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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 297 355
Rank change year-on-year -38 +58 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 510 402 492
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.93% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.03% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 367 246 355
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £110,500 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £78,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -28.64% +10.00% +17.65%

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 94,838 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66,862 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -44 269 £90,000 -18.18% 357
North of England +50 152 £75,000 +7.14% 87
North West +55 96 £75,000 -14.77% 53
South West -102 40 £60,000 +10.09% 62
Midlands -35 29 £70,000 +16.67% 26
Yorkshire -21 28 £80,000 +14.29% 22
North East -45 28 £45,000 -30.77% 12
South East -29 27 £90,000 +28.57% 32
West Midlands -41 21 £85,000 +41.67% 17
East Midlands -36 8 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -32 2 £78,750 -1.56% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 510 (100.00%) Java
2 219 (42.94%) Software Engineering
3 167 (32.75%) Spring
4 166 (32.55%) AWS
5 144 (28.24%) Spring Boot
6 131 (25.69%) Agile
7 130 (25.49%) Microservices
8 128 (25.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 125 (24.51%) CI/CD
10 108 (21.18%) Test Automation
11 89 (17.45%) Kafka
12 84 (16.47%) Event-Driven
13 74 (14.51%) Mentoring
14 73 (14.31%) SQL
15 68 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 64 (12.55%) Kubernetes
17 62 (12.16%) NoSQL
17 62 (12.16%) Python
18 57 (11.18%) AI
19 55 (10.78%) BDD
20 54 (10.59%) Security Cleared
21 52 (10.20%) DevOps
22 51 (10.00%) GitLab
23 49 (9.61%) AWS CloudFormation
24 47 (9.22%) CQRS
25 44 (8.63%) Cucumber
26 43 (8.43%) Docker
26 43 (8.43%) SC Cleared
27 42 (8.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
28 41 (8.04%) AWS Certification

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 (1.18%) Camunda
2 4 (0.78%) Confluence
2 4 (0.78%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.78%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) JBoss
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 166 (32.55%) AWS
2 49 (9.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 39 (7.65%) Azure
4 30 (5.88%) GCP
5 22 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (4.12%) Serverless
7 17 (3.33%) SaaS
8 12 (2.35%) GitHub
9 10 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.18%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.18%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.18%) DMARC
2 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.20%) Modbus
2 1 (0.20%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.16%) NoSQL
2 23 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.73%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.55%) Redis
6 6 (1.18%) MySQL
6 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.59%) KDB
7 3 (0.59%) Power BI
8 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.39%) Db2
8 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.20%) Flink
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (10.00%) GitLab
2 44 (8.63%) Cucumber
3 22 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.53%) Git
5 13 (2.55%) Selenium
5 13 (2.55%) TeamCity
6 10 (1.96%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.57%) JUnit
8 7 (1.37%) JIRA
8 7 (1.37%) Mockito
9 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.78%) JMeter
10 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.59%) Maven
10 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.39%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.39%) Mocha
12 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 95 (18.63%) Finance
2 69 (13.53%) Banking
3 36 (7.06%) Social Skills
4 23 (4.51%) Financial Institution
5 19 (3.73%) Front Office
5 19 (3.73%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.53%) Retail
7 16 (3.14%) Law
7 16 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.96%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Back Office
12 4 (0.78%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.59%) iGaming
13 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.59%) Marketing
14 2 (0.39%) Aviation
15 1 (0.20%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (32.75%) Spring
2 144 (28.24%) Spring Boot
3 89 (17.45%) Kafka
4 40 (7.84%) React
4 40 (7.84%) REST
5 31 (6.08%) Terraform
6 29 (5.69%) RESTful
7 22 (4.31%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.53%) Node.js
9 13 (2.55%) Vue
10 12 (2.35%) HTML
11 11 (2.16%) Hibernate
11 11 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.96%) Playwright
13 8 (1.57%) YAML
14 7 (1.37%) Akka
14 7 (1.37%) CSS
14 7 (1.37%) OAuth
14 7 (1.37%) OAuth2
15 6 (1.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 104 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 84 (16.47%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.84%) e-Learning
3 40 (7.84%) Public Cloud
4 26 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 9 (1.76%) Blog
7 8 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.98%) Equities
9 5 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.78%) Clustering
10 4 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (42.94%) Software Engineering
2 131 (25.69%) Agile
3 130 (25.49%) Microservices
4 128 (25.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 125 (24.51%) CI/CD
6 108 (21.18%) Test Automation
7 84 (16.47%) Event-Driven
8 74 (14.51%) Mentoring
9 68 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 57 (11.18%) AI
11 55 (10.78%) BDD
12 52 (10.20%) DevOps
13 47 (9.22%) CQRS
14 42 (8.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 40 (7.84%) Performance Testing
16 39 (7.65%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (6.47%) Observability
19 30 (5.88%) Containerisation
20 29 (5.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 510 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (14.31%) SQL
3 62 (12.16%) Python
4 32 (6.27%) TypeScript
5 26 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.51%) Kotlin
7 17 (3.33%) C++
8 15 (2.94%) Go
9 7 (1.37%) Scala
10 6 (1.18%) Rust
11 5 (0.98%) C#
12 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.59%) Groovy
14 1 (0.20%) Bash
14 1 (0.20%) Perl
14 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 43 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 40 (7.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (3.73%) Degree
6 12 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.39%) PhD
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.20%) OCP
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.55%) QA
2 7 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.98%) GDPR
4 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.59%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (8.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (12.55%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.94%) Grafana
3 4 (0.78%) Kibana
4 3 (0.59%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Packer
5 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.20%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (2.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.76%) Palantir
3 7 (1.37%) Google
4 6 (1.18%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.18%) Oracle
4 6 (1.18%) SendGrid
5 5 (0.98%) IBM
5 5 (0.98%) Splunk
6 4 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.78%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe
7 3 (0.59%) Revolut
8 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.20%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.20%) Databricks
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.20%) Solace
9 1 (0.20%) Sybase
9 1 (0.20%) Wonderware