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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 373 443
Rank change year-on-year +5 +70 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 346 292 428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.75% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.84% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 249 247 371
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +48.28% -19.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £121,500 £140,677 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -22.22%

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 75,487 34,743 78,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.32% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,799 21,313 60,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +3 213 £91,250 -17.05% 43
North of England +3 81 £65,000 - 11
North West +13 54 £75,000 +15.38% 9
South East -25 21 £82,500 +17.86% 27
North East -14 18 £24,000 -63.08% 1
Midlands -27 18 £50,000 -16.67% 2
South West -75 17 £60,000 -44.09% 7
West Midlands -18 13 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -47 9 £53,565 +53.04% 1
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England -16 1 £75,000 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 346 (100.00%) Java
2 202 (58.38%) Software Engineering
3 140 (40.46%) AWS
4 116 (33.53%) Spring
5 108 (31.21%) Spring Boot
6 95 (27.46%) Microservices
7 86 (24.86%) Agile
7 86 (24.86%) Test Automation
8 81 (23.41%) CI/CD
9 80 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
10 67 (19.36%) Kubernetes
11 63 (18.21%) SQL
12 61 (17.63%) Mentoring
13 49 (14.16%) Kafka
14 48 (13.87%) React
15 43 (12.43%) Docker
16 41 (11.85%) BDD
16 41 (11.85%) NoSQL
17 40 (11.56%) DevOps
18 38 (10.98%) Python
19 35 (10.12%) AI
19 35 (10.12%) TDD
20 34 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
20 34 (9.83%) Security Cleared
21 33 (9.54%) Terraform
22 31 (8.96%) Event-Driven
22 31 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
23 30 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
24 29 (8.38%) Azure
24 29 (8.38%) Clean Code

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 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) Camunda
3 1 (0.29%) JBoss
3 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 140 (40.46%) AWS
2 29 (8.38%) Azure
2 29 (8.38%) SaaS
3 25 (7.23%) GCP
4 22 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (5.49%) Anthropic Claude
6 17 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (4.34%) Serverless
8 9 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.16%) dbt
10 4 (1.16%) GitHub
10 4 (1.16%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.58%) Vercel
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon Bedrock
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) AMQP
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.85%) NoSQL
2 31 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.07%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.18%) MySQL
6 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.16%) Redis
7 4 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.29%) DB2
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Flink
9 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 20 (5.78%) Claude Code
2 17 (4.91%) Cucumber
2 17 (4.91%) GitLab
3 15 (4.34%) TeamCity
4 11 (3.18%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.89%) Git
6 8 (2.31%) JUnit
7 7 (2.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.45%) JIRA
8 5 (1.45%) Maven
9 3 (0.87%) JMeter
9 3 (0.87%) Mockito
10 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.58%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.29%) Appium
11 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 79 (22.83%) Finance
2 35 (10.12%) Banking
3 23 (6.65%) Front Office
3 23 (6.65%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.91%) Financial Institution
4 17 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (4.91%) Social Skills
5 16 (4.62%) Retail
6 15 (4.34%) Law
7 11 (3.18%) Back Office
8 9 (2.60%) Tech for Good
9 8 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.02%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.73%) Marketing
12 5 (1.45%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Advertising
13 1 (0.29%) Aviation
13 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (33.53%) Spring
2 108 (31.21%) Spring Boot
3 49 (14.16%) Kafka
4 48 (13.87%) React
5 29 (8.38%) REST
6 25 (7.23%) Node.js
7 23 (6.65%) RESTful
8 17 (4.91%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.18%) GraphQL
9 11 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (2.31%) Akka
10 8 (2.31%) Hibernate
10 8 (2.31%) HTML
10 8 (2.31%) J2EE
10 8 (2.31%) JSON
10 8 (2.31%) Redux
11 7 (2.02%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.02%) Playwright
11 7 (2.02%) Web Services
11 7 (2.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.76%) Fixed Income
3 13 (3.76%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.47%) e-Learning
5 9 (2.60%) Blog
5 9 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.73%) NHS
7 5 (1.45%) Derivative
7 5 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Equities
9 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.29%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.29%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (58.38%) Software Engineering
2 95 (27.46%) Microservices
3 86 (24.86%) Agile
3 86 (24.86%) Test Automation
4 81 (23.41%) CI/CD
5 80 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (17.63%) Mentoring
7 41 (11.85%) BDD
8 40 (11.56%) DevOps
9 35 (10.12%) AI
9 35 (10.12%) TDD
10 34 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (8.96%) Event-Driven
12 30 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (8.38%) Clean Code
13 29 (8.38%) Fintech
14 27 (7.80%) Architectural Patterns
14 27 (7.80%) Coaching
15 25 (7.23%) Continuous Deployment
16 24 (6.94%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 346 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (18.21%) SQL
3 38 (10.98%) Python
4 27 (7.80%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.65%) Kotlin
7 15 (4.34%) Go
8 4 (1.16%) C#
9 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (9.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.20%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (2.89%) Degree
6 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.02%) QA
2 4 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (12.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (19.36%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.54%) Terraform
3 19 (5.49%) Grafana
4 4 (1.16%) Packer
4 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.87%) Ansible
5 3 (0.87%) Kibana
6 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (1.16%) Oracle
1 4 (1.16%) Splunk
2 3 (0.87%) Adobe
2 3 (0.87%) Dynatrace
3 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
3 2 (0.58%) Google
3 2 (0.58%) IBM
3 2 (0.58%) Palantir
3 2 (0.58%) Solace
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.29%) OpenAI