Java Software Engineer Jobs in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 511 476
Rank change year-on-year -48 -35 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 295 490 955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.53% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.58% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 239 383 595
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,219 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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 -8 146 £113,750 +22.97% 47
North of England +50 66 £65,465 +24.69% 9
North West +20 47 £65,465 -6.48% 6
South West -3 43 £52,500 -20.75% 17
South East +13 25 £87,500 +2.94% 10
Midlands -16 14 £65,465 +45.48% 7
Yorkshire +79 12 £65,465 +24.69% 2
West Midlands +22 11 £65,465 +13.85% 5
North East -3 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
East Midlands -36 3 - - 2
East of England -7 1 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 292 (98.98%) Software Engineering
3 197 (66.78%) AWS
4 171 (57.97%) Agile
5 122 (41.36%) Microservices
6 97 (32.88%) Spring
7 92 (31.19%) Python
8 89 (30.17%) JavaScript
9 77 (26.10%) Finance
9 77 (26.10%) Mentoring
10 75 (25.42%) Banking
11 69 (23.39%) Investment Banking
11 69 (23.39%) Front Office
12 68 (23.05%) Azure
13 64 (21.69%) Spring Boot
14 62 (21.02%) Fixed Income
15 61 (20.68%) TDD
16 60 (20.34%) Public Sector
17 59 (20.00%) Hedge funds
17 59 (20.00%) TypeScript
18 58 (19.66%) gRPC
18 58 (19.66%) Asset Management
18 58 (19.66%) Derivative
18 58 (19.66%) Apache
19 57 (19.32%) Equities
19 57 (19.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 57 (19.32%) Apache Airflow
19 57 (19.32%) Pandas
19 57 (19.32%) Protocol Buffers
19 57 (19.32%) SciPy

Java Software 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 58 (19.66%) Apache
2 57 (19.32%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (5.76%) JBoss
3 17 (5.76%) Red Hat Fuse
4 4 (1.36%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) Drupal
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 197 (66.78%) AWS
2 68 (23.05%) Azure
3 57 (19.32%) dbt
4 53 (17.97%) Snowflake
5 51 (17.29%) GCP
6 15 (5.08%) Serverless
7 10 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.36%) npm
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.68%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.34%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.32%) Amazon Athena
1 57 (19.32%) Apache Arrow
1 57 (19.32%) Apache Ignite
1 57 (19.32%) Dremio
2 54 (18.31%) MySQL
3 53 (17.97%) Data Lake
3 53 (17.97%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (12.20%) NoSQL
5 33 (11.19%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.03%) CouchDB
7 6 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.36%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.68%) Big Data
9 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.34%) Flink
10 1 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.34%) Redis
10 1 (0.34%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (11.19%) Git
2 22 (7.46%) IntelliJ
3 10 (3.39%) Maven
4 8 (2.71%) Gradle
4 8 (2.71%) JIRA
4 8 (2.71%) TeamCity
5 7 (2.37%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.69%) JUnit
6 5 (1.69%) Mockito
6 5 (1.69%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) GitLab
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 77 (26.10%) Finance
2 75 (25.42%) Banking
3 69 (23.39%) Front Office
3 69 (23.39%) Investment Banking
4 60 (20.34%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (5.42%) Social Skills
6 14 (4.75%) Law
7 9 (3.05%) Legal
8 7 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.69%) Retail
11 4 (1.36%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.34%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
13 1 (0.34%) Marketing
13 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (32.88%) Spring
2 64 (21.69%) Spring Boot
3 58 (19.66%) gRPC
4 57 (19.32%) NumPy
4 57 (19.32%) Pandas
4 57 (19.32%) Protocol Buffers
4 57 (19.32%) RESTful
4 57 (19.32%) SciPy
5 40 (13.56%) Kafka
6 34 (11.53%) AngularJS
7 32 (10.85%) React
8 27 (9.15%) Hibernate
9 24 (8.14%) REST
10 21 (7.12%) JPA
10 21 (7.12%) SOAP
10 21 (7.12%) XML
11 19 (6.44%) JSON
12 18 (6.10%) Java EE
12 18 (6.10%) Web Services
13 17 (5.76%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.02%) Fixed Income
2 59 (20.00%) Hedge funds
3 58 (19.66%) Derivative
4 57 (19.32%) Equities
4 57 (19.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (6.78%) Cloud Native
6 18 (6.10%) Pricing Data
7 14 (4.75%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.03%) PropTech
9 5 (1.69%) Blog
9 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.68%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.34%) PKI
12 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.05%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Unix
2 2 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (98.98%) Software Engineering
2 171 (57.97%) Agile
3 122 (41.36%) Microservices
4 77 (26.10%) Mentoring
5 61 (20.68%) TDD
6 58 (19.66%) Asset Management
7 55 (18.64%) Investment Management
7 55 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (17.29%) Test Automation
9 47 (15.93%) Coaching
10 43 (14.58%) Continuous Deployment
11 42 (14.24%) BDD
12 34 (11.53%) Actionable Insight
13 26 (8.81%) Scrum
14 25 (8.47%) CI/CD
15 24 (8.14%) DevOps
15 24 (8.14%) Fintech
16 23 (7.80%) Clean Code
17 22 (7.46%) Continuous Integration
18 21 (7.12%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 92 (31.19%) Python
3 89 (30.17%) JavaScript
4 59 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 53 (17.97%) SQL
6 33 (11.19%) Kotlin
7 31 (10.51%) C#
8 16 (5.42%) Ruby
9 13 (4.41%) Scala
10 4 (1.36%) Go
11 3 (1.02%) C++
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) Rust
13 1 (0.34%) C
13 1 (0.34%) Dart
13 1 (0.34%) F#
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (9.83%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.08%) Degree
4 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.36%) PhD
6 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.36%) QA
System Software
1 40 (13.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.46%) Terraform
3 13 (4.41%) Ansible
4 6 (2.03%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (2.03%) Oracle
2 3 (1.02%) Google
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.34%) Xamarin