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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 294 359
Rank change year-on-year -84 +65 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 435 409 491
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.03% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 313 249 390
10th Percentile £46,000 £56,250 £56,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +11.76%

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 90,911 39,566 69,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 90.44% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 64,152 23,916 45,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -49 247 £90,000 -18.18% 302
North of England +34 121 £70,000 +7.69% 59
North West +25 76 £80,000 +6.67% 39
South West -100 30 £60,000 +9.09% 35
North East -31 26 £45,000 -30.77% 9
South East -38 25 £90,000 +28.57% 15
Midlands -29 21 £72,500 +20.83% 26
Yorkshire -25 19 £80,000 +158.06% 11
West Midlands -31 16 £85,000 +41.67% 19
East Midlands -25 5 £60,000 +150.00% 7
East of England -27 1 £72,500 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 435 (100.00%) Java
2 189 (43.45%) Software Engineering
3 158 (36.32%) AWS
4 156 (35.86%) Spring
5 134 (30.80%) Spring Boot
6 126 (28.97%) Microservices
7 115 (26.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 113 (25.98%) CI/CD
9 109 (25.06%) Agile
10 103 (23.68%) Test Automation
11 85 (19.54%) Kafka
12 78 (17.93%) Event-Driven
13 73 (16.78%) Mentoring
14 69 (15.86%) SQL
15 62 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (14.02%) Kubernetes
16 61 (14.02%) Python
17 57 (13.10%) AI
17 57 (13.10%) NoSQL
18 55 (12.64%) Security Cleared
19 52 (11.95%) DevOps
20 49 (11.26%) BDD
21 44 (10.11%) SC Cleared
22 43 (9.89%) GitLab
23 42 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
23 42 (9.66%) CQRS
24 41 (9.43%) React
25 40 (9.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
25 40 (9.20%) REST
26 39 (8.97%) 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 7 (1.61%) Camunda
2 4 (0.92%) Confluence
3 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.46%) JBoss
4 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 158 (36.32%) AWS
2 42 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 39 (8.97%) Azure
4 27 (6.21%) GCP
5 20 (4.60%) Serverless
6 19 (4.37%) SaaS
7 17 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.22%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (2.30%) GitHub
10 8 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.38%) Azure Storage
13 4 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.92%) Datadog
13 4 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.38%) DMARC
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) Modbus
2 1 (0.23%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.10%) NoSQL
2 17 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.22%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.99%) Redis
6 6 (1.38%) MySQL
6 6 (1.38%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.69%) KDB
7 3 (0.69%) Power BI
8 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.46%) Db2
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.23%) Flink
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (9.89%) GitLab
2 39 (8.97%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.68%) Git
5 15 (3.45%) Claude Code
6 14 (3.22%) Selenium
7 9 (2.07%) JUnit
8 8 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.61%) JIRA
10 6 (1.38%) Mockito
11 4 (0.92%) JMeter
12 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.69%) Maven
13 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.46%) Eclipse RCP
13 2 (0.46%) Mocha
13 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.23%) Gradle
General
1 89 (20.46%) Finance
2 47 (10.80%) Banking
3 34 (7.82%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.83%) Front Office
5 20 (4.60%) Financial Institution
6 19 (4.37%) Health Technology
7 18 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.99%) Retail
9 12 (2.76%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.53%) Law
11 10 (2.30%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.92%) Back Office
13 4 (0.92%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.92%) Marketing
14 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.46%) Aviation
15 2 (0.46%) iGaming
16 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (35.86%) Spring
2 134 (30.80%) Spring Boot
3 85 (19.54%) Kafka
4 41 (9.43%) React
5 40 (9.20%) REST
6 27 (6.21%) RESTful
7 25 (5.75%) Terraform
8 21 (4.83%) AngularJS
9 19 (4.37%) Node.js
10 13 (2.99%) Vue
11 11 (2.53%) HTML
11 11 (2.53%) Playwright
11 11 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.84%) Hibernate
12 8 (1.84%) YAML
13 7 (1.61%) Akka
13 7 (1.61%) OAuth
13 7 (1.61%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.38%) CSS
14 6 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 94 (21.61%) Cloud Native
2 78 (17.93%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (7.82%) e-Learning
3 34 (7.82%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.53%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.92%) Blog
9 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.92%) Equities
10 3 (0.69%) Clustering
10 3 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.30%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (43.45%) Software Engineering
2 126 (28.97%) Microservices
3 115 (26.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 113 (25.98%) CI/CD
5 109 (25.06%) Agile
6 103 (23.68%) Test Automation
7 78 (17.93%) Event-Driven
8 73 (16.78%) Mentoring
9 62 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 57 (13.10%) AI
11 52 (11.95%) DevOps
12 49 (11.26%) BDD
13 42 (9.66%) CQRS
14 40 (9.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 38 (8.74%) Architectural Patterns
16 35 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (7.82%) Performance Testing
18 31 (7.13%) Containerisation
19 28 (6.44%) Observability
20 27 (6.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 435 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (15.86%) SQL
3 61 (14.02%) Python
4 34 (7.82%) TypeScript
5 26 (5.98%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.83%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.68%) Go
8 14 (3.22%) C++
9 6 (1.38%) Rust
10 5 (1.15%) C#
10 5 (1.15%) Scala
11 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
13 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.82%) AWS Certification
3 34 (7.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (4.14%) Degree
5 15 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) OCP
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.22%) QA
2 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.92%) GDPR
4 3 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 39 (8.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.30%) Grafana
3 4 (0.92%) Kibana
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
5 2 (0.46%) Packer
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.07%) Microsoft
1 9 (2.07%) Palantir
2 7 (1.61%) Google
3 6 (1.38%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.15%) Splunk
5 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.92%) IBM
5 4 (0.92%) Oracle
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe
6 3 (0.69%) Revolut
7 2 (0.46%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.46%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.23%) Databricks
8 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.23%) Sybase
8 1 (0.23%) Wonderware