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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 356 456
Rank change year-on-year -37 +100 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 312 264 398
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.71% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.80% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 219 218 345
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £100,000 £136,875 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,250 £147,500 £138,500
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 70,451 33,096 77,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.30% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 46,116 21,213 59,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +13 190 £90,000 -18.18% 47
North of England -19 70 £62,500 +4.17% 7
North West -7 44 £75,000 +15.38% 3
South East -41 20 £82,500 +17.86% 13
Midlands -29 17 £53,750 -10.42% 2
North East -19 16 £24,000 -60.00% 3
South West -73 16 £60,000 -44.09% 4
West Midlands -6 12 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -48 10 £55,000 +57.14% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -30 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 312 (100.00%) Java
2 194 (62.18%) Software Engineering
3 133 (42.63%) AWS
4 102 (32.69%) Spring
5 90 (28.85%) Spring Boot
6 89 (28.53%) Microservices
7 87 (27.88%) Test Automation
8 84 (26.92%) CI/CD
9 81 (25.96%) Agile
10 72 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 63 (20.19%) Kubernetes
12 61 (19.55%) Mentoring
13 59 (18.91%) SQL
14 47 (15.06%) React
15 42 (13.46%) Kafka
16 40 (12.82%) DevOps
17 39 (12.50%) NoSQL
18 37 (11.86%) Terraform
19 35 (11.22%) Security Cleared
20 34 (10.90%) Docker
21 33 (10.58%) BDD
21 33 (10.58%) SaaS
22 32 (10.26%) AI
23 31 (9.94%) Clean Code
23 31 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
24 30 (9.62%) Azure
25 29 (9.29%) Continuous Deployment
25 29 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
25 29 (9.29%) SC Cleared
25 29 (9.29%) TDD

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 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.64%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 133 (42.63%) AWS
2 33 (10.58%) SaaS
3 30 (9.62%) Azure
4 28 (8.97%) GCP
5 22 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (5.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 13 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.88%) Serverless
9 6 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.60%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.28%) dbt
11 4 (1.28%) GitHub
11 4 (1.28%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.64%) Vercel
14 1 (0.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.32%) LangSmith
14 1 (0.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) AMQP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 29 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.85%) MySQL
5 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.60%) Redis
7 4 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.28%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.64%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.32%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.32%) DB2
9 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.32%) Flink
9 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (6.09%) TeamCity
2 17 (5.45%) Claude Code
3 14 (4.49%) Cucumber
3 14 (4.49%) GitLab
4 10 (3.21%) Git
5 8 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.24%) Selenium
7 4 (1.28%) JIRA
7 4 (1.28%) JUnit
7 4 (1.28%) Maven
8 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.64%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.32%) Appium
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.32%) Gradle
9 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.32%) JMeter
9 1 (0.32%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 78 (25.00%) Finance
2 38 (12.18%) Banking
3 22 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.41%) Financial Institution
5 20 (6.41%) Retail
5 20 (6.41%) Social Skills
6 19 (6.09%) Law
7 16 (5.13%) Front Office
8 15 (4.81%) Back Office
9 7 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.92%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.92%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.60%) Games
12 4 (1.28%) Marketing
13 3 (0.96%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Automotive
14 1 (0.32%) Aviation
14 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (32.69%) Spring
2 90 (28.85%) Spring Boot
3 47 (15.06%) React
4 42 (13.46%) Kafka
5 25 (8.01%) Node.js
6 23 (7.37%) REST
7 21 (6.73%) RESTful
8 12 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.88%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.56%) Redux
12 7 (2.24%) J2EE
12 7 (2.24%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (2.24%) Playwright
13 6 (1.92%) Hibernate
14 5 (1.60%) CSS
14 5 (1.60%) HTML
14 5 (1.60%) JSON
14 5 (1.60%) SOAP
14 5 (1.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.53%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.88%) Blog
4 9 (2.88%) e-Learning
5 8 (2.56%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.24%) NHS
7 5 (1.60%) Derivative
7 5 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.32%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.32%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.32%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.32%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.32%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (62.18%) Software Engineering
2 89 (28.53%) Microservices
3 87 (27.88%) Test Automation
4 84 (26.92%) CI/CD
5 81 (25.96%) Agile
6 72 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (19.55%) Mentoring
8 40 (12.82%) DevOps
9 33 (10.58%) BDD
10 32 (10.26%) AI
11 31 (9.94%) Clean Code
11 31 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (9.29%) Continuous Deployment
12 29 (9.29%) TDD
13 27 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.65%) Fintech
14 26 (8.33%) Coaching
14 26 (8.33%) Event-Driven
15 24 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
16 23 (7.37%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 312 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (18.91%) SQL
3 27 (8.65%) Python
4 25 (8.01%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.77%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.17%) Go
8 4 (1.28%) C#
9 2 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.53%) Degree
5 9 (2.88%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.92%) QA
2 4 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (10.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (20.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.86%) Terraform
3 24 (7.69%) Grafana
4 4 (1.28%) Packer
4 4 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.64%) Ansible
5 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (1.60%) Oracle
2 2 (0.64%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.64%) Google
2 2 (0.64%) IBM
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.32%) Solace
3 1 (0.32%) Splunk