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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 301 363
Rank change year-on-year -43 +62 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 543 400 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.93% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.03% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 391 243 346
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +7.32% +20.59%
75th Percentile £95,000 £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% +21.21%

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 96,021 38,933 64,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 90.43% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,503 23,350 38,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
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 £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 24 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 24 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 -37 276 £90,000 -18.18% 318
North of England +67 170 £75,000 +5.26% 84
North West +57 108 £75,000 -14.77% 54
South West -91 43 £60,000 +11.11% 65
Midlands -38 32 £85,000 +41.67% 25
Yorkshire -12 31 £80,000 +12.28% 15
North East -39 31 £45,000 -30.77% 15
South East -43 29 £90,000 +28.57% 23
West Midlands -39 25 £85,000 +41.67% 14
East Midlands -22 7 £60,000 +150.00% 11
East of England -36 2 £78,750 -1.56% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 543 (100.00%) Java
2 243 (44.75%) Software Engineering
3 172 (31.68%) AWS
4 169 (31.12%) Spring
5 147 (27.07%) Spring Boot
6 140 (25.78%) Agile
6 140 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 132 (24.31%) Microservices
8 126 (23.20%) CI/CD
9 108 (19.89%) Test Automation
10 90 (16.57%) Kafka
11 86 (15.84%) Event-Driven
12 77 (14.18%) Mentoring
13 75 (13.81%) SQL
14 68 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 66 (12.15%) Python
16 63 (11.60%) Kubernetes
17 62 (11.42%) NoSQL
18 59 (10.87%) AI
19 57 (10.50%) BDD
20 55 (10.13%) Security Cleared
21 54 (9.94%) GitLab
22 52 (9.58%) DevOps
23 50 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
24 48 (8.84%) CQRS
25 46 (8.47%) Cucumber
26 43 (7.92%) AWS Certification
26 43 (7.92%) SC Cleared
27 42 (7.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
27 42 (7.73%) Azure

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 (1.10%) Camunda
2 4 (0.74%) Confluence
2 4 (0.74%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.74%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 172 (31.68%) AWS
2 50 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
3 42 (7.73%) Azure
4 30 (5.52%) GCP
5 22 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (3.87%) Serverless
7 18 (3.31%) SaaS
8 15 (2.76%) GitHub
9 11 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.29%) Azure Storage
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.10%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.29%) DMARC
2 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.18%) HTTP
2 1 (0.18%) Modbus
2 1 (0.18%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.42%) NoSQL
2 23 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.21%) Redis
6 6 (1.10%) MySQL
6 6 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.55%) KDB
7 3 (0.55%) Power BI
8 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.37%) Db2
8 2 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.18%) Flink
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (9.94%) GitLab
2 46 (8.47%) Cucumber
3 22 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.31%) Git
5 13 (2.39%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.21%) Selenium
7 11 (2.03%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.47%) JUnit
9 7 (1.29%) JIRA
9 7 (1.29%) Mockito
10 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.74%) JMeter
11 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.55%) Maven
11 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.37%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.37%) Mocha
13 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 102 (18.78%) Finance
2 75 (13.81%) Banking
3 37 (6.81%) Social Skills
4 24 (4.42%) Financial Institution
5 20 (3.68%) Front Office
5 20 (3.68%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.31%) Retail
7 16 (2.95%) Law
8 13 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.03%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.74%) Back Office
12 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.55%) iGaming
13 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 2 (0.37%) Aviation
15 1 (0.18%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (31.12%) Spring
2 147 (27.07%) Spring Boot
3 90 (16.57%) Kafka
4 40 (7.37%) React
4 40 (7.37%) REST
5 30 (5.52%) Terraform
6 29 (5.34%) RESTful
7 22 (4.05%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.31%) Node.js
9 13 (2.39%) Vue
10 12 (2.21%) HTML
11 11 (2.03%) Hibernate
11 11 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (1.66%) Playwright
12 9 (1.66%) YAML
13 8 (1.47%) OAuth
13 8 (1.47%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.29%) Akka
14 7 (1.29%) CSS
15 6 (1.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 86 (15.84%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.73%) e-Learning
3 42 (7.73%) Public Cloud
4 27 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.21%) Fixed Income
6 9 (1.66%) Blog
6 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.29%) Equities
8 7 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.74%) Clustering
11 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.74%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (44.75%) Software Engineering
2 140 (25.78%) Agile
2 140 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 132 (24.31%) Microservices
4 126 (23.20%) CI/CD
5 108 (19.89%) Test Automation
6 86 (15.84%) Event-Driven
7 77 (14.18%) Mentoring
8 68 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 59 (10.87%) AI
10 57 (10.50%) BDD
11 52 (9.58%) DevOps
12 48 (8.84%) CQRS
13 42 (7.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 42 (7.73%) Performance Testing
14 39 (7.18%) Architectural Patterns
15 34 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (6.08%) Observability
17 31 (5.71%) Containerisation
18 30 (5.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 543 (100.00%) Java
2 75 (13.81%) SQL
3 66 (12.15%) Python
4 31 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.16%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.24%) Kotlin
7 20 (3.68%) C++
8 15 (2.76%) Go
9 7 (1.29%) Scala
10 6 (1.10%) Rust
11 5 (0.92%) C#
12 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.55%) Groovy
14 1 (0.18%) Bash
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
14 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (7.92%) AWS Certification
2 43 (7.92%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (3.50%) Degree
5 11 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.37%) PhD
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.18%) OCP
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.58%) QA
2 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.92%) GDPR
4 4 (0.74%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.55%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (7.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (11.60%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.76%) Grafana
3 4 (0.74%) Kibana
4 3 (0.55%) Ansible
5 2 (0.37%) Argo
5 2 (0.37%) Packer
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.18%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (2.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.66%) Palantir
3 7 (1.29%) Google
3 7 (1.29%) SendGrid
4 6 (1.10%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.10%) Oracle
5 5 (0.92%) IBM
5 5 (0.92%) Splunk
6 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.74%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.74%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe
7 3 (0.55%) Revolut
8 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.18%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.18%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.18%) Solace
9 1 (0.18%) Sybase
9 1 (0.18%) Wonderware