +16.67% 28
Yorkshire +2 42 £70,000 -3.45% 7
North East -28 38 £51,065 -7.15% 8
Midlands -42 34 £70,000 +16.67% 17
South East -44 32 £90,000 +33.33% 22
West Midlands -27 27 £70,000 +12.00% 13
East Midlands -36 7 £60,000 +87.50% 4
East of England -35 4 £85,000 +6.25% 15
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, Java Engineer job ads cited 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 Java Engineer job ads across the England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Java100.0%621
2Software Engineering46.5%289
3AWS31.1%193
4Full-Stack Development27.4%170
5Spring27.2%169
6Agile24.5%152
7Spring Boot23.8%148
8Microservices22.7%141
9CI/CD22.4%139
10Test Automation17.9%111
11Kafka15.3%95
12Event-Driven14.3%89
13Mentoring13.5%84
14SQL12.6%78
15AI11.9%74
16Infrastructure as Code11.8%73
17Python11.6%72
18NoSQL11.1%69
19Kubernetes10.8%67
20Security Cleared10.1%63
21GitLab10.0%62
22Azure9.5%59
22BDD9.5%59
24DevOps9.2%57
25AWS CloudFormation8.7%54
26SC Cleared8.4%52
27CQRS8.2%51
28AWS Certification7.7%48
28Cucumber7.7%48
30AWS Certified Solutions Architect7.6%47

Java Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Java Engineer37.4%232
2Java Software Engineer34.5%214
3Full-Stack Engineer20.0%124
4Senior Java Software Engineer12.4%77
5Principal Java Engineer9.3%58
6Lead Java Engineer8.2%51
7Technical Engineer6.1%38
8Senior Full-Stack Engineer6.0%37
9Python Engineer5.5%34
10AWS Engineer5.2%32
11Full-Stack Software Engineer3.4%21
12Lead Software Engineer3.2%20
13AWS Software Engineer2.7%17
14Python Software Engineer2.4%15
15Java Developer1.9%12
15Scala Engineer1.9%12
17Java Server Engineer1.8%11
17Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer1.8%11
17Technical Leader1.8%11
20Test Engineer1.6%10
427 Java Engineer jobs in England