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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 287 417
Rank change year-on-year -81 +130 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 395 424 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.07% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.18% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 291 262 450
10th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +26.47% -7.78%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% -13.89%

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 78,596 35,808 90,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.04% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 55,264 20,815 66,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,821 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -62 219 £90,000 -18.18% 27
North of England +36 109 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North West +44 74 £80,000 +23.08% 3
South West -92 25 £60,000 -50.00% 2
South East -20 24 £90,000 +28.57% 15
Midlands -13 23 £50,000 -16.67% 3
North East -25 21 £24,000 -63.08%
West Midlands -13 17 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Yorkshire -32 14 £80,000 +128.57% 3
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 -
East of England -20 2 £73,750 - 2
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 395 (100.00%) Java
2 207 (52.41%) Software Engineering
3 154 (38.99%) AWS
4 151 (38.23%) Spring
5 128 (32.41%) Spring Boot
6 119 (30.13%) Microservices
7 115 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 106 (26.84%) Test Automation
9 101 (25.57%) Agile
10 97 (24.56%) CI/CD
11 73 (18.48%) Mentoring
11 73 (18.48%) SQL
12 70 (17.72%) Kubernetes
13 61 (15.44%) Kafka
14 51 (12.91%) NoSQL
15 50 (12.66%) BDD
16 48 (12.15%) Event-Driven
17 47 (11.90%) Python
17 47 (11.90%) React
18 46 (11.65%) AI
19 45 (11.39%) DevOps
20 44 (11.14%) Docker
21 43 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
22 36 (9.11%) TDD
23 34 (8.61%) Azure
23 34 (8.61%) REST
24 33 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
24 33 (8.35%) TypeScript
25 32 (8.10%) Architectural Patterns
25 32 (8.10%) 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 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.01%) Confluence
2 3 (0.76%) Camunda
3 2 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 154 (38.99%) AWS
2 34 (8.61%) Azure
3 28 (7.09%) SaaS
4 26 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.58%) GCP
5 23 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (5.57%) Serverless
7 21 (5.32%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.03%) GitHub
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.27%) Azure Storage
11 5 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.01%) dbt
12 4 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.27%) DMARC
2 2 (0.51%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.91%) NoSQL
2 33 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.82%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.54%) MySQL
4 14 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.52%) Redis
6 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.76%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.51%) Db2
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 27 (6.84%) GitLab
2 26 (6.58%) Cucumber
3 22 (5.57%) Claude Code
4 14 (3.54%) TeamCity
5 12 (3.04%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.53%) Git
7 8 (2.03%) JIRA
7 8 (2.03%) JUnit
7 8 (2.03%) Selenium
8 5 (1.27%) Maven
9 4 (1.01%) JMeter
9 4 (1.01%) Mockito
10 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.51%) Mocha
10 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.25%) Gradle
General
1 81 (20.51%) Finance
2 35 (8.86%) Banking
3 26 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.57%) Front Office
5 18 (4.56%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.05%) Social Skills
7 15 (3.80%) Retail
8 14 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.54%) Law
9 12 (3.04%) Health Technology
10 9 (2.28%) Back Office
10 9 (2.28%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.03%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Games
13 4 (1.01%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Automotive
14 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (38.23%) Spring
2 128 (32.41%) Spring Boot
3 61 (15.44%) Kafka
4 47 (11.90%) React
5 34 (8.61%) REST
6 28 (7.09%) Node.js
7 27 (6.84%) RESTful
8 21 (5.32%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.54%) Vue
10 12 (3.04%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.78%) HTML
12 9 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (2.03%) Akka
13 8 (2.03%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.03%) JSON
13 8 (2.03%) OAuth
13 8 (2.03%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.03%) Redux
14 7 (1.77%) J2EE
14 7 (1.77%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.76%) Cloud Native
2 51 (12.91%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.57%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.32%) e-Learning
5 15 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.54%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.27%) Blog
8 5 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.01%) NHS
10 3 (0.76%) Equities
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.76%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.51%) Derivative
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.25%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.25%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.25%) Robotics
12 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (52.41%) Software Engineering
2 119 (30.13%) Microservices
3 115 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 106 (26.84%) Test Automation
5 101 (25.57%) Agile
6 97 (24.56%) CI/CD
7 73 (18.48%) Mentoring
8 50 (12.66%) BDD
9 48 (12.15%) Event-Driven
10 46 (11.65%) AI
11 45 (11.39%) DevOps
12 43 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (9.11%) TDD
14 32 (8.10%) Architectural Patterns
14 32 (8.10%) Coaching
14 32 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (7.59%) Clean Code
15 30 (7.59%) Containerisation
16 25 (6.33%) CQRS
17 24 (6.08%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 395 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (18.48%) SQL
3 47 (11.90%) Python
4 33 (8.35%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.34%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.57%) Kotlin
7 20 (5.06%) Go
8 9 (2.28%) C++
9 5 (1.27%) Rust
10 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.76%) C#
12 2 (0.51%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (7.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.32%) AWS Certification
3 21 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.03%) Degree
6 5 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.29%) QA
2 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (11.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.85%) Terraform
3 18 (4.56%) Grafana
4 4 (1.01%) Kibana
4 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 8 (2.03%) Palantir
2 5 (1.27%) Oracle
2 5 (1.27%) SendGrid
2 5 (1.27%) Splunk
3 4 (1.01%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.76%) Adobe
5 2 (0.51%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.51%) Google
5 2 (0.51%) IBM
5 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.51%) Solace
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.25%) Sybase
6 1 (0.25%) Wonderware