Java Software Engineer Jobs in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 542 520
Rank change year-on-year +76 -22 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 185 294 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.37% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 177 238 386
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.28% -14.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £148,000 £148,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -17.65% +21.43%

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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +111 143 £110,000 -4.35% 62
North of England +33 15 £65,000 -0.71% 17
South West +75 12 £47,500 -9.52% 5
North West -7 9 £65,000 -0.71% 13
South East +92 8 £70,000 -20.00% 29
Midlands +74 7 £60,000 -4.36% 10
West Midlands +45 7 £60,000 -4.36% 8
Yorkshire +68 4 £35,000 -46.54% 1
North East +45 2 £65,000 -0.71% 3
Java Software Engineer
UK

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 185 (100.00%) Java
1 185 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 147 (79.46%) AWS
3 146 (78.92%) Agile
4 122 (65.95%) Finance
5 93 (50.27%) Front Office
6 92 (49.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 90 (48.65%) Fixed Income
7 90 (48.65%) Asset Management
7 90 (48.65%) Apache Airflow
7 90 (48.65%) Amazon Athena
7 90 (48.65%) Dremio
7 90 (48.65%) dbt
7 90 (48.65%) Apache Arrow
7 90 (48.65%) Apache Iceberg
8 88 (47.57%) Equities
9 87 (47.03%) Banking
10 85 (45.95%) Python
11 84 (45.41%) JavaScript
12 80 (43.24%) Investment Banking
12 80 (43.24%) Derivative
13 78 (42.16%) Hedge funds
13 78 (42.16%) Apache
13 78 (42.16%) Snowflake
14 74 (40.00%) SciPy
14 74 (40.00%) NumPy
14 74 (40.00%) TypeScript
14 74 (40.00%) Pandas
15 62 (33.51%) Data Lake
15 62 (33.51%) gRPC

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (48.65%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (42.16%) Apache
3 3 (1.62%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 147 (79.46%) AWS
2 90 (48.65%) dbt
3 78 (42.16%) Snowflake
4 47 (25.41%) GCP
5 24 (12.97%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (12.97%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (12.43%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (12.43%) Dagster
7 11 (5.95%) Azure
8 3 (1.62%) GitHub
8 3 (1.62%) SaaS
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.54%) PaaS
9 1 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (48.65%) Amazon Athena
1 90 (48.65%) Apache Arrow
1 90 (48.65%) Apache Iceberg
1 90 (48.65%) Dremio
2 62 (33.51%) Apache Ignite
2 62 (33.51%) Data Lake
3 13 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.78%) MySQL
5 6 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.54%) Big Data
6 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.70%) JIRA
2 4 (2.16%) NetBeans
3 2 (1.08%) Git
3 2 (1.08%) JUnit
4 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 122 (65.95%) Finance
2 93 (50.27%) Front Office
3 87 (47.03%) Banking
4 80 (43.24%) Investment Banking
5 26 (14.05%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.86%) Social Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.16%) Retail
9 3 (1.62%) Advertising
9 3 (1.62%) Law
9 3 (1.62%) Online Betting
10 2 (1.08%) Games
11 1 (0.54%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (40.00%) NumPy
1 74 (40.00%) Pandas
1 74 (40.00%) SciPy
2 62 (33.51%) gRPC
2 62 (33.51%) Protocol Buffers
3 48 (25.95%) Spring
4 39 (21.08%) PySpark
5 36 (19.46%) AngularJS
6 34 (18.38%) Kafka
6 34 (18.38%) Spring Boot
7 23 (12.43%) Akka
8 18 (9.73%) React
9 13 (7.03%) Node.js
9 13 (7.03%) RxJava
9 13 (7.03%) Spring WebFlux
10 12 (6.49%) Vue
11 8 (4.32%) .NET
12 7 (3.78%) HTML
13 6 (3.24%) CSS
13 6 (3.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (49.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 90 (48.65%) Fixed Income
3 88 (47.57%) Equities
4 80 (43.24%) Derivative
5 78 (42.16%) Hedge funds
6 39 (21.08%) Pricing Data
7 7 (3.78%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.08%) Online Games
11 1 (0.54%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 146 (78.92%) Agile
3 90 (48.65%) Asset Management
4 57 (30.81%) Microservices
5 51 (27.57%) Investment Management
6 36 (19.46%) Fintech
7 35 (18.92%) TDD
8 32 (17.30%) DevOps
9 25 (13.51%) BDD
10 24 (12.97%) Multithreading
10 24 (12.97%) Pair Programming
11 23 (12.43%) Migration
12 22 (11.89%) CI/CD
12 22 (11.89%) Containerisation
13 17 (9.19%) Concurrent Programming
14 16 (8.65%) Data Management
14 16 (8.65%) Risk Management
15 13 (7.03%) Design Patterns
15 13 (7.03%) Scrum
16 12 (6.49%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 185 (100.00%) Java
2 85 (45.95%) Python
3 84 (45.41%) JavaScript
4 74 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 21 (11.35%) SQL
6 4 (2.16%) C#
7 2 (1.08%) C++
8 1 (0.54%) Fortran
8 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (4.32%) Degree
2 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.08%) PhD
4 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.16%) Def Stans
1 4 (2.16%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 48 (25.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (23.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Argo
3 1 (0.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
1 1 (0.54%) Google
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle
1 1 (0.54%) Splunk