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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 290 383
Rank change year-on-year -89 +93 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 424 437 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.00% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.10% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 305 272 374
10th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £69,375 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.82% +8.33%
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 88,511 39,569 69,008
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.62% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62,172 23,929 47,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 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 11 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 -60 244 £90,000 -18.18% 228
North of England +32 119 £70,000 +7.69% 30
North West +31 76 £80,000 +6.67% 22
South East -30 28 £90,000 +28.57% 14
North East -37 24 £24,000 -63.08% 3
South West -105 23 £60,000 +17.07% 19
Yorkshire -17 19 £80,000 +142.42% 5
Midlands -51 18 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -41 14 £62,500 +4.17% 18
East Midlands -23 3 £60,000 +150.00% 2
East of England -32 1 £72,500 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 424 (100.00%) Java
2 188 (44.34%) Software Engineering
3 166 (39.15%) AWS
4 160 (37.74%) Spring
5 140 (33.02%) Spring Boot
6 131 (30.90%) Microservices
7 117 (27.59%) Agile
7 117 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 111 (26.18%) Test Automation
9 108 (25.47%) CI/CD
10 85 (20.05%) Kafka
11 81 (19.10%) Mentoring
12 79 (18.63%) SQL
13 69 (16.27%) Event-Driven
14 66 (15.57%) Kubernetes
15 63 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 63 (14.86%) NoSQL
16 62 (14.62%) AI
16 62 (14.62%) Python
17 56 (13.21%) BDD
18 51 (12.03%) DevOps
19 48 (11.32%) Security Cleared
20 44 (10.38%) Azure
20 44 (10.38%) React
21 43 (10.14%) Docker
22 41 (9.67%) SC Cleared
23 40 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
23 40 (9.43%) GitLab
24 39 (9.20%) CQRS
24 39 (9.20%) TypeScript

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 (1.65%) Camunda
2 4 (0.94%) Confluence
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) JBoss
4 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 166 (39.15%) AWS
2 44 (10.38%) Azure
3 37 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (6.60%) GCP
5 22 (5.19%) Serverless
6 19 (4.48%) SaaS
7 17 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.54%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (2.36%) GitHub
10 7 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.42%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.94%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.42%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.86%) NoSQL
2 25 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.07%) MySQL
6 11 (2.59%) Redis
7 6 (1.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.71%) KDB
9 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.47%) Db2
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.24%) Flink
10 1 (0.24%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (9.43%) GitLab
2 36 (8.49%) Cucumber
3 18 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.77%) Claude Code
5 13 (3.07%) Git
5 13 (3.07%) Selenium
6 8 (1.89%) JUnit
6 8 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.65%) JIRA
8 5 (1.18%) Mockito
9 4 (0.94%) JMeter
9 4 (0.94%) Maven
10 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.47%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.47%) Mocha
11 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.24%) Gradle
12 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 94 (22.17%) Finance
2 42 (9.91%) Banking
3 33 (7.78%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.90%) Front Office
6 20 (4.72%) Financial Institution
6 20 (4.72%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.07%) Retail
8 12 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.83%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.59%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.89%) Law
11 5 (1.18%) Back Office
12 4 (0.94%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.94%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.47%) Games
15 1 (0.24%) Advertising
15 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (37.74%) Spring
2 140 (33.02%) Spring Boot
3 85 (20.05%) Kafka
4 44 (10.38%) React
5 36 (8.49%) REST
6 34 (8.02%) RESTful
7 22 (5.19%) Node.js
8 20 (4.72%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.07%) Vue
10 11 (2.59%) HTML
11 10 (2.36%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.36%) Playwright
12 9 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.89%) OAuth
13 8 (1.89%) OAuth2
13 8 (1.89%) YAML
14 7 (1.65%) Akka
15 6 (1.42%) CSS
15 6 (1.42%) Hibernate
15 6 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 102 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 72 (16.98%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.31%) e-Learning
3 31 (7.31%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.54%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.94%) Equities
10 4 (0.94%) NHS
11 3 (0.71%) Blog
11 3 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.71%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (44.34%) Software Engineering
2 131 (30.90%) Microservices
3 117 (27.59%) Agile
3 117 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 111 (26.18%) Test Automation
5 108 (25.47%) CI/CD
6 81 (19.10%) Mentoring
7 69 (16.27%) Event-Driven
8 63 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (14.62%) AI
10 56 (13.21%) BDD
11 51 (12.03%) DevOps
12 40 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (9.20%) CQRS
14 37 (8.73%) Architectural Patterns
15 35 (8.25%) Containerisation
15 35 (8.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 33 (7.78%) Coaching
17 31 (7.31%) Performance Testing
17 31 (7.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 424 (100.00%) Java
2 79 (18.63%) SQL
3 62 (14.62%) Python
4 39 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.95%) Kotlin
7 18 (4.25%) Go
8 13 (3.07%) C++
9 6 (1.42%) C#
9 6 (1.42%) Rust
10 5 (1.18%) Scala
11 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.67%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.31%) AWS Certification
3 31 (7.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (3.54%) Degree
4 15 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) OCP
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.54%) QA
2 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) PSD2
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (10.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.60%) Terraform
3 13 (3.07%) Grafana
4 5 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.94%) Kibana
6 3 (0.71%) Ansible
6 3 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
7 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (2.12%) Palantir
2 7 (1.65%) Google
3 6 (1.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.42%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.18%) Splunk
5 4 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.71%) Adobe
6 3 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.71%) IBM
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle
6 3 (0.71%) Revolut
7 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.47%) Solace
8 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.24%) Databricks
8 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) Sybase
8 1 (0.24%) Wonderware