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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 296 355
Rank change year-on-year -79 +59 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 450 408 489
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.93% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.03% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 324 248 380
10th Percentile £46,500 £55,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,625 £67,500 £74,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £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 91,197 39,586 67,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 90.45% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64,443 24,001 43,893
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 £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 1 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 1 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 -42 252 £90,000 -18.18% 302
North of England +38 127 £70,000 +7.69% 61
North West +31 79 £80,000 +23.08% 37
South West -98 33 £60,000 +9.09% 39
North East -37 28 £45,000 -30.77% 7
South East -35 24 £90,000 +28.57% 18
Midlands -41 22 £72,500 +20.83% 26
Yorkshire -21 20 £80,000 +158.06% 17
West Midlands -25 16 £85,000 +41.67% 16
East Midlands -16 6 £60,000 +150.00% 10
East of England -23 1 £72,500 - 7
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 450 (100.00%) Java
2 192 (42.67%) Software Engineering
3 161 (35.78%) Spring
4 159 (35.33%) AWS
5 139 (30.89%) Spring Boot
6 128 (28.44%) Microservices
7 117 (26.00%) CI/CD
8 115 (25.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 114 (25.33%) Agile
10 107 (23.78%) Test Automation
11 84 (18.67%) Kafka
12 79 (17.56%) Event-Driven
13 74 (16.44%) Mentoring
14 72 (16.00%) SQL
15 65 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (13.56%) Kubernetes
17 60 (13.33%) NoSQL
18 59 (13.11%) Python
19 58 (12.89%) AI
20 55 (12.22%) Security Cleared
21 53 (11.78%) DevOps
22 51 (11.33%) BDD
23 46 (10.22%) GitLab
24 44 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
24 44 (9.78%) CQRS
24 44 (9.78%) SC Cleared
25 42 (9.33%) Docker
26 41 (9.11%) Cucumber
27 40 (8.89%) Azure
27 40 (8.89%) Event-Driven Architecture

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 (1.56%) Camunda
2 4 (0.89%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.44%) JBoss
4 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 159 (35.33%) AWS
2 44 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 40 (8.89%) Azure
4 28 (6.22%) GCP
5 20 (4.44%) Serverless
6 19 (4.22%) SaaS
7 17 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.44%) GitHub
10 8 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.33%) Azure Storage
12 4 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (0.89%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.33%) DMARC
2 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.22%) Modbus
2 1 (0.22%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.78%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.89%) Redis
6 6 (1.33%) MySQL
6 6 (1.33%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.67%) KDB
7 3 (0.67%) Power BI
8 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.44%) Db2
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.22%) Flink
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (10.22%) GitLab
2 41 (9.11%) Cucumber
3 21 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.56%) Git
5 14 (3.11%) Claude Code
5 14 (3.11%) Selenium
6 9 (2.00%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.78%) JUnit
8 7 (1.56%) JIRA
9 6 (1.33%) Mockito
10 4 (0.89%) JMeter
11 3 (0.67%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.44%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (0.44%) Maven
12 2 (0.44%) Mocha
12 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 88 (19.56%) Finance
2 51 (11.33%) Banking
3 34 (7.56%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.67%) Financial Institution
5 19 (4.22%) Front Office
5 19 (4.22%) Health Technology
6 18 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.11%) Retail
8 12 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.67%) Law
9 10 (2.22%) Tech for Good
10 9 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Back Office
12 4 (0.89%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.89%) Marketing
13 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.44%) Aviation
14 2 (0.44%) iGaming
15 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (35.78%) Spring
2 139 (30.89%) Spring Boot
3 84 (18.67%) Kafka
4 40 (8.89%) React
4 40 (8.89%) REST
5 28 (6.22%) RESTful
6 27 (6.00%) Terraform
7 21 (4.67%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.00%) Node.js
9 13 (2.89%) Vue
10 12 (2.67%) HTML
11 11 (2.44%) Playwright
11 11 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.00%) Hibernate
13 8 (1.78%) YAML
14 7 (1.56%) Akka
14 7 (1.56%) CSS
14 7 (1.56%) OAuth
14 7 (1.56%) OAuth2
15 6 (1.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 97 (21.56%) Cloud Native
2 79 (17.56%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.00%) e-Learning
3 36 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 24 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.11%) Blog
9 5 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.89%) Equities
11 3 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (42.67%) Software Engineering
2 128 (28.44%) Microservices
3 117 (26.00%) CI/CD
4 115 (25.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 114 (25.33%) Agile
6 107 (23.78%) Test Automation
7 79 (17.56%) Event-Driven
8 74 (16.44%) Mentoring
9 65 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (12.89%) AI
11 53 (11.78%) DevOps
12 51 (11.33%) BDD
13 44 (9.78%) CQRS
14 40 (8.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 39 (8.67%) Architectural Patterns
16 36 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (8.00%) Performance Testing
17 31 (6.89%) Containerisation
18 29 (6.44%) Observability
18 29 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 450 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (16.00%) SQL
3 59 (13.11%) Python
4 33 (7.33%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.89%) Kotlin
7 14 (3.11%) C++
7 14 (3.11%) Go
8 6 (1.33%) C#
8 6 (1.33%) Rust
9 5 (1.11%) Scala
10 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 44 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 36 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (4.00%) Degree
5 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) OCP
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.11%) QA
2 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.89%) GDPR
4 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.44%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (9.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.44%) Grafana
3 4 (0.89%) Kibana
4 3 (0.67%) Ansible
5 2 (0.44%) Argo
5 2 (0.44%) Packer
5 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (2.00%) Palantir
2 7 (1.56%) Google
3 6 (1.33%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.11%) Splunk
5 4 (0.89%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.89%) IBM
5 4 (0.89%) Oracle
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe
6 3 (0.67%) Revolut
7 2 (0.44%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.44%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.22%) Databricks
8 1 (0.22%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.22%) Solace
8 1 (0.22%) Sybase
8 1 (0.22%) Wonderware