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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 290 361
Rank change year-on-year -97 +71 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 422 420 476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.96% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.06% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 301 258 379
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £78,500 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -28.64% +15.79% +11.76%

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 89,484 39,616 68,834
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.59% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,877 23,853 46,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -64 245 £90,000 -18.18% 24
North of England +41 114 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North West +28 73 £80,000 +23.08% 8
South East -25 27 £90,000 +28.57% 8
South West -100 26 £60,000 +17.07% 12
North East -40 23 £24,000 -63.08% 3
Midlands -27 19 £60,000 - 9
Yorkshire -17 18 £80,000 +158.06% 5
West Midlands -32 14 £65,000 +8.33% 6
East Midlands -23 5 £60,000 +150.00% 3
East of England -23 1 £72,500 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 422 (100.00%) Java
2 179 (42.42%) Software Engineering
3 159 (37.68%) AWS
4 158 (37.44%) Spring
5 135 (31.99%) Spring Boot
6 124 (29.38%) Microservices
7 116 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 112 (26.54%) CI/CD
9 106 (25.12%) Agile
10 102 (24.17%) Test Automation
11 85 (20.14%) Kafka
12 74 (17.54%) Event-Driven
13 73 (17.30%) Mentoring
14 70 (16.59%) SQL
15 63 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 62 (14.69%) Python
17 61 (14.45%) Kubernetes
18 59 (13.98%) AI
19 56 (13.27%) NoSQL
20 53 (12.56%) DevOps
21 52 (12.32%) Security Cleared
22 48 (11.37%) BDD
23 43 (10.19%) React
23 43 (10.19%) SC Cleared
24 42 (9.95%) GitLab
25 40 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
25 40 (9.48%) Azure
25 40 (9.48%) CQRS
25 40 (9.48%) Docker
26 39 (9.24%) Event-Driven Architecture

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 7 (1.66%) Camunda
2 4 (0.95%) Confluence
3 3 (0.71%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.47%) JBoss
4 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 159 (37.68%) AWS
2 40 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
2 40 (9.48%) Azure
3 28 (6.64%) GCP
4 21 (4.98%) Serverless
5 20 (4.74%) SaaS
6 17 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (3.55%) Anthropic Claude
8 11 (2.61%) GitHub
9 8 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.18%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.42%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.27%) NoSQL
2 18 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.03%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.08%) Redis
6 6 (1.42%) MySQL
6 6 (1.42%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.71%) KDB
8 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.47%) Db2
8 2 (0.47%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Flink
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (9.95%) GitLab
2 37 (8.77%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.79%) Claude Code
5 15 (3.55%) Git
6 14 (3.32%) Selenium
7 9 (2.13%) JUnit
8 8 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.66%) JIRA
10 6 (1.42%) Mockito
11 4 (0.95%) JMeter
12 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.71%) Maven
13 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.47%) Eclipse RCP
13 2 (0.47%) Mocha
13 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 90 (21.33%) Finance
2 46 (10.90%) Banking
3 35 (8.29%) Social Skills
4 23 (5.45%) Front Office
5 20 (4.74%) Health Technology
5 20 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.50%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.08%) Retail
8 12 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.37%) Law
9 10 (2.37%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Back Office
12 4 (0.95%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.47%) Games
15 1 (0.24%) Advertising
15 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (37.44%) Spring
2 135 (31.99%) Spring Boot
3 85 (20.14%) Kafka
4 43 (10.19%) React
5 39 (9.24%) REST
6 27 (6.40%) RESTful
6 27 (6.40%) Terraform
7 22 (5.21%) Node.js
8 21 (4.98%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.08%) Vue
10 12 (2.84%) HTML
11 11 (2.61%) Playwright
11 11 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.90%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.90%) Hibernate
12 8 (1.90%) YAML
13 7 (1.66%) Akka
13 7 (1.66%) CSS
13 7 (1.66%) OAuth
13 7 (1.66%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 92 (21.80%) Cloud Native
2 76 (18.01%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.58%) e-Learning
3 32 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.08%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.95%) Blog
10 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.95%) Equities
10 4 (0.95%) NHS
11 3 (0.71%) Clustering
11 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (42.42%) Software Engineering
2 124 (29.38%) Microservices
3 116 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 112 (26.54%) CI/CD
5 106 (25.12%) Agile
6 102 (24.17%) Test Automation
7 74 (17.54%) Event-Driven
8 73 (17.30%) Mentoring
9 63 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 59 (13.98%) AI
11 53 (12.56%) DevOps
12 48 (11.37%) BDD
13 40 (9.48%) CQRS
14 39 (9.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 38 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
17 32 (7.58%) Containerisation
17 32 (7.58%) Performance Testing
18 28 (6.64%) Observability
19 27 (6.40%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 422 (100.00%) Java
2 70 (16.59%) SQL
3 62 (14.69%) Python
4 38 (9.00%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.11%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.21%) Kotlin
7 18 (4.27%) Go
8 13 (3.08%) C++
9 6 (1.42%) C#
9 6 (1.42%) Rust
10 5 (1.18%) Scala
11 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.58%) AWS Certification
3 32 (7.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (4.03%) Degree
5 15 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) OCP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.55%) QA
2 5 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.95%) GDPR
4 3 (0.71%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.47%) WCAG
6 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (9.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.61%) Grafana
3 4 (0.95%) Kibana
4 3 (0.71%) Ansible
4 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.47%) Packer
6 1 (0.24%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.13%) Palantir
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.66%) Google
4 6 (1.42%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.18%) Splunk
6 4 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.95%) IBM
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle
7 3 (0.71%) Adobe
7 3 (0.71%) Revolut
8 2 (0.47%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.47%) Solace
9 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.24%) Databricks
9 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.24%) Sybase
9 1 (0.24%) Wonderware