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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 438 538
Rank change year-on-year +49 +100 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 227 300 149
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 121 216 125
10th Percentile £71,250 £64,375 £43,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +58.62% -17.14%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% +61.40% -18.57%

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 41,786 56,812 44,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.37% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 26,790 31,820 34,128
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,292 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% -

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +11 190 £110,000 -4.35% 79
North of England +27 15 £73,750 +7.27% 14
South West +15 14 £60,000 +47.24% 7
North West +25 9 £81,250 +30.00% 10
Yorkshire +7 4 £73,750 - 3
Midlands +64 2 £51,250 -14.58% 5
North East +4 2 £63,750 -20.31% 1
West Midlands +46 1 £62,500 -16.67% 2
South East +41 1 - - 12
East Midlands +24 1 £40,000 -11.11% 3
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 20 November 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.

1 227 (100.00%) Java
2 222 (97.80%) Software Engineering
3 172 (75.77%) Agile
4 160 (70.48%) AWS
5 102 (44.93%) TypeScript
6 92 (40.53%) Python
7 89 (39.21%) JavaScript
8 75 (33.04%) Investment Management
9 73 (32.16%) Apache Iceberg
10 72 (31.72%) Asset Management
11 71 (31.28%) Microservices
11 71 (31.28%) Spring
12 69 (30.40%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (30.40%) Apache Airflow
12 69 (30.40%) Apache Arrow
12 69 (30.40%) dbt
12 69 (30.40%) Dremio
12 69 (30.40%) NumPy
12 69 (30.40%) Pandas
12 69 (30.40%) SciPy
13 66 (29.07%) gRPC
13 66 (29.07%) Protocol Buffers
13 66 (29.07%) SDLC
14 64 (28.19%) Kubernetes
15 63 (27.75%) CI/CD
16 62 (27.31%) Apache
17 61 (26.87%) Apache Ignite
17 61 (26.87%) Data Lake
17 61 (26.87%) Snowflake
18 52 (22.91%) 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 69 (30.40%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (27.31%) Apache
3 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 160 (70.48%) AWS
2 69 (30.40%) dbt
3 61 (26.87%) Snowflake
4 21 (9.25%) GCP
5 11 (4.85%) Serverless
6 10 (4.41%) GitHub
6 10 (4.41%) SaaS
7 9 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.76%) Azure
10 3 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.88%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (32.16%) Apache Iceberg
2 69 (30.40%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (30.40%) Apache Arrow
2 69 (30.40%) Dremio
3 61 (26.87%) Apache Ignite
3 61 (26.87%) Data Lake
4 22 (9.69%) NoSQL
5 21 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (8.81%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.17%) Big Data
8 7 (3.08%) DynamoDB
8 7 (3.08%) MySQL
8 7 (3.08%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.20%) Redis
10 5 (2.20%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.76%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.76%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (7.49%) Git
2 12 (5.29%) JUnit
3 7 (3.08%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.64%) Maven
4 6 (2.64%) Mockito
5 5 (2.20%) Selenium
6 4 (1.76%) git-flow
6 4 (1.76%) GitLab
6 4 (1.76%) Vite
7 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.88%) JIRA
9 1 (0.44%) Appium
9 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.44%) Gradle
9 1 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 200 (88.11%) Finance
2 139 (61.23%) Banking
3 89 (39.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 89 (39.21%) Law
4 82 (36.12%) Front Office
5 77 (33.92%) Investment Banking
6 32 (14.10%) Financial Institution
7 21 (9.25%) Social Skills
8 18 (7.93%) Marketing
9 11 (4.85%) Retail
10 10 (4.41%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.52%) Legal
12 7 (3.08%) Back Office
13 5 (2.20%) Electronics
13 5 (2.20%) Games
13 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.76%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.28%) Spring
2 69 (30.40%) NumPy
2 69 (30.40%) Pandas
2 69 (30.40%) SciPy
3 66 (29.07%) gRPC
3 66 (29.07%) Protocol Buffers
4 52 (22.91%) Kafka
5 47 (20.70%) Spring Boot
6 41 (18.06%) React
7 19 (8.37%) JMS
8 18 (7.93%) Node.js
9 16 (7.05%) Akka
9 16 (7.05%) RxJava
9 16 (7.05%) Spring WebFlux
10 15 (6.61%) AngularJS
10 15 (6.61%) RESTful
11 13 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (5.29%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (5.29%) REST
13 11 (4.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (34.36%) Fixed Income
2 75 (33.04%) Derivative
3 73 (32.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 70 (30.84%) Equities
5 61 (26.87%) Hedge funds
5 61 (26.87%) Pricing Data
6 52 (22.91%) Cloud Native
7 26 (11.45%) Algorithms
8 22 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (9.25%) Public Cloud
10 9 (3.96%) Data Structures
10 9 (3.96%) Mobile Banking
11 8 (3.52%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (2.20%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.76%) Blog
13 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.88%) PKI
14 2 (0.88%) Wiki
15 1 (0.44%) Distributed Applications
15 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (97.80%) Software Engineering
2 172 (75.77%) Agile
3 75 (33.04%) Investment Management
4 72 (31.72%) Asset Management
5 71 (31.28%) Microservices
6 66 (29.07%) SDLC
7 63 (27.75%) CI/CD
8 51 (22.47%) Fintech
9 45 (19.82%) Operational Stability
10 42 (18.50%) Community of Practice
11 34 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (14.98%) Machine Learning
12 31 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (13.22%) AI
13 30 (13.22%) TDD
14 29 (12.78%) Multithreading
15 28 (12.33%) Visualisation
16 23 (10.13%) Architectural Patterns
17 22 (9.69%) Open Source
17 22 (9.69%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 227 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (44.93%) TypeScript
3 92 (40.53%) Python
4 89 (39.21%) JavaScript
5 37 (16.30%) Kotlin
6 29 (12.78%) SQL
7 15 (6.61%) Go
8 12 (5.29%) Scala
9 8 (3.52%) C++
10 5 (2.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (4.85%) Degree
2 8 (3.52%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.64%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.76%) PhD
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.76%) QA
2 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 35 (15.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (28.19%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.66%) Terraform
3 8 (3.52%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Istio
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (9.69%) Oracle
2 5 (2.20%) Google
3 4 (1.76%) SAP
4 3 (1.32%) Sybase
5 2 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.44%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.44%) Splunk