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 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 409 420
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 258 263 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 195 180 338
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £148,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% -20.00%

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 56,218 39,052 62,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 91.19% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36,340 21,134 50,106
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £28,823
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +44 163 £100,000 -6.98% 19
North of England -14 47 £62,500 - 8
North West -7 28 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South East -11 19 £81,250 +16.07% 11
Midlands +15 12 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire -41 12 £55,000 +57.14% 3
South West -37 10 £60,000 -42.86% 9
West Midlands +22 8 £50,000 -11.11% 1
North East -1 7 £53,565 -33.04% 2
East Midlands -19 3 £70,000 +55.56% 2
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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.

1 258 (100.00%) Java
2 171 (66.28%) Software Engineering
3 130 (50.39%) AWS
4 96 (37.21%) Spring
5 83 (32.17%) Microservices
6 80 (31.01%) Agile
7 79 (30.62%) Spring Boot
8 75 (29.07%) CI/CD
9 66 (25.58%) Test Automation
10 59 (22.87%) Kubernetes
11 56 (21.71%) Mentoring
12 51 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 47 (18.22%) SQL
14 40 (15.50%) Kafka
15 36 (13.95%) BDD
16 33 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
16 33 (12.79%) SaaS
17 32 (12.40%) TDD
18 31 (12.02%) Docker
18 31 (12.02%) React
19 30 (11.63%) DevOps
19 30 (11.63%) Fintech
19 30 (11.63%) NoSQL
19 30 (11.63%) Terraform
20 28 (10.85%) JavaScript
20 28 (10.85%) Python
20 28 (10.85%) TypeScript
21 27 (10.47%) Event-Driven
22 26 (10.08%) Continuous Deployment
23 24 (9.30%) Coaching

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 11 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.10%) Apache
3 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 130 (50.39%) AWS
2 33 (12.79%) SaaS
3 23 (8.91%) Azure
4 20 (7.75%) GCP
5 16 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 11 (4.26%) dbt
8 9 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.10%) GitHub
10 7 (2.71%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (2.71%) Serverless
11 4 (1.55%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.78%) Vercel
14 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.39%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.55%) AMQP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.91%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.65%) MySQL
5 8 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.10%) Apache Arrow
5 8 (3.10%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
5 8 (3.10%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.10%) Dremio
6 5 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.39%) Big Data
9 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.20%) TeamCity
2 12 (4.65%) GitLab
3 11 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.71%) Claude Code
4 7 (2.71%) Git
4 7 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.55%) JUnit
6 3 (1.16%) JMeter
7 2 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.39%) Appium
8 1 (0.39%) Gradle
8 1 (0.39%) JIRA
8 1 (0.39%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 84 (32.56%) Finance
2 38 (14.73%) Banking
3 29 (11.24%) Financial Institution
4 20 (7.75%) Retail
5 19 (7.36%) Front Office
5 19 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.36%) Social Skills
6 16 (6.20%) Law
7 13 (5.04%) Back Office
8 10 (3.88%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.10%) Games
10 6 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.94%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.16%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.16%) Marketing
12 3 (1.16%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Advertising
14 1 (0.39%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (37.21%) Spring
2 79 (30.62%) Spring Boot
3 40 (15.50%) Kafka
4 31 (12.02%) React
5 24 (9.30%) RESTful
6 20 (7.75%) Node.js
7 15 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (4.26%) REST
9 10 (3.88%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (3.88%) Akka
9 10 (3.88%) JMS
9 10 (3.88%) RxJava
9 10 (3.88%) Spring WebFlux
10 9 (3.49%) GraphQL
10 9 (3.49%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.10%) J2EE
11 8 (3.10%) NumPy
11 8 (3.10%) Pandas
11 8 (3.10%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (3.10%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.43%) Fixed Income
4 12 (4.65%) Derivative
5 10 (3.88%) Blog
5 10 (3.88%) Equities
5 10 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.10%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (3.10%) Hedge funds
7 8 (3.10%) Pricing Data
8 6 (2.33%) NHS
9 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (66.28%) Software Engineering
2 83 (32.17%) Microservices
3 80 (31.01%) Agile
4 75 (29.07%) CI/CD
5 66 (25.58%) Test Automation
6 56 (21.71%) Mentoring
7 51 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (13.95%) BDD
9 32 (12.40%) TDD
10 30 (11.63%) DevOps
10 30 (11.63%) Fintech
11 27 (10.47%) Event-Driven
12 26 (10.08%) Continuous Deployment
13 24 (9.30%) Coaching
14 23 (8.91%) Clean Code
15 22 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.53%) Investment Management
16 19 (7.36%) AI
17 18 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 17 (6.59%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 258 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (18.22%) SQL
3 28 (10.85%) JavaScript
3 28 (10.85%) Python
3 28 (10.85%) TypeScript
4 24 (9.30%) Kotlin
5 13 (5.04%) Go
6 3 (1.16%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.88%) Degree
4 8 (3.10%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.71%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.55%) QA
2 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 31 (12.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (22.87%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.63%) Terraform
3 21 (8.14%) Grafana
4 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.78%) Ansible
6 2 (0.78%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Istio
7 1 (0.39%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.55%) Oracle
2 2 (0.78%) Splunk
2 2 (0.78%) VMware
3 1 (0.39%) Databricks
3 1 (0.39%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.39%) OpenAI