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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 364 433
Rank change year-on-year -3 +69 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 339 293 428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.85% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 244 248 371
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +48.28% -19.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £122,125 £140,677 £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 74,670 34,301 78,810
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 89.25% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,156 21,336 60,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +21 210 £90,000 -18.18% 40
North of England -7 78 £66,250 +1.92% 15
North West +8 52 £80,000 +23.08% 10
South East -32 20 £82,500 +17.86% 20
Midlands -27 18 £50,000 -16.67% 2
North East -22 17 £24,000 -63.08% 3
South West -74 17 £60,000 -44.09% 5
West Midlands -10 13 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -54 9 £53,565 +53.04% 2
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -20 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 339 (100.00%) Java
2 201 (59.29%) Software Engineering
3 138 (40.71%) AWS
4 114 (33.63%) Spring
5 106 (31.27%) Spring Boot
6 94 (27.73%) Microservices
7 85 (25.07%) Agile
7 85 (25.07%) Test Automation
8 81 (23.89%) CI/CD
9 78 (23.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (19.47%) Kubernetes
11 63 (18.58%) SQL
12 60 (17.70%) Mentoring
13 49 (14.45%) Kafka
13 49 (14.45%) React
14 42 (12.39%) Docker
15 41 (12.09%) DevOps
15 41 (12.09%) NoSQL
16 40 (11.80%) BDD
17 35 (10.32%) AI
17 35 (10.32%) Python
18 34 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
18 34 (10.03%) Security Cleared
19 33 (9.73%) TDD
19 33 (9.73%) Terraform
20 31 (9.14%) Event-Driven
20 31 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
21 30 (8.85%) Azure
21 30 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
22 29 (8.55%) Clean Code

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 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.29%) Camunda
2 1 (0.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.29%) JBoss
2 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 138 (40.71%) AWS
2 30 (8.85%) Azure
3 29 (8.55%) SaaS
4 26 (7.67%) GCP
5 21 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (5.31%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (3.83%) Serverless
9 8 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.77%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.18%) dbt
11 4 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.88%) GitHub
13 2 (0.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.59%) Vercel
14 1 (0.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.29%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 31 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.19%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.83%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.54%) MySQL
6 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.18%) Redis
6 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.29%) DB2
8 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.29%) Flink
8 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (5.60%) Claude Code
2 17 (5.01%) GitLab
3 16 (4.72%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.42%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.24%) Git
6 10 (2.95%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.06%) JUnit
7 7 (2.06%) Selenium
8 4 (1.18%) JIRA
8 4 (1.18%) Maven
9 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.59%) JMeter
9 2 (0.59%) Mockito
9 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.59%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.29%) Appium
10 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 79 (23.30%) Finance
2 35 (10.32%) Banking
3 22 (6.49%) Front Office
3 22 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.01%) Financial Institution
4 17 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (4.72%) Retail
5 16 (4.72%) Social Skills
6 15 (4.42%) Law
7 11 (3.24%) Back Office
8 9 (2.65%) Tech for Good
9 8 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.06%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.47%) Games
11 5 (1.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (33.63%) Spring
2 106 (31.27%) Spring Boot
3 49 (14.45%) Kafka
3 49 (14.45%) React
4 28 (8.26%) REST
5 25 (7.37%) Node.js
6 23 (6.78%) RESTful
7 17 (5.01%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (2.95%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.36%) Akka
10 8 (2.36%) J2EE
10 8 (2.36%) Redux
11 7 (2.06%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.06%) HTML
11 7 (2.06%) JSON
11 7 (2.06%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.06%) Playwright
12 6 (1.77%) Web Services
12 6 (1.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.83%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.54%) e-Learning
4 12 (3.54%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.65%) Blog
7 6 (1.77%) NHS
8 5 (1.47%) Derivative
8 5 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.18%) Equities
9 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.88%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.29%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (59.29%) Software Engineering
2 94 (27.73%) Microservices
3 85 (25.07%) Agile
3 85 (25.07%) Test Automation
4 81 (23.89%) CI/CD
5 78 (23.01%) Full-Stack Development
6 60 (17.70%) Mentoring
7 41 (12.09%) DevOps
8 40 (11.80%) BDD
9 35 (10.32%) AI
10 34 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (9.73%) TDD
12 31 (9.14%) Event-Driven
13 30 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.55%) Clean Code
14 29 (8.55%) Fintech
15 27 (7.96%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (7.96%) Coaching
16 25 (7.37%) Continuous Deployment
16 25 (7.37%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 339 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (18.58%) SQL
3 35 (10.32%) Python
4 26 (7.67%) TypeScript
5 24 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.78%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.13%) Go
8 4 (1.18%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) Groovy
9 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (10.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.96%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.31%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.54%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.95%) Degree
6 5 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.36%) QA
2 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (12.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (19.47%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.73%) Terraform
3 19 (5.60%) Grafana
4 4 (1.18%) Packer
4 4 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.59%) Kibana
6 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.18%) Oracle
2 2 (0.59%) Adobe
2 2 (0.59%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.59%) Dynatrace
2 2 (0.59%) Google
2 2 (0.59%) IBM
2 2 (0.59%) Solace
2 2 (0.59%) Splunk
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.29%) Palantir