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 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 417 545
Rank change year-on-year +40 +128 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 295 378 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.58% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 199 289 160
10th Percentile £58,500 £65,000 £52,375
25th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £117,500
90th Percentile - - £150,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £86,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% +33.33% -1.43%

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 39,014 65,405 51,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.19% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,405 39,738 39,633
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +20 232 £110,000 -4.35% 8
South West +58 20 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North of England +24 19 £72,500 +9.05% 4
North West +6 13 £88,000 +58.56% 3
Midlands +59 11 £60,000 -14.57% 1
West Midlands +57 11 £60,000 -14.57% 1
South East +55 8 £70,000 -37.78% 7
North East +17 4 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Yorkshire +14 2 £71,250 +8.84% 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 295 (100.00%) Java
1 295 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 238 (80.68%) Finance
3 237 (80.34%) Agile
4 221 (74.92%) AWS
5 163 (55.25%) Banking
6 144 (48.81%) TypeScript
7 136 (46.10%) JavaScript
8 129 (43.73%) Front Office
9 123 (41.69%) Python
10 122 (41.36%) Fixed Income
11 119 (40.34%) Investment Management
12 117 (39.66%) Apache Iceberg
13 116 (39.32%) Asset Management
14 115 (38.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 113 (38.31%) SciPy
15 113 (38.31%) NumPy
15 113 (38.31%) Pandas
15 113 (38.31%) Apache Arrow
15 113 (38.31%) Apache Airflow
15 113 (38.31%) Amazon Athena
15 113 (38.31%) Dremio
15 113 (38.31%) dbt
16 112 (37.97%) Equities
17 107 (36.27%) Investment Banking
18 105 (35.59%) Derivative
19 97 (32.88%) Spring
20 94 (31.86%) Protocol Buffers
20 94 (31.86%) Microservices
20 94 (31.86%) gRPC

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
1 113 (38.31%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (30.51%) Apache
3 5 (1.69%) Confluence
4 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 221 (74.92%) AWS
2 113 (38.31%) dbt
3 89 (30.17%) Snowflake
4 39 (13.22%) GCP
5 14 (4.75%) GitHub
6 13 (4.41%) Azure
7 11 (3.73%) Serverless
8 7 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.69%) SaaS
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.02%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.68%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) SSL
2 2 (0.68%) Broadband
2 2 (0.68%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (39.66%) Apache Iceberg
2 113 (38.31%) Amazon Athena
2 113 (38.31%) Apache Arrow
2 113 (38.31%) Dremio
3 89 (30.17%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (30.17%) Data Lake
4 37 (12.54%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (8.81%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.78%) MongoDB
7 14 (4.75%) Big Data
8 11 (3.73%) MySQL
9 8 (2.71%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.37%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.37%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.69%) Redis
13 4 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.36%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.36%) Spark SQL
14 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (5.08%) Git
2 11 (3.73%) JUnit
3 8 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.03%) GitLab
4 6 (2.03%) Maven
4 6 (2.03%) Mockito
4 6 (2.03%) Selenium
5 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.36%) git-flow
6 4 (1.36%) JIRA
6 4 (1.36%) Vite
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.68%) Spock
7 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.34%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
General
1 238 (80.68%) Finance
2 163 (55.25%) Banking
3 129 (43.73%) Front Office
4 107 (36.27%) Investment Banking
5 91 (30.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (27.80%) Law
7 33 (11.19%) Financial Institution
8 23 (7.80%) Social Skills
9 18 (6.10%) Marketing
10 11 (3.73%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (2.71%) Legal
13 5 (1.69%) Electronics
13 5 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.36%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.68%) Advertising
15 2 (0.68%) Games
15 2 (0.68%) Retail
16 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (38.31%) NumPy
1 113 (38.31%) Pandas
1 113 (38.31%) SciPy
2 97 (32.88%) Spring
3 94 (31.86%) gRPC
3 94 (31.86%) Protocol Buffers
4 71 (24.07%) Kafka
5 61 (20.68%) Spring Boot
6 60 (20.34%) React
7 41 (13.90%) AngularJS
8 36 (12.20%) Node.js
9 24 (8.14%) Vue
10 23 (7.80%) Akka
10 23 (7.80%) RxJava
10 23 (7.80%) Spring WebFlux
11 15 (5.08%) JMS
12 14 (4.75%) REST
13 11 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.73%) RESTful
13 11 (3.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (41.36%) Fixed Income
2 115 (38.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 112 (37.97%) Equities
4 105 (35.59%) Derivative
5 89 (30.17%) Hedge funds
5 89 (30.17%) Pricing Data
6 45 (15.25%) Cloud Native
7 29 (9.83%) Algorithms
8 22 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (7.46%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.73%) Data Structures
10 9 (3.05%) Mobile Banking
11 8 (2.71%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.36%) Wiki
14 2 (0.68%) Online Games
14 2 (0.68%) PKI
14 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 237 (80.34%) Agile
3 119 (40.34%) Investment Management
4 116 (39.32%) Asset Management
5 94 (31.86%) Microservices
6 75 (25.42%) SDLC
7 70 (23.73%) Fintech
8 62 (21.02%) CI/CD
9 47 (15.93%) TDD
10 45 (15.25%) Operational Stability
11 43 (14.58%) Multithreading
12 42 (14.24%) Community of Practice
13 37 (12.54%) Risk Management
14 34 (11.53%) Artificial Intelligence
14 34 (11.53%) Order Management
15 33 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (10.51%) DevOps
17 30 (10.17%) Machine Learning
18 28 (9.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 144 (48.81%) TypeScript
3 136 (46.10%) JavaScript
4 123 (41.69%) Python
5 33 (11.19%) Kotlin
5 33 (11.19%) SQL
6 15 (5.08%) Go
7 12 (4.07%) Scala
8 11 (3.73%) C++
9 5 (1.69%) Rust
10 4 (1.36%) C#
11 2 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) Fortran
12 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (3.73%) Degree
2 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
2 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
2 6 (2.03%) PhD
2 6 (2.03%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.68%) QA
2 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (23.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 86 (29.15%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.14%) Terraform
3 3 (1.02%) Grafana
4 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (8.14%) Oracle
2 5 (1.69%) Google
3 4 (1.36%) SAP
4 3 (1.02%) Sybase
5 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.34%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.34%) Splunk