Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £88,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 397 394
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 191 301 322
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.62% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.67% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 154 195 276
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +53.85% -25.71%
75th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £88,750 £100,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +53.85% -25.71%

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 47,440 44,776 47,116
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 92.73% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 29,933 23,492 36,893
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +2 141 £100,000 -6.98% 41
North of England -3 21 £70,000 +7.69% 18
South East +16 13 £73,750 -7.81% 32
North West +10 12 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Midlands +25 8 £50,000 -13.04% 8
Yorkshire -17 7 £71,250 +35.71% 5
West Midlands +37 6 £50,000 -13.04% 7
South West -23 4 £60,000 -25.00% 12
North East 0 2 £39,500 -50.63% 3
East Midlands -6 2 £40,000 -11.11% 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 115 (60.21%) Software Engineering
3 111 (58.12%) AWS
4 71 (37.17%) Spring
5 68 (35.60%) Agile
6 56 (29.32%) Spring Boot
7 54 (28.27%) Microservices
8 48 (25.13%) CI/CD
9 42 (21.99%) JavaScript
10 40 (20.94%) Kubernetes
10 40 (20.94%) Python
11 38 (19.90%) TypeScript
12 37 (19.37%) Mentoring
13 34 (17.80%) Investment Management
14 32 (16.75%) Test Automation
15 31 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (15.71%) Fintech
16 30 (15.71%) Snowflake
17 29 (15.18%) Amazon Athena
17 29 (15.18%) Apache
17 29 (15.18%) Apache Airflow
17 29 (15.18%) Apache Arrow
17 29 (15.18%) Apache Iceberg
17 29 (15.18%) Apache Ignite
17 29 (15.18%) Asset Management
17 29 (15.18%) Data Lake
17 29 (15.18%) dbt
17 29 (15.18%) Dremio
17 29 (15.18%) gRPC
17 29 (15.18%) NumPy

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 29 (15.18%) Apache
1 29 (15.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) Camunda
2 1 (0.52%) CMS
2 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 111 (58.12%) AWS
2 30 (15.71%) Snowflake
3 29 (15.18%) dbt
4 24 (12.57%) SaaS
5 10 (5.24%) GCP
6 8 (4.19%) Azure
6 8 (4.19%) GitHub
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.09%) Serverless
9 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.52%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.52%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) AMQP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.18%) Amazon Athena
1 29 (15.18%) Apache Arrow
1 29 (15.18%) Apache Iceberg
1 29 (15.18%) Apache Ignite
1 29 (15.18%) Data Lake
1 29 (15.18%) Dremio
2 17 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.38%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.81%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.05%) MySQL
7 1 (0.52%) Big Data
7 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.66%) Cucumber
2 7 (3.66%) TeamCity
3 6 (3.14%) Git
3 6 (3.14%) GitLab
4 5 (2.62%) JUnit
5 4 (2.09%) JMeter
6 2 (1.05%) Appium
6 2 (1.05%) Gradle
6 2 (1.05%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.52%) Storybook
7 1 (0.52%) TestNG
7 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 90 (47.12%) Finance
2 48 (25.13%) Banking
3 34 (17.80%) Front Office
4 31 (16.23%) Investment Banking
5 25 (13.09%) Financial Institution
6 18 (9.42%) Social Skills
7 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.24%) Retail
8 7 (3.66%) Back Office
8 7 (3.66%) Games
8 7 (3.66%) Law
9 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.57%) Marketing
10 3 (1.57%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (37.17%) Spring
2 56 (29.32%) Spring Boot
3 29 (15.18%) gRPC
3 29 (15.18%) NumPy
3 29 (15.18%) Pandas
3 29 (15.18%) Protocol Buffers
3 29 (15.18%) SciPy
4 28 (14.66%) Kafka
5 18 (9.42%) React
6 17 (8.90%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (7.33%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (7.33%) RESTful
8 13 (6.81%) Akka
8 13 (6.81%) JMS
8 13 (6.81%) RxJava
8 13 (6.81%) Spring WebFlux
9 10 (5.24%) Node.js
10 8 (4.19%) Hibernate
11 7 (3.66%) REST
12 6 (3.14%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.28%) Derivative
2 32 (16.75%) Equities
3 31 (16.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (15.71%) Hedge funds
5 29 (15.18%) Fixed Income
5 29 (15.18%) Pricing Data
6 27 (14.14%) Cloud Native
7 13 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.66%) Blog
9 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.09%) NHS
9 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (60.21%) Software Engineering
2 68 (35.60%) Agile
3 54 (28.27%) Microservices
4 48 (25.13%) CI/CD
5 37 (19.37%) Mentoring
6 34 (17.80%) Investment Management
7 32 (16.75%) Test Automation
8 31 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (15.71%) Fintech
10 29 (15.18%) Asset Management
11 22 (11.52%) BDD
11 22 (11.52%) Event-Driven
12 20 (10.47%) DevOps
13 19 (9.95%) TDD
14 16 (8.38%) Multithreading
15 15 (7.85%) Concurrent Programming
15 15 (7.85%) Pair Programming
16 14 (7.33%) Collaborative Culture
16 14 (7.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 14 (7.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (21.99%) JavaScript
3 40 (20.94%) Python
4 38 (19.90%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.52%) Kotlin
5 22 (11.52%) SQL
6 5 (2.62%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) C
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) Groovy
7 1 (0.52%) Ruby
7 1 (0.52%) Rust
7 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (6.28%) Degree
2 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.19%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (13.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.81%) Terraform
3 10 (5.24%) Grafana
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.52%) Istio
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (1.05%) Splunk
1 2 (1.05%) VMware
2 1 (0.52%) Databricks
2 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
2 1 (0.52%) Google
2 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle
2 1 (0.52%) SAP
2 1 (0.52%) Solarflare