Java Software Engineer Jobs 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 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 513 506
Rank change year-on-year +102 -7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 306 377 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.40% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.42% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 206 341 276
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £48,875
25th Percentile £78,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £152,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +2.86% +8.98%

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 46,591 89,029 71,864
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 94.69% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 25,541 64,613 48,525
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,620 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +80 241 £110,000 -4.35% 193
South West +110 23 £47,500 -13.64% 17
North of England +28 22 £65,000 -0.71% 25
North West -16 16 £76,500 +16.86% 18
Midlands +76 11 £60,000 -8.35% 8
West Midlands +72 11 £60,000 -8.35% 6
South East +69 8 £70,000 -20.00% 59
Yorkshire +49 3 £35,000 -46.54% 3
North East +42 3 £65,000 -0.71% 4
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Java Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 306 (100.00%) Java
1 306 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 243 (79.41%) Agile
3 240 (78.43%) Finance
4 221 (72.22%) AWS
5 162 (52.94%) Banking
6 125 (40.85%) Front Office
7 122 (39.87%) TypeScript
8 118 (38.56%) Fixed Income
8 118 (38.56%) Python
9 117 (38.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 116 (37.91%) JavaScript
11 115 (37.58%) Apache Iceberg
12 114 (37.25%) Asset Management
13 111 (36.27%) Apache Arrow
13 111 (36.27%) Apache Airflow
13 111 (36.27%) Amazon Athena
13 111 (36.27%) Dremio
13 111 (36.27%) dbt
14 110 (35.95%) Equities
15 105 (34.31%) Investment Banking
16 103 (33.66%) Derivative
17 102 (33.33%) Spring
18 101 (33.01%) Microservices
19 95 (31.05%) Pandas
19 95 (31.05%) SciPy
19 95 (31.05%) NumPy
20 93 (30.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 89 (29.08%) Kubernetes
22 88 (28.76%) Investment Management

Java Software Engineer 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
1 111 (36.27%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (28.76%) Apache
3 7 (2.29%) Confluence
4 4 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 221 (72.22%) AWS
2 111 (36.27%) dbt
3 87 (28.43%) Snowflake
4 53 (17.32%) GCP
5 18 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (4.90%) Azure
6 15 (4.90%) GitHub
7 13 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (3.59%) Dagster
8 11 (3.59%) Serverless
9 7 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (0.98%) SaaS
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.65%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.98%) SSL
2 2 (0.65%) Broadband
2 2 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (37.58%) Apache Iceberg
2 111 (36.27%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (36.27%) Apache Arrow
2 111 (36.27%) Dremio
3 71 (23.20%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (23.20%) Data Lake
4 36 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (8.50%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.58%) Big Data
7 13 (4.25%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.25%) MySQL
8 10 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.29%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.29%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.63%) Redis
12 4 (1.31%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.31%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.90%) Git
2 13 (4.25%) JUnit
3 9 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.29%) JIRA
5 6 (1.96%) Maven
5 6 (1.96%) Mockito
5 6 (1.96%) Selenium
6 5 (1.63%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.63%) GitLab
7 4 (1.31%) git-flow
7 4 (1.31%) Vite
8 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.65%) NetBeans
8 2 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.65%) Spock
8 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.33%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 240 (78.43%) Finance
2 162 (52.94%) Banking
3 125 (40.85%) Front Office
4 105 (34.31%) Investment Banking
5 93 (30.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (27.78%) Law
7 35 (11.44%) Financial Institution
8 26 (8.50%) Social Skills
9 17 (5.56%) Marketing
10 12 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.27%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.61%) Legal
13 5 (1.63%) Electronics
13 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.31%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.31%) Wholesale Banking
15 3 (0.98%) Online Betting
15 3 (0.98%) Retail
16 2 (0.65%) Advertising
16 2 (0.65%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (33.33%) Spring
2 95 (31.05%) NumPy
2 95 (31.05%) Pandas
2 95 (31.05%) SciPy
3 76 (24.84%) gRPC
3 76 (24.84%) Protocol Buffers
4 71 (23.20%) Kafka
5 64 (20.92%) Spring Boot
6 60 (19.61%) React
7 51 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 34 (11.11%) Node.js
9 27 (8.82%) PySpark
10 25 (8.17%) Akka
11 24 (7.84%) Vue
12 17 (5.56%) RxJava
12 17 (5.56%) Spring WebFlux
13 13 (4.25%) REST
14 11 (3.59%) Web Services
15 10 (3.27%) .NET
15 10 (3.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 118 (38.56%) Fixed Income
2 117 (38.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 110 (35.95%) Equities
4 103 (33.66%) Derivative
5 87 (28.43%) Hedge funds
6 60 (19.61%) Pricing Data
7 44 (14.38%) Cloud Native
8 33 (10.78%) Algorithms
9 22 (7.19%) Public Cloud
10 21 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (3.59%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.94%) Mobile Banking
13 8 (2.61%) Equity Derivative
14 7 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
16 4 (1.31%) Wiki
17 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
17 2 (0.65%) Online Games
17 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
18 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 243 (79.41%) Agile
3 114 (37.25%) Asset Management
4 101 (33.01%) Microservices
5 88 (28.76%) Investment Management
6 74 (24.18%) SDLC
7 72 (23.53%) CI/CD
7 72 (23.53%) Fintech
8 54 (17.65%) TDD
9 45 (14.71%) Operational Stability
10 42 (13.73%) Community of Practice
11 41 (13.40%) DevOps
11 41 (13.40%) Multithreading
12 40 (13.07%) Risk Management
13 37 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
14 33 (10.78%) Containerisation
15 32 (10.46%) Order Management
16 30 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (9.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 306 (100.00%) Java
2 122 (39.87%) TypeScript
3 118 (38.56%) Python
4 116 (37.91%) JavaScript
5 50 (16.34%) SQL
6 32 (10.46%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.25%) Go
8 12 (3.92%) Scala
9 11 (3.59%) C++
10 5 (1.63%) Rust
11 4 (1.31%) C#
12 2 (0.65%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) Fortran
13 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (4.25%) Degree
2 6 (1.96%) AWS Certification
2 6 (1.96%) Master's Degree
2 6 (1.96%) PhD
2 6 (1.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.65%) Def Stans
1 2 (0.65%) IEC 61508
1 2 (0.65%) QA
2 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 72 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 89 (29.08%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.52%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) Grafana
4 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (8.17%) Oracle
2 6 (1.96%) Google
3 4 (1.31%) SAP
4 3 (0.98%) Sybase
5 2 (0.65%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.65%) Databricks
5 2 (0.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.33%) CA Agile Central