Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 380 412
Rank change year-on-year -186 +32 +146
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 198 263 350
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.68% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 165 166 262
10th Percentile £55,000 £64,375 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £81,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -4.35% +42.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +43.75%

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 96,394 38,710 60,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.53% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,344 23,101 34,738
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 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 13 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 -168 77 £91,250 -17.05% 103
North of England -18 66 £65,000 -11.86% 31
North West -1 45 £70,000 -20.45% 19
South West -55 34 £60,000 +11.63% 12
Yorkshire -24 14 £60,000 -18.64% 7
South East -35 13 £90,000 +28.57% 4
North East -65 7 £100,000 +53.85% 5
Midlands -56 6 £55,000 -8.33% 6
West Midlands -45 5 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -36 1 £72,500 -9.38% 5
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 198 (100.00%) Java
2 196 (98.99%) Software Engineering
3 48 (24.24%) AWS
4 44 (22.22%) Agile
5 41 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 37 (18.69%) Spring
7 33 (16.67%) Python
8 32 (16.16%) Spring Boot
9 29 (14.65%) Microservices
10 28 (14.14%) CI/CD
11 26 (13.13%) Kubernetes
12 23 (11.62%) Test Automation
13 21 (10.61%) AI
14 19 (9.60%) Fintech
15 18 (9.09%) Clean Code
15 18 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
16 17 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (8.59%) GCP
17 16 (8.08%) Deployment Automation
17 16 (8.08%) Grafana
17 16 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (8.08%) TeamCity
17 16 (8.08%) Terraform
18 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
19 12 (6.06%) Azure
19 12 (6.06%) Disruptive Innovation
19 12 (6.06%) SaaS
19 12 (6.06%) SQL
20 11 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
20 11 (5.56%) Claude Code

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
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.24%) AWS
2 17 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (8.59%) GCP
3 12 (6.06%) Azure
3 12 (6.06%) SaaS
4 11 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
5 8 (4.04%) GitHub
6 7 (3.54%) ChatGPT
6 7 (3.54%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.53%) MySQL
3 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 16 (8.08%) TeamCity
2 11 (5.56%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.53%) Git
4 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.52%) JUnit
4 3 (1.52%) Mockito
4 3 (1.52%) Selenium
5 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (15.15%) Finance
2 25 (12.63%) Banking
3 19 (9.60%) Law
4 16 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.08%) Retail
5 12 (6.06%) Front Office
5 12 (6.06%) Health Technology
6 11 (5.56%) Social Skills
7 9 (4.55%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.02%) Back Office
8 4 (2.02%) Digital Health
8 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.01%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.69%) Spring
2 32 (16.16%) Spring Boot
3 16 (8.08%) Terraform
4 10 (5.05%) React
5 8 (4.04%) Kafka
5 8 (4.04%) RESTful
6 4 (2.02%) REST
7 3 (1.52%) Jest
7 3 (1.52%) Next.js
7 3 (1.52%) Playwright
7 3 (1.52%) React Native
8 2 (1.01%) Ajax
8 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.01%) Swing
9 1 (0.51%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.51%) HTML
9 1 (0.51%) JPA
9 1 (0.51%) OAuth
9 1 (0.51%) OpenID
9 1 (0.51%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.06%) Blog
3 10 (5.05%) Equities
4 8 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.54%) Derivative
5 7 (3.54%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (3.54%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.54%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.51%) NHS
10 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (98.99%) Software Engineering
2 44 (22.22%) Agile
3 41 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (14.65%) Microservices
5 28 (14.14%) CI/CD
6 23 (11.62%) Test Automation
7 21 (10.61%) AI
8 19 (9.60%) Fintech
9 18 (9.09%) Clean Code
9 18 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
10 16 (8.08%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (6.06%) Disruptive Innovation
12 11 (5.56%) SDLC
13 10 (5.05%) Computer Science
13 10 (5.05%) Investment Management
14 9 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (4.55%) Scrum
14 9 (4.55%) TDD
15 8 (4.04%) Analytics
16 7 (3.54%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 198 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (16.67%) Python
3 12 (6.06%) SQL
4 10 (5.05%) C++
4 10 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.04%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.01%) Go
8 1 (0.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.55%) Degree
3 6 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.01%) PhD
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (1.52%) IBM
2 1 (0.51%) Google
2 1 (0.51%) OpenAI