Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 319 350
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 578 383 485
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.89% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.98% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 416 227 345
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £90,938 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £76,000 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.30% +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 96,605 39,114 63,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 90.49% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67,796 23,044 36,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 3 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 3 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 -33 283 £90,000 -18.18% 312
North of England +82 186 £75,000 +5.26% 74
North West +55 116 £75,000 -13.29% 48
South West -79 49 £70,000 +16.67% 61
North East -29 37 £45,000 -25.00% 15
Yorkshire -11 33 £80,000 +12.28% 11
Midlands -35 33 £70,000 +16.67% 23
South East -36 28 £92,500 +32.14% 20
West Midlands -32 26 £77,500 +29.17% 15
East Midlands -33 7 £60,000 +150.00% 8
East of England -41 4 £85,000 +6.25% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 578 (100.00%) Java
2 264 (45.67%) Software Engineering
3 180 (31.14%) AWS
4 167 (28.89%) Spring
5 151 (26.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 146 (25.26%) Agile
7 144 (24.91%) Spring Boot
8 137 (23.70%) Microservices
9 132 (22.84%) CI/CD
10 108 (18.69%) Test Automation
11 91 (15.74%) Kafka
12 88 (15.22%) Event-Driven
13 78 (13.49%) Mentoring
14 76 (13.15%) SQL
15 68 (11.76%) Python
16 66 (11.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 66 (11.42%) Kubernetes
17 64 (11.07%) NoSQL
18 62 (10.73%) AI
19 60 (10.38%) BDD
20 55 (9.52%) Security Cleared
21 54 (9.34%) GitLab
22 53 (9.17%) DevOps
23 51 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
24 49 (8.48%) Azure
24 49 (8.48%) CQRS
25 45 (7.79%) AWS Certification
25 45 (7.79%) Cucumber
26 44 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
26 44 (7.61%) 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 (1.04%) Camunda
2 4 (0.69%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.69%) WebLogic
2 4 (0.69%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.52%) Confluence
3 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 180 (31.14%) AWS
2 51 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (8.48%) Azure
4 32 (5.54%) GCP
5 21 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (3.29%) GitHub
6 19 (3.29%) Serverless
7 18 (3.11%) SaaS
8 12 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.04%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.87%) ChatGPT
12 5 (0.87%) Datadog
12 5 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.38%) DMARC
2 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.07%) NoSQL
2 25 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.63%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.90%) Redis
6 8 (1.38%) MySQL
7 5 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.52%) KDB
8 3 (0.52%) Power BI
9 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.17%) Db2
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 54 (9.34%) GitLab
2 45 (7.79%) Cucumber
3 21 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.77%) Git
5 15 (2.60%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.08%) Claude Code
7 10 (1.73%) JUnit
7 10 (1.73%) Selenium
8 9 (1.56%) Mockito
9 4 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.69%) JIRA
9 4 (0.69%) JMeter
10 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.52%) Maven
11 2 (0.35%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.35%) Mocha
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (18.34%) Finance
2 80 (13.84%) Banking
3 35 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 25 (4.33%) Financial Institution
5 22 (3.81%) Front Office
6 21 (3.63%) Health Technology
7 19 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.29%) Retail
8 17 (2.94%) Law
9 14 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.08%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (0.69%) Back Office
13 4 (0.69%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.52%) iGaming
14 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.52%) Marketing
15 2 (0.35%) Aviation
16 1 (0.17%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (28.89%) Spring
2 144 (24.91%) Spring Boot
3 91 (15.74%) Kafka
4 36 (6.23%) REST
5 32 (5.54%) React
6 30 (5.19%) RESTful
7 28 (4.84%) Terraform
8 17 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 17 (2.94%) Node.js
9 12 (2.08%) Vue
10 11 (1.90%) Hibernate
10 11 (1.90%) HTML
11 9 (1.56%) OAuth
11 9 (1.56%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.38%) Playwright
12 8 (1.38%) YAML
13 7 (1.21%) Akka
14 6 (1.04%) CSS
14 6 (1.04%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 111 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 86 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.79%) Public Cloud
4 44 (7.61%) e-Learning
5 29 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.42%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.73%) Blog
7 10 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.56%) Equities
8 9 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.87%) Derivative
11 5 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (0.87%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (45.67%) Software Engineering
2 151 (26.12%) Full-Stack Development
3 146 (25.26%) Agile
4 137 (23.70%) Microservices
5 132 (22.84%) CI/CD
6 108 (18.69%) Test Automation
7 88 (15.22%) Event-Driven
8 78 (13.49%) Mentoring
9 66 (11.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (10.73%) AI
11 60 (10.38%) BDD
12 53 (9.17%) DevOps
13 49 (8.48%) CQRS
14 44 (7.61%) Performance Testing
15 42 (7.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 35 (6.06%) Architectural Patterns
17 33 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (5.54%) Containerisation
18 32 (5.54%) TDD
19 30 (5.19%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 578 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (13.15%) SQL
3 68 (11.76%) Python
4 30 (5.19%) TypeScript
5 28 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.98%) Kotlin
7 21 (3.63%) C++
8 15 (2.60%) Go
9 8 (1.38%) Scala
10 6 (1.04%) Rust
11 5 (0.87%) C#
12 4 (0.69%) 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 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.79%) AWS Certification
3 44 (7.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 43 (7.44%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.11%) Degree
6 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.35%) 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 (2.08%) QA
2 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.87%) GDPR
4 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.52%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (7.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (11.42%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.77%) Grafana
3 4 (0.69%) Kibana
4 3 (0.52%) Argo
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.17%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (1.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.56%) Oracle
2 9 (1.56%) Palantir
3 8 (1.38%) SendGrid
4 7 (1.21%) Google
5 5 (0.87%) Splunk
6 4 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 4 (0.69%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.69%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.69%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe
7 3 (0.52%) IBM
7 3 (0.52%) Revolut
8 2 (0.35%) 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