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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 292 381
Rank change year-on-year -88 +89 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 424 436 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.00% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.10% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 305 271 374
10th Percentile £48,973 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,625 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 88,389 39,568 69,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.60% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62,111 23,903 47,017
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 12 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 12 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 -63 246 £90,000 -18.18% 317
North of England +25 117 £70,000 +7.69% 40
North West +25 75 £82,500 +10.00% 25
South East -23 28 £90,000 +28.57% 17
North East -35 24 £24,000 -63.08% 7
South West -97 23 £60,000 +17.07% 27
Yorkshire -13 18 £80,000 +142.42% 8
Midlands -22 18 £60,000 - 25
West Midlands -25 14 £62,500 +4.17% 19
East Midlands -19 3 £60,000 +150.00% 6
East of England -34 1 £72,500 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 424 (100.00%) Java
2 185 (43.63%) Software Engineering
3 164 (38.68%) AWS
4 161 (37.97%) Spring
5 140 (33.02%) Spring Boot
6 128 (30.19%) Microservices
7 117 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 114 (26.89%) Agile
9 108 (25.47%) CI/CD
10 107 (25.24%) Test Automation
11 86 (20.28%) Kafka
12 79 (18.63%) Mentoring
13 76 (17.92%) SQL
14 71 (16.75%) Event-Driven
15 65 (15.33%) Kubernetes
16 64 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 63 (14.86%) Python
18 62 (14.62%) AI
19 60 (14.15%) NoSQL
20 53 (12.50%) BDD
21 52 (12.26%) DevOps
22 48 (11.32%) Security Cleared
23 44 (10.38%) React
24 43 (10.14%) Docker
25 41 (9.67%) Azure
25 41 (9.67%) SC Cleared
26 40 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
26 40 (9.43%) GitLab
27 39 (9.20%) CQRS
27 39 (9.20%) TypeScript

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 (1.65%) Camunda
2 4 (0.94%) Confluence
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) JBoss
4 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 164 (38.68%) AWS
2 41 (9.67%) Azure
3 38 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (6.37%) GCP
5 22 (5.19%) Serverless
6 19 (4.48%) SaaS
7 16 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (3.54%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (2.36%) GitHub
10 7 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Storage
12 4 (0.94%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.42%) DMARC
2 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.24%) Modbus
2 1 (0.24%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.15%) NoSQL
2 22 (5.19%) MongoDB
3 21 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.83%) Redis
6 10 (2.36%) MySQL
7 6 (1.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.71%) KDB
9 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.47%) Db2
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.24%) Flink
10 1 (0.24%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (9.43%) GitLab
2 36 (8.49%) Cucumber
3 18 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.77%) Claude Code
5 13 (3.07%) Git
5 13 (3.07%) Selenium
6 8 (1.89%) JUnit
7 7 (1.65%) JIRA
7 7 (1.65%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.18%) Mockito
9 4 (0.94%) JMeter
9 4 (0.94%) Maven
10 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.47%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.47%) Mocha
11 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.24%) Gradle
12 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (21.93%) Finance
2 43 (10.14%) Banking
3 34 (8.02%) Social Skills
4 25 (5.90%) Front Office
4 25 (5.90%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.72%) Health Technology
6 19 (4.48%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.83%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.83%) Retail
8 11 (2.59%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.65%) Law
10 4 (0.94%) Back Office
10 4 (0.94%) Digital Health
10 4 (0.94%) Marketing
11 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.47%) Games
13 1 (0.24%) iGaming
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (37.97%) Spring
2 140 (33.02%) Spring Boot
3 86 (20.28%) Kafka
4 44 (10.38%) React
5 37 (8.73%) REST
6 31 (7.31%) RESTful
7 23 (5.42%) Node.js
8 20 (4.72%) AngularJS
9 13 (3.07%) Vue
10 11 (2.59%) HTML
11 10 (2.36%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.36%) Playwright
11 10 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.89%) OAuth
12 8 (1.89%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.89%) YAML
13 7 (1.65%) Akka
14 6 (1.42%) CSS
14 6 (1.42%) Redux
14 6 (1.42%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 98 (23.11%) Cloud Native
2 73 (17.22%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.31%) e-Learning
3 31 (7.31%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.54%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.94%) Equities
10 4 (0.94%) NHS
10 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.71%) Blog
11 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.12%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (43.63%) Software Engineering
2 128 (30.19%) Microservices
3 117 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 114 (26.89%) Agile
5 108 (25.47%) CI/CD
6 107 (25.24%) Test Automation
7 79 (18.63%) Mentoring
8 71 (16.75%) Event-Driven
9 64 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (14.62%) AI
11 53 (12.50%) BDD
12 52 (12.26%) DevOps
13 40 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (9.20%) CQRS
15 37 (8.73%) Architectural Patterns
15 37 (8.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 35 (8.25%) Containerisation
17 31 (7.31%) Performance Testing
18 30 (7.08%) Coaching
18 30 (7.08%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 424 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (17.92%) SQL
3 63 (14.86%) Python
4 39 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 30 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.19%) Kotlin
7 19 (4.48%) Go
8 13 (3.07%) C++
9 6 (1.42%) C#
9 6 (1.42%) Rust
10 5 (1.18%) Scala
11 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.67%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.31%) AWS Certification
3 31 (7.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (3.77%) Degree
5 15 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) OCP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.54%) QA
2 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) PSD2
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (10.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.60%) Terraform
3 12 (2.83%) Grafana
4 5 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.94%) Kibana
6 3 (0.71%) Ansible
6 3 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) MOM
7 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (2.12%) Palantir
2 7 (1.65%) Google
2 7 (1.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.42%) SendGrid
4 5 (1.18%) Splunk
5 4 (0.94%) AppDynamics
5 4 (0.94%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.94%) Oracle
6 3 (0.71%) Adobe
6 3 (0.71%) IBM
6 3 (0.71%) Revolut
7 2 (0.47%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.47%) Solace
8 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.24%) Databricks
8 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.24%) Sybase
8 1 (0.24%) Wonderware