Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 406 410
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 214 279 377
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.60% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 164 185 336
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £95,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +46.15% -25.84%
75th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £124,250 £147,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £96,250 £66,250
% change year-on-year -11.69% +45.28% -24.29%

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 51,126 42,959 59,855
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 91.91% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 32,570 22,320 47,875
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +29 149 £100,000 -6.98% 37
North of England -20 28 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North West +15 18 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South East +18 15 £81,250 +4.84% 17
South West -21 9 £60,000 -31.29% 23
Midlands +18 8 £50,000 -13.04% 6
West Midlands +35 7 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Yorkshire -15 7 £71,250 +35.71% 2
North East -6 3 £39,500 -50.63% 4
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
East Midlands -7 1 £40,000 -11.11% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 214 (100.00%) Java
2 132 (61.68%) Software Engineering
3 110 (51.40%) AWS
4 84 (39.25%) Spring
5 68 (31.78%) Spring Boot
6 65 (30.37%) Microservices
7 62 (28.97%) CI/CD
8 59 (27.57%) Agile
9 48 (22.43%) Kubernetes
10 45 (21.03%) Test Automation
11 40 (18.69%) Mentoring
12 38 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (14.02%) SaaS
14 29 (13.55%) Fintech
14 29 (13.55%) Kafka
14 29 (13.55%) SQL
15 27 (12.62%) JavaScript
16 26 (12.15%) Python
17 25 (11.68%) Docker
17 25 (11.68%) TypeScript
18 24 (11.21%) BDD
18 24 (11.21%) Event-Driven
19 23 (10.75%) DevOps
19 23 (10.75%) Kotlin
20 22 (10.28%) Investment Management
20 22 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
20 22 (10.28%) React
21 21 (9.81%) TDD
21 21 (9.81%) Terraform
22 18 (8.41%) Clean Code

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 15 (7.01%) Apache
1 15 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Camunda
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 110 (51.40%) AWS
2 30 (14.02%) SaaS
3 16 (7.48%) Snowflake
4 15 (7.01%) dbt
4 15 (7.01%) GCP
5 13 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.74%) Azure
7 7 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.27%) GitHub
8 5 (2.34%) Serverless
9 4 (1.87%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.87%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.40%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.47%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.94%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.01%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (7.01%) Apache Arrow
3 15 (7.01%) Apache Iceberg
3 15 (7.01%) Apache Ignite
3 15 (7.01%) Data Lake
3 15 (7.01%) Dremio
4 14 (6.54%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.93%) MySQL
8 1 (0.47%) Big Data
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.07%) TeamCity
2 10 (4.67%) GitLab
3 9 (4.21%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.80%) Git
4 6 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.87%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.87%) JUnit
6 3 (1.40%) JMeter
7 2 (0.93%) Gradle
7 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) Appium
8 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.47%) JIRA
8 1 (0.47%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.47%) Selenium
8 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 79 (36.92%) Finance
2 40 (18.69%) Banking
3 27 (12.62%) Financial Institution
4 20 (9.35%) Front Office
5 17 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 17 (7.94%) Retail
6 16 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.48%) Social Skills
7 13 (6.07%) Law
8 11 (5.14%) Back Office
9 8 (3.74%) Games
10 6 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.87%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.40%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.40%) Marketing
13 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.47%) Aviation
14 1 (0.47%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (39.25%) Spring
2 68 (31.78%) Spring Boot
3 29 (13.55%) Kafka
4 22 (10.28%) React
5 16 (7.48%) RabbitMQ
6 15 (7.01%) gRPC
6 15 (7.01%) NumPy
6 15 (7.01%) Pandas
6 15 (7.01%) Protocol Buffers
6 15 (7.01%) SciPy
7 14 (6.54%) RESTful
8 12 (5.61%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (5.61%) Node.js
9 11 (5.14%) Akka
9 11 (5.14%) JMS
9 11 (5.14%) RxJava
9 11 (5.14%) Spring WebFlux
10 9 (4.21%) Hibernate
10 9 (4.21%) REST
11 6 (2.80%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.88%) Derivative
3 17 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.94%) Equities
4 15 (7.01%) Fixed Income
4 15 (7.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (7.01%) Hedge funds
4 15 (7.01%) Pricing Data
5 9 (4.21%) Blog
6 8 (3.74%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.80%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.34%) NHS
10 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.47%) FPGA
11 1 (0.47%) PKI
11 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (61.68%) Software Engineering
2 65 (30.37%) Microservices
3 62 (28.97%) CI/CD
4 59 (27.57%) Agile
5 45 (21.03%) Test Automation
6 40 (18.69%) Mentoring
7 38 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (13.55%) Fintech
9 24 (11.21%) BDD
9 24 (11.21%) Event-Driven
10 23 (10.75%) DevOps
11 22 (10.28%) Investment Management
12 21 (9.81%) TDD
13 18 (8.41%) Clean Code
14 15 (7.01%) Asset Management
14 15 (7.01%) Pair Programming
15 14 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (6.54%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (6.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 14 (6.54%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 214 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (13.55%) SQL
3 27 (12.62%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.15%) Python
5 25 (11.68%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.75%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.27%) Go
8 1 (0.47%) C
8 1 (0.47%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) C++
8 1 (0.47%) Ruby
8 1 (0.47%) Rust
8 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (7.01%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.14%) Degree
2 11 (5.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.27%) DV Cleared
3 7 (3.27%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.80%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.40%) QA
2 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (11.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (22.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.81%) Terraform
3 16 (7.48%) Grafana
4 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.93%) Ansible
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.47%) Kibana
6 1 (0.47%) Packer
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.87%) Oracle
2 2 (0.93%) Splunk
2 2 (0.93%) VMware
3 1 (0.47%) Databricks
3 1 (0.47%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.47%) Solarflare