Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 373 453
Rank change year-on-year -205 +80 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 160 330 350
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.84% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 139 230 300
10th Percentile £54,500 £58,625 £58,938
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £77,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +2.33% +19.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £149,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +12.68%

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 86,335 39,475 70,908
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.65% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,644 23,957 49,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -185 77 £100,000 -9.09% 33
North of England -16 46 £65,000 - 3
North West +17 35 £70,000 -20.45% 3
South West -73 21 £60,000 +26.32% 4
South East -35 8 £90,000 +28.57% 2
Yorkshire -26 7 £52,130 +48.94%
Midlands -37 5 £60,000 - 6
North East -51 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -37 3 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £72,500 -
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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.

1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 158 (98.75%) Software Engineering
3 66 (41.25%) AWS
4 49 (30.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (26.25%) Agile
5 42 (26.25%) Microservices
5 42 (26.25%) Spring
6 39 (24.38%) Spring Boot
7 29 (18.13%) AI
8 28 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 25 (15.63%) SQL
10 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 20 (12.50%) Kubernetes
10 20 (12.50%) React
11 19 (11.88%) Continuous Deployment
11 19 (11.88%) Python
12 16 (10.00%) Azure
12 16 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 16 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (10.00%) TypeScript
13 15 (9.38%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.38%) SaaS
14 14 (8.75%) Claude Code
14 14 (8.75%) DevOps
14 14 (8.75%) Kafka
14 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
14 14 (8.75%) RESTful
15 13 (8.13%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
15 13 (8.13%) MySQL

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 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.63%) Camunda
1 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 66 (41.25%) AWS
2 16 (10.00%) Azure
3 15 (9.38%) SaaS
4 13 (8.13%) Anthropic Claude
5 10 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (6.25%) GCP
6 2 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.25%) Serverless
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.63%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 13 (8.13%) MySQL
4 10 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.63%) Db2
6 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (8.75%) Claude Code
2 9 (5.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) JUnit
3 1 (0.63%) Selenium
3 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (19.38%) Finance
2 16 (10.00%) Front Office
3 15 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.75%) Banking
5 12 (7.50%) Health Technology
6 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.63%) Law
6 9 (5.63%) Retail
6 9 (5.63%) Tech for Good
7 7 (4.38%) Social Skills
8 5 (3.13%) Back Office
8 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.50%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.25%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.25%) Spring
2 39 (24.38%) Spring Boot
3 20 (12.50%) React
4 14 (8.75%) Kafka
4 14 (8.75%) RESTful
5 13 (8.13%) Node.js
6 10 (6.25%) GraphQL
7 9 (5.63%) REST
8 8 (5.00%) Redux
9 5 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.88%) Next.js
10 3 (1.88%) Vue
11 2 (1.25%) .NET
11 2 (1.25%) Swing
12 1 (0.63%) CSS
12 1 (0.63%) Gherkin
12 1 (0.63%) Hibernate
12 1 (0.63%) HTML
12 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 7 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.50%) Blog
4 4 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.88%) Equities
5 3 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) Derivative
6 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.63%) IoT
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (98.75%) Software Engineering
2 49 (30.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 42 (26.25%) Agile
3 42 (26.25%) Microservices
4 29 (18.13%) AI
5 28 (17.50%) Test Automation
6 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 19 (11.88%) Continuous Deployment
8 16 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 15 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 14 (8.75%) DevOps
11 12 (7.50%) Coaching
11 12 (7.50%) Computer Science
11 12 (7.50%) TDD
12 11 (6.88%) BDD
12 11 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.88%) Fintech
12 11 (6.88%) Investment Management
13 10 (6.25%) Operational Stability
13 10 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (15.63%) SQL
3 19 (11.88%) Python
4 16 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.25%) Go
6 10 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.63%) C#
7 1 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (6.25%) Degree
2 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.50%) Terraform
3 9 (5.63%) Grafana
4 1 (0.63%) Packer
4 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.63%) Google
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.63%) OpenAI