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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 372 438
Rank change year-on-year +7 +66 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 359 294 439
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.85% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 263 245 382
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +43.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £122,250 £139,906 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £106,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -24.71% +46.55% -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 75,267 34,765 79,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 89.48% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 50,698 20,835 60,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 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 14 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 +11 220 £90,000 -18.18% 49
North of England +35 86 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North West +44 61 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South East -16 21 £82,500 +17.86% 23
Midlands -25 19 £50,000 -16.67% 2
North East -20 18 £24,000 -63.08% 3
South West -68 18 £60,000 -31.43% 6
West Midlands -20 14 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -61 7 £52,130 +48.94% 3
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -19 1 £75,000 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 359 (100.00%) Java
2 203 (56.55%) Software Engineering
3 138 (38.44%) AWS
4 123 (34.26%) Spring
5 112 (31.20%) Spring Boot
6 96 (26.74%) Microservices
7 87 (24.23%) Agile
7 87 (24.23%) Test Automation
8 84 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 77 (21.45%) CI/CD
10 65 (18.11%) Kubernetes
10 65 (18.11%) SQL
11 61 (16.99%) Mentoring
12 51 (14.21%) Kafka
13 46 (12.81%) React
14 43 (11.98%) BDD
15 42 (11.70%) Docker
16 41 (11.42%) NoSQL
17 38 (10.58%) Python
18 37 (10.31%) DevOps
19 36 (10.03%) AI
19 36 (10.03%) TDD
20 34 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
21 33 (9.19%) Event-Driven
22 32 (8.91%) Security Cleared
23 31 (8.64%) Fintech
24 30 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
24 30 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
24 30 (8.36%) REST
24 30 (8.36%) Terraform

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 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Camunda
3 1 (0.28%) JBoss
3 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 138 (38.44%) AWS
2 28 (7.80%) SaaS
3 27 (7.52%) Azure
4 24 (6.69%) GCP
5 22 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (5.85%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (4.46%) Serverless
9 10 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.95%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.11%) dbt
12 4 (1.11%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.84%) GitHub
14 2 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 1 (0.28%) Amazon Bedrock
15 1 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
15 1 (0.28%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) AMQP
2 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.42%) NoSQL
2 30 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.29%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.06%) MySQL
6 6 (1.67%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.11%) Redis
7 4 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.28%) DB2
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 22 (6.13%) Claude Code
2 19 (5.29%) Cucumber
3 18 (5.01%) GitLab
4 14 (3.90%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.06%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.23%) JUnit
7 7 (1.95%) Git
8 6 (1.67%) Selenium
9 5 (1.39%) JIRA
9 5 (1.39%) Maven
10 4 (1.11%) JMeter
10 4 (1.11%) Mockito
11 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.56%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.28%) Gradle
12 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 77 (21.45%) Finance
2 35 (9.75%) Banking
3 25 (6.96%) Front Office
4 24 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.18%) Retail
5 15 (4.18%) Social Skills
6 14 (3.90%) Financial Institution
6 14 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.90%) Law
7 9 (2.51%) Back Office
7 9 (2.51%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.51%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.23%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Marketing
10 4 (1.11%) Games
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Automotive
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (34.26%) Spring
2 112 (31.20%) Spring Boot
3 51 (14.21%) Kafka
4 46 (12.81%) React
5 30 (8.36%) REST
6 23 (6.41%) Node.js
6 23 (6.41%) RESTful
7 18 (5.01%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.06%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (2.79%) Vue
10 9 (2.51%) Hibernate
10 9 (2.51%) JSON
11 8 (2.23%) Akka
11 8 (2.23%) HTML
11 8 (2.23%) J2EE
11 8 (2.23%) Redux
11 8 (2.23%) Web Services
11 8 (2.23%) XML
12 7 (1.95%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.18%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.90%) e-Learning
4 14 (3.90%) Fixed Income
5 11 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.51%) Blog
7 6 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.67%) NHS
8 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.11%) Derivative
9 4 (1.11%) Equities
10 3 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.56%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.28%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.28%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.28%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (56.55%) Software Engineering
2 96 (26.74%) Microservices
3 87 (24.23%) Agile
3 87 (24.23%) Test Automation
4 84 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 77 (21.45%) CI/CD
6 61 (16.99%) Mentoring
7 43 (11.98%) BDD
8 37 (10.31%) DevOps
9 36 (10.03%) AI
9 36 (10.03%) TDD
10 34 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (9.19%) Event-Driven
12 31 (8.64%) Fintech
13 30 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.08%) Architectural Patterns
14 29 (8.08%) Clean Code
15 27 (7.52%) Coaching
16 24 (6.69%) Continuous Deployment
16 24 (6.69%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 359 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (18.11%) SQL
3 38 (10.58%) Python
4 25 (6.96%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.69%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.69%) Kotlin
6 15 (4.18%) Go
7 4 (1.11%) C++
7 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.84%) C#
9 2 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.96%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.01%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.90%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.79%) Degree
6 5 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.95%) QA
2 4 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (11.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.36%) Terraform
3 18 (5.01%) Grafana
4 4 (1.11%) Kibana
4 4 (1.11%) Packer
4 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.84%) Ansible
6 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (1.39%) Splunk
2 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.11%) Oracle
3 3 (0.84%) Adobe
3 3 (0.84%) Palantir
4 2 (0.56%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.56%) Google
4 2 (0.56%) IBM
4 2 (0.56%) Solace
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft