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 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 439 535
Rank change year-on-year +22 +96 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 198 297 150
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.52% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 115 214 125
10th Percentile £72,000 £63,750 £42,700
25th Percentile £93,125 £85,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +58.62% -17.14%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +51.72% -17.14%

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 41,863 57,129 44,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.31% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 26,941 32,202 34,265
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,987 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -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 24 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 24 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 +13 168 £110,000 -4.35% 15
North of England +19 13 £75,000 +11.11%
South West +15 10 £60,000 +47.24% 4
North West +36 8 £81,250 +25.00%
Yorkshire +13 4 £73,750 +40.48%
Midlands +68 2 £51,250 -14.58% 1
West Midlands +59 1 £62,500 -16.67% 1
South East +33 1 - - 3
East Midlands +31 1 £40,000 -11.11%
North East +12 1 £55,000 -31.25%
East of England - 1 £80,000 -
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 198 (100.00%) Java
2 193 (97.47%) Software Engineering
3 147 (74.24%) Agile
4 140 (70.71%) AWS
5 90 (45.45%) TypeScript
6 82 (41.41%) Python
7 81 (40.91%) JavaScript
8 69 (34.85%) Investment Management
9 66 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 66 (33.33%) Asset Management
10 63 (31.82%) Amazon Athena
10 63 (31.82%) Apache Airflow
10 63 (31.82%) Apache Arrow
10 63 (31.82%) dbt
10 63 (31.82%) Dremio
10 63 (31.82%) NumPy
10 63 (31.82%) Pandas
10 63 (31.82%) SciPy
11 61 (30.81%) gRPC
11 61 (30.81%) Protocol Buffers
12 60 (30.30%) Microservices
13 59 (29.80%) Spring
14 58 (29.29%) Apache
15 57 (28.79%) Apache Ignite
15 57 (28.79%) Data Lake
15 57 (28.79%) Snowflake
16 53 (26.77%) Kubernetes
17 50 (25.25%) CI/CD
17 50 (25.25%) SDLC
18 43 (21.72%) 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 63 (31.82%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (29.29%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 140 (70.71%) AWS
2 63 (31.82%) dbt
3 57 (28.79%) Snowflake
4 17 (8.59%) GCP
5 10 (5.05%) SaaS
6 9 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.04%) Serverless
8 6 (3.03%) GitHub
9 5 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.52%) Azure
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.51%) BlazeMeter
13 1 (0.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) SSL
2 1 (0.51%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 63 (31.82%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (31.82%) Apache Arrow
2 63 (31.82%) Dremio
3 57 (28.79%) Apache Ignite
3 57 (28.79%) Data Lake
4 18 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 17 (8.59%) NoSQL
6 16 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (5.05%) Big Data
8 5 (2.53%) MySQL
8 5 (2.53%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.02%) CockroachDB
9 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.02%) Redis
10 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.52%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (7.07%) Git
2 10 (5.05%) JUnit
3 7 (3.54%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.53%) Maven
4 5 (2.53%) Mockito
5 3 (1.52%) git-flow
5 3 (1.52%) GitLab
5 3 (1.52%) Selenium
5 3 (1.52%) Vite
6 1 (0.51%) Appium
6 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.51%) Gradle
6 1 (0.51%) JIRA
6 1 (0.51%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 170 (85.86%) Finance
2 119 (60.10%) Banking
3 75 (37.88%) Front Office
4 71 (35.86%) Investment Banking
5 67 (33.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (33.84%) Law
6 31 (15.66%) Financial Institution
7 18 (9.09%) Social Skills
8 14 (7.07%) Marketing
9 11 (5.56%) Retail
10 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.54%) Back Office
12 6 (3.03%) Legal
13 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (2.53%) Electronics
13 5 (2.53%) Games
13 5 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 4 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 4 (2.02%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (31.82%) NumPy
1 63 (31.82%) Pandas
1 63 (31.82%) SciPy
2 61 (30.81%) gRPC
2 61 (30.81%) Protocol Buffers
3 59 (29.80%) Spring
4 43 (21.72%) Kafka
5 39 (19.70%) Spring Boot
6 32 (16.16%) React
7 17 (8.59%) JMS
8 16 (8.08%) Akka
8 16 (8.08%) Node.js
8 16 (8.08%) RxJava
8 16 (8.08%) Spring WebFlux
9 12 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 12 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (5.56%) RESTful
11 10 (5.05%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (35.86%) Fixed Income
2 68 (34.34%) Derivative
3 66 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 63 (31.82%) Equities
5 57 (28.79%) Hedge funds
5 57 (28.79%) Pricing Data
6 42 (21.21%) Cloud Native
7 19 (9.60%) Algorithms
8 17 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (8.08%) Public Cloud
10 6 (3.03%) Data Structures
10 6 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (2.02%) Blog
11 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.51%) PKI
13 1 (0.51%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (97.47%) Software Engineering
2 147 (74.24%) Agile
3 69 (34.85%) Investment Management
4 66 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 60 (30.30%) Microservices
6 50 (25.25%) CI/CD
6 50 (25.25%) SDLC
7 42 (21.21%) Fintech
8 34 (17.17%) Operational Stability
9 33 (16.67%) Community of Practice
10 27 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (13.64%) Machine Learning
10 27 (13.64%) TDD
11 26 (13.13%) Multithreading
12 24 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (11.62%) AI
14 21 (10.61%) Pair Programming
14 21 (10.61%) Visualisation
15 18 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
15 18 (9.09%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 198 (100.00%) Java
2 90 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 82 (41.41%) Python
4 81 (40.91%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.65%) Kotlin
6 23 (11.62%) SQL
7 13 (6.57%) Go
8 9 (4.55%) Scala
9 7 (3.54%) C++
10 4 (2.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (5.05%) Degree
2 8 (4.04%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.53%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
3 5 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.02%) PhD
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.01%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (14.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (26.77%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.63%) Terraform
3 7 (3.54%) Grafana
4 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Istio
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (8.08%) Oracle
2 4 (2.02%) Google
2 4 (2.02%) SAP
3 2 (1.01%) Sybase
4 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.51%) Databricks
4 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock