Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 415 406
Rank change year-on-year +29 -9 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 254 276 379
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.62% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 194 187 342
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +45.99% -21.85%
75th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £128,500 £148,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £102,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.51% +46.43% -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 53,952 40,914 62,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 91.47% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 34,762 21,614 50,204
10th Percentile £29,040 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
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 14 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 14 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 +37 165 £100,000 -6.98% 25
North of England -2 44 £61,250 -5.77% 13
North West +9 26 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East +4 16 £81,250 +16.07% 21
Yorkshire -25 12 £55,000 +57.14% 1
Midlands +15 11 £50,000 -9.09% 12
South West -42 10 £60,000 -40.00% 18
West Midlands +22 7 £50,000 -11.11% 9
North East -9 6 £52,130 -34.84% 4
East Midlands -14 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 14 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.

1 254 (100.00%) Java
2 168 (66.14%) Software Engineering
3 134 (52.76%) AWS
4 94 (37.01%) Spring
5 86 (33.86%) Microservices
6 82 (32.28%) Agile
7 78 (30.71%) Spring Boot
8 73 (28.74%) CI/CD
9 64 (25.20%) Test Automation
10 59 (23.23%) Kubernetes
11 56 (22.05%) Mentoring
12 46 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (16.93%) SQL
14 38 (14.96%) BDD
14 38 (14.96%) Kafka
15 34 (13.39%) TDD
16 33 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
17 32 (12.60%) Fintech
17 32 (12.60%) SaaS
18 31 (12.20%) Docker
18 31 (12.20%) Python
19 30 (11.81%) JavaScript
19 30 (11.81%) TypeScript
20 29 (11.42%) NoSQL
21 28 (11.02%) Event-Driven
21 28 (11.02%) Terraform
22 27 (10.63%) DevOps
22 27 (10.63%) React
23 26 (10.24%) Continuous Deployment
23 26 (10.24%) Investment Management

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 16 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.51%) Apache
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 134 (52.76%) AWS
2 32 (12.60%) SaaS
3 20 (7.87%) Azure
4 19 (7.48%) GCP
5 17 (6.69%) Snowflake
6 16 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (6.30%) dbt
7 9 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.15%) GitHub
9 6 (2.36%) Anthropic Claude
9 6 (2.36%) Serverless
10 4 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.79%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.39%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.39%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) AMQP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.42%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.84%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.51%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.51%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (5.51%) Apache Iceberg
4 14 (5.51%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (5.51%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.51%) Dremio
5 12 (4.72%) MySQL
6 5 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.39%) Big Data
9 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.30%) TeamCity
2 11 (4.33%) Cucumber
2 11 (4.33%) GitLab
3 6 (2.36%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.36%) Git
3 6 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) JUnit
5 3 (1.18%) JMeter
6 2 (0.79%) Maven
6 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.79%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) Appium
7 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) JIRA
7 1 (0.39%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 91 (35.83%) Finance
2 44 (17.32%) Banking
3 31 (12.20%) Financial Institution
4 23 (9.06%) Front Office
5 20 (7.87%) Retail
6 19 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (7.09%) Social Skills
8 16 (6.30%) Investment Banking
8 16 (6.30%) Law
8 16 (6.30%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.12%) Back Office
10 8 (3.15%) Games
11 4 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.18%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.18%) Marketing
12 3 (1.18%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Aviation
14 1 (0.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (37.01%) Spring
2 78 (30.71%) Spring Boot
3 38 (14.96%) Kafka
4 27 (10.63%) React
5 24 (9.45%) RESTful
6 17 (6.69%) Node.js
6 17 (6.69%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (5.51%) gRPC
7 14 (5.51%) NumPy
7 14 (5.51%) Pandas
7 14 (5.51%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (5.51%) SciPy
8 13 (5.12%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (4.72%) Akka
9 12 (4.72%) JMS
9 12 (4.72%) RxJava
9 12 (4.72%) Spring WebFlux
10 10 (3.94%) REST
11 9 (3.54%) Hibernate
12 8 (3.15%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.09%) Derivative
3 18 (7.09%) Fixed Income
4 16 (6.30%) Equities
5 14 (5.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (5.51%) Hedge funds
5 14 (5.51%) Pricing Data
6 10 (3.94%) Blog
6 10 (3.94%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.15%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.97%) NHS
10 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (66.14%) Software Engineering
2 86 (33.86%) Microservices
3 82 (32.28%) Agile
4 73 (28.74%) CI/CD
5 64 (25.20%) Test Automation
6 56 (22.05%) Mentoring
7 46 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (14.96%) BDD
9 34 (13.39%) TDD
10 32 (12.60%) Fintech
11 28 (11.02%) Event-Driven
12 27 (10.63%) DevOps
13 26 (10.24%) Continuous Deployment
13 26 (10.24%) Investment Management
14 24 (9.45%) Coaching
15 22 (8.66%) Clean Code
16 19 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (6.69%) Deployment Automation
17 17 (6.69%) Open Source
18 16 (6.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 254 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (16.93%) SQL
3 31 (12.20%) Python
4 30 (11.81%) JavaScript
4 30 (11.81%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.06%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.33%) Go
7 2 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.39%) C
8 1 (0.39%) C++
8 1 (0.39%) Ruby
8 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (6.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.33%) Degree
4 8 (3.15%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.76%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.18%) QA
2 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 31 (12.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.02%) Terraform
3 20 (7.87%) Grafana
4 4 (1.57%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.79%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Packer
5 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.57%) Oracle
2 2 (0.79%) Splunk
2 2 (0.79%) VMware
3 1 (0.39%) Databricks
3 1 (0.39%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.39%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.39%) Solarflare