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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 360 443
Rank change year-on-year -9 +83 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 342 293 427
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.77% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.87% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 247 248 370
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +48.28% -19.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £121,750 £140,677 £142,750
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 74,665 33,869 78,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.15% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,095 21,316 60,150
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -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 3 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 3 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 +15 212 £90,000 -18.18% 40
North of England -9 77 £67,500 +3.85% 15
North West +16 51 £80,000 +23.08% 11
South East -24 21 £82,500 +17.86% 20
Midlands -25 19 £53,750 -10.42% 2
North East -19 17 £24,000 -63.08% 1
South West -80 17 £60,000 -44.09% 5
West Midlands -16 14 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -56 9 £53,565 +53.04% 3
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -22 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 342 (100.00%) Java
2 203 (59.36%) Software Engineering
3 140 (40.94%) AWS
4 117 (34.21%) Spring
5 108 (31.58%) Spring Boot
6 93 (27.19%) Microservices
7 87 (25.44%) Agile
8 86 (25.15%) Test Automation
9 84 (24.56%) CI/CD
10 78 (22.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 67 (19.59%) Kubernetes
12 65 (19.01%) SQL
13 63 (18.42%) Mentoring
14 50 (14.62%) React
15 49 (14.33%) Kafka
16 42 (12.28%) Docker
17 41 (11.99%) DevOps
17 41 (11.99%) NoSQL
18 40 (11.70%) BDD
19 35 (10.23%) AI
19 35 (10.23%) Python
19 35 (10.23%) Security Cleared
20 34 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
21 33 (9.65%) TDD
21 33 (9.65%) Terraform
22 32 (9.36%) Event-Driven
23 31 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
24 30 (8.77%) Azure
24 30 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
24 30 (8.77%) REST

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 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.29%) Camunda
2 1 (0.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.29%) JBoss
2 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 140 (40.94%) AWS
2 30 (8.77%) Azure
2 30 (8.77%) SaaS
3 26 (7.60%) GCP
4 21 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
6 16 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (3.80%) Serverless
8 8 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.17%) dbt
10 4 (1.17%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.88%) GitHub
12 2 (0.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.58%) Vercel
13 1 (0.29%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.29%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.99%) NoSQL
2 31 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.14%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.51%) MySQL
6 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.17%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.17%) Redis
6 4 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.29%) DB2
8 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.29%) Flink
8 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (5.56%) Claude Code
2 17 (4.97%) GitLab
3 16 (4.68%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.39%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.22%) Git
6 10 (2.92%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.05%) JUnit
7 7 (2.05%) Selenium
8 4 (1.17%) JIRA
8 4 (1.17%) Maven
9 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.58%) JMeter
9 2 (0.58%) Mockito
9 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.58%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.29%) Appium
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) Gradle
10 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 81 (23.68%) Finance
2 35 (10.23%) Banking
3 22 (6.43%) Front Office
3 22 (6.43%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 17 (4.97%) Financial Institution
5 17 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.68%) Retail
7 15 (4.39%) Law
8 11 (3.22%) Back Office
9 9 (2.63%) Tech for Good
10 8 (2.34%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.05%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.46%) Games
12 5 (1.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Advertising
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (34.21%) Spring
2 108 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 50 (14.62%) React
4 49 (14.33%) Kafka
5 30 (8.77%) REST
6 25 (7.31%) Node.js
7 23 (6.73%) RESTful
8 17 (4.97%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (2.92%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.34%) Akka
11 8 (2.34%) J2EE
11 8 (2.34%) Redux
11 8 (2.34%) Web Services
12 7 (2.05%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.05%) HTML
12 7 (2.05%) JSON
12 7 (2.05%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.05%) Playwright
13 6 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.51%) e-Learning
4 12 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.51%) Fixed Income
5 9 (2.63%) Blog
6 6 (1.75%) NHS
7 5 (1.46%) Derivative
7 5 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.17%) Equities
8 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.88%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.29%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (59.36%) Software Engineering
2 93 (27.19%) Microservices
3 87 (25.44%) Agile
4 86 (25.15%) Test Automation
5 84 (24.56%) CI/CD
6 78 (22.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (18.42%) Mentoring
8 41 (11.99%) DevOps
9 40 (11.70%) BDD
10 35 (10.23%) AI
11 34 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (9.65%) TDD
13 32 (9.36%) Event-Driven
14 30 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (8.48%) Clean Code
15 29 (8.48%) Fintech
16 27 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (7.89%) Coaching
17 25 (7.31%) Continuous Deployment
17 25 (7.31%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 342 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (19.01%) SQL
3 35 (10.23%) Python
4 26 (7.60%) TypeScript
5 25 (7.31%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.02%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.09%) Go
8 4 (1.17%) C#
9 2 (0.58%) Groovy
9 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.19%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.92%) Degree
6 5 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.34%) QA
2 4 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.65%) Terraform
3 19 (5.56%) Grafana
4 4 (1.17%) Packer
4 4 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.58%) Kibana
6 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.17%) Oracle
2 2 (0.58%) Adobe
2 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.58%) Dynatrace
2 2 (0.58%) Google
2 2 (0.58%) IBM
2 2 (0.58%) Solace
2 2 (0.58%) Splunk
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.29%) Palantir