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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 297 355
Rank change year-on-year -45 +58 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 517 402 492
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 372 246 355
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 £107,500 - £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 95,470 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67,267 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) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 19 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 19 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 -48 273 £90,000 -18.18% 339
North of England +50 154 £75,000 +7.14% 80
North West +57 98 £75,000 -14.77% 49
South West -91 40 £60,000 +10.09% 59
Midlands -37 30 £77,500 +29.17% 27
Yorkshire -18 28 £80,000 +14.29% 21
North East -45 28 £45,000 -30.77% 10
South East -36 27 £90,000 +28.57% 25
West Midlands -41 22 £85,000 +41.67% 18
East Midlands -30 8 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -29 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 19 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.

1 517 (100.00%) Java
2 222 (42.94%) Software Engineering
3 168 (32.50%) Spring
4 167 (32.30%) AWS
5 145 (28.05%) Spring Boot
6 133 (25.73%) Agile
6 133 (25.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 131 (25.34%) Microservices
8 127 (24.56%) CI/CD
9 109 (21.08%) Test Automation
10 89 (17.21%) Kafka
11 85 (16.44%) Event-Driven
12 76 (14.70%) Mentoring
13 73 (14.12%) SQL
14 68 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 64 (12.38%) Kubernetes
16 62 (11.99%) NoSQL
16 62 (11.99%) Python
17 57 (11.03%) AI
18 55 (10.64%) BDD
18 55 (10.64%) Security Cleared
19 53 (10.25%) DevOps
20 52 (10.06%) GitLab
21 49 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
22 47 (9.09%) CQRS
23 44 (8.51%) Cucumber
24 43 (8.32%) Docker
24 43 (8.32%) SC Cleared
25 42 (8.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
26 41 (7.93%) 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 (1.16%) Camunda
2 4 (0.77%) Confluence
2 4 (0.77%) Tomcat
2 4 (0.77%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) JBoss
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 167 (32.30%) AWS
2 49 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
3 41 (7.93%) Azure
4 30 (5.80%) GCP
5 22 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (4.06%) Serverless
7 17 (3.29%) SaaS
8 13 (2.51%) GitHub
9 10 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.35%) Azure Storage
13 6 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.16%) Snowflake
14 5 (0.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.35%) DMARC
2 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.19%) Modbus
2 1 (0.19%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.99%) NoSQL
2 23 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.51%) Redis
6 6 (1.16%) MySQL
6 6 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.58%) KDB
7 3 (0.58%) Power BI
8 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.39%) Db2
8 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.19%) Flink
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (10.06%) GitLab
2 44 (8.51%) Cucumber
3 22 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.48%) Git
5 13 (2.51%) Selenium
5 13 (2.51%) TeamCity
6 10 (1.93%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.55%) JUnit
8 7 (1.35%) JIRA
8 7 (1.35%) Mockito
9 4 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.77%) JMeter
10 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.58%) Maven
10 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.39%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.39%) Mocha
12 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 95 (18.38%) Finance
2 70 (13.54%) Banking
3 37 (7.16%) Social Skills
4 23 (4.45%) Financial Institution
5 19 (3.68%) Front Office
5 19 (3.68%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.48%) Retail
7 17 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.09%) Law
9 13 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.32%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.93%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Back Office
13 4 (0.77%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.58%) iGaming
14 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.58%) Marketing
15 2 (0.39%) Aviation
16 1 (0.19%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (32.50%) Spring
2 145 (28.05%) Spring Boot
3 89 (17.21%) Kafka
4 41 (7.93%) React
5 40 (7.74%) REST
6 31 (6.00%) Terraform
7 30 (5.80%) RESTful
8 22 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.68%) Node.js
10 13 (2.51%) Vue
11 12 (2.32%) HTML
12 11 (2.13%) Hibernate
12 11 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (1.93%) Playwright
14 9 (1.74%) YAML
15 8 (1.55%) OAuth
15 8 (1.55%) OAuth2
16 7 (1.35%) Akka
16 7 (1.35%) CSS
17 6 (1.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 105 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 84 (16.25%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.74%) e-Learning
3 40 (7.74%) Public Cloud
4 26 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.93%) Fixed Income
6 9 (1.74%) Blog
7 8 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.97%) Equities
9 5 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.77%) Clustering
10 4 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (42.94%) Software Engineering
2 133 (25.73%) Agile
2 133 (25.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 131 (25.34%) Microservices
4 127 (24.56%) CI/CD
5 109 (21.08%) Test Automation
6 85 (16.44%) Event-Driven
7 76 (14.70%) Mentoring
8 68 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (11.03%) AI
10 55 (10.64%) BDD
11 53 (10.25%) DevOps
12 47 (9.09%) CQRS
13 42 (8.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 40 (7.74%) Performance Testing
15 39 (7.54%) Architectural Patterns
16 35 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (6.38%) Observability
18 31 (6.00%) Containerisation
19 29 (5.61%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 517 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (14.12%) SQL
3 62 (11.99%) Python
4 33 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 27 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.45%) Kotlin
7 17 (3.29%) C++
8 15 (2.90%) Go
9 7 (1.35%) Scala
10 6 (1.16%) Rust
11 5 (0.97%) C#
12 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.58%) Groovy
14 1 (0.19%) Bash
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
14 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 43 (8.32%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.93%) AWS Certification
4 40 (7.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (3.68%) Degree
6 12 (2.32%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.39%) PhD
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) OCP
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.71%) QA
2 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.97%) GDPR
4 4 (0.77%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.58%) WCAG
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (8.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.90%) Grafana
3 4 (0.77%) Kibana
4 3 (0.58%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Packer
5 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.74%) Palantir
3 7 (1.35%) Google
3 7 (1.35%) SendGrid
4 6 (1.16%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.16%) Oracle
5 5 (0.97%) IBM
5 5 (0.97%) Splunk
6 4 (0.77%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.77%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.77%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.58%) Adobe
7 3 (0.58%) Revolut
8 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.19%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.19%) Databricks
9 1 (0.19%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.19%) Solace
9 1 (0.19%) Sybase
9 1 (0.19%) Wonderware