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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 286 410
Rank change year-on-year -91 +124 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 407 443 505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.02% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.13% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 292 280 419
10th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +3.07%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% -

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 82,694 39,203 81,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 90.51% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,229 23,636 58,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year - +4.66% -12.42%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -61 225 £90,000 -18.18% 48
North of England +42 112 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North West +36 72 £85,000 +30.77% 6
South East -17 27 £90,000 +28.57% 15
South West -87 27 £60,000 -33.33% 5
Yorkshire -21 20 £80,000 +128.57% 2
Midlands -31 20 £60,000 - 4
North East -41 20 £24,000 -63.08%
West Midlands -24 14 £62,500 +4.17% 3
East Midlands -10 5 £60,000 +150.00% 1
East of England -14 2 £73,750 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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.

1 407 (100.00%) Java
2 205 (50.37%) Software Engineering
3 165 (40.54%) AWS
4 159 (39.07%) Spring
5 136 (33.42%) Spring Boot
6 128 (31.45%) Microservices
7 116 (28.50%) Test Automation
8 115 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 113 (27.76%) Agile
10 110 (27.03%) CI/CD
11 79 (19.41%) Mentoring
12 78 (19.16%) SQL
13 74 (18.18%) Kafka
14 71 (17.44%) Kubernetes
15 60 (14.74%) AI
16 58 (14.25%) NoSQL
17 57 (14.00%) Event-Driven
17 57 (14.00%) Python
18 55 (13.51%) BDD
19 53 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
20 52 (12.78%) DevOps
21 48 (11.79%) React
22 44 (10.81%) Docker
23 41 (10.07%) Azure
24 39 (9.58%) TypeScript
25 36 (8.85%) Architectural Patterns
26 35 (8.60%) Coaching
26 35 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
26 35 (8.60%) GitLab
26 35 (8.60%) REST

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 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.98%) Camunda
1 4 (0.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.49%) JBoss
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 165 (40.54%) AWS
2 41 (10.07%) Azure
3 31 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.63%) GCP
5 24 (5.90%) Serverless
6 23 (5.65%) SaaS
7 22 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (4.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.70%) GitHub
10 8 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.47%) Azure Storage
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.98%) dbt
14 4 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.47%) DMARC
2 1 (0.25%) AMQP
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Modbus
2 1 (0.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.25%) NoSQL
2 30 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (6.63%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.44%) MySQL
4 14 (3.44%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.21%) Redis
6 6 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.49%) Db2
7 2 (0.49%) KDB
7 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 35 (8.60%) GitLab
2 31 (7.62%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.91%) Claude Code
4 17 (4.18%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.95%) Git
7 11 (2.70%) Selenium
8 8 (1.97%) JIRA
8 8 (1.97%) JUnit
9 5 (1.23%) Maven
10 4 (0.98%) JMeter
10 4 (0.98%) Mockito
11 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.49%) Mocha
11 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.25%) Gradle
12 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.25%) NetBeans
General
1 89 (21.87%) Finance
2 38 (9.34%) Banking
3 27 (6.63%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.39%) Front Office
5 21 (5.16%) Social Skills
6 20 (4.91%) Financial Institution
7 17 (4.18%) Health Technology
7 17 (4.18%) Retail
8 13 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.19%) Law
9 11 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.21%) Back Office
11 8 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.72%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.98%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.98%) Marketing
14 2 (0.49%) Games
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.25%) Advertising
15 1 (0.25%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (39.07%) Spring
2 136 (33.42%) Spring Boot
3 74 (18.18%) Kafka
4 48 (11.79%) React
5 35 (8.60%) REST
6 28 (6.88%) RESTful
7 26 (6.39%) Node.js
8 21 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.44%) Vue
10 12 (2.95%) GraphQL
10 12 (2.95%) HTML
11 9 (2.21%) Playwright
12 8 (1.97%) Akka
12 8 (1.97%) OAuth
12 8 (1.97%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.97%) Redux
12 8 (1.97%) YAML
13 7 (1.72%) CSS
13 7 (1.72%) JSON
13 7 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 64 (15.72%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.63%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.39%) e-Learning
5 18 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.93%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.23%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.98%) Blog
11 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.74%) Equities
11 3 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.49%) Derivative
12 2 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.49%) NHS
12 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.25%) Robotics
13 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (50.37%) Software Engineering
2 128 (31.45%) Microservices
3 116 (28.50%) Test Automation
4 115 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 113 (27.76%) Agile
6 110 (27.03%) CI/CD
7 79 (19.41%) Mentoring
8 60 (14.74%) AI
9 57 (14.00%) Event-Driven
10 55 (13.51%) BDD
11 53 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (12.78%) DevOps
13 36 (8.85%) Architectural Patterns
14 35 (8.60%) Coaching
14 35 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (8.60%) TDD
15 33 (8.11%) CQRS
16 32 (7.86%) Containerisation
17 28 (6.88%) Clean Code
18 26 (6.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 407 (100.00%) Java
2 78 (19.16%) SQL
3 57 (14.00%) Python
4 39 (9.58%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.13%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.91%) Go
7 19 (4.67%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.70%) C++
9 6 (1.47%) Rust
10 5 (1.23%) C#
11 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.74%) Scala
13 2 (0.49%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (8.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.39%) AWS Certification
3 26 (6.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.70%) Degree
6 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.69%) QA
2 4 (0.98%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.11%) Terraform
3 18 (4.42%) Grafana
4 5 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.98%) Kibana
5 4 (0.98%) Packer
6 3 (0.74%) Ansible
7 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.21%) Palantir
2 6 (1.47%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.23%) Oracle
3 5 (1.23%) Splunk
4 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.98%) Google
5 3 (0.74%) Adobe
6 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.49%) IBM
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware