Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 472 516
Rank change year-on-year -16 +44 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 121 208 152
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.42% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.45% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 99 140 128
10th Percentile £68,500 £63,625 £41,500
25th Percentile £79,375 £85,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £107,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +69.29% -27.43%
75th Percentile £118,750 £147,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £132,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £110,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +71.88% -24.71%

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 47,242 46,225 43,242
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 93.21% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,630 24,644 33,926
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,199 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 30 December 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 30 December 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 +9 105 £106,250 -7.61% 68
North of England +3 8 £73,750 +9.26% 70
Yorkshire +3 4 £73,750 +40.48% 24
North West +14 3 £80,000 +23.08% 39
South East +26 2 £80,000 +4.92% 65
Midlands +26 1 £40,000 -11.11% 31
North East 0 1 £55,000 -31.25% 8
South West -1 1 £60,000 +4.35% 24
East Midlands -12 1 £40,000 -11.11% 13
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 28
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, 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.

1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 111 (91.74%) Software Engineering
3 83 (68.60%) AWS
4 63 (52.07%) Agile
5 43 (35.54%) JavaScript
5 43 (35.54%) Python
5 43 (35.54%) TypeScript
6 39 (32.23%) Investment Management
7 37 (30.58%) Amazon Athena
7 37 (30.58%) Apache
7 37 (30.58%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (30.58%) Apache Arrow
7 37 (30.58%) Apache Iceberg
7 37 (30.58%) Apache Ignite
7 37 (30.58%) Asset Management
7 37 (30.58%) Data Lake
7 37 (30.58%) dbt
7 37 (30.58%) Dremio
7 37 (30.58%) gRPC
7 37 (30.58%) NumPy
7 37 (30.58%) Pandas
7 37 (30.58%) Protocol Buffers
7 37 (30.58%) SciPy
7 37 (30.58%) Snowflake
8 35 (28.93%) Microservices
9 33 (27.27%) Spring
10 28 (23.14%) Spring Boot
11 27 (22.31%) Kubernetes
12 25 (20.66%) Fintech
13 19 (15.70%) CI/CD

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 37 (30.58%) Apache
1 37 (30.58%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 83 (68.60%) AWS
2 37 (30.58%) dbt
2 37 (30.58%) Snowflake
3 13 (10.74%) SaaS
4 8 (6.61%) GCP
5 7 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.65%) Serverless
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.83%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) AMQP
2 1 (0.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.58%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (30.58%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (30.58%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (30.58%) Apache Ignite
1 37 (30.58%) Data Lake
1 37 (30.58%) Dremio
2 12 (9.92%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.65%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) JUnit
3 1 (0.83%) Appium
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Gradle
3 1 (0.83%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 76 (62.81%) Finance
2 53 (43.80%) Banking
3 42 (34.71%) Front Office
4 38 (31.40%) Investment Banking
5 23 (19.01%) Financial Institution
6 11 (9.09%) Retail
7 7 (5.79%) Back Office
7 7 (5.79%) Games
7 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.79%) Law
8 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) Social Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Marketing
10 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.83%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.58%) gRPC
1 37 (30.58%) NumPy
1 37 (30.58%) Pandas
1 37 (30.58%) Protocol Buffers
1 37 (30.58%) SciPy
2 33 (27.27%) Spring
3 28 (23.14%) Spring Boot
4 19 (15.70%) Kafka
5 16 (13.22%) RabbitMQ
6 14 (11.57%) Akka
6 14 (11.57%) RxJava
6 14 (11.57%) Spring WebFlux
7 12 (9.92%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (9.92%) JMS
8 8 (6.61%) React
9 6 (4.96%) RESTful
10 5 (4.13%) Hibernate
11 4 (3.31%) J2EE
11 4 (3.31%) Node.js
11 4 (3.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (32.23%) Derivative
1 39 (32.23%) Fixed Income
2 38 (31.40%) Equities
3 37 (30.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (30.58%) Hedge funds
3 37 (30.58%) Pricing Data
4 12 (9.92%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.79%) Blog
6 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.65%) NHS
7 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (91.74%) Software Engineering
2 63 (52.07%) Agile
3 39 (32.23%) Investment Management
4 37 (30.58%) Asset Management
5 35 (28.93%) Microservices
6 25 (20.66%) Fintech
7 19 (15.70%) CI/CD
8 17 (14.05%) Pair Programming
8 17 (14.05%) TDD
9 16 (13.22%) BDD
10 15 (12.40%) Concurrent Programming
10 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.40%) Multithreading
11 13 (10.74%) High Availability
11 13 (10.74%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (6.61%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (6.61%) Clean Code
13 8 (6.61%) Design Patterns
13 8 (6.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (35.54%) JavaScript
2 43 (35.54%) Python
2 43 (35.54%) TypeScript
3 8 (6.61%) Kotlin
4 6 (4.96%) SQL
5 3 (2.48%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) Degree
2 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.65%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (15.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.44%) Terraform
3 7 (5.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Istio
4 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (0.83%) ForgeRock