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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 303 354
Rank change year-on-year -41 +51 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 501 401 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.93% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.03% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 361 245 355
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 £115,000 - £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 94,011 39,021 65,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 90.42% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,359 23,411 39,739
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 16 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 16 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 -43 265 £88,750 -19.32% 378
North of England +49 150 £75,000 +7.14% 99
North West +52 93 £75,000 -14.77% 59
South West -86 40 £60,000 +9.09% 67
North East -38 30 £45,000 -30.77% 13
Midlands -23 28 £70,000 +16.67% 29
Yorkshire -9 27 £80,000 +14.29% 27
South East -43 26 £90,000 +28.57% 28
West Midlands -37 21 £85,000 +41.67% 20
East Midlands -26 7 £60,000 +150.00% 9
East of England -36 1 £72,500 -9.38% 5
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 501 (100.00%) Java
2 212 (42.32%) Software Engineering
3 167 (33.33%) AWS
3 167 (33.33%) Spring
4 145 (28.94%) Spring Boot
5 132 (26.35%) Microservices
6 128 (25.55%) Agile
6 128 (25.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 125 (24.95%) CI/CD
8 110 (21.96%) Test Automation
9 90 (17.96%) Kafka
10 85 (16.97%) Event-Driven
11 76 (15.17%) Mentoring
12 74 (14.77%) SQL
13 69 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 65 (12.97%) Kubernetes
15 63 (12.57%) NoSQL
16 61 (12.18%) Python
17 56 (11.18%) AI
18 55 (10.98%) BDD
19 53 (10.58%) DevOps
19 53 (10.58%) Security Cleared
20 51 (10.18%) GitLab
21 49 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
22 47 (9.38%) CQRS
23 44 (8.78%) Cucumber
24 43 (8.58%) Docker
25 42 (8.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
25 42 (8.38%) SC Cleared
26 41 (8.18%) 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 (1.20%) Camunda
2 4 (0.80%) Confluence
3 3 (0.60%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.40%) JBoss
4 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 167 (33.33%) AWS
2 49 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 38 (7.58%) Azure
4 31 (6.19%) GCP
5 22 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (4.39%) Serverless
6 18 (3.59%) SaaS
7 11 (2.20%) GitHub
8 10 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.20%) Azure Storage
10 6 (1.20%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) DMARC
2 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.20%) Modbus
2 1 (0.20%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.57%) NoSQL
2 23 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.79%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.59%) Redis
6 6 (1.20%) MySQL
6 6 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.60%) KDB
7 3 (0.60%) Power BI
8 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.40%) Db2
8 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.20%) Flink
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (10.18%) GitLab
2 44 (8.78%) Cucumber
3 22 (4.39%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.19%) Git
5 13 (2.59%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.40%) Selenium
7 10 (2.00%) Claude Code
8 7 (1.40%) JIRA
8 7 (1.40%) JUnit
9 6 (1.20%) Mockito
10 4 (0.80%) JMeter
11 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.60%) Maven
11 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.40%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.40%) Mocha
13 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 93 (18.56%) Finance
2 68 (13.57%) Banking
3 36 (7.19%) Social Skills
4 23 (4.59%) Financial Institution
5 19 (3.79%) Health Technology
6 18 (3.59%) Front Office
6 18 (3.59%) Retail
7 16 (3.19%) Law
7 16 (3.19%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.00%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.80%) Back Office
12 4 (0.80%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.60%) iGaming
13 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.60%) Marketing
14 2 (0.40%) Aviation
15 1 (0.20%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (33.33%) Spring
2 145 (28.94%) Spring Boot
3 90 (17.96%) Kafka
4 41 (8.18%) REST
5 38 (7.58%) React
6 31 (6.19%) Terraform
7 28 (5.59%) RESTful
8 22 (4.39%) AngularJS
9 18 (3.59%) Node.js
10 13 (2.59%) Vue
11 12 (2.40%) HTML
12 11 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (2.00%) Hibernate
14 9 (1.80%) Playwright
15 8 (1.60%) YAML
16 7 (1.40%) Akka
16 7 (1.40%) CSS
16 7 (1.40%) OAuth
16 7 (1.40%) OAuth2
17 6 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 104 (20.76%) Cloud Native
2 84 (16.77%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.98%) e-Learning
3 40 (7.98%) Public Cloud
4 26 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.80%) Blog
5 9 (1.80%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.80%) Clustering
9 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.80%) Equities
9 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (42.32%) Software Engineering
2 132 (26.35%) Microservices
3 128 (25.55%) Agile
3 128 (25.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 125 (24.95%) CI/CD
5 110 (21.96%) Test Automation
6 85 (16.97%) Event-Driven
7 76 (15.17%) Mentoring
8 69 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (11.18%) AI
10 55 (10.98%) BDD
11 53 (10.58%) DevOps
12 47 (9.38%) CQRS
13 42 (8.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 40 (7.98%) Architectural Patterns
14 40 (7.98%) Performance Testing
15 36 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (6.59%) Observability
17 30 (5.99%) Containerisation
18 29 (5.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 501 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (14.77%) SQL
3 61 (12.18%) Python
4 32 (6.39%) TypeScript
5 25 (4.99%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.59%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.19%) C++
8 15 (2.99%) Go
9 6 (1.20%) Rust
9 6 (1.20%) Scala
10 5 (1.00%) C#
11 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.60%) Groovy
13 1 (0.20%) Bash
13 1 (0.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 42 (8.38%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.18%) AWS Certification
4 40 (7.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (3.59%) Degree
6 12 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.20%) OCP
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.79%) QA
2 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.00%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.40%) WCAG
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (8.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (12.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.99%) Grafana
3 4 (0.80%) Kibana
4 3 (0.60%) Ansible
5 2 (0.40%) Argo
5 2 (0.40%) Packer
5 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.20%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (2.20%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.80%) Palantir
3 7 (1.40%) Google
4 6 (1.20%) AppDynamics
4 6 (1.20%) Oracle
4 6 (1.20%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.00%) Splunk
6 4 (0.80%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.80%) IBM
6 4 (0.80%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.80%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Revolut
8 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.20%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.20%) Databricks
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.20%) Solace
9 1 (0.20%) Sybase
9 1 (0.20%) Wonderware