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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 291 365
Rank change year-on-year -80 +74 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 439 412 487
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.94% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.04% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 315 252 379
10th Percentile £47,000 £56,250 £57,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £75,000
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 £79,250 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.95% +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 91,316 39,687 67,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 90.46% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 64,438 24,066 43,918
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 £73,575
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 31 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 31 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 -52 245 £90,000 -18.18% 194
North of England +18 126 £70,000 +7.69% 37
North West +41 79 £80,000 +23.08% 21
South West -96 30 £60,000 +9.09% 25
North East -38 27 £45,000 -30.77% 4
South East -24 25 £90,000 +28.57% 11
Midlands -32 22 £72,500 +20.83% 16
Yorkshire -21 20 £80,000 +158.06% 12
West Midlands -29 16 £85,000 +41.67% 12
East Midlands -21 6 £60,000 +150.00% 4
East of England -16 1 £72,500 - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 439 (100.00%) Java
2 189 (43.05%) Software Engineering
3 156 (35.54%) Spring
4 155 (35.31%) AWS
5 134 (30.52%) Spring Boot
6 126 (28.70%) Microservices
7 114 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 112 (25.51%) CI/CD
9 109 (24.83%) Agile
10 103 (23.46%) Test Automation
11 82 (18.68%) Kafka
12 77 (17.54%) Event-Driven
13 73 (16.63%) Mentoring
14 69 (15.72%) SQL
15 62 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
16 60 (13.67%) Kubernetes
17 59 (13.44%) Python
18 57 (12.98%) AI
18 57 (12.98%) NoSQL
19 55 (12.53%) Security Cleared
20 51 (11.62%) DevOps
21 49 (11.16%) BDD
22 44 (10.02%) SC Cleared
23 43 (9.79%) GitLab
24 42 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
24 42 (9.57%) CQRS
25 40 (9.11%) REST
26 39 (8.88%) Azure
26 39 (8.88%) Cucumber
26 39 (8.88%) 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 (1.59%) Camunda
2 4 (0.91%) Confluence
3 3 (0.68%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.46%) JBoss
4 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 155 (35.31%) AWS
2 42 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 39 (8.88%) Azure
4 27 (6.15%) GCP
5 20 (4.56%) Serverless
6 19 (4.33%) SaaS
7 16 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.19%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (2.28%) GitHub
10 8 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.37%) Azure Storage
12 4 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (0.91%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.37%) DMARC
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) Modbus
2 1 (0.23%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.98%) NoSQL
2 17 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.96%) Redis
6 6 (1.37%) MySQL
6 6 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.68%) KDB
7 3 (0.68%) Power BI
8 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.46%) Db2
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 (9.79%) GitLab
2 39 (8.88%) Cucumber
3 20 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.42%) Claude Code
4 15 (3.42%) Git
5 14 (3.19%) Selenium
6 8 (1.82%) JUnit
6 8 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.59%) JIRA
8 6 (1.37%) Mockito
9 4 (0.91%) JMeter
10 3 (0.68%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.46%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.46%) Maven
11 2 (0.46%) Mocha
11 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 86 (19.59%) Finance
2 48 (10.93%) Banking
3 34 (7.74%) Social Skills
4 20 (4.56%) Financial Institution
5 19 (4.33%) Front Office
5 19 (4.33%) Health Technology
6 18 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.96%) Retail
8 12 (2.73%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.51%) Law
10 10 (2.28%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.91%) Back Office
12 4 (0.91%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.91%) Marketing
13 3 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.46%) Aviation
14 2 (0.46%) iGaming
15 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (35.54%) Spring
2 134 (30.52%) Spring Boot
3 82 (18.68%) Kafka
4 40 (9.11%) REST
5 39 (8.88%) React
6 27 (6.15%) RESTful
7 25 (5.69%) Terraform
8 21 (4.78%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.87%) Node.js
10 13 (2.96%) Vue
11 11 (2.51%) HTML
11 11 (2.51%) Playwright
11 11 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.05%) Hibernate
13 8 (1.82%) YAML
14 7 (1.59%) Akka
14 7 (1.59%) OAuth
14 7 (1.59%) OAuth2
15 6 (1.37%) CSS
15 6 (1.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 94 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 77 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (7.74%) e-Learning
3 34 (7.74%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.05%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.91%) Blog
10 4 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.91%) Equities
11 3 (0.68%) Clustering
11 3 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (43.05%) Software Engineering
2 126 (28.70%) Microservices
3 114 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
4 112 (25.51%) CI/CD
5 109 (24.83%) Agile
6 103 (23.46%) Test Automation
7 77 (17.54%) Event-Driven
8 73 (16.63%) Mentoring
9 62 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 57 (12.98%) AI
11 51 (11.62%) DevOps
12 49 (11.16%) BDD
13 42 (9.57%) CQRS
14 39 (8.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 38 (8.66%) Architectural Patterns
16 35 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (7.74%) Performance Testing
18 31 (7.06%) Containerisation
19 28 (6.38%) Observability
20 27 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 439 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (15.72%) SQL
3 59 (13.44%) Python
4 32 (7.29%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.78%) Kotlin
7 14 (3.19%) C++
7 14 (3.19%) Go
8 6 (1.37%) Rust
9 5 (1.14%) C#
9 5 (1.14%) Scala
10 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.23%) Perl
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.74%) AWS Certification
3 34 (7.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (4.10%) Degree
5 15 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) OCP
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.19%) QA
2 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.91%) GDPR
4 3 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 39 (8.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.28%) Grafana
3 4 (0.91%) Kibana
4 3 (0.68%) Ansible
5 2 (0.46%) Argo
5 2 (0.46%) Packer
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (2.05%) Microsoft
1 9 (2.05%) Palantir
2 7 (1.59%) Google
3 6 (1.37%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.14%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.14%) Splunk
5 4 (0.91%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.91%) IBM
5 4 (0.91%) Oracle
6 3 (0.68%) Adobe
6 3 (0.68%) Revolut
7 2 (0.46%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.23%) Databricks
8 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Sybase
8 1 (0.23%) Wonderware