Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 365 405
Rank change year-on-year -31 +40 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 222 386 286
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.69% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.73% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 161 265 245
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £102,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +46.43% -20.00%
75th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +37.93% -16.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,942 52,815 42,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.87% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28,046 29,361 33,392
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,710 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -2 176 £110,000 - 28
North of England +4 16 £70,000 +3.70% 11
South East +16 12 £60,000 -20.00% 17
Midlands +32 7 £32,000 -44.35% 1
North West +18 7 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Yorkshire 0 7 £71,250 +35.71%
South West -1 7 £60,000 -18.64% 6
West Midlands +33 4 £40,750 -29.13% 1
East Midlands +18 3 £32,000 -28.89%
North East +3 2 £39,500 -50.63% 2
East of England +27 1 £80,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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.

1 222 (100.00%) Java
2 163 (73.42%) Software Engineering
3 150 (67.57%) AWS
4 127 (57.21%) Agile
5 78 (35.14%) Spring
6 72 (32.43%) JavaScript
7 71 (31.98%) Python
7 71 (31.98%) TypeScript
8 68 (30.63%) Microservices
9 65 (29.28%) CI/CD
10 60 (27.03%) Kubernetes
11 59 (26.58%) Investment Management
11 59 (26.58%) Spring Boot
12 57 (25.68%) Asset Management
13 54 (24.32%) Apache Iceberg
13 54 (24.32%) Pandas
14 53 (23.87%) Amazon Athena
14 53 (23.87%) Apache Airflow
14 53 (23.87%) Apache Arrow
14 53 (23.87%) dbt
14 53 (23.87%) Dremio
14 53 (23.87%) NumPy
14 53 (23.87%) SciPy
15 51 (22.97%) gRPC
15 51 (22.97%) Protocol Buffers
16 50 (22.52%) Snowflake
17 49 (22.07%) Apache
17 49 (22.07%) Apache Ignite
17 49 (22.07%) Data Lake
18 47 (21.17%) Kafka

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 53 (23.87%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (22.07%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.45%) Camunda
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 150 (67.57%) AWS
2 53 (23.87%) dbt
3 50 (22.52%) Snowflake
4 19 (8.56%) SaaS
5 16 (7.21%) GCP
6 12 (5.41%) GitHub
7 9 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.05%) Azure
8 6 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.80%) Serverless
11 3 (1.35%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.45%) Multicast
2 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.32%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (23.87%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (23.87%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (23.87%) Dremio
3 49 (22.07%) Apache Ignite
3 49 (22.07%) Data Lake
4 21 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 16 (7.21%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.80%) Big Data
7 4 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.35%) MySQL
8 3 (1.35%) Redis
9 2 (0.90%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.90%) KDB
9 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.45%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 10 (4.50%) Git
1 10 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.05%) Cucumber
2 9 (4.05%) GitLab
3 8 (3.60%) JUnit
4 7 (3.15%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.80%) JMeter
6 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.90%) Appium
7 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.90%) Gradle
7 2 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (0.90%) Maven
7 2 (0.90%) Mockito
7 2 (0.90%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.90%) Selenium
7 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.90%) Vite
8 1 (0.45%) git-flow
8 1 (0.45%) Storybook
General
1 150 (67.57%) Finance
2 91 (40.99%) Banking
3 64 (28.83%) Front Office
4 58 (26.13%) Investment Banking
5 36 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (15.32%) Financial Institution
7 31 (13.96%) Law
8 26 (11.71%) Social Skills
9 11 (4.95%) Retail
10 7 (3.15%) Back Office
11 6 (2.70%) Games
12 5 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (1.80%) Advertising
13 4 (1.80%) Marketing
13 4 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.80%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.35%) Legal
15 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.90%) Wholesale Banking
16 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (35.14%) Spring
2 59 (26.58%) Spring Boot
3 54 (24.32%) Pandas
4 53 (23.87%) NumPy
4 53 (23.87%) SciPy
5 51 (22.97%) gRPC
5 51 (22.97%) Protocol Buffers
6 47 (21.17%) Kafka
7 31 (13.96%) React
8 18 (8.11%) Akka
8 18 (8.11%) RxJava
8 18 (8.11%) Spring WebFlux
9 15 (6.76%) Node.js
9 15 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (6.31%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (6.31%) AngularJS
10 14 (6.31%) JMS
10 14 (6.31%) RESTful
11 10 (4.50%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.03%) Fixed Income
2 59 (26.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (25.68%) Equities
4 56 (25.23%) Derivative
5 51 (22.97%) Hedge funds
6 49 (22.07%) Pricing Data
7 42 (18.92%) Cloud Native
8 19 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (6.76%) Public Cloud
10 11 (4.95%) Algorithms
11 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (2.25%) Blog
13 4 (1.80%) Data Structures
14 3 (1.35%) e-Learning
15 2 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
15 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
16 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
16 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
16 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (73.42%) Software Engineering
2 127 (57.21%) Agile
3 68 (30.63%) Microservices
4 65 (29.28%) CI/CD
5 59 (26.58%) Investment Management
6 57 (25.68%) Asset Management
7 39 (17.57%) Mentoring
8 38 (17.12%) Fintech
9 35 (15.77%) Test Automation
10 28 (12.61%) BDD
10 28 (12.61%) TDD
11 26 (11.71%) SDLC
12 25 (11.26%) Event-Driven
13 24 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.81%) Multithreading
13 24 (10.81%) Pair Programming
14 23 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (8.56%) Concurrent Programming
15 19 (8.56%) DevOps
16 17 (7.66%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 222 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 71 (31.98%) Python
3 71 (31.98%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.41%) SQL
5 25 (11.26%) Kotlin
6 15 (6.76%) Go
7 5 (2.25%) C++
8 4 (1.80%) Scala
9 3 (1.35%) Rust
10 2 (0.90%) C#
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (5.41%) Degree
2 9 (4.05%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.15%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (2.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.25%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.36%) Terraform
3 10 (4.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.90%) Ansible
4 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.45%) Istio
5 1 (0.45%) Kibana
5 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (1.35%) Google
1 3 (1.35%) Oracle
2 2 (0.90%) Splunk
2 2 (0.90%) VMware
3 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.45%) Databricks
3 1 (0.45%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.45%) SAP
3 1 (0.45%) Solace
3 1 (0.45%) Solarflare
3 1 (0.45%) TIBCO