Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 383 420
Rank change year-on-year -186 +37 +134
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 199 273 361
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.70% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 169 177 271
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -4.35% +39.39%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +41.98%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 96,623 39,251 63,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 90.47% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,718 23,170 36,636
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -8.33%

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 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 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
London -187 79 £95,000 -13.64% 121
North of England -18 62 £67,500 -6.90% 27
North West +12 44 £70,000 -22.65% 20
South West -49 38 £60,000 +26.32% 33
South East -42 13 £90,000 +28.57% 5
Yorkshire -34 12 £65,000 -10.34% 5
Midlands -49 6 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North East -57 6 £77,500 +19.23% 2
West Midlands -45 5 £55,000 -8.33% 4
East of England -34 1 £72,500 -9.38% 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 2
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 2026, 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.

1 199 (100.00%) Java
2 197 (98.99%) Software Engineering
3 49 (24.62%) AWS
4 44 (22.11%) Agile
4 44 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (19.10%) Spring
6 34 (17.09%) Spring Boot
7 31 (15.58%) Python
8 29 (14.57%) Microservices
9 26 (13.07%) CI/CD
10 23 (11.56%) Kubernetes
11 22 (11.06%) AI
12 21 (10.55%) Test Automation
13 17 (8.54%) Clean Code
13 17 (8.54%) Fintech
14 16 (8.04%) Continuous Deployment
14 16 (8.04%) Security Cleared
15 15 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (7.54%) GCP
16 14 (7.04%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (7.04%) Grafana
16 14 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (7.04%) TeamCity
16 14 (7.04%) Terraform
17 13 (6.53%) SQL
18 12 (6.03%) Azure
18 12 (6.03%) SaaS
19 11 (5.53%) DevOps
19 11 (5.53%) JavaScript
19 11 (5.53%) React

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 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
1 3 (1.51%) Tomcat
1 3 (1.51%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.50%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.62%) AWS
2 15 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (7.54%) GCP
3 12 (6.03%) Azure
3 12 (6.03%) SaaS
4 9 (4.52%) Anthropic Claude
5 6 (3.02%) GitHub
6 5 (2.51%) ChatGPT
6 5 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.02%) MySQL
3 5 (2.51%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.01%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 14 (7.04%) TeamCity
2 9 (4.52%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.51%) Git
4 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.51%) JUnit
4 3 (1.51%) Mockito
4 3 (1.51%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (15.08%) Finance
2 22 (11.06%) Banking
3 17 (8.54%) Law
4 14 (7.04%) Health Technology
4 14 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.04%) Retail
5 11 (5.53%) Front Office
5 11 (5.53%) Tech for Good
6 10 (5.03%) Social Skills
7 4 (2.01%) Back Office
7 4 (2.01%) Digital Health
7 4 (2.01%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.50%) Games
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.10%) Spring
2 34 (17.09%) Spring Boot
3 14 (7.04%) Terraform
4 11 (5.53%) React
5 8 (4.02%) RESTful
6 7 (3.52%) Kafka
7 5 (2.51%) REST
8 3 (1.51%) Jest
8 3 (1.51%) Next.js
8 3 (1.51%) Playwright
8 3 (1.51%) React Native
9 2 (1.01%) Ajax
9 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.01%) Swing
9 2 (1.01%) Vue
10 1 (0.50%) JPA
10 1 (0.50%) OAuth
10 1 (0.50%) Spring MVC
10 1 (0.50%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.03%) Blog
3 8 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.02%) Equities
4 6 (3.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (2.51%) Derivative
5 5 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.51%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (2.51%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.51%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.50%) IoT
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (98.99%) Software Engineering
2 44 (22.11%) Agile
2 44 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (14.57%) Microservices
4 26 (13.07%) CI/CD
5 22 (11.06%) AI
6 21 (10.55%) Test Automation
7 17 (8.54%) Clean Code
7 17 (8.54%) Fintech
8 16 (8.04%) Continuous Deployment
9 14 (7.04%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (5.53%) DevOps
11 10 (5.03%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.03%) Disruptive Innovation
11 10 (5.03%) SDLC
12 8 (4.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (4.02%) Investment Management
12 8 (4.02%) Scrum
12 8 (4.02%) TDD
13 7 (3.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 199 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (15.58%) Python
3 13 (6.53%) SQL
4 11 (5.53%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.03%) Kotlin
6 9 (4.52%) C++
7 5 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.01%) Go
9 1 (0.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.03%) Degree
3 6 (3.02%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (1.51%) IBM
2 1 (0.50%) Google
2 1 (0.50%) OpenAI