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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 338 441
Rank change year-on-year -44 +103 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 319 299 406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.80% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.89% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 229 239 351
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,250 £147,500 £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 72,301 33,434 77,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 89.22% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,276 21,446 59,559
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +11 197 £92,500 -15.91% 59
North of England -15 70 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North West -6 44 £75,000 +15.38% 11
South East -46 20 £82,500 +17.86% 15
Midlands -40 17 £53,750 -10.42%
South West -80 17 £60,000 -36.60% 5
North East -29 16 £24,000 -63.08%
West Midlands -23 12 £50,000 -16.67%
Yorkshire -56 10 £55,000 +57.14% 2
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 -
East of England -31 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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.

1 319 (100.00%) Java
2 199 (62.38%) Software Engineering
3 131 (41.07%) AWS
4 103 (32.29%) Spring
5 93 (29.15%) Spring Boot
6 88 (27.59%) Microservices
7 83 (26.02%) Test Automation
8 82 (25.71%) Agile
8 82 (25.71%) CI/CD
9 73 (22.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (20.38%) Kubernetes
11 59 (18.50%) Mentoring
12 57 (17.87%) SQL
13 48 (15.05%) React
14 42 (13.17%) DevOps
15 41 (12.85%) Kafka
16 39 (12.23%) Docker
17 37 (11.60%) NoSQL
18 36 (11.29%) Security Cleared
19 35 (10.97%) Terraform
20 33 (10.34%) AI
20 33 (10.34%) BDD
21 32 (10.03%) Clean Code
22 31 (9.72%) Python
22 31 (9.72%) TDD
23 30 (9.40%) Azure
23 30 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
23 30 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
23 30 (9.40%) SaaS
24 29 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.63%) Camunda
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) JBoss
3 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 131 (41.07%) AWS
2 30 (9.40%) Azure
2 30 (9.40%) SaaS
3 27 (8.46%) GCP
4 22 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (5.02%) Anthropic Claude
6 12 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.45%) Serverless
8 7 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.57%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.25%) dbt
10 4 (1.25%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.94%) GitHub
12 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.63%) Vercel
13 1 (0.31%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.31%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) AMQP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.60%) NoSQL
2 30 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.96%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.76%) MySQL
5 11 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.25%) Redis
6 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.31%) DB2
9 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.31%) Flink
9 1 (0.31%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (5.33%) Claude Code
1 17 (5.33%) TeamCity
2 13 (4.08%) GitLab
3 12 (3.76%) Cucumber
4 11 (3.45%) Git
5 9 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.19%) Selenium
7 6 (1.88%) JUnit
8 4 (1.25%) JIRA
8 4 (1.25%) Maven
9 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.63%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.31%) Appium
10 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.31%) Gradle
10 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 78 (24.45%) Finance
2 35 (10.97%) Banking
3 21 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.27%) Front Office
4 20 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.27%) Social Skills
5 18 (5.64%) Retail
6 17 (5.33%) Financial Institution
6 17 (5.33%) Law
7 13 (4.08%) Back Office
8 8 (2.51%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.88%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.57%) Games
12 4 (1.25%) Marketing
13 3 (0.94%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.31%) Advertising
14 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (32.29%) Spring
2 93 (29.15%) Spring Boot
3 48 (15.05%) React
4 41 (12.85%) Kafka
5 26 (8.15%) Node.js
5 26 (8.15%) REST
6 21 (6.58%) RESTful
7 14 (4.39%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (2.82%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.51%) J2EE
10 8 (2.51%) Redux
11 7 (2.19%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.19%) Playwright
11 7 (2.19%) Web Services
12 6 (1.88%) Akka
12 6 (1.88%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.88%) HTML
12 6 (1.88%) JSON
12 6 (1.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.13%) Fixed Income
3 10 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.82%) Blog
5 8 (2.51%) e-Learning
6 6 (1.88%) NHS
7 5 (1.57%) Derivative
7 5 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.94%) Equities
8 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.31%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.31%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.31%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.31%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (62.38%) Software Engineering
2 88 (27.59%) Microservices
3 83 (26.02%) Test Automation
4 82 (25.71%) Agile
4 82 (25.71%) CI/CD
5 73 (22.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 59 (18.50%) Mentoring
7 42 (13.17%) DevOps
8 33 (10.34%) AI
8 33 (10.34%) BDD
9 32 (10.03%) Clean Code
10 31 (9.72%) TDD
11 30 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (8.78%) Fintech
14 27 (8.46%) Continuous Deployment
14 27 (8.46%) Event-Driven
15 26 (8.15%) Coaching
16 24 (7.52%) Design Patterns
17 23 (7.21%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 319 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (17.87%) SQL
3 31 (9.72%) Python
4 25 (7.84%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.96%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.08%) Go
8 4 (1.25%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.31%) Ruby
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.64%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.13%) Degree
5 8 (2.51%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.51%) QA
2 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (12.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (20.38%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.97%) Terraform
3 21 (6.58%) Grafana
4 4 (1.25%) Packer
4 4 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.94%) Ansible
6 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.25%) Oracle
2 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.63%) Google
2 2 (0.63%) IBM
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe
3 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.31%) Solace
3 1 (0.31%) Splunk