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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 305 356
Rank change year-on-year -57 +51 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 458 404 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.93% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.02% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 331 247 375
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £74,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +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 91,352 39,429 67,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.48% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64,592 23,886 43,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 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 3 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 -48 252 £90,000 -18.18% 264
North of England +50 131 £70,000 +7.69% 60
North West +38 80 £77,500 +19.23% 35
South West -97 34 £60,000 +9.09% 42
North East -33 29 £45,000 -30.77% 5
South East -28 25 £90,000 +28.57% 16
Midlands -38 24 £77,500 +29.17% 25
Yorkshire -33 22 £80,000 +158.06% 20
West Midlands -30 18 £85,000 +41.67% 16
East Midlands -17 6 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -37 1 £72,500 - 5
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 458 (100.00%) Java
2 194 (42.36%) Software Engineering
3 162 (35.37%) Spring
4 160 (34.93%) AWS
5 139 (30.35%) Spring Boot
6 129 (28.17%) Microservices
7 118 (25.76%) CI/CD
7 118 (25.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (25.11%) Agile
9 106 (23.14%) Test Automation
10 85 (18.56%) Kafka
11 79 (17.25%) Event-Driven
12 73 (15.94%) Mentoring
13 71 (15.50%) SQL
14 65 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 61 (13.32%) Kubernetes
16 60 (13.10%) NoSQL
16 60 (13.10%) Python
17 57 (12.45%) AI
18 55 (12.01%) Security Cleared
19 52 (11.35%) DevOps
20 51 (11.14%) BDD
21 46 (10.04%) GitLab
22 44 (9.61%) AWS CloudFormation
22 44 (9.61%) CQRS
22 44 (9.61%) SC Cleared
23 42 (9.17%) Docker
24 41 (8.95%) Cucumber
24 41 (8.95%) REST
25 40 (8.73%) Azure

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 (1.53%) Camunda
2 4 (0.87%) Confluence
3 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.44%) JBoss
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 160 (34.93%) AWS
2 44 (9.61%) AWS CloudFormation
3 40 (8.73%) Azure
4 28 (6.11%) GCP
5 20 (4.37%) Serverless
6 18 (3.93%) SaaS
7 17 (3.71%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.40%) GitHub
10 8 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.31%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.09%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.31%) DMARC
2 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.22%) Modbus
2 1 (0.22%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (13.10%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.71%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.84%) Redis
6 6 (1.31%) MySQL
6 6 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.66%) KDB
7 3 (0.66%) Power BI
8 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.44%) Db2
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.22%) Flink
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (10.04%) GitLab
2 41 (8.95%) Cucumber
3 21 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.49%) Git
5 13 (2.84%) Claude Code
5 13 (2.84%) Selenium
6 9 (1.97%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.75%) JUnit
8 7 (1.53%) JIRA
9 6 (1.31%) Mockito
10 4 (0.87%) JMeter
11 3 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.44%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.44%) Maven
12 2 (0.44%) Mocha
12 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 88 (19.21%) Finance
2 52 (11.35%) Banking
3 34 (7.42%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.59%) Financial Institution
5 19 (4.15%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.93%) Front Office
6 18 (3.93%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.06%) Retail
8 12 (2.62%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.62%) Law
9 10 (2.18%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Back Office
12 4 (0.87%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
14 2 (0.44%) Aviation
14 2 (0.44%) iGaming
15 1 (0.22%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (35.37%) Spring
2 139 (30.35%) Spring Boot
3 85 (18.56%) Kafka
4 41 (8.95%) REST
5 39 (8.52%) React
6 28 (6.11%) RESTful
7 27 (5.90%) Terraform
8 21 (4.59%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.71%) Node.js
10 13 (2.84%) Vue
11 12 (2.62%) HTML
11 12 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (2.40%) Playwright
13 9 (1.97%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.75%) YAML
15 7 (1.53%) Akka
15 7 (1.53%) CSS
15 7 (1.53%) OAuth
15 7 (1.53%) OAuth2
16 6 (1.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 97 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 80 (17.47%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (7.86%) e-Learning
3 36 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 24 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.97%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.09%) Blog
9 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.87%) Equities
11 3 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.66%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (42.36%) Software Engineering
2 129 (28.17%) Microservices
3 118 (25.76%) CI/CD
3 118 (25.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 115 (25.11%) Agile
5 106 (23.14%) Test Automation
6 79 (17.25%) Event-Driven
7 73 (15.94%) Mentoring
8 65 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (12.45%) AI
10 52 (11.35%) DevOps
11 51 (11.14%) BDD
12 44 (9.61%) CQRS
13 40 (8.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 39 (8.52%) Architectural Patterns
15 37 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (7.86%) Performance Testing
17 31 (6.77%) Containerisation
18 29 (6.33%) Observability
18 29 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 458 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (15.50%) SQL
3 60 (13.10%) Python
4 32 (6.99%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.46%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.80%) Kotlin
7 15 (3.28%) C++
8 14 (3.06%) Go
9 6 (1.31%) Rust
10 5 (1.09%) C#
10 5 (1.09%) Scala
11 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 44 (9.61%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.86%) AWS Certification
3 36 (7.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (3.93%) Degree
5 15 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) OCP
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.06%) QA
2 6 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.87%) GDPR
4 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.44%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (9.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.40%) Grafana
3 4 (0.87%) Kibana
4 3 (0.66%) Ansible
5 2 (0.44%) Argo
5 2 (0.44%) Packer
5 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (2.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.97%) Palantir
3 7 (1.53%) Google
4 6 (1.31%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.09%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.09%) Oracle
5 5 (1.09%) Splunk
6 4 (0.87%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.87%) IBM
7 3 (0.66%) Adobe
7 3 (0.66%) OutSystems
7 3 (0.66%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.66%) Revolut
8 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.22%) Databricks
9 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.22%) Solace
9 1 (0.22%) Sybase
9 1 (0.22%) Wonderware