Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 319 344
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 585 372 472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.86% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.95% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 421 217 336
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +7.50% +25.00%

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 96,140 39,294 61,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 90.57% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,276 23,232 35,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,019 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,828 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -25 281 £86,250 -21.59% 326
North of England +79 194 £75,000 +3.45% 75
North West +71 120 £75,000 -11.76% 51
South West -77 49 £70,000 +16.67% 52
North East -31 38 £45,000 -25.00% 14
Yorkshire -4 36 £78,500 +8.28% 10
Midlands -32 33 £70,000 +16.67% 20
South East -38 28 £92,500 +32.14% 24
West Midlands -33 26 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East Midlands -29 7 £60,000 +150.00% 8
East of England -40 4 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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.

1 585 (100.00%) Java
2 264 (45.13%) Software Engineering
3 180 (30.77%) AWS
4 164 (28.03%) Spring
5 150 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 146 (24.96%) Agile
7 141 (24.10%) Spring Boot
8 137 (23.42%) Microservices
9 133 (22.74%) CI/CD
10 108 (18.46%) Test Automation
11 90 (15.38%) Kafka
12 87 (14.87%) Event-Driven
13 75 (12.82%) Mentoring
14 74 (12.65%) SQL
15 70 (11.97%) Python
16 65 (11.11%) AI
16 65 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 64 (10.94%) Kubernetes
18 63 (10.77%) NoSQL
19 59 (10.09%) BDD
20 55 (9.40%) GitLab
20 55 (9.40%) Security Cleared
21 52 (8.89%) DevOps
22 51 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
23 49 (8.38%) Azure
23 49 (8.38%) CQRS
24 46 (7.86%) AWS Certification
24 46 (7.86%) Cucumber
25 45 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
25 45 (7.69%) Performance Testing

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 (1.03%) Camunda
1 6 (1.03%) WebLogic
2 4 (0.68%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.51%) Confluence
3 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 180 (30.77%) AWS
2 51 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (8.38%) Azure
4 31 (5.30%) GCP
5 22 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (3.59%) GitHub
7 19 (3.25%) Serverless
8 17 (2.91%) SaaS
9 13 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.37%) Azure Storage
12 7 (1.20%) ChatGPT
12 7 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.03%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.37%) DMARC
2 2 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.77%) NoSQL
2 26 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.88%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.71%) Redis
6 7 (1.20%) MySQL
7 4 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.51%) KDB
8 3 (0.51%) Power BI
9 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.17%) Db2
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 55 (9.40%) GitLab
2 46 (7.86%) Cucumber
3 19 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.74%) TeamCity
5 15 (2.56%) Git
6 13 (2.22%) Claude Code
7 12 (2.05%) JUnit
8 11 (1.88%) Mockito
9 9 (1.54%) Selenium
10 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.68%) JIRA
10 4 (0.68%) JMeter
11 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.34%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.34%) Maven
12 2 (0.34%) Mocha
13 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.17%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 103 (17.61%) Finance
2 87 (14.87%) Banking
3 36 (6.15%) Social Skills
4 26 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 23 (3.93%) Front Office
6 20 (3.42%) Health Technology
6 20 (3.42%) Retail
7 18 (3.08%) Law
8 17 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.88%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.68%) Back Office
12 4 (0.68%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.51%) iGaming
13 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Aviation
14 2 (0.34%) Marketing
15 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (28.03%) Spring
2 141 (24.10%) Spring Boot
3 90 (15.38%) Kafka
4 38 (6.50%) REST
5 29 (4.96%) React
5 29 (4.96%) RESTful
6 28 (4.79%) Terraform
7 17 (2.91%) Node.js
8 16 (2.74%) AngularJS
9 12 (2.05%) Vue
10 11 (1.88%) Hibernate
11 10 (1.71%) HTML
12 9 (1.54%) OAuth
12 9 (1.54%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.37%) YAML
14 7 (1.20%) Playwright
15 6 (1.03%) Jest
15 6 (1.03%) JPA
15 6 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 114 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 87 (14.87%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 45 (7.69%) e-Learning
5 31 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.88%) Blog
7 11 (1.88%) Equities
8 10 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.20%) Derivative
10 7 (1.20%) Equity Derivative
10 7 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.68%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (45.13%) Software Engineering
2 150 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 146 (24.96%) Agile
4 137 (23.42%) Microservices
5 133 (22.74%) CI/CD
6 108 (18.46%) Test Automation
7 87 (14.87%) Event-Driven
8 75 (12.82%) Mentoring
9 65 (11.11%) AI
9 65 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 59 (10.09%) BDD
11 52 (8.89%) DevOps
12 49 (8.38%) CQRS
13 45 (7.69%) Performance Testing
14 42 (7.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 33 (5.64%) Architectural Patterns
15 33 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (5.47%) SDLC
17 31 (5.30%) TDD
18 30 (5.13%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 585 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (12.65%) SQL
3 70 (11.97%) Python
4 31 (5.30%) TypeScript
5 26 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.76%) Kotlin
7 21 (3.59%) C++
8 15 (2.56%) Go
9 10 (1.71%) Scala
10 6 (1.03%) Rust
11 5 (0.85%) C#
12 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.17%) Groovy
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (9.40%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.86%) AWS Certification
3 45 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 43 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.91%) Degree
6 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.17%) OCP
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.05%) QA
2 7 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.85%) GDPR
4 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (6.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.91%) Grafana
3 4 (0.68%) Kibana
4 3 (0.51%) Argo
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.17%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft
1 10 (1.71%) Oracle
2 9 (1.54%) Palantir
3 8 (1.37%) SendGrid
4 6 (1.03%) Google
5 5 (0.85%) Splunk
6 4 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 4 (0.68%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.68%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.51%) IBM
7 3 (0.51%) Revolut
8 2 (0.34%) Adobe
8 2 (0.34%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.17%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.17%) Databricks
9 1 (0.17%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.17%) Solace
9 1 (0.17%) Sybase
9 1 (0.17%) Wonderware