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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 292 372
Rank change year-on-year -99 +80 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 418 429 467
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.98% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.08% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 300 266 374
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,313 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 88,542 39,676 68,922
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.61% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 62,156 23,891 46,902
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 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 13 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 -67 244 £90,000 -18.18% 320
North of England +31 115 £70,000 +7.69% 42
North West +42 73 £85,000 +13.33% 26
South East -9 27 £90,000 +28.57% 18
North East -36 24 £24,000 -63.08% 7
South West -90 23 £60,000 +26.32% 28
Yorkshire -10 18 £80,000 +142.42% 9
Midlands -41 17 £60,000 - 25
West Midlands -31 14 £62,500 +4.17% 19
East Midlands -27 3 £60,000 +150.00% 6
East of England -26 1 £72,500 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 418 (100.00%) Java
2 181 (43.30%) Software Engineering
3 162 (38.76%) AWS
4 158 (37.80%) Spring
5 136 (32.54%) Spring Boot
6 126 (30.14%) Microservices
7 115 (27.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (26.32%) Agile
9 108 (25.84%) CI/CD
10 105 (25.12%) Test Automation
11 86 (20.57%) Kafka
12 75 (17.94%) Mentoring
13 74 (17.70%) SQL
14 70 (16.75%) Event-Driven
15 62 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 62 (14.83%) Kubernetes
15 62 (14.83%) Python
16 61 (14.59%) AI
17 59 (14.11%) NoSQL
18 51 (12.20%) BDD
18 51 (12.20%) DevOps
19 48 (11.48%) Security Cleared
20 43 (10.29%) React
21 41 (9.81%) SC Cleared
22 40 (9.57%) Azure
22 40 (9.57%) Docker
22 40 (9.57%) GitLab
23 39 (9.33%) CQRS
24 38 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
24 38 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.67%) Camunda
2 4 (0.96%) Confluence
3 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.48%) JBoss
3 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 162 (38.76%) AWS
2 40 (9.57%) Azure
3 38 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.46%) GCP
5 21 (5.02%) Serverless
6 19 (4.55%) SaaS
7 17 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (2.39%) GitHub
10 7 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.44%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.44%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.96%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.44%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.11%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.02%) MongoDB
2 21 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.59%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.87%) Redis
5 9 (2.15%) MySQL
6 6 (1.44%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.72%) KDB
8 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.48%) Db2
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) Flink
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (9.57%) GitLab
2 36 (8.61%) Cucumber
3 18 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.83%) Claude Code
5 13 (3.11%) Git
5 13 (3.11%) Selenium
6 8 (1.91%) JUnit
6 8 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.67%) JIRA
8 5 (1.20%) Mockito
9 4 (0.96%) JMeter
10 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.72%) Maven
11 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.48%) Mocha
11 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 91 (21.77%) Finance
2 43 (10.29%) Banking
3 33 (7.89%) Social Skills
4 25 (5.98%) Front Office
5 24 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.78%) Health Technology
7 18 (4.31%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.11%) Retail
9 12 (2.87%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (2.63%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.91%) Law
12 4 (0.96%) Back Office
12 4 (0.96%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.96%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.48%) Games
15 1 (0.24%) Advertising
15 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (37.80%) Spring
2 136 (32.54%) Spring Boot
3 86 (20.57%) Kafka
4 43 (10.29%) React
5 38 (9.09%) REST
6 30 (7.18%) RESTful
7 23 (5.50%) Node.js
8 20 (4.78%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.11%) Vue
10 11 (2.63%) HTML
10 11 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (2.39%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.39%) Playwright
12 8 (1.91%) YAML
13 7 (1.67%) Akka
13 7 (1.67%) OAuth
13 7 (1.67%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.44%) CSS
14 6 (1.44%) Hibernate
14 6 (1.44%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 96 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 74 (17.70%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.42%) e-Learning
3 31 (7.42%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.59%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.96%) Blog
10 4 (0.96%) Equities
10 4 (0.96%) NHS
10 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (43.30%) Software Engineering
2 126 (30.14%) Microservices
3 115 (27.51%) Full-Stack Development
4 110 (26.32%) Agile
5 108 (25.84%) CI/CD
6 105 (25.12%) Test Automation
7 75 (17.94%) Mentoring
8 70 (16.75%) Event-Driven
9 62 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (14.59%) AI
11 51 (12.20%) BDD
11 51 (12.20%) DevOps
12 39 (9.33%) CQRS
13 38 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (8.85%) Architectural Patterns
15 36 (8.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 33 (7.89%) Containerisation
17 31 (7.42%) Performance Testing
18 29 (6.94%) Observability
19 28 (6.70%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 418 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (17.70%) SQL
3 62 (14.83%) Python
4 38 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.18%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.02%) Kotlin
7 19 (4.55%) Go
8 13 (3.11%) C++
9 6 (1.44%) C#
9 6 (1.44%) Rust
10 5 (1.20%) Scala
11 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.81%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.42%) AWS Certification
3 31 (7.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (3.83%) Degree
5 15 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) OCP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.59%) QA
2 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) PSD2
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (9.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (14.83%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.46%) Terraform
3 12 (2.87%) Grafana
4 4 (0.96%) Kibana
4 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.72%) Ansible
6 2 (0.48%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.15%) Palantir
2 7 (1.67%) Google
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.44%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.20%) Splunk
5 4 (0.96%) AppDynamics
5 4 (0.96%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.96%) Oracle
6 3 (0.72%) Adobe
6 3 (0.72%) IBM
6 3 (0.72%) Revolut
7 2 (0.48%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.48%) Solace
8 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.24%) Databricks
8 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) Sybase
8 1 (0.24%) Wonderware