Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 457 574
Rank change year-on-year -51 +117 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 177 187 272
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 139 180 247
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £147,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.93% +43.33% -11.76%

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 74,941 35,125 79,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.53% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50,440 21,315 60,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -52 107 £100,000 -9.09% 18
North of England -26 38 £65,000 - 6
North West +12 29 £80,000 +23.08% 5
South West -43 17 £60,000 +26.32% 4
South East -19 8 £90,000 +28.57% 6
Yorkshire -48 5 £52,130 +48.94% 1
North East -41 4 £53,565 -17.59%
Midlands -40 3 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands -31 1 £80,000 +33.33%
East of England - 1 £75,000 - 3
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Java
2 169 (95.48%) Software Engineering
3 72 (40.68%) AWS
4 48 (27.12%) Spring
5 46 (25.99%) Spring Boot
6 45 (25.42%) Agile
7 42 (23.73%) Microservices
8 38 (21.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (20.34%) Test Automation
10 30 (16.95%) CI/CD
10 30 (16.95%) Kubernetes
11 29 (16.38%) SQL
12 28 (15.82%) AI
13 26 (14.69%) React
14 23 (12.99%) Clean Code
14 23 (12.99%) Continuous Deployment
15 22 (12.43%) DevOps
16 21 (11.86%) Mentoring
16 21 (11.86%) SaaS
17 19 (10.73%) Terraform
18 18 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
19 17 (9.60%) Azure
19 17 (9.60%) Docker
19 17 (9.60%) Fintech
20 16 (9.04%) Node.js
20 16 (9.04%) TDD
21 15 (8.47%) Claude Code
21 15 (8.47%) Open Source
21 15 (8.47%) Python
21 15 (8.47%) TypeScript

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 (0.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.68%) AWS
2 21 (11.86%) SaaS
3 17 (9.60%) Azure
4 14 (7.91%) Anthropic Claude
4 14 (7.91%) GCP
5 13 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.39%) Serverless
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.21%) MySQL
4 10 (5.65%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) DB2
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.47%) Claude Code
2 13 (7.34%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.13%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.56%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.56%) JUnit
4 1 (0.56%) Maven
4 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 34 (19.21%) Finance
2 22 (12.43%) Banking
3 18 (10.17%) Front Office
4 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.91%) Retail
6 13 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.34%) Law
7 9 (5.08%) Back Office
7 9 (5.08%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.95%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.82%) Health Technology
10 4 (2.26%) Games
11 3 (1.69%) Marketing
12 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Aviation
13 1 (0.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (27.12%) Spring
2 46 (25.99%) Spring Boot
3 26 (14.69%) React
4 16 (9.04%) Node.js
5 13 (7.34%) RESTful
6 12 (6.78%) Kafka
7 10 (5.65%) REST
8 9 (5.08%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.52%) Redux
10 7 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (3.39%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.82%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.82%) J2EE
12 5 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.26%) Vue
13 4 (2.26%) XML
14 3 (1.69%) JSON
14 3 (1.69%) SOAP
14 3 (1.69%) Spring Security
14 3 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.08%) Blog
3 8 (4.52%) Fixed Income
4 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.26%) Derivative
5 4 (2.26%) Equities
6 3 (1.69%) NHS
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (95.48%) Software Engineering
2 45 (25.42%) Agile
3 42 (23.73%) Microservices
4 38 (21.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 30 (16.95%) CI/CD
7 28 (15.82%) AI
8 23 (12.99%) Clean Code
8 23 (12.99%) Continuous Deployment
9 22 (12.43%) DevOps
10 21 (11.86%) Mentoring
11 17 (9.60%) Fintech
12 16 (9.04%) TDD
13 15 (8.47%) Open Source
14 14 (7.91%) Design Patterns
15 13 (7.34%) BDD
15 13 (7.34%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (7.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (6.78%) Coaching
16 12 (6.78%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 177 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (16.38%) SQL
3 15 (8.47%) Python
3 15 (8.47%) TypeScript
4 12 (6.78%) Go
4 12 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.21%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (5.65%) Degree
2 6 (3.39%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.13%) QA
System Software
1 17 (9.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.73%) Terraform
3 13 (7.34%) Grafana
4 2 (1.13%) Packer
4 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft