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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 362 441
Rank change year-on-year -216 +79 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 162 322 355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.74% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.81% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 139 222 302
10th Percentile £54,500 £57,625 £58,938
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -2.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +20.00%

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 88,309 39,710 68,574
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.65% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 62,028 24,061 47,017
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,700 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -197 77 £100,000 -9.09% 75
North of England -19 47 £65,000 - 6
North West +11 36 £70,000 -20.45% 5
South West -67 22 £60,000 +26.32% 12
South East -30 8 £90,000 +28.57% 5
Yorkshire -35 7 £52,130 +48.94% 1
Midlands -38 5 £60,000 - 6
North East -56 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -34 3 £45,000 -25.00% 5
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £72,500 - 3
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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.

1 162 (100.00%) Java
2 160 (98.77%) Software Engineering
3 63 (38.89%) AWS
4 48 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (27.16%) Spring
6 43 (26.54%) Microservices
7 41 (25.31%) Agile
7 41 (25.31%) Spring Boot
8 27 (16.67%) AI
8 27 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 25 (15.43%) SQL
10 19 (11.73%) CI/CD
10 19 (11.73%) Continuous Deployment
10 19 (11.73%) Kubernetes
10 19 (11.73%) Python
10 19 (11.73%) React
11 17 (10.49%) RESTful
12 16 (9.88%) Clean Code
12 16 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (9.26%) Azure
13 15 (9.26%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.26%) SaaS
14 14 (8.64%) Kafka
14 14 (8.64%) NoSQL
14 14 (8.64%) TDD
14 14 (8.64%) TypeScript
15 13 (8.02%) DevOps
15 13 (8.02%) MySQL
16 12 (7.41%) Claude Code
16 12 (7.41%) 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 (0.62%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.62%) Camunda
1 1 (0.62%) Confluence
1 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
1 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 63 (38.89%) AWS
2 15 (9.26%) Azure
2 15 (9.26%) SaaS
3 11 (6.79%) Anthropic Claude
4 10 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (6.17%) GCP
5 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.23%) Serverless
6 1 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.62%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.64%) NoSQL
3 13 (8.02%) MySQL
4 10 (6.17%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.62%) Db2
6 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.41%) Claude Code
2 9 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.23%) JUnit
3 2 (1.23%) Selenium
4 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.62%) Git
4 1 (0.62%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.62%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) Mockito
4 1 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (19.14%) Finance
2 15 (9.26%) Banking
2 15 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.64%) Front Office
4 12 (7.41%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.56%) Law
5 9 (5.56%) Retail
5 9 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 9 (5.56%) Tech for Good
6 5 (3.09%) Back Office
6 5 (3.09%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.47%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.23%) Games
9 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.16%) Spring
2 41 (25.31%) Spring Boot
3 19 (11.73%) React
4 17 (10.49%) RESTful
5 14 (8.64%) Kafka
6 10 (6.17%) Node.js
7 8 (4.94%) REST
8 7 (4.32%) GraphQL
9 6 (3.70%) Redux
10 5 (3.09%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.85%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (1.85%) Next.js
11 3 (1.85%) Vue
12 2 (1.23%) .NET
12 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.23%) Swing
13 1 (0.62%) CSS
13 1 (0.62%) Gherkin
13 1 (0.62%) Hibernate
13 1 (0.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.47%) Blog
6 3 (1.85%) Equities
6 3 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.23%) Derivative
7 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.62%) IoT
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) NHS
8 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (98.77%) Software Engineering
2 48 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (26.54%) Microservices
4 41 (25.31%) Agile
5 27 (16.67%) AI
5 27 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 19 (11.73%) CI/CD
6 19 (11.73%) Continuous Deployment
7 16 (9.88%) Clean Code
8 15 (9.26%) Mentoring
9 14 (8.64%) TDD
10 13 (8.02%) DevOps
11 12 (7.41%) Coaching
11 12 (7.41%) Computer Science
11 12 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.79%) BDD
13 10 (6.17%) Fintech
13 10 (6.17%) Open Source
13 10 (6.17%) Operational Stability
14 9 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (15.43%) SQL
3 19 (11.73%) Python
4 14 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.17%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.94%) Go
8 1 (0.62%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (6.17%) Degree
2 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.23%) QA
2 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.41%) Terraform
3 9 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.62%) Packer
4 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.62%) Google
1 1 (0.62%) IBM
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.62%) OpenAI