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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 396 449
Rank change year-on-year +9 +53 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 273 228 390
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.69% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 201 192 349
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +64.21% -27.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -25.58% +64.21% -27.26%

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 63,758 32,852 73,138
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.98% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 41,794 21,037 57,181
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +17 174 £90,000 -18.18% 39
North of England -32 52 £62,500 +8.70% 17
North West -11 33 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East -33 18 £81,250 +20.37% 8
Midlands -17 14 £50,000 -11.11% 3
North East -16 10 £52,130 -5.22% 3
South West -52 10 £60,000 -45.45% 7
Yorkshire -56 9 £53,565 +53.04% 6
West Midlands -3 8 £50,000 -11.11% 1
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 March 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.

1 273 (100.00%) Java
2 173 (63.37%) Software Engineering
3 122 (44.69%) AWS
4 89 (32.60%) Spring
5 79 (28.94%) Microservices
6 78 (28.57%) Agile
6 78 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 74 (27.11%) Spring Boot
8 73 (26.74%) Test Automation
9 59 (21.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 54 (19.78%) Kubernetes
10 54 (19.78%) Mentoring
11 50 (18.32%) SQL
12 39 (14.29%) Kafka
13 35 (12.82%) React
14 32 (11.72%) NoSQL
15 31 (11.36%) BDD
15 31 (11.36%) SaaS
16 30 (10.99%) DevOps
16 30 (10.99%) Terraform
17 28 (10.26%) Docker
17 28 (10.26%) Python
17 28 (10.26%) TDD
17 28 (10.26%) TypeScript
18 27 (9.89%) AI
18 27 (9.89%) Azure
18 27 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
19 26 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
20 25 (9.16%) Clean Code
20 25 (9.16%) Event-Driven

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 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.47%) Apache
2 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.73%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 122 (44.69%) AWS
2 31 (11.36%) SaaS
3 27 (9.89%) Azure
4 22 (8.06%) GCP
5 17 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 10 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.93%) dbt
8 8 (2.93%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.56%) Serverless
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.47%) GitHub
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.73%) Vercel
13 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.37%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) AMQP
2 1 (0.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.72%) NoSQL
2 27 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.40%) MySQL
5 7 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
6 4 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
6 4 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.47%) Dremio
6 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.10%) Redis
8 2 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.37%) Flink
9 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (5.86%) TeamCity
2 14 (5.13%) Claude Code
3 11 (4.03%) GitLab
4 10 (3.66%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.93%) Git
6 4 (1.47%) JUnit
6 4 (1.47%) Selenium
7 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.10%) Maven
8 2 (0.73%) Gradle
8 2 (0.73%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.37%) Appium
9 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.37%) JIRA
9 1 (0.37%) JMeter
9 1 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 73 (26.74%) Finance
2 33 (12.09%) Banking
3 22 (8.06%) Financial Institution
4 19 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (6.96%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.96%) Retail
5 18 (6.59%) Front Office
5 18 (6.59%) Social Skills
6 16 (5.86%) Law
7 13 (4.76%) Back Office
8 9 (3.30%) Games
9 7 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.83%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.47%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.10%) Marketing
12 3 (1.10%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Automotive
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (32.60%) Spring
2 74 (27.11%) Spring Boot
3 39 (14.29%) Kafka
4 35 (12.82%) React
5 24 (8.79%) RESTful
6 23 (8.42%) Node.js
7 12 (4.40%) REST
8 11 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.30%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.93%) Redux
11 7 (2.56%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.56%) J2EE
11 7 (2.56%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.83%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (1.83%) Akka
12 5 (1.83%) JMS
12 5 (1.83%) RxJava
12 5 (1.83%) SOAP
12 5 (1.83%) Spring WebFlux
12 5 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.40%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.66%) Blog
4 10 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.30%) Derivative
5 9 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.93%) e-Learning
6 8 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.56%) NHS
8 5 (1.83%) Equities
9 4 (1.47%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.47%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (63.37%) Software Engineering
2 79 (28.94%) Microservices
3 78 (28.57%) Agile
3 78 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 73 (26.74%) Test Automation
5 59 (21.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (19.78%) Mentoring
7 31 (11.36%) BDD
8 30 (10.99%) DevOps
9 28 (10.26%) TDD
10 27 (9.89%) AI
11 26 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
12 25 (9.16%) Clean Code
12 25 (9.16%) Event-Driven
13 24 (8.79%) Coaching
13 24 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (8.79%) Fintech
13 24 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (7.33%) Investment Management
15 18 (6.59%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 273 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (18.32%) SQL
3 28 (10.26%) Python
3 28 (10.26%) TypeScript
4 25 (9.16%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 14 (5.13%) Go
7 4 (1.47%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.03%) Degree
3 11 (4.03%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.93%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.83%) QA
2 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.99%) Terraform
3 21 (7.69%) Grafana
4 4 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.73%) Packer
5 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle
2 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.37%) Solace
2 1 (0.37%) Splunk