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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 288 419
Rank change year-on-year -91 +131 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 398 433 515
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.04% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.16% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 291 271 444
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £51,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -2.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £108,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year -26.44% +24.29% -2.78%

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 80,861 37,451 87,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.30% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,940 22,195 64,587
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -67 219 £90,000 -18.18% 64
North of England +26 114 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North West +44 76 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South East -21 25 £90,000 +28.57% 22
South West -98 25 £60,000 -50.00% 6
North East -33 21 £24,000 -63.08% 1
Midlands -27 20 £58,750 -2.08% 3
Yorkshire -27 17 £80,000 +128.57% 4
West Midlands -30 14 £50,000 -16.67% 3
East Midlands -16 5 £60,000 +150.00%
East of England -19 2 £73,750 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 398 (100.00%) Java
2 209 (52.51%) Software Engineering
3 159 (39.95%) AWS
4 150 (37.69%) Spring
5 127 (31.91%) Spring Boot
6 121 (30.40%) Microservices
7 114 (28.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 108 (27.14%) Test Automation
9 104 (26.13%) Agile
10 100 (25.13%) CI/CD
11 75 (18.84%) Mentoring
12 74 (18.59%) SQL
13 69 (17.34%) Kubernetes
14 64 (16.08%) Kafka
15 52 (13.07%) NoSQL
16 51 (12.81%) BDD
16 51 (12.81%) Event-Driven
17 50 (12.56%) Python
18 48 (12.06%) AI
19 46 (11.56%) DevOps
20 45 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (11.31%) React
21 43 (10.80%) Docker
22 36 (9.05%) Azure
23 35 (8.79%) Architectural Patterns
23 35 (8.79%) TDD
23 35 (8.79%) TypeScript
24 34 (8.54%) Coaching
24 34 (8.54%) REST
25 33 (8.29%) 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 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.01%) Camunda
1 4 (1.01%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 159 (39.95%) AWS
2 36 (9.05%) Azure
3 28 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.53%) GCP
5 25 (6.28%) SaaS
6 23 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (5.78%) Serverless
7 21 (5.28%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (2.26%) GitHub
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.51%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.51%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.01%) dbt
12 4 (1.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.51%) DMARC
2 1 (0.25%) AMQP
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Modbus
2 1 (0.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (13.07%) NoSQL
2 33 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.78%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.52%) MySQL
4 14 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.51%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.51%) Redis
6 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.50%) Db2
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 29 (7.29%) GitLab
2 28 (7.04%) Cucumber
3 22 (5.53%) Claude Code
4 14 (3.52%) TeamCity
5 12 (3.02%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.51%) Git
7 8 (2.01%) JIRA
7 8 (2.01%) JUnit
7 8 (2.01%) Selenium
8 5 (1.26%) Maven
9 4 (1.01%) JMeter
9 4 (1.01%) Mockito
10 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.50%) Mocha
10 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.25%) Gradle
11 1 (0.25%) NetBeans
General
1 85 (21.36%) Finance
2 35 (8.79%) Banking
3 26 (6.53%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.53%) Front Office
5 18 (4.52%) Financial Institution
6 17 (4.27%) Social Skills
7 15 (3.77%) Retail
8 14 (3.52%) Health Technology
8 14 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.52%) Law
9 9 (2.26%) Back Office
9 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.01%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Marketing
13 3 (0.75%) Games
14 2 (0.50%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (37.69%) Spring
2 127 (31.91%) Spring Boot
3 64 (16.08%) Kafka
4 45 (11.31%) React
5 34 (8.54%) REST
6 27 (6.78%) Node.js
6 27 (6.78%) RESTful
7 21 (5.28%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.52%) Vue
9 12 (3.02%) GraphQL
10 11 (2.76%) HTML
11 9 (2.26%) OAuth
11 9 (2.26%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.01%) Akka
12 8 (2.01%) Redux
12 8 (2.01%) YAML
13 7 (1.76%) Hibernate
13 7 (1.76%) JSON
13 7 (1.76%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 91 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.57%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.03%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.78%) e-Learning
5 17 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.52%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.26%) Blog
8 5 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.01%) NHS
10 3 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.75%) Equities
10 3 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.50%) Derivative
11 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
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 (1.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (52.51%) Software Engineering
2 121 (30.40%) Microservices
3 114 (28.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 108 (27.14%) Test Automation
5 104 (26.13%) Agile
6 100 (25.13%) CI/CD
7 75 (18.84%) Mentoring
8 51 (12.81%) BDD
8 51 (12.81%) Event-Driven
9 48 (12.06%) AI
10 46 (11.56%) DevOps
11 45 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (8.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 35 (8.79%) TDD
13 34 (8.54%) Coaching
14 33 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (7.54%) Clean Code
15 30 (7.54%) Containerisation
16 27 (6.78%) CQRS
17 25 (6.28%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 398 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (18.59%) SQL
3 50 (12.56%) Python
4 35 (8.79%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.03%) Go
6 20 (5.03%) Kotlin
7 10 (2.51%) C++
8 6 (1.51%) Rust
9 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.75%) C#
11 2 (0.50%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) Perl
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.78%) AWS Certification
3 23 (5.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.26%) Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.52%) QA
2 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (10.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.79%) Terraform
3 18 (4.52%) Grafana
4 4 (1.01%) Kibana
4 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.26%) Palantir
2 6 (1.51%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.26%) Oracle
3 5 (1.26%) Splunk
4 4 (1.01%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.75%) Adobe
5 3 (0.75%) Google
6 2 (0.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.50%) IBM
6 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware