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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 460 534
Rank change year-on-year -3 +74 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 149 265 146
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.51% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 110 194 124
10th Percentile £69,875 £65,000 £42,650
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -20.00%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -17.65%

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 44,402 52,240 42,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 93.83% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28,028 29,074 33,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 8 December 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 December 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 +3 131 £110,000 -4.35% 20
North of England +10 9 £75,000 +7.14% 8
North West +28 4 £81,250 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -6 4 £73,750 +40.48%
South West +12 3 £60,000 +4.35% 6
South East +41 1 - - 9
Midlands +34 1 £40,000 -33.33% 1
East Midlands +14 1 £40,000 -11.11%
North East +4 1 £55,000 -31.25% 2
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 8 December 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.

1 149 (100.00%) Java
2 142 (95.30%) Software Engineering
3 109 (73.15%) AWS
4 101 (67.79%) Agile
5 67 (44.97%) TypeScript
6 63 (42.28%) JavaScript
7 62 (41.61%) Python
8 59 (39.60%) Investment Management
9 55 (36.91%) Asset Management
10 54 (36.24%) Apache Iceberg
11 53 (35.57%) Amazon Athena
11 53 (35.57%) Apache Airflow
11 53 (35.57%) Apache Arrow
11 53 (35.57%) dbt
11 53 (35.57%) Dremio
11 53 (35.57%) NumPy
11 53 (35.57%) Pandas
11 53 (35.57%) SciPy
12 51 (34.23%) gRPC
12 51 (34.23%) Protocol Buffers
13 49 (32.89%) Apache
13 49 (32.89%) Apache Ignite
13 49 (32.89%) Data Lake
13 49 (32.89%) Snowflake
14 47 (31.54%) Microservices
15 40 (26.85%) Spring
16 38 (25.50%) Kubernetes
17 33 (22.15%) Fintech
18 32 (21.48%) Spring Boot
19 31 (20.81%) 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 53 (35.57%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (32.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 109 (73.15%) AWS
2 53 (35.57%) dbt
3 49 (32.89%) Snowflake
4 14 (9.40%) GCP
5 10 (6.71%) SaaS
6 9 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.34%) Azure
8 2 (1.34%) GitHub
8 2 (1.34%) Serverless
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) AMQP
1 1 (0.67%) HTTP
1 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (36.24%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (35.57%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (35.57%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (35.57%) Dremio
3 49 (32.89%) Apache Ignite
3 49 (32.89%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.05%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.37%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.01%) Big Data
7 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.34%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.34%) MySQL
7 2 (1.34%) Redis
7 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.70%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.36%) Git
3 4 (2.68%) JUnit
4 2 (1.34%) Mockito
5 1 (0.67%) Appium
5 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.67%) git-flow
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Gradle
5 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.67%) Maven
5 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 117 (78.52%) Finance
2 80 (53.69%) Banking
3 61 (40.94%) Front Office
4 56 (37.58%) Investment Banking
5 28 (18.79%) Financial Institution
5 28 (18.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (18.79%) Law
6 11 (7.38%) Retail
7 8 (5.37%) Social Skills
8 7 (4.70%) Back Office
9 6 (4.03%) Games
10 4 (2.68%) Marketing
10 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.34%) Legal
11 2 (1.34%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.34%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.57%) NumPy
1 53 (35.57%) Pandas
1 53 (35.57%) SciPy
2 51 (34.23%) gRPC
2 51 (34.23%) Protocol Buffers
3 40 (26.85%) Spring
4 32 (21.48%) Spring Boot
5 31 (20.81%) Kafka
6 19 (12.75%) React
7 16 (10.74%) Akka
7 16 (10.74%) RxJava
7 16 (10.74%) Spring WebFlux
8 13 (8.72%) JMS
8 13 (8.72%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (8.05%) ActiveMQ
10 11 (7.38%) Node.js
11 9 (6.04%) AngularJS
11 9 (6.04%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.70%) RESTful
13 6 (4.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.27%) Fixed Income
2 54 (36.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (35.57%) Equities
4 52 (34.90%) Derivative
5 49 (32.89%) Hedge funds
5 49 (32.89%) Pricing Data
6 23 (15.44%) Cloud Native
7 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (5.37%) Algorithms
8 8 (5.37%) Public Cloud
9 5 (3.36%) Blog
10 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.67%) PKI
12 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (95.30%) Software Engineering
2 101 (67.79%) Agile
3 59 (39.60%) Investment Management
4 55 (36.91%) Asset Management
5 47 (31.54%) Microservices
6 33 (22.15%) Fintech
7 30 (20.13%) CI/CD
8 20 (13.42%) Multithreading
8 20 (13.42%) TDD
9 19 (12.75%) Pair Programming
9 19 (12.75%) SDLC
10 18 (12.08%) BDD
11 16 (10.74%) Concurrent Programming
12 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.40%) High Availability
12 14 (9.40%) Machine Learning
12 14 (9.40%) Mentoring
12 14 (9.40%) Test Automation
13 13 (8.72%) Community of Practice
13 13 (8.72%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 149 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (44.97%) TypeScript
3 63 (42.28%) JavaScript
4 62 (41.61%) Python
5 16 (10.74%) Kotlin
6 13 (8.72%) SQL
7 9 (6.04%) Go
8 3 (2.01%) C++
8 3 (2.01%) Scala
9 2 (1.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (4.70%) Degree
1 7 (4.70%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.34%) QA
2 1 (0.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (14.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (25.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.74%) Terraform
3 7 (4.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Istio
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (1.34%) Google
1 2 (1.34%) Oracle
2 1 (0.67%) ForgeRock