Principal Java Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in England is £95,000 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 646 816 877
Rank change year-on-year +170 +61 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 2 6 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.007% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.007% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 72
10th Percentile £68,750 £102,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £78,125 £105,000 £128,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £110,000 £142,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -22.81% +26.67%
75th Percentile £110,625 £120,000 £160,000
90th Percentile £119,250 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £140,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -21.43% +23.08%

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% -

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Java Engineer in England

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Java Engineer in England

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Principal Java Engineer in England

Principal 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 Principal 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 +105 1 £125,000 +13.64% 8
North West - 1 £65,000 - 8
North of England - 1 £65,000 - 17
Principal Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PhD
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) GCP

Principal 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes