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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 373 452
Rank change year-on-year -26 +79 -99
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 304 256 397
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.70% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.78% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 218 221 349
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £123,875 £147,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -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 68,398 32,714 75,749
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 89.52% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 45,036 21,221 58,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +2 189 £90,000 -18.18% 39
North of England -35 64 £65,000 +8.33% 17
North West -12 42 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East -29 20 £82,500 +17.86% 8
Midlands -35 17 £50,000 -11.11% 3
South West -58 14 £60,000 -45.45% 7
North East -20 12 £38,065 -36.56% 3
West Midlands -7 11 £50,000 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire -50 10 £55,000 +57.14% 6
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
East of England -38 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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.

1 304 (100.00%) Java
2 192 (63.16%) Software Engineering
3 134 (44.08%) AWS
4 102 (33.55%) Spring
5 89 (29.28%) Spring Boot
6 86 (28.29%) Microservices
7 83 (27.30%) Agile
7 83 (27.30%) Test Automation
8 82 (26.97%) CI/CD
9 70 (23.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 61 (20.07%) Kubernetes
11 58 (19.08%) Mentoring
11 58 (19.08%) SQL
12 46 (15.13%) React
13 42 (13.82%) Kafka
14 38 (12.50%) DevOps
15 37 (12.17%) NoSQL
16 35 (11.51%) Terraform
17 33 (10.86%) Docker
18 32 (10.53%) BDD
19 31 (10.20%) Python
19 31 (10.20%) SaaS
19 31 (10.20%) Security Cleared
19 31 (10.20%) TypeScript
20 30 (9.87%) AI
20 30 (9.87%) Azure
20 30 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
21 29 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
21 29 (9.54%) TDD
22 28 (9.21%) 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 8 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.32%) Apache
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.66%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 134 (44.08%) AWS
2 31 (10.20%) SaaS
3 30 (9.87%) Azure
4 25 (8.22%) GCP
5 20 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (4.93%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.96%) Serverless
9 8 (2.63%) dbt
9 8 (2.63%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.32%) GitHub
13 3 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (0.66%) Vercel
15 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.33%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 1 (0.33%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.17%) NoSQL
2 29 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.92%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.28%) MySQL
5 10 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.64%) Redis
6 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.32%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.32%) Dremio
8 3 (0.99%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.59%) TeamCity
2 16 (5.26%) Claude Code
3 13 (4.28%) Cucumber
3 13 (4.28%) GitLab
4 11 (3.62%) Git
5 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.30%) Selenium
6 4 (1.32%) JIRA
6 4 (1.32%) JUnit
6 4 (1.32%) Maven
7 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.66%) Gradle
7 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.66%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.33%) Appium
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 77 (25.33%) Finance
2 39 (12.83%) Banking
3 22 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.91%) Social Skills
5 20 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 19 (6.25%) Front Office
7 18 (5.92%) Retail
8 17 (5.59%) Law
9 13 (4.28%) Back Office
10 9 (2.96%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.97%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.64%) Games
13 5 (1.64%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.32%) Marketing
15 3 (0.99%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.33%) Automotive
16 1 (0.33%) Aviation
16 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (33.55%) Spring
2 89 (29.28%) Spring Boot
3 46 (15.13%) React
4 42 (13.82%) Kafka
5 25 (8.22%) Node.js
6 22 (7.24%) RESTful
7 21 (6.91%) REST
8 11 (3.62%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (2.96%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.63%) Redux
11 7 (2.30%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.30%) J2EE
11 7 (2.30%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.30%) Playwright
12 5 (1.64%) CSS
12 5 (1.64%) HTML
12 5 (1.64%) JSON
12 5 (1.64%) SOAP
12 5 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.95%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.29%) Blog
4 10 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.29%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.96%) Derivative
5 9 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.63%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.30%) NHS
8 5 (1.64%) Equities
9 4 (1.32%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.32%) Pricing Data
10 3 (0.99%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.33%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (63.16%) Software Engineering
2 86 (28.29%) Microservices
3 83 (27.30%) Agile
3 83 (27.30%) Test Automation
4 82 (26.97%) CI/CD
5 70 (23.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 58 (19.08%) Mentoring
7 38 (12.50%) DevOps
8 32 (10.53%) BDD
9 30 (9.87%) AI
9 30 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (9.54%) TDD
11 28 (9.21%) Clean Code
12 27 (8.88%) Continuous Deployment
12 27 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (8.88%) Event-Driven
13 26 (8.55%) Fintech
14 25 (8.22%) Coaching
15 22 (7.24%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (7.24%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 304 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (19.08%) SQL
3 31 (10.20%) Python
3 31 (10.20%) TypeScript
4 28 (9.21%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 13 (4.28%) Go
7 4 (1.32%) C#
8 2 (0.66%) Groovy
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.61%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.62%) Degree
5 8 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.97%) QA
2 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (10.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (20.07%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.51%) Terraform
3 22 (7.24%) Grafana
4 4 (1.32%) Packer
4 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.66%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (1.64%) Oracle
2 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.66%) IBM
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe
3 1 (0.33%) Google
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.33%) Solace
3 1 (0.33%) Splunk