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 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 385 438
Rank change year-on-year -8 +53 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 265 238 389
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.61% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.67% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 196 184 350
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +60.39% -27.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £97,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,750 £115,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -21.43% +60.39% -25.18%

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 60,210 35,426 70,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.52% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,335 20,938 55,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 March 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 March 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 +26 170 £98,750 -8.14% 33
North of England -30 47 £65,000 +10.64% 17
North West -3 31 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South East -8 21 £80,000 +16.36% 11
Midlands -10 12 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Yorkshire -36 10 £55,000 +57.14% 9
South West -51 10 £60,000 -45.45% 5
West Midlands +12 8 £50,000 -11.11% 1
North East -16 6 £52,130 -22.77% 5
East Midlands -30 3 £70,000 +55.56% 3
East of England - 1 £75,000 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 March 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.

1 265 (100.00%) Java
2 170 (64.15%) Software Engineering
3 126 (47.55%) AWS
4 93 (35.09%) Spring
5 81 (30.57%) Microservices
6 80 (30.19%) Agile
7 77 (29.06%) CI/CD
8 75 (28.30%) Spring Boot
9 71 (26.79%) Test Automation
10 57 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (21.13%) Kubernetes
12 53 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 50 (18.87%) SQL
14 40 (15.09%) Kafka
15 33 (12.45%) React
16 32 (12.08%) BDD
16 32 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (12.08%) SaaS
17 31 (11.70%) Terraform
18 29 (10.94%) DevOps
18 29 (10.94%) Docker
18 29 (10.94%) NoSQL
18 29 (10.94%) TDD
19 27 (10.19%) Python
20 26 (9.81%) Clean Code
20 26 (9.81%) Continuous Deployment
20 26 (9.81%) Event-Driven
20 26 (9.81%) TypeScript
21 25 (9.43%) AI
21 25 (9.43%) Fintech

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 9 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.89%) Apache
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 126 (47.55%) AWS
2 32 (12.08%) SaaS
3 24 (9.06%) Azure
4 21 (7.92%) GCP
5 17 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (4.15%) Anthropic Claude
7 10 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.40%) dbt
8 9 (3.40%) Snowflake
9 8 (3.02%) GitHub
10 7 (2.64%) Serverless
11 4 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.51%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.75%) Vercel
14 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) AMQP
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.94%) NoSQL
3 19 (7.17%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.53%) MySQL
5 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
6 5 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (1.89%) Apache Ignite
6 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.89%) Dremio
7 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.04%) TeamCity
2 12 (4.53%) Claude Code
2 12 (4.53%) Cucumber
3 11 (4.15%) GitLab
4 8 (3.02%) Git
5 7 (2.64%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.26%) JUnit
7 3 (1.13%) JMeter
7 3 (1.13%) Maven
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) Selenium
8 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.75%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.38%) Appium
9 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.38%) JIRA
9 1 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 80 (30.19%) Finance
2 34 (12.83%) Banking
3 24 (9.06%) Financial Institution
4 20 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.17%) Retail
6 18 (6.79%) Front Office
6 18 (6.79%) Social Skills
7 16 (6.04%) Law
8 13 (4.91%) Back Office
9 9 (3.40%) Games
10 7 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.89%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.51%) Health Technology
14 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.13%) Marketing
14 3 (1.13%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.38%) Advertising
15 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (35.09%) Spring
2 75 (28.30%) Spring Boot
3 40 (15.09%) Kafka
4 33 (12.45%) React
5 23 (8.68%) Node.js
5 23 (8.68%) RESTful
6 12 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (4.15%) REST
8 10 (3.77%) GraphQL
9 9 (3.40%) Hibernate
10 8 (3.02%) J2EE
10 8 (3.02%) Redux
11 6 (2.26%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (2.26%) Akka
11 6 (2.26%) JMS
11 6 (2.26%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.26%) RxJava
11 6 (2.26%) Spring WebFlux
12 5 (1.89%) Pandas
12 5 (1.89%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.91%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.77%) Blog
4 10 (3.77%) Derivative
4 10 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.02%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.64%) NHS
8 6 (2.26%) Equities
9 5 (1.89%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.89%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.38%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (64.15%) Software Engineering
2 81 (30.57%) Microservices
3 80 (30.19%) Agile
4 77 (29.06%) CI/CD
5 71 (26.79%) Test Automation
6 57 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 53 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 32 (12.08%) BDD
9 29 (10.94%) DevOps
9 29 (10.94%) TDD
10 26 (9.81%) Clean Code
10 26 (9.81%) Continuous Deployment
10 26 (9.81%) Event-Driven
11 25 (9.43%) AI
11 25 (9.43%) Fintech
12 22 (8.30%) Coaching
12 22 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (7.92%) Investment Management
14 20 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (6.79%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 265 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (18.87%) SQL
3 27 (10.19%) Python
4 26 (9.81%) TypeScript
5 25 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.68%) Kotlin
7 15 (5.66%) Go
8 4 (1.51%) C#
9 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.15%) Degree
4 10 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.02%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.51%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.51%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (10.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.70%) Terraform
3 22 (8.30%) Grafana
4 4 (1.51%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.75%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) Packer
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.51%) Oracle
2 2 (0.75%) Splunk
2 2 (0.75%) VMware
3 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.38%) Solace