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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 297 424
Rank change year-on-year -80 +127 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 396 427 512
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.04% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.15% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 290 265 440
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £51,250
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 £123,250 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +22.86% -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 80,603 36,975 87,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 89.99% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 56,724 21,823 64,513
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,825 £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 £70,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -61 218 £90,000 -19.10% 39
North of England +16 112 £70,000 +7.69% 7
North West +42 74 £80,000 +23.08% 3
South East -20 25 £90,000 +28.57% 16
South West -98 25 £60,000 -50.00% 3
North East -30 21 £24,000 -63.08%
Midlands -33 21 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Yorkshire -20 17 £80,000 +128.57% 4
West Midlands -25 15 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -23 5 £60,000 +150.00%
East of England -20 2 £73,750 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 396 (100.00%) Java
2 208 (52.53%) Software Engineering
3 158 (39.90%) AWS
4 150 (37.88%) Spring
5 127 (32.07%) Spring Boot
6 121 (30.56%) Microservices
7 115 (29.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 107 (27.02%) Test Automation
9 104 (26.26%) Agile
10 100 (25.25%) CI/CD
11 75 (18.94%) Mentoring
12 74 (18.69%) SQL
13 69 (17.42%) Kubernetes
14 63 (15.91%) Kafka
15 52 (13.13%) NoSQL
16 51 (12.88%) BDD
17 50 (12.63%) Event-Driven
18 49 (12.37%) Python
19 47 (11.87%) AI
20 46 (11.62%) DevOps
21 45 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
21 45 (11.36%) React
22 43 (10.86%) Docker
23 36 (9.09%) Azure
24 35 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
24 35 (8.84%) TDD
25 34 (8.59%) Coaching
25 34 (8.59%) REST
25 34 (8.59%) TypeScript
26 33 (8.33%) PostgreSQL

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 (0.51%) 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
1 158 (39.90%) AWS
2 36 (9.09%) Azure
3 28 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.57%) GCP
5 25 (6.31%) SaaS
6 23 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (5.81%) Serverless
7 21 (5.30%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (2.27%) GitHub
9 8 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.52%) 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 (1.52%) 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 (13.13%) NoSQL
2 33 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.54%) MySQL
4 14 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.52%) Redis
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.51%) Db2
6 2 (0.51%) 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 (7.32%) GitLab
2 28 (7.07%) Cucumber
3 22 (5.56%) Claude Code
4 14 (3.54%) TeamCity
5 12 (3.03%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.53%) Git
7 8 (2.02%) JIRA
7 8 (2.02%) JUnit
7 8 (2.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.26%) Maven
9 4 (1.01%) JMeter
9 4 (1.01%) Mockito
10 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.51%) Mocha
10 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.25%) Gradle
General
1 84 (21.21%) Finance
2 35 (8.84%) Banking
3 26 (6.57%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.56%) Front Office
5 18 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.04%) Social Skills
7 15 (3.79%) Retail
8 14 (3.54%) Health Technology
8 14 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.54%) Law
9 9 (2.27%) Back Office
9 9 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.02%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Marketing
13 3 (0.76%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.25%) Advertising
15 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (37.88%) Spring
2 127 (32.07%) Spring Boot
3 63 (15.91%) Kafka
4 45 (11.36%) React
5 34 (8.59%) REST
6 27 (6.82%) Node.js
6 27 (6.82%) RESTful
7 21 (5.30%) AngularJS
8 14 (3.54%) Vue
9 12 (3.03%) GraphQL
10 11 (2.78%) HTML
11 9 (2.27%) OAuth
11 9 (2.27%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.02%) Akka
12 8 (2.02%) Redux
12 8 (2.02%) YAML
13 7 (1.77%) Hibernate
13 7 (1.77%) JSON
13 7 (1.77%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.81%) e-Learning
5 17 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.54%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.52%) 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 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.76%) Equities
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.51%) Derivative
11 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.25%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.25%) IoT
12 1 (0.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (52.53%) Software Engineering
2 121 (30.56%) Microservices
3 115 (29.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 107 (27.02%) Test Automation
5 104 (26.26%) Agile
6 100 (25.25%) CI/CD
7 75 (18.94%) Mentoring
8 51 (12.88%) BDD
9 50 (12.63%) Event-Driven
10 47 (11.87%) AI
11 46 (11.62%) DevOps
12 45 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
13 35 (8.84%) TDD
14 34 (8.59%) Coaching
15 32 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (7.58%) Clean Code
16 30 (7.58%) Containerisation
17 27 (6.82%) CQRS
18 25 (6.31%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 396 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (18.69%) SQL
3 49 (12.37%) Python
4 34 (8.59%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.05%) Go
6 20 (5.05%) Kotlin
7 10 (2.53%) C++
8 6 (1.52%) Rust
9 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.76%) C#
11 2 (0.51%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.81%) AWS Certification
3 23 (5.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.27%) Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.54%) QA
2 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (10.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.83%) Terraform
3 18 (4.55%) Grafana
4 4 (1.01%) Kibana
4 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.27%) Palantir
2 6 (1.52%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.26%) Oracle
3 5 (1.26%) Splunk
4 4 (1.01%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.76%) Adobe
5 3 (0.76%) Google
6 2 (0.51%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.51%) IBM
6 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.51%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware