Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 400 422
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 236 273 374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 180 183 337
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +46.15% -25.84%
75th Percentile £105,000 £133,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,750 £147,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £97,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +42.34% -21.71%

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 53,516 41,112 62,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 91.53% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34,293 21,800 49,647
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,940
25th Percentile £37,750 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 February 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 February 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 +28 158 £100,000 -6.98% 33
North of England -15 36 £68,750 +5.77% 13
North West +8 22 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East +7 15 £81,250 +16.07% 21
Midlands +1 10 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -32 10 £55,000 +57.14% 1
South West -36 10 £60,000 -38.46% 19
West Midlands +20 7 £50,000 -11.11% 8
North East -8 4 £52,130 -34.84% 4
East Midlands -13 3 £70,000 +55.56% 3
East of England - 2 £77,500 -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 236 (100.00%) Java
2 154 (65.25%) Software Engineering
3 122 (51.69%) AWS
4 89 (37.71%) Spring
5 77 (32.63%) Microservices
6 73 (30.93%) Spring Boot
7 70 (29.66%) Agile
8 69 (29.24%) CI/CD
9 55 (23.31%) Test Automation
10 54 (22.88%) Kubernetes
11 47 (19.92%) Mentoring
12 42 (17.80%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (15.25%) SQL
14 34 (14.41%) Kafka
15 32 (13.56%) Fintech
16 31 (13.14%) BDD
16 31 (13.14%) SaaS
17 28 (11.86%) Docker
17 28 (11.86%) JavaScript
17 28 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (11.86%) Python
18 27 (11.44%) TDD
18 27 (11.44%) TypeScript
19 26 (11.02%) DevOps
19 26 (11.02%) Event-Driven
20 25 (10.59%) Terraform
21 24 (10.17%) React
22 23 (9.75%) Investment Management
22 23 (9.75%) NoSQL
23 22 (9.32%) Kotlin

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 15 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.93%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.42%) Camunda
4 1 (0.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 122 (51.69%) AWS
2 31 (13.14%) SaaS
3 17 (7.20%) GCP
4 16 (6.78%) Snowflake
5 15 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (6.36%) Azure
5 15 (6.36%) dbt
6 8 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.39%) GitHub
7 6 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (2.12%) Serverless
9 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.42%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.69%) AMQP
2 1 (0.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.75%) NoSQL
3 20 (8.47%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.93%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (5.93%) Apache Iceberg
4 14 (5.93%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (5.93%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.93%) Dremio
5 7 (2.97%) MySQL
6 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (6.36%) TeamCity
2 10 (4.24%) Cucumber
2 10 (4.24%) GitLab
3 6 (2.54%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.54%) Git
3 6 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.69%) JUnit
5 3 (1.27%) JMeter
6 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.42%) Appium
7 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) JIRA
7 1 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 85 (36.02%) Finance
2 42 (17.80%) Banking
3 29 (12.29%) Financial Institution
4 21 (8.90%) Front Office
5 19 (8.05%) Retail
6 18 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.20%) Social Skills
8 16 (6.78%) Investment Banking
9 15 (6.36%) Law
10 12 (5.08%) Back Office
11 11 (4.66%) Public Sector
12 8 (3.39%) Games
13 4 (1.69%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (1.27%) Health Technology
14 3 (1.27%) Marketing
14 3 (1.27%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.42%) Aviation
16 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (37.71%) Spring
2 73 (30.93%) Spring Boot
3 34 (14.41%) Kafka
4 24 (10.17%) React
5 19 (8.05%) RESTful
6 17 (7.20%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (6.36%) Node.js
8 14 (5.93%) gRPC
8 14 (5.93%) NumPy
8 14 (5.93%) Pandas
8 14 (5.93%) Protocol Buffers
8 14 (5.93%) SciPy
9 13 (5.51%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.08%) Akka
10 12 (5.08%) JMS
10 12 (5.08%) RxJava
10 12 (5.08%) Spring WebFlux
11 10 (4.24%) REST
12 9 (3.81%) Hibernate
13 8 (3.39%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.63%) Derivative
4 16 (6.78%) Equities
4 16 (6.78%) Fixed Income
5 14 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (5.93%) Hedge funds
5 14 (5.93%) Pricing Data
6 10 (4.24%) Blog
7 9 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.97%) e-Learning
10 5 (2.12%) NHS
11 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (65.25%) Software Engineering
2 77 (32.63%) Microservices
3 70 (29.66%) Agile
4 69 (29.24%) CI/CD
5 55 (23.31%) Test Automation
6 47 (19.92%) Mentoring
7 42 (17.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (13.56%) Fintech
9 31 (13.14%) BDD
10 27 (11.44%) TDD
11 26 (11.02%) DevOps
11 26 (11.02%) Event-Driven
12 23 (9.75%) Investment Management
13 20 (8.47%) Clean Code
13 20 (8.47%) Continuous Deployment
14 17 (7.20%) Coaching
15 16 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (6.78%) Deployment Automation
15 16 (6.78%) Pair Programming
16 15 (6.36%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 236 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (15.25%) SQL
3 28 (11.86%) JavaScript
3 28 (11.86%) Python
4 27 (11.44%) TypeScript
5 22 (9.32%) Kotlin
6 9 (3.81%) Go
7 2 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.42%) C
8 1 (0.42%) C++
8 1 (0.42%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.66%) Degree
4 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (2.97%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.27%) QA
2 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (22.88%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.59%) Terraform
3 18 (7.63%) Grafana
4 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.85%) Ansible
6 1 (0.42%) Istio
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) Packer
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (1.69%) Oracle
2 2 (0.85%) Splunk
2 2 (0.85%) VMware
3 1 (0.42%) Databricks
3 1 (0.42%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.42%) Solarflare