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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 375 416
Rank change year-on-year -189 +41 +145
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 197 283 364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.72% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 168 187 274
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +39.39%
75th Percentile £90,938 £135,000 £148,438
90th Percentile £101,500 - £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +40.67%

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 96,512 39,065 63,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 90.52% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,878 23,017 36,945
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -177 82 £100,000 -9.09% 84
North of England -36 57 £70,000 -3.45% 29
North West -1 42 £70,000 -20.45% 22
South West -55 39 £60,000 +26.32% 39
South East -54 13 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Yorkshire -26 11 £65,000 -10.34% 5
Midlands -52 5 £55,000 -8.33% 9
West Midlands -54 4 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North East -65 4 £77,500 +19.23% 2
East of England -28 1 £72,500 -9.38% 2
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 5
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 197 (100.00%) Java
2 195 (98.98%) Software Engineering
3 50 (25.38%) AWS
4 45 (22.84%) Agile
5 44 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (20.30%) Spring
7 35 (17.77%) Spring Boot
8 31 (15.74%) Python
9 29 (14.72%) Microservices
10 28 (14.21%) CI/CD
11 25 (12.69%) Kubernetes
12 23 (11.68%) AI
13 22 (11.17%) Test Automation
14 20 (10.15%) Clean Code
15 18 (9.14%) Fintech
16 17 (8.63%) Continuous Deployment
17 16 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (8.12%) GCP
17 16 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (8.12%) Security Cleared
17 16 (8.12%) SQL
17 16 (8.12%) Terraform
18 15 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
18 15 (7.61%) Grafana
18 15 (7.61%) TeamCity
19 13 (6.60%) Azure
19 13 (6.60%) React
20 12 (6.09%) Computer Science
20 12 (6.09%) DevOps
20 12 (6.09%) SaaS

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 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
1 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
1 3 (1.52%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.51%) Camunda
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.38%) AWS
2 16 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
2 16 (8.12%) GCP
3 13 (6.60%) Azure
4 12 (6.09%) SaaS
5 9 (4.57%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (3.05%) GitHub
7 5 (2.54%) ChatGPT
7 5 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.05%) MySQL
3 5 (2.54%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.51%) Db2
5 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (7.61%) TeamCity
2 9 (4.57%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.54%) Git
4 4 (2.03%) Selenium
5 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.52%) JUnit
5 3 (1.52%) Mockito
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 31 (15.74%) Finance
2 24 (12.18%) Banking
3 18 (9.14%) Law
4 15 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.61%) Retail
5 14 (7.11%) Health Technology
6 12 (6.09%) Front Office
7 11 (5.58%) Tech for Good
8 10 (5.08%) Social Skills
9 5 (2.54%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.03%) Back Office
10 4 (2.03%) Digital Health
10 4 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.30%) Spring
2 35 (17.77%) Spring Boot
3 16 (8.12%) Terraform
4 13 (6.60%) React
5 10 (5.08%) RESTful
6 8 (4.06%) Kafka
7 6 (3.05%) REST
8 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.52%) Jest
8 3 (1.52%) Next.js
8 3 (1.52%) Playwright
8 3 (1.52%) React Native
8 3 (1.52%) Vue
9 2 (1.02%) Ajax
9 2 (1.02%) CSS
9 2 (1.02%) HTML
9 2 (1.02%) Node.js
9 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.02%) Swing
10 1 (0.51%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.58%) Blog
3 8 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.06%) Equities
4 6 (3.05%) Derivative
4 6 (3.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.54%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (2.54%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.54%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) IoT
8 1 (0.51%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (98.98%) Software Engineering
2 45 (22.84%) Agile
3 44 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (14.72%) Microservices
5 28 (14.21%) CI/CD
6 23 (11.68%) AI
7 22 (11.17%) Test Automation
8 20 (10.15%) Clean Code
9 18 (9.14%) Fintech
10 17 (8.63%) Continuous Deployment
11 15 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (6.09%) Computer Science
12 12 (6.09%) DevOps
13 11 (5.58%) Disruptive Innovation
13 11 (5.58%) SDLC
14 9 (4.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (4.57%) Scrum
15 8 (4.06%) Investment Management
15 8 (4.06%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (4.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 197 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (15.74%) Python
3 16 (8.12%) SQL
4 11 (5.58%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.08%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.06%) C++
7 6 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.02%) Go
9 1 (0.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (8.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.58%) Degree
3 5 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.52%) WCAG
2 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (12.69%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (1.52%) IBM
2 1 (0.51%) Google
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.51%) OpenAI