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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 286 401
Rank change year-on-year -79 +115 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 411 448 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.03% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.14% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 296 284 398
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 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +3.07%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -

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 83,664 39,191 77,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,936 23,658 55,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,726
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,574 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,650
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 -51 228 £90,000 -18.18% 101
North of England +47 114 £70,000 +7.69% 10
North West +37 73 £85,000 +30.77% 9
South East -26 27 £90,000 +28.57% 16
South West -96 26 £60,000 - 4
Yorkshire -22 21 £80,000 +128.57% 1
North East -31 20 £24,000 -63.08%
Midlands -34 20 £60,000 - 13
West Midlands -25 14 £62,500 +4.17% 9
East Midlands -19 5 £60,000 +150.00% 4
East of England -12 2 £73,750 - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 411 (100.00%) Java
2 202 (49.15%) Software Engineering
3 168 (40.88%) AWS
4 159 (38.69%) Spring
5 137 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 130 (31.63%) Microservices
7 118 (28.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 117 (28.47%) Test Automation
9 114 (27.74%) Agile
10 111 (27.01%) CI/CD
11 80 (19.46%) Mentoring
11 80 (19.46%) SQL
12 76 (18.49%) Kafka
13 71 (17.27%) Kubernetes
14 60 (14.60%) NoSQL
15 59 (14.36%) Event-Driven
16 58 (14.11%) AI
17 57 (13.87%) BDD
17 57 (13.87%) Python
18 55 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
19 51 (12.41%) DevOps
20 47 (11.44%) React
21 44 (10.71%) Docker
22 40 (9.73%) Azure
23 39 (9.49%) TypeScript
24 37 (9.00%) Architectural Patterns
24 37 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
24 37 (9.00%) GitLab
25 36 (8.76%) Coaching
25 36 (8.76%) Security Cleared

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 5 (1.22%) Camunda
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.97%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 168 (40.88%) AWS
2 40 (9.73%) Azure
3 33 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.57%) GCP
5 24 (5.84%) Serverless
6 23 (5.60%) SaaS
7 22 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (4.38%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.68%) GitHub
10 8 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.46%) Azure Storage
13 5 (1.22%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.97%) dbt
14 4 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.46%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) AMQP
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.60%) NoSQL
2 30 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.41%) MySQL
4 14 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.19%) Redis
6 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.49%) Db2
7 2 (0.49%) KDB
7 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Flink
Development Applications
1 37 (9.00%) GitLab
2 33 (8.03%) Cucumber
3 19 (4.62%) Claude Code
4 17 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.16%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.92%) Git
7 11 (2.68%) Selenium
8 8 (1.95%) JIRA
8 8 (1.95%) JUnit
9 5 (1.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.97%) JMeter
10 4 (0.97%) Mockito
11 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.49%) Mocha
11 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.24%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 91 (22.14%) Finance
2 39 (9.49%) Banking
3 27 (6.57%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.33%) Front Office
5 21 (5.11%) Financial Institution
5 21 (5.11%) Social Skills
6 18 (4.38%) Health Technology
7 17 (4.14%) Retail
8 13 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.16%) Law
9 11 (2.68%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.19%) Back Office
11 8 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.95%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.97%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.97%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Games
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (38.69%) Spring
2 137 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 76 (18.49%) Kafka
4 47 (11.44%) React
5 34 (8.27%) REST
6 28 (6.81%) RESTful
7 26 (6.33%) Node.js
8 20 (4.87%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.16%) Vue
10 12 (2.92%) GraphQL
10 12 (2.92%) HTML
11 9 (2.19%) Playwright
12 8 (1.95%) Akka
12 8 (1.95%) OAuth
12 8 (1.95%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.95%) Redux
12 8 (1.95%) YAML
13 7 (1.70%) CSS
13 7 (1.70%) JSON
13 7 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 104 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 66 (16.06%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.06%) Public Cloud
4 28 (6.81%) e-Learning
5 19 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.89%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.97%) Blog
11 3 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.73%) Equities
11 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.73%) NHS
12 2 (0.49%) Derivative
12 2 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (49.15%) Software Engineering
2 130 (31.63%) Microservices
3 118 (28.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 117 (28.47%) Test Automation
5 114 (27.74%) Agile
6 111 (27.01%) CI/CD
7 80 (19.46%) Mentoring
8 59 (14.36%) Event-Driven
9 58 (14.11%) AI
10 57 (13.87%) BDD
11 55 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (12.41%) DevOps
13 37 (9.00%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (8.76%) Coaching
15 35 (8.52%) CQRS
15 35 (8.52%) TDD
16 32 (7.79%) Containerisation
17 28 (6.81%) Performance Testing
18 27 (6.57%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 411 (100.00%) Java
2 80 (19.46%) SQL
3 57 (13.87%) Python
4 39 (9.49%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.62%) Go
6 19 (4.62%) Kotlin
7 11 (2.68%) C++
8 6 (1.46%) Rust
9 5 (1.22%) C#
10 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.73%) Scala
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (8.76%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.81%) AWS Certification
3 28 (6.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.68%) Degree
6 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.65%) QA
2 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.03%) Terraform
3 18 (4.38%) Grafana
4 5 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.97%) Kibana
5 4 (0.97%) Packer
6 3 (0.73%) Ansible
7 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.19%) Palantir
2 6 (1.46%) SendGrid
3 5 (1.22%) Oracle
3 5 (1.22%) Splunk
4 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.97%) Google
5 3 (0.73%) Adobe
6 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.49%) IBM
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.24%) Revolut
7 1 (0.24%) Sybase
7 1 (0.24%) Wonderware