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 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 363 459
Rank change year-on-year -31 +96 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 307 270 394
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.73% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.82% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 219 224 345
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
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 £135,625 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £147,500 £138,500
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 69,656 32,932 76,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 89.54% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 45,762 21,265 59,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 14 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 14 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 -6 188 £90,000 -18.18% 44
North of England -17 66 £62,500 +4.17% 5
North West -8 42 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East -40 20 £82,500 +17.86% 14
Midlands -25 17 £50,000 -14.89% 2
South West -65 16 £60,000 -45.45% 7
North East -21 14 £24,000 -60.00% 3
West Midlands -10 11 £50,000 -14.89% 1
Yorkshire -57 10 £55,000 +57.14%
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
East of England -30 1 £75,000 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 191 (62.21%) Software Engineering
3 132 (43.00%) AWS
4 102 (33.22%) Spring
5 90 (29.32%) Spring Boot
6 86 (28.01%) Microservices
7 84 (27.36%) Test Automation
8 82 (26.71%) CI/CD
9 80 (26.06%) Agile
10 72 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 62 (20.20%) Kubernetes
12 59 (19.22%) Mentoring
13 57 (18.57%) SQL
14 47 (15.31%) React
15 41 (13.36%) Kafka
16 40 (13.03%) DevOps
17 37 (12.05%) NoSQL
18 36 (11.73%) Terraform
19 34 (11.07%) Security Cleared
20 33 (10.75%) Docker
21 32 (10.42%) AI
21 32 (10.42%) BDD
21 32 (10.42%) SaaS
22 30 (9.77%) Azure
22 30 (9.77%) Clean Code
22 30 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
23 29 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
23 29 (9.45%) TDD
24 28 (9.12%) Continuous Deployment
24 28 (9.12%) SC Cleared

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 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.65%) Camunda
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 132 (43.00%) AWS
2 32 (10.42%) SaaS
3 30 (9.77%) Azure
4 26 (8.47%) GCP
5 21 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (4.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.93%) Serverless
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.30%) dbt
11 4 (1.30%) GitHub
11 4 (1.30%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.65%) Vercel
14 1 (0.33%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 1 (0.33%) LangSmith
14 1 (0.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.98%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.05%) NoSQL
2 29 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.23%) MySQL
5 10 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.63%) Redis
7 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.33%) DB2
10 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.33%) Flink
10 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (5.86%) TeamCity
2 16 (5.21%) Claude Code
3 13 (4.23%) Cucumber
3 13 (4.23%) GitLab
4 11 (3.58%) Git
5 7 (2.28%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.28%) Selenium
6 4 (1.30%) JIRA
6 4 (1.30%) JUnit
6 4 (1.30%) Maven
7 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.65%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.33%) Appium
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.33%) Gradle
8 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 74 (24.10%) Finance
2 36 (11.73%) Banking
3 21 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (6.84%) Public Sector
3 21 (6.84%) Social Skills
4 20 (6.51%) Financial Institution
5 19 (6.19%) Retail
6 18 (5.86%) Law
7 15 (4.89%) Front Office
8 14 (4.56%) Back Office
9 7 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.28%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.95%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.63%) Games
11 5 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.30%) Marketing
13 3 (0.98%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Automotive
14 1 (0.33%) Aviation
14 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (33.22%) Spring
2 90 (29.32%) Spring Boot
3 47 (15.31%) React
4 41 (13.36%) Kafka
5 25 (8.14%) Node.js
6 22 (7.17%) REST
7 21 (6.84%) RESTful
8 11 (3.58%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (2.93%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.61%) Redux
11 7 (2.28%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.28%) J2EE
11 7 (2.28%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (2.28%) Playwright
12 5 (1.63%) CSS
12 5 (1.63%) HTML
12 5 (1.63%) JSON
12 5 (1.63%) SOAP
12 5 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.20%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.26%) Blog
3 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.26%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.61%) e-Learning
4 8 (2.61%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.28%) NHS
6 5 (1.63%) Derivative
6 5 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.33%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.33%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (62.21%) Software Engineering
2 86 (28.01%) Microservices
3 84 (27.36%) Test Automation
4 82 (26.71%) CI/CD
5 80 (26.06%) Agile
6 72 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 59 (19.22%) Mentoring
8 40 (13.03%) DevOps
9 32 (10.42%) AI
9 32 (10.42%) BDD
10 30 (9.77%) Clean Code
10 30 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (9.45%) TDD
12 28 (9.12%) Continuous Deployment
13 27 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (8.47%) Event-Driven
14 26 (8.47%) Fintech
15 25 (8.14%) Coaching
16 23 (7.49%) Deployment Automation
16 23 (7.49%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (18.57%) SQL
3 27 (8.79%) Python
4 26 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.49%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.51%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.23%) Go
8 4 (1.30%) C#
9 2 (0.65%) Groovy
10 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.54%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.58%) Degree
5 8 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.95%) QA
2 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (10.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.73%) Terraform
3 23 (7.49%) Grafana
4 4 (1.30%) Packer
4 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.65%) Ansible
5 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (1.63%) Oracle
2 2 (0.65%) AppDynamics
2 2 (0.65%) IBM
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe
3 1 (0.33%) Google
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.33%) Solace
3 1 (0.33%) Splunk