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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 372 519
Rank change year-on-year -163 +147 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 179 290 349
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.73% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.82% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 147 189 313
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +19.44% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +5.88%

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 78,099 35,564 89,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.90% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 54,949 20,661 66,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,926 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -134 92 £100,000 -9.09% 9
North of England -4 46 £65,000 - 8
North West +27 37 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South West -54 24 £60,000 +26.32% 5
South East -17 8 £90,000 +28.57% 8
Yorkshire -35 5 £52,130 +48.94%
Midlands -19 4 £60,000 - 5
North East -43 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -30 2 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East of England - 2 £73,750 -
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Java
1 179 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 70 (39.11%) AWS
3 54 (30.17%) Spring
4 53 (29.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 47 (26.26%) Agile
5 47 (26.26%) Microservices
6 46 (25.70%) Spring Boot
7 38 (21.23%) Test Automation
8 30 (16.76%) AI
8 30 (16.76%) CI/CD
8 30 (16.76%) Kubernetes
9 29 (16.20%) SQL
10 24 (13.41%) Clean Code
10 24 (13.41%) Continuous Deployment
10 24 (13.41%) React
11 21 (11.73%) DevOps
11 21 (11.73%) SaaS
12 20 (11.17%) Terraform
13 19 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (9.50%) Azure
15 16 (8.94%) Claude Code
15 16 (8.94%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.94%) TDD
16 15 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (8.38%) Anthropic Claude
16 15 (8.38%) Docker
16 15 (8.38%) GCP
16 15 (8.38%) Node.js
16 15 (8.38%) Python

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 70 (39.11%) AWS
2 21 (11.73%) SaaS
3 17 (9.50%) Azure
4 15 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (8.38%) Anthropic Claude
4 15 (8.38%) GCP
5 5 (2.79%) Serverless
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.56%) GitHub
7 1 (0.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.26%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.70%) MySQL
4 10 (5.59%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) Db2
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (8.94%) Claude Code
2 14 (7.82%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.12%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) 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 32 (17.88%) Finance
2 20 (11.17%) Banking
3 17 (9.50%) Front Office
3 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.38%) Retail
5 14 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.82%) Law
6 9 (5.03%) Back Office
6 9 (5.03%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.91%) Tech for Good
8 6 (3.35%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.23%) Games
10 2 (1.12%) Marketing
10 2 (1.12%) Social Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Aviation
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.17%) Spring
2 46 (25.70%) Spring Boot
3 24 (13.41%) React
4 15 (8.38%) Node.js
5 13 (7.26%) RESTful
6 12 (6.70%) Kafka
7 10 (5.59%) REST
8 9 (5.03%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.47%) Redux
10 7 (3.91%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.23%) Vue
13 3 (1.68%) Hibernate
13 3 (1.68%) J2EE
13 3 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.68%) XML
14 2 (1.12%) CSS
14 2 (1.12%) HTML
14 2 (1.12%) SOAP
14 2 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.47%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.79%) Blog
5 3 (1.68%) Derivative
5 3 (1.68%) Equities
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (29.61%) Full-Stack Development
3 47 (26.26%) Agile
3 47 (26.26%) Microservices
4 38 (21.23%) Test Automation
5 30 (16.76%) AI
5 30 (16.76%) CI/CD
6 24 (13.41%) Clean Code
6 24 (13.41%) Continuous Deployment
7 21 (11.73%) DevOps
8 16 (8.94%) Mentoring
8 16 (8.94%) TDD
9 14 (7.82%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (7.82%) Fintech
10 13 (7.26%) BDD
10 13 (7.26%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (7.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (6.70%) Coaching
11 12 (6.70%) Data Science
12 11 (6.15%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (16.20%) SQL
3 15 (8.38%) Python
3 15 (8.38%) TypeScript
4 13 (7.26%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.70%) Go
6 7 (3.91%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (3.35%) Degree
1 6 (3.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.17%) Terraform
3 14 (7.82%) Grafana
4 2 (1.12%) Packer
4 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (1.68%) Oracle
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft