Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 367 478
Rank change year-on-year -192 +111 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 174 316 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.73% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.81% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 144 216 332
10th Percentile £53,250 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £110,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% +12.82% +8.33%
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 82,694 39,203 81,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 90.51% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,229 23,636 58,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year - +4.66% -12.42%

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 17 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 17 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 -154 83 £100,000 -9.09% 17
North of England -2 47 £65,000 - 6
North West +16 37 £70,000 -20.45% 4
South West -50 26 £60,000 +26.32% 4
South East -23 8 £90,000 +28.57% 9
Yorkshire -32 6 £52,130 +48.94% 2
Midlands -36 5 £60,000 - 5
North East -56 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -27 3 £45,000 -25.00% 1
East of England - 2 £73,750 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 4
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 174 (100.00%) Java
2 173 (99.43%) Software Engineering
3 70 (40.23%) AWS
4 51 (29.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 51 (29.31%) Spring
5 47 (27.01%) Agile
6 46 (26.44%) Microservices
7 43 (24.71%) Spring Boot
8 36 (20.69%) Test Automation
9 32 (18.39%) AI
10 29 (16.67%) CI/CD
11 27 (15.52%) SQL
12 26 (14.94%) Kubernetes
13 23 (13.22%) Continuous Deployment
14 22 (12.64%) Clean Code
14 22 (12.64%) React
15 20 (11.49%) SaaS
16 19 (10.92%) DevOps
16 19 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (10.34%) Python
17 18 (10.34%) Terraform
18 17 (9.77%) Azure
19 16 (9.20%) Claude Code
19 16 (9.20%) Mentoring
20 15 (8.62%) Anthropic Claude
20 15 (8.62%) TDD
20 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
21 14 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
21 14 (8.05%) GCP
21 14 (8.05%) Node.js

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 70 (40.23%) AWS
2 20 (11.49%) SaaS
3 17 (9.77%) Azure
4 15 (8.62%) Anthropic Claude
5 14 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (8.05%) GCP
6 4 (2.30%) Serverless
7 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.90%) MySQL
4 10 (5.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.15%) 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 (9.20%) Claude Code
2 13 (7.47%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.15%) JIRA
3 2 (1.15%) 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 (18.97%) Finance
2 18 (10.34%) Banking
3 17 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.20%) Front Office
5 14 (8.05%) Retail
6 13 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.47%) Law
7 10 (5.75%) Health Technology
8 9 (5.17%) Back Office
8 9 (5.17%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.45%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.30%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.72%) Social Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Games
13 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (29.31%) Spring
2 43 (24.71%) Spring Boot
3 22 (12.64%) React
4 14 (8.05%) Node.js
5 13 (7.47%) Kafka
5 13 (7.47%) RESTful
6 11 (6.32%) REST
7 10 (5.75%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.60%) Redux
9 7 (4.02%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.30%) Vue
12 2 (1.15%) .NET
12 2 (1.15%) CSS
12 2 (1.15%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.15%) HTML
12 2 (1.15%) Spring Security
12 2 (1.15%) Swing
12 2 (1.15%) XML
13 1 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.60%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.30%) Blog
5 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.72%) Equities
6 2 (1.15%) 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 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (99.43%) Software Engineering
2 51 (29.31%) Full-Stack Development
3 47 (27.01%) Agile
4 46 (26.44%) Microservices
5 36 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 32 (18.39%) AI
7 29 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 23 (13.22%) Continuous Deployment
9 22 (12.64%) Clean Code
10 19 (10.92%) DevOps
11 16 (9.20%) Mentoring
12 15 (8.62%) TDD
13 13 (7.47%) BDD
13 13 (7.47%) Coaching
13 13 (7.47%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (7.47%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (6.90%) Data Science
14 12 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (6.32%) Fintech
15 11 (6.32%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 174 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (15.52%) SQL
3 18 (10.34%) Python
4 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.47%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.32%) Go
7 8 (4.60%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) C#
8 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (4.60%) Degree
2 7 (4.02%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (14.94%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.34%) Terraform
3 13 (7.47%) Grafana
4 2 (1.15%) Packer
4 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (1.72%) Oracle
2 1 (0.57%) Google
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.57%) OpenAI