Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 367 482
Rank change year-on-year -175 +115 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 176 317 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.73% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.81% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 145 217 340
10th Percentile £53,500 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £67,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 82,580 39,236 83,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.36% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,047 23,648 61,154
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -163 85 £100,000 -9.09% 21
North of England -3 47 £65,000 - 3
North West +6 37 £70,000 -8.50% 1
South West -61 25 £60,000 +26.32% 4
South East -20 9 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Yorkshire -31 6 £52,130 +48.94% 2
Midlands -38 5 £60,000 - 1
North East -50 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -29 3 £45,000 -25.00%
East of England - 2 £73,750 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 176 (100.00%) Java
2 175 (99.43%) Software Engineering
3 72 (40.91%) AWS
4 52 (29.55%) Spring
5 51 (28.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (26.70%) Agile
7 46 (26.14%) Microservices
8 44 (25.00%) Spring Boot
9 37 (21.02%) Test Automation
10 32 (18.18%) AI
11 30 (17.05%) CI/CD
12 27 (15.34%) Kubernetes
12 27 (15.34%) SQL
13 24 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
14 23 (13.07%) Clean Code
15 22 (12.50%) React
16 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
16 20 (11.36%) SaaS
17 19 (10.80%) DevOps
17 19 (10.80%) Terraform
18 17 (9.66%) Azure
18 17 (9.66%) Python
19 16 (9.09%) Claude Code
19 16 (9.09%) Mentoring
20 15 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
20 15 (8.52%) Anthropic Claude
20 15 (8.52%) GCP
20 15 (8.52%) TDD
20 15 (8.52%) TypeScript
21 14 (7.95%) Deployment Automation

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 (0.57%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.57%) Camunda
1 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.91%) AWS
2 20 (11.36%) SaaS
3 17 (9.66%) Azure
4 15 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (8.52%) Anthropic Claude
4 15 (8.52%) GCP
5 4 (2.27%) Serverless
6 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.82%) MySQL
4 10 (5.68%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.57%) Db2
6 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Claude Code
2 14 (7.95%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.14%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.57%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) Maven
4 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 33 (18.75%) Finance
2 19 (10.80%) Banking
3 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.09%) Front Office
5 15 (8.52%) Retail
6 14 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.95%) Law
7 10 (5.68%) Health Technology
8 9 (5.11%) Back Office
8 9 (5.11%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.41%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.27%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.70%) Games
11 3 (1.70%) Social Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (29.55%) Spring
2 44 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 22 (12.50%) React
4 14 (7.95%) Node.js
5 13 (7.39%) RESTful
6 12 (6.82%) Kafka
7 11 (6.25%) REST
8 10 (5.68%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.55%) Redux
10 7 (3.98%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.27%) Vue
13 2 (1.14%) .NET
13 2 (1.14%) CSS
13 2 (1.14%) Hibernate
13 2 (1.14%) HTML
13 2 (1.14%) Spring Security
13 2 (1.14%) Swing
13 2 (1.14%) XML
14 1 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.84%) Blog
5 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.70%) Equities
6 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.57%) IoT
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (99.43%) Software Engineering
2 51 (28.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 47 (26.70%) Agile
4 46 (26.14%) Microservices
5 37 (21.02%) Test Automation
6 32 (18.18%) AI
7 30 (17.05%) CI/CD
8 24 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
9 23 (13.07%) Clean Code
10 19 (10.80%) DevOps
11 16 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 15 (8.52%) TDD
13 14 (7.95%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (7.39%) BDD
14 13 (7.39%) Coaching
14 13 (7.39%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (6.82%) Data Science
15 12 (6.82%) Fintech
15 12 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (6.25%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (15.34%) SQL
3 17 (9.66%) Python
4 15 (8.52%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.25%) Go
7 8 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) C#
8 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (4.55%) Degree
2 6 (3.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.80%) Terraform
3 14 (7.95%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) Packer
4 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (1.70%) Oracle
2 1 (0.57%) Google
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.57%) OpenAI