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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 365 477
Rank change year-on-year -178 +112 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 176 317 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.73% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.81% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 145 217 342
10th Percentile £53,500 £57,500 £56,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 82,278 39,084 83,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.38% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57,869 23,488 61,455
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,246 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -157 86 £100,000 -9.09% 14
North of England -8 47 £65,000 - 2
North West +16 38 £70,000 -8.50%
South West -60 25 £60,000 +26.32% 3
South East -30 8 £90,000 +28.57% 4
Yorkshire -24 5 £52,130 +48.94% 2
Midlands -38 5 £60,000 - 2
North East -48 4 £53,565 -17.59%
West Midlands -26 3 £45,000 -25.00%
East of England - 2 £73,750 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 2
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 176 (100.00%) Java
1 176 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 71 (40.34%) AWS
3 53 (30.11%) Spring
4 51 (28.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (27.27%) Agile
5 48 (27.27%) Microservices
6 45 (25.57%) Spring Boot
7 37 (21.02%) Test Automation
8 32 (18.18%) AI
9 31 (17.61%) CI/CD
10 29 (16.48%) Kubernetes
11 28 (15.91%) SQL
12 24 (13.64%) Clean Code
12 24 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
13 23 (13.07%) React
14 20 (11.36%) DevOps
14 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (11.36%) SaaS
14 20 (11.36%) Terraform
15 18 (10.23%) Azure
16 17 (9.66%) Python
17 16 (9.09%) Claude Code
17 16 (9.09%) Mentoring
17 16 (9.09%) TDD
17 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
18 15 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (8.52%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (8.52%) GCP
19 14 (7.95%) Deployment Automation

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 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.57%) Camunda
1 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 71 (40.34%) AWS
2 20 (11.36%) SaaS
3 18 (10.23%) Azure
4 15 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (8.52%) Anthropic Claude
4 15 (8.52%) GCP
5 4 (2.27%) Serverless
6 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.82%) MySQL
4 10 (5.68%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.57%) Db2
6 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Claude Code
2 14 (7.95%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.14%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.57%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) Maven
4 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 32 (18.18%) Finance
2 19 (10.80%) Banking
3 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.09%) Front Office
5 15 (8.52%) Retail
6 14 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.95%) Law
7 9 (5.11%) Back Office
7 9 (5.11%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.11%) Health Technology
8 6 (3.41%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.70%) Digital Health
9 3 (1.70%) Games
9 3 (1.70%) Social Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (30.11%) Spring
2 45 (25.57%) Spring Boot
3 23 (13.07%) React
4 14 (7.95%) Node.js
5 13 (7.39%) RESTful
6 12 (6.82%) Kafka
7 11 (6.25%) REST
8 10 (5.68%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.55%) Redux
10 7 (3.98%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.27%) Vue
13 2 (1.14%) CSS
13 2 (1.14%) Hibernate
13 2 (1.14%) HTML
13 2 (1.14%) Spring Security
13 2 (1.14%) Swing
13 2 (1.14%) XML
14 1 (0.57%) SOAP
14 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.84%) Blog
5 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.70%) Equities
6 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.57%) IoT
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 51 (28.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 48 (27.27%) Agile
3 48 (27.27%) Microservices
4 37 (21.02%) Test Automation
5 32 (18.18%) AI
6 31 (17.61%) CI/CD
7 24 (13.64%) Clean Code
7 24 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
8 20 (11.36%) DevOps
9 16 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 16 (9.09%) TDD
10 14 (7.95%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (7.39%) BDD
11 13 (7.39%) Coaching
11 13 (7.39%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (7.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (6.82%) Data Science
12 12 (6.82%) Fintech
13 11 (6.25%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (15.91%) SQL
3 17 (9.66%) Python
4 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.25%) Go
7 8 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (4.55%) Degree
2 6 (3.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 14 (7.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (16.48%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.36%) Terraform
3 14 (7.95%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) Packer
4 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (1.70%) Oracle
2 1 (0.57%) Google
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.57%) OpenAI