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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 385 408
Rank change year-on-year -212 +23 +145
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 152 295 391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.68% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.75% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 133 198 315
10th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £61,750 £78,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +31.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £119,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +2.33% +22.86%

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 91,352 39,429 67,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.48% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64,592 23,886 43,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -193 70 £100,000 -9.09% 113
North of England -28 36 £70,000 +7.69% 19
South West -62 33 £60,000 +26.32% 30
North West +2 32 £70,000 -20.45% 12
South East -35 8 £90,000 +28.57% 12
Yorkshire -49 4 £70,000 +100.00% 7
Midlands -49 4 £52,500 -12.50% 8
West Midlands -39 2 £40,000 -33.33% 3
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 5
East of England - 1 £72,500 - 2
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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.

1 152 (100.00%) Java
2 150 (98.68%) Software Engineering
3 44 (28.95%) AWS
3 44 (28.95%) Spring
4 42 (27.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (26.32%) Spring Boot
6 30 (19.74%) Microservices
7 29 (19.08%) Agile
8 23 (15.13%) AI
9 21 (13.82%) CI/CD
10 18 (11.84%) Kubernetes
10 18 (11.84%) Python
10 18 (11.84%) Test Automation
11 15 (9.87%) Clean Code
12 14 (9.21%) React
12 14 (9.21%) SQL
13 12 (7.89%) Computer Science
13 12 (7.89%) DevOps
13 12 (7.89%) SaaS
13 12 (7.89%) Security Cleared
14 11 (7.24%) Degree
14 11 (7.24%) Terraform
15 10 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (6.58%) Docker
15 10 (6.58%) Fintech
15 10 (6.58%) GCP
15 10 (6.58%) Kotlin
16 9 (5.92%) Claude Code
16 9 (5.92%) Continuous Deployment

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 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.32%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.66%) Camunda
2 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.95%) AWS
2 12 (7.89%) SaaS
3 10 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (6.58%) GCP
4 8 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (4.61%) Azure
6 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.66%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.63%) MySQL
3 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.66%) Db2
4 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Claude Code
1 9 (5.92%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.97%) Git
2 3 (1.97%) JUnit
2 3 (1.97%) Selenium
3 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.32%) Mockito
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) JIRA
General
1 24 (15.79%) Finance
2 14 (9.21%) Banking
3 12 (7.89%) Health Technology
3 12 (7.89%) Law
4 10 (6.58%) Social Skills
5 9 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.92%) Retail
5 9 (5.92%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.61%) Front Office
7 4 (2.63%) Back Office
7 4 (2.63%) Digital Health
7 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.95%) Spring
2 40 (26.32%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.21%) React
4 11 (7.24%) Terraform
5 8 (5.26%) Kafka
5 8 (5.26%) REST
5 8 (5.26%) RESTful
6 5 (3.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.97%) Next.js
7 3 (1.97%) Node.js
7 3 (1.97%) Vue
8 2 (1.32%) .NET
8 2 (1.32%) CSS
8 2 (1.32%) HTML
8 2 (1.32%) Jest
8 2 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (1.32%) Playwright
8 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.32%) React Native
8 2 (1.32%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.29%) Blog
3 5 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (1.97%) Equities
4 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.66%) Derivative
6 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.66%) IoT
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) NHS
6 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (98.68%) Software Engineering
2 42 (27.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 30 (19.74%) Microservices
4 29 (19.08%) Agile
5 23 (15.13%) AI
6 21 (13.82%) CI/CD
7 18 (11.84%) Test Automation
8 15 (9.87%) Clean Code
9 12 (7.89%) Computer Science
9 12 (7.89%) DevOps
10 10 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (6.58%) Fintech
11 9 (5.92%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (5.92%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (5.26%) Design Patterns
12 8 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (5.26%) SDLC
13 7 (4.61%) Data Science
13 7 (4.61%) Observability
13 7 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (11.84%) Python
3 14 (9.21%) SQL
4 10 (6.58%) Kotlin
5 8 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.97%) C++
8 2 (1.32%) Go
9 1 (0.66%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.24%) Degree
3 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.32%) WCAG
2 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (11.84%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (1.32%) IBM
2 1 (0.66%) Google
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.66%) OpenAI