Java Engineer Jobs in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer salary in England is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 430 350
Rank change year-on-year +54 -80 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 307 452 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.53% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.56% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 247 367 723
10th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £135,000 £110,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £142,500 £152,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +95 192 £110,000 +12.82% 92
South West +85 43 £120,000 +128.57% 7
North of England +27 32 £65,000 -0.71% 34
South East +80 26 £70,000 - 46
North West -9 23 £65,000 -0.36% 22
Midlands +64 10 £60,000 - 17
West Midlands +35 10 £60,000 - 14
Yorkshire +63 6 £35,000 -46.54% 6
East of England +56 4 - - 8
North East +46 3 £65,000 -0.71% 6
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 207 (67.43%) Software Engineering
3 197 (64.17%) AWS
4 193 (62.87%) Agile
5 162 (52.77%) Finance
6 111 (36.16%) Banking
7 99 (32.25%) JavaScript
8 98 (31.92%) Front Office
9 96 (31.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 96 (31.27%) Docker
10 94 (30.62%) Microservices
11 93 (30.29%) Python
11 93 (30.29%) Fixed Income
12 92 (29.97%) Equities
13 91 (29.64%) Amazon Athena
14 90 (29.32%) Dremio
14 90 (29.32%) dbt
14 90 (29.32%) Apache Arrow
14 90 (29.32%) Apache Airflow
14 90 (29.32%) Apache Iceberg
14 90 (29.32%) Asset Management
15 87 (28.34%) Kubernetes
16 85 (27.69%) Investment Banking
17 84 (27.36%) Derivative
17 84 (27.36%) Apache
18 78 (25.41%) Spring
18 78 (25.41%) TypeScript
18 78 (25.41%) Hedge funds
18 78 (25.41%) Snowflake
19 74 (24.10%) SciPy

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (29.32%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (27.36%) Apache
3 7 (2.28%) Confluence
4 4 (1.30%) GemFire
4 4 (1.30%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.98%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 197 (64.17%) AWS
2 90 (29.32%) dbt
3 78 (25.41%) Snowflake
4 57 (18.57%) GCP
5 41 (13.36%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (8.14%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (7.49%) Azure
8 23 (7.49%) Dagster
9 15 (4.89%) IBM Cloud
10 9 (2.93%) SaaS
11 8 (2.61%) npm
12 4 (1.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 4 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.98%) GitHub
13 3 (0.98%) Serverless
14 1 (0.33%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (29.64%) Amazon Athena
2 90 (29.32%) Apache Arrow
2 90 (29.32%) Apache Iceberg
2 90 (29.32%) Dremio
3 66 (21.50%) Apache Ignite
4 62 (20.20%) Data Lake
5 42 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.56%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.91%) MySQL
8 11 (3.58%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.93%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.95%) Redis
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.30%) Big Data
11 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (1.30%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (11.73%) Git
2 26 (8.47%) Maven
3 18 (5.86%) IntelliJ
4 15 (4.89%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.91%) JIRA
6 11 (3.58%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.61%) JUnit
7 8 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.61%) webpack
8 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.30%) NetBeans
8 4 (1.30%) Selenium
8 4 (1.30%) TestNG
9 3 (0.98%) Mockito
9 3 (0.98%) Postman
9 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.65%) GitLab
11 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.33%) Gradle
General
1 162 (52.77%) Finance
2 111 (36.16%) Banking
3 98 (31.92%) Front Office
4 85 (27.69%) Investment Banking
5 45 (14.66%) Public Sector
6 31 (10.10%) Social Skills
7 28 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (8.79%) Financial Institution
9 14 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.93%) Retail
11 8 (2.61%) Law
12 5 (1.63%) Advertising
12 5 (1.63%) Online Betting
13 3 (0.98%) Cantonese Language
13 3 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.65%) Games
15 1 (0.33%) Local Government
15 1 (0.33%) Military
15 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (25.41%) Spring
2 74 (24.10%) NumPy
2 74 (24.10%) Pandas
2 74 (24.10%) SciPy
3 67 (21.82%) Spring Boot
4 64 (20.85%) gRPC
5 62 (20.20%) Protocol Buffers
6 51 (16.61%) Kafka
7 50 (16.29%) React
8 47 (15.31%) AngularJS
9 40 (13.03%) PySpark
10 30 (9.77%) REST
11 23 (7.49%) Akka
12 19 (6.19%) RESTful
13 14 (4.56%) Node.js
14 13 (4.23%) RxJava
14 13 (4.23%) Spring WebFlux
15 12 (3.91%) Vue
16 10 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (2.93%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (31.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 93 (30.29%) Fixed Income
3 92 (29.97%) Equities
4 84 (27.36%) Derivative
5 78 (25.41%) Hedge funds
6 39 (12.70%) Pricing Data
7 38 (12.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (6.19%) Cloud Native
9 15 (4.89%) Blockchain
9 15 (4.89%) e-Learning
10 11 (3.58%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.58%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (1.30%) Smartphone
15 3 (0.98%) Credit Derivative
15 3 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.63%) Linux
1 5 (1.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.33%) Solaris
2 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (67.43%) Software Engineering
2 193 (62.87%) Agile
3 94 (30.62%) Microservices
4 90 (29.32%) Asset Management
5 71 (23.13%) TDD
6 64 (20.85%) DevOps
7 52 (16.94%) Containerisation
7 52 (16.94%) Investment Management
8 51 (16.61%) CI/CD
8 51 (16.61%) SDLC
9 49 (15.96%) Artificial Intelligence
10 42 (13.68%) Fintech
11 40 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (12.05%) Design Patterns
12 37 (12.05%) Multithreading
13 31 (10.10%) OO
14 30 (9.77%) BDD
14 30 (9.77%) Mentoring
15 27 (8.79%) Pair Programming
15 27 (8.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 99 (32.25%) JavaScript
3 93 (30.29%) Python
4 78 (25.41%) TypeScript
5 40 (13.03%) SQL
6 7 (2.28%) Rust
7 5 (1.63%) C#
8 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.65%) C++
9 2 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.33%) Fortran
10 1 (0.33%) Go
10 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.33%) PHP
10 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (8.79%) Degree
2 19 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.21%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.21%) PhD
4 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.30%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.30%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 96 (31.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 87 (28.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.91%) Terraform
3 6 (1.95%) Ansible
4 5 (1.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.98%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.98%) Packer
6 2 (0.65%) Argo
7 1 (0.33%) Istio
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.19%) Red Hat
2 15 (4.89%) IBM
3 10 (3.26%) Oracle
4 5 (1.63%) Solace
4 5 (1.63%) TIBCO
5 3 (0.98%) Splunk
6 2 (0.65%) Revolut
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.33%) Google
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.33%) Sybase