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 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 373 447
Rank change year-on-year +13 +74 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 350 293 435
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.75% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.84% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 252 247 375
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +48.28% -19.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £122,375 £140,677 £145,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -22.22%

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 75,121 34,825 79,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 89.40% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50,043 21,141 60,357
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +10.19% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%

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 May 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 May 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 +10 219 £90,000 -18.18% 44
North of England -10 80 £65,000 - 13
North West +18 55 £75,000 +15.38% 9
South East -19 20 £82,500 +17.86% 26
Midlands -29 19 £50,000 -16.67% 2
North East -30 18 £24,000 -63.08% 3
South West -73 17 £60,000 -44.09% 4
West Midlands -30 14 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -51 7 £52,130 +48.94% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -10 1 £75,000 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 350 (100.00%) Java
2 199 (56.86%) Software Engineering
3 139 (39.71%) AWS
4 117 (33.43%) Spring
5 111 (31.71%) Spring Boot
6 97 (27.71%) Microservices
7 88 (25.14%) Test Automation
8 87 (24.86%) Agile
9 80 (22.86%) CI/CD
9 80 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (18.86%) Kubernetes
10 66 (18.86%) SQL
11 61 (17.43%) Mentoring
12 50 (14.29%) Kafka
13 49 (14.00%) React
14 43 (12.29%) NoSQL
15 42 (12.00%) Docker
16 41 (11.71%) BDD
17 38 (10.86%) DevOps
17 38 (10.86%) Python
18 36 (10.29%) AI
18 36 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
19 34 (9.71%) Security Cleared
19 34 (9.71%) TDD
20 33 (9.43%) Event-Driven
20 33 (9.43%) Terraform
21 31 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
22 30 (8.57%) Clean Code
22 30 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
22 30 (8.57%) SaaS

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 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) Camunda
3 1 (0.29%) JBoss
3 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 139 (39.71%) AWS
2 30 (8.57%) SaaS
3 29 (8.29%) Azure
4 25 (7.14%) GCP
5 22 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (5.71%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.29%) Serverless
9 9 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.14%) dbt
11 4 (1.14%) GitHub
11 4 (1.14%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.57%) Vercel
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon Bedrock
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.86%) AMQP
2 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.29%) NoSQL
2 30 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.71%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.14%) MySQL
6 5 (1.43%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.14%) Redis
7 4 (1.14%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.29%) DB2
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Flink
9 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 21 (6.00%) Claude Code
2 19 (5.43%) Cucumber
2 19 (5.43%) GitLab
3 15 (4.29%) TeamCity
4 11 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.57%) Git
6 7 (2.00%) JUnit
7 6 (1.71%) Selenium
8 5 (1.43%) JIRA
8 5 (1.43%) Maven
9 3 (0.86%) JMeter
9 3 (0.86%) Mockito
10 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.57%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.29%) Gradle
11 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 77 (22.00%) Finance
2 37 (10.57%) Banking
3 24 (6.86%) Front Office
4 23 (6.57%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.86%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.57%) Retail
6 16 (4.57%) Social Skills
7 15 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.29%) Law
8 11 (3.14%) Back Office
9 9 (2.57%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.57%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.00%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.71%) Marketing
12 4 (1.14%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Aviation
13 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (33.43%) Spring
2 111 (31.71%) Spring Boot
3 50 (14.29%) Kafka
4 49 (14.00%) React
5 29 (8.29%) REST
6 23 (6.57%) Node.js
6 23 (6.57%) RESTful
7 18 (5.14%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.14%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (2.29%) Hibernate
10 8 (2.29%) HTML
10 8 (2.29%) J2EE
10 8 (2.29%) JSON
10 8 (2.29%) Redux
11 7 (2.00%) Akka
11 7 (2.00%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.00%) Web Services
11 7 (2.00%) XML
12 6 (1.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 64 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.00%) e-Learning
4 14 (4.00%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.57%) Blog
7 6 (1.71%) NHS
8 5 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.14%) Derivative
9 4 (1.14%) Equities
10 3 (0.86%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.86%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.29%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.29%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (56.86%) Software Engineering
2 97 (27.71%) Microservices
3 88 (25.14%) Test Automation
4 87 (24.86%) Agile
5 80 (22.86%) CI/CD
5 80 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (17.43%) Mentoring
7 41 (11.71%) BDD
8 38 (10.86%) DevOps
9 36 (10.29%) AI
9 36 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (9.71%) TDD
11 33 (9.43%) Event-Driven
12 31 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (8.57%) Clean Code
14 29 (8.29%) Architectural Patterns
15 28 (8.00%) Fintech
16 26 (7.43%) Coaching
17 25 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
17 25 (7.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 350 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (18.86%) SQL
3 38 (10.86%) Python
4 28 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.86%) Kotlin
6 16 (4.57%) Go
7 4 (1.14%) C#
7 4 (1.14%) C++
8 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.71%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.14%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.86%) Degree
6 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.00%) QA
2 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.43%) Terraform
3 19 (5.43%) Grafana
4 4 (1.14%) Packer
4 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.86%) Ansible
5 3 (0.86%) Kibana
6 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.14%) Oracle
1 4 (1.14%) Splunk
2 3 (0.86%) Adobe
2 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
2 3 (0.86%) Palantir
3 2 (0.57%) AppDynamics
3 2 (0.57%) Google
3 2 (0.57%) IBM
3 2 (0.57%) Solace
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.29%) OpenAI