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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 378 446
Rank change year-on-year -13 +68 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 293 243 399
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.66% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.74% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 215 209 350
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
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 £137,500 £99,688
90th Percentile £120,000 £148,750 £132,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £65,982
% change year-on-year -25.58% +62.92% -26.69%

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 65,916 32,846 74,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 89.81% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 43,453 21,228 58,232
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,363
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -8.92%

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 4 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 4 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 +6 183 £90,000 -18.18% 39
North of England -32 61 £67,500 +12.50% 17
North West -9 40 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East -31 20 £82,500 +17.86% 8
Midlands -31 16 £50,000 -11.11% 3
South West -45 12 £60,000 -45.45% 7
Yorkshire -49 11 £55,000 +57.14% 6
West Midlands -7 10 £50,000 -11.11% 1
North East -14 10 £52,130 -13.12% 3
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 293 (100.00%) Java
2 186 (63.48%) Software Engineering
3 132 (45.05%) AWS
4 98 (33.45%) Spring
5 84 (28.67%) Agile
5 84 (28.67%) CI/CD
6 83 (28.33%) Spring Boot
7 82 (27.99%) Microservices
7 82 (27.99%) Test Automation
8 66 (22.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (20.14%) Kubernetes
10 57 (19.45%) Mentoring
11 55 (18.77%) SQL
12 44 (15.02%) React
13 40 (13.65%) Kafka
14 36 (12.29%) DevOps
15 35 (11.95%) Terraform
16 34 (11.60%) NoSQL
17 31 (10.58%) BDD
17 31 (10.58%) Docker
17 31 (10.58%) Python
17 31 (10.58%) SaaS
18 30 (10.24%) TypeScript
19 29 (9.90%) AI
19 29 (9.90%) Azure
19 29 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
19 29 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
19 29 (9.90%) Security Cleared
20 28 (9.56%) Clean Code
20 28 (9.56%) 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 8 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.37%) Apache
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 132 (45.05%) AWS
2 31 (10.58%) SaaS
3 29 (9.90%) Azure
4 24 (8.19%) GCP
5 20 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (4.78%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.07%) Serverless
9 8 (2.73%) dbt
9 8 (2.73%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.37%) GitHub
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (0.68%) Vercel
15 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.34%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.34%) LangSmith
15 1 (0.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.60%) NoSQL
2 29 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.80%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.10%) MySQL
5 9 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.37%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (1.37%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.37%) Dremio
7 4 (1.37%) Redis
8 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.34%) DB2
10 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.80%) TeamCity
2 15 (5.12%) Claude Code
3 13 (4.44%) Cucumber
3 13 (4.44%) GitLab
4 11 (3.75%) Git
5 6 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.05%) Selenium
6 4 (1.37%) JIRA
6 4 (1.37%) JUnit
6 4 (1.37%) Maven
7 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.68%) Gradle
7 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.68%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.34%) Appium
8 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.34%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 78 (26.62%) Finance
2 39 (13.31%) Banking
3 21 (7.17%) Financial Institution
3 21 (7.17%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.17%) Social Skills
4 20 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.83%) Retail
5 18 (6.14%) Front Office
6 17 (5.80%) Law
7 13 (4.44%) Back Office
8 9 (3.07%) Games
9 8 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
13 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Aviation
14 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (33.45%) Spring
2 83 (28.33%) Spring Boot
3 44 (15.02%) React
4 40 (13.65%) Kafka
5 27 (9.22%) RESTful
6 25 (8.53%) Node.js
7 19 (6.48%) REST
8 12 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.07%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.07%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.73%) Redux
11 7 (2.39%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.39%) J2EE
11 7 (2.39%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (2.05%) Playwright
13 5 (1.71%) CSS
13 5 (1.71%) HTML
13 5 (1.71%) JSON
13 5 (1.71%) SOAP
13 5 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.10%) Fixed Income
4 10 (3.41%) Blog
4 10 (3.41%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.07%) Derivative
5 9 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.73%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.39%) NHS
8 5 (1.71%) Equities
9 4 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.37%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.34%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.34%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (63.48%) Software Engineering
2 84 (28.67%) Agile
2 84 (28.67%) CI/CD
3 82 (27.99%) Microservices
3 82 (27.99%) Test Automation
4 66 (22.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (19.45%) Mentoring
6 36 (12.29%) DevOps
7 31 (10.58%) BDD
8 29 (9.90%) AI
8 29 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (9.56%) Clean Code
9 28 (9.56%) TDD
10 27 (9.22%) Continuous Deployment
10 27 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (8.87%) Event-Driven
12 25 (8.53%) Coaching
12 25 (8.53%) Fintech
13 21 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (6.83%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 293 (100.00%) Java
2 55 (18.77%) SQL
3 31 (10.58%) Python
4 30 (10.24%) TypeScript
5 27 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.48%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.78%) Go
8 4 (1.37%) C#
9 2 (0.68%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.78%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.41%) Degree
5 8 (2.73%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.73%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (10.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (20.14%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.95%) Terraform
3 22 (7.51%) Grafana
4 4 (1.37%) Packer
4 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) Ansible
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (1.71%) Oracle
2 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.68%) IBM
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.34%) Solace
3 1 (0.34%) Splunk