Java Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 415 537
Rank change year-on-year +21 +122 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 236 313 147
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.52% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.54% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 130 230 128
10th Percentile £71,000 £65,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £75,277
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +52.77% -13.97%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,250 £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +53.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 40,271 57,548 45,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 94.92% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,710 32,582 35,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +32 192 £110,000 -4.35% 127
North of England +6 18 £73,750 +5.36% 48
South West +16 14 £60,000 +4.35% 13
North West +9 12 £81,250 +35.42% 33
Midlands +65 4 £61,250 +2.08% 12
Yorkshire +9 4 £73,750 - 11
West Midlands +44 3 £62,500 -16.67% 4
South East +37 3 - - 86
North East +10 2 £63,750 -20.31% 4
East Midlands +21 1 £40,000 -11.11% 7
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 2
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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.

1 236 (100.00%) Java
2 234 (99.15%) Software Engineering
3 184 (77.97%) Agile
4 169 (71.61%) AWS
5 108 (45.76%) TypeScript
6 97 (41.10%) JavaScript
7 96 (40.68%) Python
8 81 (34.32%) Investment Management
9 79 (33.47%) Apache Iceberg
10 78 (33.05%) Asset Management
10 78 (33.05%) Spring
11 77 (32.63%) Microservices
12 75 (31.78%) Amazon Athena
12 75 (31.78%) Apache Airflow
12 75 (31.78%) Apache Arrow
12 75 (31.78%) dbt
12 75 (31.78%) Dremio
12 75 (31.78%) NumPy
12 75 (31.78%) Pandas
12 75 (31.78%) SciPy
13 70 (29.66%) gRPC
13 70 (29.66%) Kubernetes
13 70 (29.66%) Protocol Buffers
14 68 (28.81%) SDLC
15 67 (28.39%) CI/CD
16 66 (27.97%) Apache
17 65 (27.54%) Apache Ignite
17 65 (27.54%) Data Lake
17 65 (27.54%) Snowflake
18 58 (24.58%) Kafka

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 75 (31.78%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (27.97%) Apache
3 5 (2.12%) Confluence
4 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 169 (71.61%) AWS
2 75 (31.78%) dbt
3 65 (27.54%) Snowflake
4 23 (9.75%) GCP
5 14 (5.93%) GitHub
6 11 (4.66%) Serverless
7 8 (3.39%) SaaS
8 7 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.54%) Azure
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) SSL
2 2 (0.85%) Broadband
2 2 (0.85%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (33.47%) Apache Iceberg
2 75 (31.78%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (31.78%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (31.78%) Dremio
3 65 (27.54%) Apache Ignite
3 65 (27.54%) Data Lake
4 26 (11.02%) NoSQL
5 25 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (10.17%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.93%) Big Data
8 7 (2.97%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.97%) MySQL
8 7 (2.97%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.12%) Redis
10 5 (2.12%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.69%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.69%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (7.20%) Git
2 12 (5.08%) JUnit
3 8 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.97%) Selenium
4 7 (2.97%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.54%) GitLab
5 6 (2.54%) Maven
5 6 (2.54%) Mockito
6 5 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.69%) git-flow
7 4 (1.69%) JIRA
7 4 (1.69%) Vite
8 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.85%) Spock
9 1 (0.42%) Appium
9 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.42%) Gradle
9 1 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 207 (87.71%) Finance
2 141 (59.75%) Banking
3 88 (37.29%) Front Office
4 87 (36.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (36.86%) Law
5 81 (34.32%) Investment Banking
6 32 (13.56%) Financial Institution
7 24 (10.17%) Social Skills
8 18 (7.63%) Marketing
9 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (3.81%) Retail
11 8 (3.39%) Legal
12 5 (2.12%) Back Office
12 5 (2.12%) Electronics
12 5 (2.12%) Games
12 5 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.69%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (33.05%) Spring
2 75 (31.78%) NumPy
2 75 (31.78%) Pandas
2 75 (31.78%) SciPy
3 70 (29.66%) gRPC
3 70 (29.66%) Protocol Buffers
4 58 (24.58%) Kafka
5 52 (22.03%) Spring Boot
6 45 (19.07%) React
7 22 (9.32%) Node.js
8 19 (8.05%) AngularJS
8 19 (8.05%) JMS
9 18 (7.63%) Akka
9 18 (7.63%) RxJava
9 18 (7.63%) Spring WebFlux
10 16 (6.78%) RESTful
11 14 (5.93%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (5.51%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (5.51%) REST
13 11 (4.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 84 (35.59%) Fixed Income
2 79 (33.47%) Derivative
2 79 (33.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (32.20%) Equities
4 65 (27.54%) Hedge funds
4 65 (27.54%) Pricing Data
5 50 (21.19%) Cloud Native
6 26 (11.02%) Algorithms
7 22 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (8.90%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.81%) Data Structures
9 9 (3.81%) Mobile Banking
10 8 (3.39%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (2.12%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.69%) Wiki
13 2 (0.85%) Blog
13 2 (0.85%) PKI
13 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (99.15%) Software Engineering
2 184 (77.97%) Agile
3 81 (34.32%) Investment Management
4 78 (33.05%) Asset Management
5 77 (32.63%) Microservices
6 68 (28.81%) SDLC
7 67 (28.39%) CI/CD
8 54 (22.88%) Fintech
9 45 (19.07%) Operational Stability
10 42 (17.80%) Community of Practice
11 37 (15.68%) TDD
12 34 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (13.56%) Machine Learning
15 31 (13.14%) Multithreading
16 30 (12.71%) AI
17 28 (11.86%) Visualisation
18 24 (10.17%) Pair Programming
19 22 (9.32%) Risk Management
20 21 (8.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 236 (100.00%) Java
2 108 (45.76%) TypeScript
3 97 (41.10%) JavaScript
4 96 (40.68%) Python
5 35 (14.83%) Kotlin
6 32 (13.56%) SQL
7 15 (6.36%) Go
8 12 (5.08%) Scala
9 9 (3.81%) C++
10 5 (2.12%) Rust
11 2 (0.85%) C#
11 2 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (3.81%) Degree
2 6 (2.54%) AWS Certification
2 6 (2.54%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.12%) DV Cleared
3 5 (2.12%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.69%) PhD
5 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (0.42%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (18.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (29.66%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.29%) Terraform
3 8 (3.39%) Grafana
4 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Istio
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (10.17%) Oracle
2 5 (2.12%) Google
3 4 (1.69%) SAP
4 3 (1.27%) Sybase
5 2 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.42%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.42%) Splunk