Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 303 352
Rank change year-on-year -20 +49 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 571 388 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.91% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.00% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 411 231 340
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +7.32% +20.94%
75th Percentile £94,375 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% +24.54%

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 96,354 38,754 63,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 90.47% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,687 22,906 37,121
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -43 284 £90,000 -18.18% 258
North of England +67 180 £75,000 +3.45% 78
North West +64 116 £75,000 -14.77% 49
South West -88 48 £69,250 +21.49% 56
Midlands -39 34 £77,500 +29.17% 20
Yorkshire -4 33 £80,000 +12.28% 14
North East -41 31 £45,000 -25.00% 15
South East -36 30 £90,000 +28.57% 12
West Midlands -36 27 £85,000 +41.67% 15
East Midlands -37 7 £60,000 +150.00% 5
East of England -32 4 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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.

1 571 (100.00%) Java
2 258 (45.18%) Software Engineering
3 179 (31.35%) AWS
4 171 (29.95%) Spring
5 149 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 148 (25.92%) Spring Boot
7 143 (25.04%) Agile
8 134 (23.47%) Microservices
9 130 (22.77%) CI/CD
10 111 (19.44%) Test Automation
11 89 (15.59%) Kafka
12 87 (15.24%) Event-Driven
13 77 (13.49%) Mentoring
14 76 (13.31%) SQL
15 68 (11.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 66 (11.56%) Python
17 65 (11.38%) Kubernetes
18 62 (10.86%) NoSQL
19 60 (10.51%) AI
20 58 (10.16%) Security Cleared
21 57 (9.98%) BDD
22 54 (9.46%) DevOps
22 54 (9.46%) GitLab
23 50 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
24 48 (8.41%) CQRS
25 47 (8.23%) Azure
26 46 (8.06%) Cucumber
27 45 (7.88%) SC Cleared
28 43 (7.53%) AWS Certification
28 43 (7.53%) Docker

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 6 (1.05%) Camunda
2 4 (0.70%) Confluence
2 4 (0.70%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.70%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.35%) JBoss
4 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 179 (31.35%) AWS
2 50 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 47 (8.23%) Azure
4 32 (5.60%) GCP
5 24 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (3.68%) Serverless
7 19 (3.33%) SaaS
8 16 (2.80%) GitHub
9 11 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.40%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.40%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.05%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.40%) DMARC
2 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.18%) Modbus
3 1 (0.18%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.86%) NoSQL
2 25 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.10%) Redis
6 6 (1.05%) MySQL
7 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.53%) KDB
8 3 (0.53%) Power BI
9 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.35%) Db2
9 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (9.46%) GitLab
2 46 (8.06%) Cucumber
3 22 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.15%) Git
5 15 (2.63%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.10%) Selenium
7 11 (1.93%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.40%) JUnit
9 7 (1.23%) JIRA
9 7 (1.23%) Mockito
10 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.70%) JMeter
11 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.53%) Maven
11 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.35%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.35%) Mocha
13 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 103 (18.04%) Finance
2 82 (14.36%) Banking
3 37 (6.48%) Social Skills
4 24 (4.20%) Financial Institution
5 21 (3.68%) Front Office
5 21 (3.68%) Health Technology
6 20 (3.50%) Retail
7 18 (3.15%) Law
7 18 (3.15%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.10%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.70%) Back Office
11 4 (0.70%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.53%) iGaming
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.53%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
14 1 (0.18%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (29.95%) Spring
2 148 (25.92%) Spring Boot
3 89 (15.59%) Kafka
4 41 (7.18%) REST
5 40 (7.01%) React
6 32 (5.60%) Terraform
7 30 (5.25%) RESTful
8 22 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.33%) Node.js
10 13 (2.28%) Vue
11 12 (2.10%) HTML
12 11 (1.93%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (1.75%) YAML
14 9 (1.58%) OAuth
14 9 (1.58%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.58%) Playwright
15 7 (1.23%) Akka
15 7 (1.23%) CSS
16 6 (1.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 110 (19.26%) Cloud Native
2 87 (15.24%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.53%) Public Cloud
4 42 (7.36%) e-Learning
5 27 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.10%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.93%) Blog
8 10 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.23%) Equities
10 7 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.88%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.70%) Clustering
13 4 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.70%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (45.18%) Software Engineering
2 149 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 143 (25.04%) Agile
4 134 (23.47%) Microservices
5 130 (22.77%) CI/CD
6 111 (19.44%) Test Automation
7 87 (15.24%) Event-Driven
8 77 (13.49%) Mentoring
9 68 (11.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 60 (10.51%) AI
11 57 (9.98%) BDD
12 54 (9.46%) DevOps
13 48 (8.41%) CQRS
14 42 (7.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 42 (7.36%) Performance Testing
15 39 (6.83%) Architectural Patterns
16 35 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (5.78%) Observability
18 32 (5.60%) Containerisation
19 30 (5.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 571 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (13.31%) SQL
3 66 (11.56%) Python
4 31 (5.43%) TypeScript
5 29 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.03%) Kotlin
7 20 (3.50%) C++
8 15 (2.63%) Go
9 8 (1.40%) Scala
10 6 (1.05%) Rust
11 5 (0.88%) C#
12 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Groovy
14 1 (0.18%) Bash
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
14 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.53%) AWS Certification
4 42 (7.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (3.33%) Degree
6 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.35%) PhD
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.18%) OCP
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.63%) QA
2 7 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.88%) GDPR
4 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.53%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (7.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.98%) Grafana
3 4 (0.70%) Kibana
4 3 (0.53%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
5 2 (0.35%) Packer
5 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.18%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (1.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.58%) Palantir
3 8 (1.40%) SendGrid
4 7 (1.23%) Google
4 7 (1.23%) Oracle
5 6 (1.05%) AppDynamics
6 5 (0.88%) IBM
6 5 (0.88%) Splunk
7 4 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.70%) OutSystems
7 4 (0.70%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.53%) Adobe
8 3 (0.53%) Revolut
9 2 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.18%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.18%) Databricks
10 1 (0.18%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.18%) Solace
10 1 (0.18%) Sybase
10 1 (0.18%) Wonderware