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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 307 366
Rank change year-on-year -79 +59 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 432 414 483
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.95% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.05% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 310 253 385
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £121,375 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +11.76%

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 90,453 39,536 69,382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.48% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 63,754 23,915 46,044
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 £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 25 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 25 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 -62 246 £90,000 -18.18% 125
North of England +30 120 £70,000 +7.69% 37
North West +30 77 £80,000 +23.08% 21
South West -95 29 £60,000 +9.09% 25
South East -33 26 £90,000 +28.57% 9
North East -34 24 £24,000 -63.08% 7
Midlands -31 20 £60,000 - 16
Yorkshire -27 19 £80,000 +158.06% 9
West Midlands -39 15 £85,000 +41.67% 10
East Midlands -21 5 £60,000 +150.00% 6
East of England -25 1 £72,500 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 432 (100.00%) Java
2 187 (43.29%) Software Engineering
3 158 (36.57%) Spring
4 157 (36.34%) AWS
5 136 (31.48%) Spring Boot
6 125 (28.94%) Microservices
7 114 (26.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 112 (25.93%) CI/CD
9 110 (25.46%) Agile
10 104 (24.07%) Test Automation
11 85 (19.68%) Kafka
12 77 (17.82%) Event-Driven
13 73 (16.90%) Mentoring
14 70 (16.20%) SQL
15 63 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (14.12%) Kubernetes
16 61 (14.12%) Python
17 59 (13.66%) AI
18 57 (13.19%) NoSQL
19 54 (12.50%) Security Cleared
20 51 (11.81%) DevOps
21 49 (11.34%) BDD
22 43 (9.95%) GitLab
22 43 (9.95%) SC Cleared
23 42 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
23 42 (9.72%) CQRS
24 40 (9.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
24 40 (9.26%) React
25 39 (9.03%) Cucumber
25 39 (9.03%) Docker

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 (1.62%) Camunda
2 4 (0.93%) Confluence
3 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.69%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.46%) JBoss
4 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 157 (36.34%) AWS
2 42 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 37 (8.56%) Azure
4 27 (6.25%) GCP
5 20 (4.63%) SaaS
5 20 (4.63%) Serverless
6 17 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (3.47%) Anthropic Claude
8 10 (2.31%) GitHub
9 8 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.39%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.16%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.93%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.39%) DMARC
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) Modbus
2 1 (0.23%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.19%) NoSQL
2 17 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.01%) Redis
6 6 (1.39%) MySQL
6 6 (1.39%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.69%) KDB
8 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.46%) Db2
8 2 (0.46%) Power BI
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.23%) Flink
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (9.95%) GitLab
2 39 (9.03%) Cucumber
3 19 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.70%) Claude Code
5 14 (3.24%) Git
5 14 (3.24%) Selenium
6 9 (2.08%) JUnit
7 8 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.62%) JIRA
9 6 (1.39%) Mockito
10 4 (0.93%) JMeter
11 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.69%) Maven
12 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.46%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.46%) Mocha
12 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.23%) Gradle
General
1 90 (20.83%) Finance
2 47 (10.88%) Banking
3 35 (8.10%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.86%) Front Office
5 20 (4.63%) Financial Institution
5 20 (4.63%) Health Technology
6 18 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.01%) Retail
8 12 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.31%) Law
9 10 (2.31%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.93%) Back Office
12 4 (0.93%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
13 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.46%) Games
14 2 (0.46%) iGaming
15 1 (0.23%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (36.57%) Spring
2 136 (31.48%) Spring Boot
3 85 (19.68%) Kafka
4 40 (9.26%) React
5 39 (9.03%) REST
6 27 (6.25%) RESTful
7 26 (6.02%) Terraform
8 21 (4.86%) AngularJS
9 19 (4.40%) Node.js
10 13 (3.01%) Vue
11 11 (2.55%) HTML
11 11 (2.55%) Playwright
11 11 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.85%) Hibernate
12 8 (1.85%) YAML
13 7 (1.62%) Akka
13 7 (1.62%) OAuth
13 7 (1.62%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.39%) GraphQL
14 6 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 93 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 77 (17.82%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (7.87%) e-Learning
3 34 (7.87%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.93%) Blog
10 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.93%) Equities
11 3 (0.69%) Clustering
11 3 (0.69%) NHS
11 3 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (43.29%) Software Engineering
2 125 (28.94%) Microservices
3 114 (26.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 112 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 110 (25.46%) Agile
6 104 (24.07%) Test Automation
7 77 (17.82%) Event-Driven
8 73 (16.90%) Mentoring
9 63 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 59 (13.66%) AI
11 51 (11.81%) DevOps
12 49 (11.34%) BDD
13 42 (9.72%) CQRS
14 40 (9.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 38 (8.80%) Architectural Patterns
16 36 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (7.87%) Performance Testing
18 31 (7.18%) Containerisation
19 29 (6.71%) Observability
20 27 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 432 (100.00%) Java
2 70 (16.20%) SQL
3 61 (14.12%) Python
4 35 (8.10%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.86%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.70%) Go
8 13 (3.01%) C++
9 6 (1.39%) Rust
10 5 (1.16%) C#
10 5 (1.16%) Scala
11 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
13 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.87%) AWS Certification
3 34 (7.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (3.94%) Degree
5 15 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) OCP
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.24%) QA
2 5 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.93%) GDPR
4 3 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 39 (9.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.55%) Grafana
3 4 (0.93%) Kibana
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.46%) Packer
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.08%) Palantir
2 8 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.62%) Google
4 6 (1.39%) SendGrid
5 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.16%) Splunk
6 4 (0.93%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.93%) IBM
6 4 (0.93%) Oracle
7 3 (0.69%) Adobe
7 3 (0.69%) Revolut
8 2 (0.46%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.46%) Solace
9 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.23%) Databricks
9 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.23%) Sybase
9 1 (0.23%) Wonderware