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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 371 410
Rank change year-on-year -217 +39 +160
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 174 292 362
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.68% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.76% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 150 196 276
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £68,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +31.43%
75th Percentile £94,688 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile £100,500 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +35.29%

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 95,479 38,667 64,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 90.37% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67,230 23,165 38,631
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -191 75 £100,000 -9.09% 134
North of England -43 45 £70,000 -3.45% 40
South West -58 38 £60,000 +26.32% 36
North West -16 35 £70,000 -20.45% 24
South East -41 11 £90,000 +28.57% 7
Yorkshire -38 9 £85,000 +17.24% 11
Midlands -52 4 £52,500 -12.50% 10
West Midlands -58 2 £40,000 -33.33% 4
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 6
East of England -27 1 £72,500 -9.38% 1
North East -67 1 £100,000 +53.85% 5
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 174 (100.00%) Java
2 172 (98.85%) Software Engineering
3 46 (26.44%) AWS
4 44 (25.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (25.29%) Spring
5 40 (22.99%) Agile
5 40 (22.99%) Spring Boot
6 28 (16.09%) Microservices
7 25 (14.37%) CI/CD
8 23 (13.22%) Python
9 22 (12.64%) Kubernetes
10 20 (11.49%) Test Automation
11 19 (10.92%) AI
12 18 (10.34%) Clean Code
13 16 (9.20%) React
14 15 (8.62%) Fintech
14 15 (8.62%) Terraform
15 14 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (8.05%) GCP
15 14 (8.05%) Security Cleared
15 14 (8.05%) SQL
16 13 (7.47%) Continuous Deployment
16 13 (7.47%) Deployment Automation
16 13 (7.47%) Grafana
16 13 (7.47%) TeamCity
17 12 (6.90%) Computer Science
17 12 (6.90%) DevOps
17 12 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
18 11 (6.32%) Degree
18 11 (6.32%) JavaScript

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 (1.72%) SharePoint
1 3 (1.72%) Tomcat
1 3 (1.72%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.57%) Camunda
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.44%) AWS
2 14 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (8.05%) GCP
3 11 (6.32%) SaaS
4 10 (5.75%) Azure
5 5 (2.87%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.15%) GitHub
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.30%) MySQL
3 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.57%) Db2
4 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (7.47%) TeamCity
2 5 (2.87%) Claude Code
2 5 (2.87%) Git
3 4 (2.30%) Selenium
4 3 (1.72%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.72%) JUnit
4 3 (1.72%) Mockito
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 26 (14.94%) Finance
2 19 (10.92%) Banking
3 16 (9.20%) Law
4 13 (7.47%) Health Technology
4 13 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (7.47%) Retail
5 10 (5.75%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.75%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.60%) Front Office
7 4 (2.30%) Back Office
7 4 (2.30%) Digital Health
7 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.29%) Spring
2 40 (22.99%) Spring Boot
3 16 (9.20%) React
4 15 (8.62%) Terraform
5 9 (5.17%) RESTful
6 8 (4.60%) Kafka
6 8 (4.60%) REST
7 5 (2.87%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.72%) Jest
8 3 (1.72%) Next.js
8 3 (1.72%) Node.js
8 3 (1.72%) Playwright
8 3 (1.72%) React Native
8 3 (1.72%) Vue
9 2 (1.15%) CSS
9 2 (1.15%) HTML
9 2 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.15%) Swing
10 1 (0.57%) .NET
10 1 (0.57%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.17%) Blog
3 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.30%) Equities
5 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.15%) Derivative
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.57%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (98.85%) Software Engineering
2 44 (25.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 40 (22.99%) Agile
4 28 (16.09%) Microservices
5 25 (14.37%) CI/CD
6 20 (11.49%) Test Automation
7 19 (10.92%) AI
8 18 (10.34%) Clean Code
9 15 (8.62%) Fintech
10 13 (7.47%) Continuous Deployment
10 13 (7.47%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (6.90%) Computer Science
11 12 (6.90%) DevOps
12 10 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (5.75%) SDLC
13 9 (5.17%) Disruptive Innovation
14 8 (4.60%) Design Patterns
14 8 (4.60%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (4.60%) Scrum
15 7 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 174 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (13.22%) Python
3 14 (8.05%) SQL
4 11 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.75%) Kotlin
6 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.45%) C++
8 2 (1.15%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.32%) Degree
3 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.72%) WCAG
2 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (1.72%) IBM
2 1 (0.57%) Google
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.57%) OpenAI