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 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 406 411
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 256 250 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.60% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.66% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 192 175 346
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £68,625
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +53.01% -23.75%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £148,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +53.28% -21.71%

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 56,757 37,915 65,624
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 91.02% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 36,688 20,803 52,147
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,843
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 2 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 2 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 +49 162 £100,000 -6.98% 50
North of England -12 45 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North West +2 27 £70,000 +7.69% 7
South East -12 20 £80,000 +14.29% 30
Midlands +2 12 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire -34 12 £55,000 +57.14% 6
South West -41 10 £60,000 -42.86% 16
West Midlands +9 8 £50,000 -11.11% 2
North East -5 6 £52,130 -22.77% 1
East Midlands -26 3 £70,000 +55.56% 5
East of England - 2 £77,500 - 7
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 256 (100.00%) Java
2 168 (65.63%) Software Engineering
3 128 (50.00%) AWS
4 98 (38.28%) Spring
5 83 (32.42%) Microservices
6 81 (31.64%) Spring Boot
7 79 (30.86%) Agile
8 76 (29.69%) CI/CD
9 67 (26.17%) Test Automation
10 60 (23.44%) Kubernetes
11 56 (21.88%) Mentoring
12 52 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (18.75%) SQL
14 41 (16.02%) Kafka
15 36 (14.06%) BDD
16 33 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
16 33 (12.89%) SaaS
17 32 (12.50%) Docker
17 32 (12.50%) TDD
18 31 (12.11%) React
18 31 (12.11%) Terraform
19 30 (11.72%) DevOps
19 30 (11.72%) Fintech
19 30 (11.72%) NoSQL
20 27 (10.55%) Event-Driven
20 27 (10.55%) Python
21 26 (10.16%) Continuous Deployment
21 26 (10.16%) TypeScript
22 25 (9.77%) JavaScript
23 24 (9.38%) Coaching

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 10 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.34%) Apache
3 5 (1.95%) 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
1 128 (50.00%) AWS
2 33 (12.89%) SaaS
3 23 (8.98%) Azure
4 20 (7.81%) GCP
5 16 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (4.30%) Snowflake
7 10 (3.91%) dbt
8 9 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.13%) GitHub
10 7 (2.73%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (2.73%) Serverless
11 4 (1.56%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.78%) Vercel
14 1 (0.39%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.39%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) AMQP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.72%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.98%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.69%) MySQL
5 6 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.34%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
5 6 (2.34%) Apache Ignite
5 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.34%) Dremio
5 6 (2.34%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.39%) Big Data
8 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.39%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.25%) TeamCity
2 12 (4.69%) GitLab
3 11 (4.30%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.73%) Claude Code
4 7 (2.73%) Git
4 7 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.56%) JUnit
6 3 (1.17%) JMeter
7 2 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.39%) Appium
8 1 (0.39%) Gradle
8 1 (0.39%) JIRA
8 1 (0.39%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 82 (32.03%) Finance
2 35 (13.67%) Banking
3 29 (11.33%) Financial Institution
4 20 (7.81%) Retail
4 20 (7.81%) Social Skills
5 19 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.42%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.64%) Front Office
7 16 (6.25%) Law
8 13 (5.08%) Back Office
9 9 (3.52%) Games
10 8 (3.13%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (1.95%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.56%) Health Technology
14 3 (1.17%) Marketing
14 3 (1.17%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.39%) Advertising
16 1 (0.39%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (38.28%) Spring
2 81 (31.64%) Spring Boot
3 41 (16.02%) Kafka
4 31 (12.11%) React
5 24 (9.38%) RESTful
6 20 (7.81%) Node.js
7 15 (5.86%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (4.30%) REST
9 10 (3.91%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (3.91%) Akka
9 10 (3.91%) JMS
9 10 (3.91%) RxJava
9 10 (3.91%) Spring WebFlux
10 9 (3.52%) GraphQL
10 9 (3.52%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.13%) J2EE
12 6 (2.34%) NumPy
12 6 (2.34%) Pandas
12 6 (2.34%) Protocol Buffers
12 6 (2.34%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.69%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.91%) Blog
4 10 (3.91%) Derivative
4 10 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.13%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.13%) Equities
7 7 (2.73%) NHS
8 6 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.34%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.34%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (65.63%) Software Engineering
2 83 (32.42%) Microservices
3 79 (30.86%) Agile
4 76 (29.69%) CI/CD
5 67 (26.17%) Test Automation
6 56 (21.88%) Mentoring
7 52 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (14.06%) BDD
9 32 (12.50%) TDD
10 30 (11.72%) DevOps
10 30 (11.72%) Fintech
11 27 (10.55%) Event-Driven
12 26 (10.16%) Continuous Deployment
13 24 (9.38%) Coaching
14 23 (8.98%) Clean Code
14 23 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (7.81%) AI
15 20 (7.81%) Investment Management
16 19 (7.42%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (6.64%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 256 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (18.75%) SQL
3 27 (10.55%) Python
4 26 (10.16%) TypeScript
5 25 (9.77%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.38%) Kotlin
7 13 (5.08%) Go
8 3 (1.17%) C#
9 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (7.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.91%) Degree
4 8 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.73%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.56%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.11%) Terraform
3 22 (8.59%) Grafana
4 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.78%) Ansible
5 2 (0.78%) Packer
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.56%) Oracle
2 2 (0.78%) Splunk
2 2 (0.78%) VMware
3 1 (0.39%) Databricks
3 1 (0.39%) OpenAI