Java Server Engineer Job Trends

Java Server Engineer
UK

The median Java Server Engineer salary in the UK is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 652 -
Rank change year-on-year -70 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Server Engineer 2 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.012% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.013% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63,125 - -
25th Percentile £65,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - -
75th Percentile £78,438 - -
90th Percentile £79,375 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 83,558 37,679 90,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.07% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,734 23,343 66,736
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Java Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Server Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Java Server Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Java Server Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Java Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Java Server Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Java Server Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Server Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Server Engineer in the UK

Java Server Engineer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England -65 2 £73,750 - 1
London - 2 £73,750 - 1

Java Server Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2026, Java Server 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 featuring Java Server Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot

Java Server Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python