Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 315 344
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 598 357 468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.92% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 431 212 338
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +7.50% +29.03%

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 96,937 38,621 60,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 90.71% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,736 23,236 34,475
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,160 £35,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -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 October 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 October 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 -39 287 £86,250 -21.59% 17
North of England +86 200 £75,000 +3.45% 17
North West +66 128 £75,000 -11.76% 11
South West -62 48 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -4 36 £78,500 +8.28% 2
North East -39 36 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Midlands -31 32 £70,000 +16.67% 6
South East -39 29 £90,000 +28.57% 4
West Midlands -33 25 £70,000 +12.00% 6
East Midlands -33 7 £60,000 +87.50%
East of England -46 4 £85,000 +6.25%
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 598 (100.00%) Java
2 269 (44.98%) Software Engineering
3 188 (31.44%) AWS
4 169 (28.26%) Spring
5 160 (26.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 150 (25.08%) Agile
7 147 (24.58%) Spring Boot
8 141 (23.58%) Microservices
9 140 (23.41%) CI/CD
10 111 (18.56%) Test Automation
11 93 (15.55%) Kafka
12 90 (15.05%) Event-Driven
13 79 (13.21%) Mentoring
14 76 (12.71%) SQL
15 73 (12.21%) Python
16 70 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
17 69 (11.54%) AI
17 69 (11.54%) Kubernetes
18 65 (10.87%) NoSQL
19 59 (9.87%) BDD
19 59 (9.87%) GitLab
20 58 (9.70%) DevOps
21 57 (9.53%) Security Cleared
22 53 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
22 53 (8.86%) Azure
23 50 (8.36%) CQRS
24 47 (7.86%) AWS Certification
24 47 (7.86%) Cucumber
25 46 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
25 46 (7.69%) Performance Testing

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 8 (1.34%) WebLogic
2 6 (1.00%) Camunda
3 4 (0.67%) Tomcat
3 4 (0.67%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.50%) Confluence
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 188 (31.44%) AWS
2 53 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 53 (8.86%) Azure
3 32 (5.35%) GCP
4 25 (4.18%) GitHub
5 22 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (3.18%) Serverless
7 16 (2.68%) SaaS
8 15 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (1.34%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.17%) ChatGPT
11 7 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) DMARC
2 2 (0.33%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.17%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.87%) NoSQL
2 30 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.84%) Redis
6 7 (1.17%) MySQL
7 4 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.50%) KDB
8 3 (0.50%) Power BI
9 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.17%) Db2
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 59 (9.87%) GitLab
2 47 (7.86%) Cucumber
3 22 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.01%) Git
5 17 (2.84%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.34%) JUnit
7 13 (2.17%) Claude Code
7 13 (2.17%) Mockito
8 9 (1.51%) Selenium
9 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.67%) JIRA
9 4 (0.67%) JMeter
10 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.33%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.33%) Maven
11 2 (0.33%) Mocha
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (17.39%) Finance
2 89 (14.88%) Banking
3 46 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 26 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 22 (3.68%) Front Office
6 20 (3.34%) Retail
7 19 (3.18%) Health Technology
8 18 (3.01%) Law
9 17 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (1.67%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.67%) Advertising
13 4 (0.67%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.50%) Back Office
14 3 (0.50%) iGaming
14 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.33%) Games
15 2 (0.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (28.26%) Spring
2 147 (24.58%) Spring Boot
3 93 (15.55%) Kafka
4 41 (6.86%) REST
5 32 (5.35%) RESTful
5 32 (5.35%) Terraform
6 31 (5.18%) React
7 21 (3.51%) Node.js
8 14 (2.34%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.17%) HTML
10 11 (1.84%) Hibernate
10 11 (1.84%) Vue
11 9 (1.51%) OAuth
11 9 (1.51%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.34%) CSS
12 8 (1.34%) YAML
13 7 (1.17%) Playwright
14 6 (1.00%) Jest
14 6 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 120 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 87 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 46 (7.69%) e-Learning
5 32 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.68%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.01%) Blog
8 11 (1.84%) Equities
9 10 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.17%) Derivative
11 7 (1.17%) Equity Derivative
11 7 (1.17%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.00%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.51%) Linux
2 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (44.98%) Software Engineering
2 160 (26.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 150 (25.08%) Agile
4 141 (23.58%) Microservices
5 140 (23.41%) CI/CD
6 111 (18.56%) Test Automation
7 90 (15.05%) Event-Driven
8 79 (13.21%) Mentoring
9 70 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (11.54%) AI
11 59 (9.87%) BDD
12 58 (9.70%) DevOps
13 50 (8.36%) CQRS
14 46 (7.69%) Performance Testing
15 44 (7.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 37 (6.19%) SDLC
17 36 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (5.85%) Collaborative Culture
18 35 (5.85%) TDD
19 32 (5.35%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 598 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (12.71%) SQL
3 73 (12.21%) Python
4 37 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 30 (5.02%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.18%) Kotlin
7 22 (3.68%) C++
8 16 (2.68%) Go
9 11 (1.84%) Scala
10 6 (1.00%) Rust
11 5 (0.84%) C#
12 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.17%) Groovy
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (9.53%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.86%) AWS Certification
3 46 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 46 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.84%) Degree
5 9 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.33%) PhD
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.17%) OCP
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.01%) QA
2 7 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.00%) GDPR
4 5 (0.84%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.50%) WCAG
6 2 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (7.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.84%) Grafana
3 4 (0.67%) Argo
3 4 (0.67%) Kibana
4 3 (0.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.17%) MOM
Vendors
1 12 (2.01%) Oracle
2 10 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.51%) Palantir
4 8 (1.34%) SendGrid
5 5 (0.84%) AppDynamics
5 5 (0.84%) Google
5 5 (0.84%) Splunk
6 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.67%) OutSystems
6 4 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.50%) IBM
7 3 (0.50%) Refinitiv
7 3 (0.50%) Revolut
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe
8 2 (0.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.17%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.17%) Databricks
9 1 (0.17%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.17%) Sybase
9 1 (0.17%) Wonderware