Java Architect Job Trends in England

Java Architect
UK > England

The median Java Architect salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 689 690
Rank change year-on-year +57 +1 +324
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Architect 12 62 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.028% 0.090% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.094% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 7 59 27
10th Percentile £83,500 £96,250 £71,250
25th Percentile - £115,625 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £135,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £137,500 £165,000 £123,750
90th Percentile - - £137,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £135,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +28.57% +7.69%

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 39,062 65,780 50,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.18% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23,453 39,747 39,411
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Java Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Architect job vacancies in England

Java Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Architect in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 +25 9 £112,500 -16.67% 7
South West +72 1 £90,000 -2.70%
North of England +32 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
Java Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Java Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
4 5 (41.67%) Banking
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Finance
6 3 (25.00%) OO
6 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (25.00%) Spring
6 3 (25.00%) REST
6 3 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 2 (16.67%) Docker
7 2 (16.67%) GCP
7 2 (16.67%) User Experience
7 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 2 (16.67%) Azure

Java Architect 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 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DocumentDB
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Advertising
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) ADO
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) LangChain
3 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) OO
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) OOP
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 15022
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat