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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 286 413
Rank change year-on-year -89 +127 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 404 442 514
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.02% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.13% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 288 280 434
10th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -2.35%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% -

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 82,582 39,134 83,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.30% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,054 23,578 61,195
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -74 223 £90,000 -18.18% 67
North of England +37 111 £70,000 +7.69% 18
North West +33 71 £85,000 +30.77% 9
South East -16 28 £90,000 +28.57% 23
South West -99 27 £60,000 -33.33% 10
Yorkshire -18 20 £80,000 +128.57% 7
Midlands -29 20 £60,000 - 12
North East -41 20 £24,000 -63.08% 2
West Midlands -32 14 £62,500 +4.17% 7
East Midlands -20 5 £60,000 +150.00% 5
East of England -22 2 £73,750 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 404 (100.00%) Java
2 207 (51.24%) Software Engineering
3 166 (41.09%) AWS
4 158 (39.11%) Spring
5 135 (33.42%) Spring Boot
6 127 (31.44%) Microservices
7 116 (28.71%) Test Automation
8 112 (27.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 111 (27.48%) Agile
10 109 (26.98%) CI/CD
11 79 (19.55%) Mentoring
12 77 (19.06%) SQL
13 72 (17.82%) Kafka
14 70 (17.33%) Kubernetes
15 57 (14.11%) AI
15 57 (14.11%) Python
16 56 (13.86%) Event-Driven
16 56 (13.86%) NoSQL
17 55 (13.61%) BDD
18 51 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
19 50 (12.38%) DevOps
20 46 (11.39%) React
21 42 (10.40%) Docker
22 38 (9.41%) Azure
23 37 (9.16%) Architectural Patterns
23 37 (9.16%) TypeScript
24 36 (8.91%) Coaching
25 35 (8.66%) GitLab
26 34 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
26 34 (8.42%) REST

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 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.99%) Camunda
1 4 (0.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 166 (41.09%) AWS
2 38 (9.41%) Azure
3 32 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.68%) GCP
5 24 (5.94%) Serverless
6 23 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (5.69%) SaaS
7 19 (4.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 10 (2.48%) GitHub
9 8 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.49%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.99%) dbt
13 4 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.49%) DMARC
2 1 (0.25%) AMQP
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Modbus
2 1 (0.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.86%) NoSQL
2 31 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.19%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.47%) MySQL
4 14 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.98%) Redis
6 6 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.50%) Db2
7 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) KDB
Development Applications
1 35 (8.66%) GitLab
2 32 (7.92%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.95%) Claude Code
4 15 (3.71%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.47%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.72%) Git
7 10 (2.48%) Selenium
8 8 (1.98%) JIRA
8 8 (1.98%) JUnit
9 5 (1.24%) Maven
10 4 (0.99%) JMeter
10 4 (0.99%) Mockito
11 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.50%) Mocha
11 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.25%) NetBeans
General
1 90 (22.28%) Finance
2 39 (9.65%) Banking
3 26 (6.44%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.19%) Front Office
5 20 (4.95%) Financial Institution
5 20 (4.95%) Social Skills
6 17 (4.21%) Health Technology
6 17 (4.21%) Retail
7 14 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.47%) Law
8 11 (2.72%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.23%) Back Office
10 7 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.73%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.99%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.99%) Marketing
12 3 (0.74%) Games
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (39.11%) Spring
2 135 (33.42%) Spring Boot
3 72 (17.82%) Kafka
4 46 (11.39%) React
5 34 (8.42%) REST
6 26 (6.44%) RESTful
7 25 (6.19%) Node.js
8 21 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.47%) Vue
10 12 (2.97%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.72%) HTML
12 8 (1.98%) Akka
12 8 (1.98%) OAuth
12 8 (1.98%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.98%) Playwright
12 8 (1.98%) Redux
12 8 (1.98%) YAML
13 7 (1.73%) JSON
13 7 (1.73%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.50%) Cloud Native
2 63 (15.59%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.93%) Public Cloud
4 27 (6.68%) e-Learning
5 19 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.71%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.24%) Blog
9 3 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.74%) Equities
9 3 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.50%) Derivative
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.50%) NHS
10 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.25%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (51.24%) Software Engineering
2 127 (31.44%) Microservices
3 116 (28.71%) Test Automation
4 112 (27.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 111 (27.48%) Agile
6 109 (26.98%) CI/CD
7 79 (19.55%) Mentoring
8 57 (14.11%) AI
9 56 (13.86%) Event-Driven
10 55 (13.61%) BDD
11 51 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 50 (12.38%) DevOps
13 37 (9.16%) Architectural Patterns
14 36 (8.91%) Coaching
15 34 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (8.42%) TDD
16 33 (8.17%) CQRS
17 31 (7.67%) Containerisation
18 29 (7.18%) Clean Code
19 27 (6.68%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 404 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (19.06%) SQL
3 57 (14.11%) Python
4 37 (9.16%) TypeScript
5 28 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.95%) Go
7 18 (4.46%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.72%) C++
9 6 (1.49%) Rust
10 4 (0.99%) C#
10 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) Groovy
11 2 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 27 (6.68%) AWS Certification
2 27 (6.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 26 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.71%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.72%) Degree
6 6 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.71%) QA
2 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (10.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.92%) Terraform
3 19 (4.70%) Grafana
4 5 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.99%) Kibana
5 4 (0.99%) Packer
6 3 (0.74%) Ansible
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.23%) Palantir
2 6 (1.49%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.24%) Oracle
3 5 (1.24%) Splunk
4 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.74%) Adobe
5 3 (0.74%) Google
6 2 (0.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.50%) IBM
6 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.50%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) Sybase
7 1 (0.25%) Wonderware