Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 415 564
Rank change year-on-year +31 +149 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 254 347 153
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.58% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 157 261 130
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +42.86% -8.00%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £136,000 £148,750 £152,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +48.39% -11.43%

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 38,652 59,407 48,336
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 95.19% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 23,299 34,065 37,318
10th Percentile £28,238 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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 +5 202 £110,000 -4.35% 23
North of England +10 19 £72,500 -4.92% 10
South West +30 14 £60,000 +2.13% 5
North West +10 12 £87,750 +42.68% 7
Midlands +43 9 £60,000 - 4
West Midlands +60 8 £61,250 -18.33%
South East +36 5 £70,000 - 20
Yorkshire +15 4 £73,750 - 1
North East +8 3 £65,000 -18.75% 2
East Midlands +5 1 £40,000 -11.11% 4
East of England - 1 £80,000 -
Java Software Engineer
UK

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, Java Software 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 across the England region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 254 (100.00%) Java
2 252 (99.21%) Software Engineering
3 204 (80.31%) Agile
4 188 (74.02%) AWS
5 126 (49.61%) TypeScript
6 115 (45.28%) JavaScript
7 107 (42.13%) Python
8 99 (38.98%) Investment Management
9 97 (38.19%) Apache Iceberg
10 96 (37.80%) Asset Management
11 93 (36.61%) Amazon Athena
11 93 (36.61%) Apache Airflow
11 93 (36.61%) Apache Arrow
11 93 (36.61%) dbt
11 93 (36.61%) Dremio
11 93 (36.61%) NumPy
11 93 (36.61%) Pandas
11 93 (36.61%) SciPy
12 85 (33.46%) Spring
13 82 (32.28%) gRPC
13 82 (32.28%) Protocol Buffers
14 78 (30.71%) Apache
15 77 (30.31%) Apache Ignite
15 77 (30.31%) Data Lake
15 77 (30.31%) Snowflake
16 76 (29.92%) Microservices
17 72 (28.35%) Kubernetes
18 66 (25.98%) SDLC
19 64 (25.20%) CI/CD
19 64 (25.20%) Kafka

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 93 (36.61%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (30.71%) Apache
3 5 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 188 (74.02%) AWS
2 93 (36.61%) dbt
3 77 (30.31%) Snowflake
4 26 (10.24%) GCP
5 14 (5.51%) GitHub
6 11 (4.33%) Serverless
7 10 (3.94%) Azure
8 7 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.57%) SaaS
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.79%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.18%) SSL
2 2 (0.79%) Broadband
2 2 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (38.19%) Apache Iceberg
2 93 (36.61%) Amazon Athena
2 93 (36.61%) Apache Arrow
2 93 (36.61%) Dremio
3 77 (30.31%) Apache Ignite
3 77 (30.31%) Data Lake
4 30 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (10.24%) NoSQL
6 24 (9.45%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.51%) Big Data
8 7 (2.76%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.76%) MySQL
8 7 (2.76%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.97%) Redis
10 5 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.57%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.57%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (6.30%) Git
2 11 (4.33%) JUnit
3 8 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.36%) GitLab
4 6 (2.36%) Maven
4 6 (2.36%) Mockito
4 6 (2.36%) Selenium
5 5 (1.97%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.57%) git-flow
6 4 (1.57%) JIRA
6 4 (1.57%) Vite
7 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.79%) Spock
7 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 219 (86.22%) Finance
2 147 (57.87%) Banking
3 106 (41.73%) Front Office
4 93 (36.61%) Investment Banking
5 82 (32.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 82 (32.28%) Law
6 30 (11.81%) Financial Institution
7 22 (8.66%) Social Skills
8 18 (7.09%) Marketing
9 9 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.15%) Legal
11 5 (1.97%) Electronics
11 5 (1.97%) Games
11 5 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.57%) Retail
12 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.57%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Advertising
13 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (36.61%) NumPy
1 93 (36.61%) Pandas
1 93 (36.61%) SciPy
2 85 (33.46%) Spring
3 82 (32.28%) gRPC
3 82 (32.28%) Protocol Buffers
4 64 (25.20%) Kafka
5 56 (22.05%) Spring Boot
6 53 (20.87%) React
7 28 (11.02%) AngularJS
7 28 (11.02%) Node.js
8 21 (8.27%) Akka
8 21 (8.27%) RxJava
8 21 (8.27%) Spring WebFlux
9 19 (7.48%) JMS
10 17 (6.69%) Vue
11 16 (6.30%) RESTful
12 15 (5.91%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (5.51%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (5.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 102 (40.16%) Fixed Income
2 97 (38.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 94 (37.01%) Equities
4 91 (35.83%) Derivative
5 77 (30.31%) Hedge funds
5 77 (30.31%) Pricing Data
6 44 (17.32%) Cloud Native
7 26 (10.24%) Algorithms
8 20 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (7.87%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.54%) Data Structures
9 9 (3.54%) Mobile Banking
10 8 (3.15%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (1.97%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.57%) Wiki
13 2 (0.79%) Blog
13 2 (0.79%) PKI
13 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (99.21%) Software Engineering
2 204 (80.31%) Agile
3 99 (38.98%) Investment Management
4 96 (37.80%) Asset Management
5 76 (29.92%) Microservices
6 66 (25.98%) SDLC
7 64 (25.20%) CI/CD
8 61 (24.02%) Fintech
9 45 (17.72%) Operational Stability
10 42 (16.54%) Community of Practice
10 42 (16.54%) TDD
11 35 (13.78%) Multithreading
12 33 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (12.60%) Machine Learning
13 32 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (12.20%) AI
15 28 (11.02%) Risk Management
15 28 (11.02%) Visualisation
16 27 (10.63%) Pair Programming
17 26 (10.24%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 254 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (49.61%) TypeScript
3 115 (45.28%) JavaScript
4 107 (42.13%) Python
5 35 (13.78%) Kotlin
6 31 (12.20%) SQL
7 15 (5.91%) Go
8 12 (4.72%) Scala
9 9 (3.54%) C++
10 5 (1.97%) Rust
11 3 (1.18%) C#
12 2 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (4.33%) Degree
2 6 (2.36%) AWS Certification
2 6 (2.36%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
3 5 (1.97%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.57%) PhD
5 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.57%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (19.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (28.35%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.45%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) Grafana
4 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) Istio
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (9.45%) Oracle
2 5 (1.97%) Google
3 4 (1.57%) SAP
4 3 (1.18%) Sybase
5 2 (0.79%) Databricks
6 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.39%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.39%) Splunk