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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 356 462
Rank change year-on-year -215 +106 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 165 327 353
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.75% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.83% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 141 227 302
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,250 £58,938
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £149,875
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 84,621 39,389 73,475
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 90.67% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,428 23,865 52,103
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,925 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 26 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 26 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 -181 77 £100,000 -9.09% 26
North of England -9 48 £65,000 - 2
North West +22 37 £70,000 -20.45% 2
South West -66 23 £60,000 +26.32% 4
South East -30 8 £90,000 +28.57% 1
Yorkshire -33 7 £52,130 +48.94%
Midlands -41 5 £60,000 - 5
North East -48 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -28 3 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £72,500 -
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 165 (100.00%) Java
2 163 (98.79%) Software Engineering
3 65 (39.39%) AWS
4 49 (29.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (27.88%) Spring
6 45 (27.27%) Agile
7 44 (26.67%) Microservices
8 42 (25.45%) Spring Boot
9 29 (17.58%) AI
9 29 (17.58%) Test Automation
10 25 (15.15%) SQL
11 23 (13.94%) CI/CD
12 21 (12.73%) Kubernetes
13 20 (12.12%) React
14 19 (11.52%) Continuous Deployment
14 19 (11.52%) Python
15 17 (10.30%) Azure
15 17 (10.30%) Clean Code
15 17 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (9.70%) Mentoring
16 16 (9.70%) SaaS
16 16 (9.70%) TypeScript
17 15 (9.09%) Claude Code
17 15 (9.09%) DevOps
18 14 (8.48%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (8.48%) Kafka
18 14 (8.48%) NoSQL
18 14 (8.48%) RESTful
18 14 (8.48%) TDD
19 13 (7.88%) Coaching

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 (0.61%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.61%) Camunda
1 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 65 (39.39%) AWS
2 17 (10.30%) Azure
3 16 (9.70%) SaaS
4 14 (8.48%) Anthropic Claude
5 10 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (6.06%) GCP
6 3 (1.82%) Serverless
7 2 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.61%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.48%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.88%) MySQL
4 10 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.61%) Db2
6 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.09%) Claude Code
2 9 (5.45%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.21%) JIRA
3 2 (1.21%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.61%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.61%) JUnit
4 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 32 (19.39%) Finance
2 16 (9.70%) Front Office
2 16 (9.70%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.48%) Banking
4 11 (6.67%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.45%) Law
5 9 (5.45%) Retail
6 8 (4.85%) Tech for Good
7 6 (3.64%) Back Office
7 6 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.64%) Social Skills
8 4 (2.42%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.21%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.88%) Spring
2 42 (25.45%) Spring Boot
3 20 (12.12%) React
4 14 (8.48%) Kafka
4 14 (8.48%) RESTful
5 13 (7.88%) Node.js
6 10 (6.06%) GraphQL
7 9 (5.45%) REST
8 8 (4.85%) Redux
9 6 (3.64%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (3.03%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.82%) Vue
12 2 (1.21%) .NET
12 2 (1.21%) Next.js
12 2 (1.21%) Swing
13 1 (0.61%) CSS
13 1 (0.61%) Hibernate
13 1 (0.61%) HTML
13 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
13 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.85%) Fixed Income
3 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.82%) Blog
5 3 (1.82%) Equities
6 2 (1.21%) Derivative
6 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.61%) IoT
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (98.79%) Software Engineering
2 49 (29.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 45 (27.27%) Agile
4 44 (26.67%) Microservices
5 29 (17.58%) AI
5 29 (17.58%) Test Automation
6 23 (13.94%) CI/CD
7 19 (11.52%) Continuous Deployment
8 17 (10.30%) Clean Code
9 16 (9.70%) Mentoring
10 15 (9.09%) DevOps
11 14 (8.48%) TDD
12 13 (7.88%) Coaching
13 12 (7.27%) BDD
13 12 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.67%) Computer Science
14 11 (6.67%) Investment Management
15 10 (6.06%) Fintech
15 10 (6.06%) Open Source
15 10 (6.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (15.15%) SQL
3 19 (11.52%) Python
4 16 (9.70%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.88%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.06%) Go
7 9 (5.45%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.61%) C#
8 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (5.45%) Degree
2 7 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.88%) Terraform
3 9 (5.45%) Grafana
4 2 (1.21%) Packer
4 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle
2 1 (0.61%) Google
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.61%) OpenAI