Java Software Developer Jobs in England

Java Software Developer
UK > England

The median Java Software Developer salary in England is £115,000 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 613 745 773
Rank change year-on-year +132 +28 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 35 77 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.090% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.096% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 35 76 171
10th Percentile £64,500 £24,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £41,250 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £69,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -21.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £133,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £65,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year +74.90% -22.65% -5.56%

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 Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Developer in England

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java Software Developer in England

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Java Software Developer in England

Java Software Developer
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 Developer 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 31 £115,000 -19.30% 3
South East +97 3 £60,000 +150.00% 3
Midlands +79 1 £60,000 +41.18% 2
East Midlands +47 1 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Java Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (94.29%) Agile
3 32 (91.43%) AWS
4 30 (85.71%) Finance
5 28 (80.00%) Front Office
5 28 (80.00%) Fixed Income
5 28 (80.00%) Asset Management
5 28 (80.00%) Software Engineering
5 28 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (80.00%) Dremio
5 28 (80.00%) dbt
5 28 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (80.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 26 (74.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (74.29%) Equities
7 19 (54.29%) SQL
8 18 (51.43%) Python
9 16 (45.71%) Apache
9 16 (45.71%) Banking
9 16 (45.71%) Data Management
9 16 (45.71%) Derivative
9 16 (45.71%) Investment Banking
9 16 (45.71%) Hedge funds
9 16 (45.71%) Snowflake
9 16 (45.71%) PySpark
10 15 (42.86%) React
10 15 (42.86%) AngularJS
11 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
11 14 (40.00%) TypeScript

Java Software Developer 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 28 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (45.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 32 (91.43%) AWS
2 28 (80.00%) dbt
3 16 (45.71%) Snowflake
4 12 (34.29%) GCP
5 6 (17.14%) Azure
6 3 (8.57%) SaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (80.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (80.00%) Dremio
2 12 (34.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Eclipse
1 3 (8.57%) IntelliJ
1 3 (8.57%) Jasmine
1 3 (8.57%) JUnit
1 3 (8.57%) Karma Test Runner
1 3 (8.57%) Mockito
1 3 (8.57%) Protractor
2 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.71%) Gatling
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) JMeter
2 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
2 2 (5.71%) Selenium
General
1 30 (85.71%) Finance
2 28 (80.00%) Front Office
3 16 (45.71%) Banking
3 16 (45.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) PySpark
2 15 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 15 (42.86%) React
3 12 (34.29%) Node.js
3 12 (34.29%) NumPy
3 12 (34.29%) Pandas
3 12 (34.29%) SciPy
3 12 (34.29%) Vue
4 4 (11.43%) Hibernate
5 3 (8.57%) JPA
5 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.71%) Playwright
7 1 (2.86%) Spring
7 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (80.00%) Fixed Income
2 26 (74.29%) Equities
2 26 (74.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (45.71%) Derivative
3 16 (45.71%) Hedge funds
4 3 (8.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (94.29%) Agile
2 28 (80.00%) Asset Management
2 28 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (45.71%) Data Management
4 12 (34.29%) Fintech
4 12 (34.29%) Investment Management
4 12 (34.29%) Order Management
4 12 (34.29%) Performance Attribution
4 12 (34.29%) Risk Management
5 4 (11.43%) Microservices
6 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) Unit Testing
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) Kanban
7 2 (5.71%) Scrum
7 2 (5.71%) SDET
7 2 (5.71%) Software Testing
7 2 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (54.29%) SQL
3 18 (51.43%) Python
4 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Ruby
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco