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 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 445 538
Rank change year-on-year +20 +93 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 198 295 149
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 115 212 124
10th Percentile £72,000 £63,750 £42,650
25th Percentile £93,125 £85,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +61.40% -18.57%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £112,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year -2.22% +57.89% -18.57%

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 42,051 56,729 43,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.29% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 27,089 31,796 34,125
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -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 25 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 25 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 +16 169 £110,000 -4.35% 18
North of England +23 12 £75,000 +11.11%
South West +20 10 £60,000 +47.24% 4
North West +38 7 £81,250 +25.00%
Yorkshire +18 4 £73,750 +40.48%
Midlands +56 2 £51,250 -14.58% 1
West Midlands +53 1 £62,500 -16.67% 1
South East +40 1 - - 7
East Midlands +30 1 £40,000 -11.11%
North East +14 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 25 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
2 191 (96.46%) Software Engineering
3 145 (73.23%) Agile
4 138 (69.70%) 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 60 (30.30%) gRPC
11 60 (30.30%) Protocol Buffers
12 59 (29.80%) Microservices
13 58 (29.29%) Apache
14 57 (28.79%) Apache Ignite
14 57 (28.79%) Data Lake
14 57 (28.79%) Snowflake
14 57 (28.79%) Spring
15 51 (25.76%) Kubernetes
16 49 (24.75%) CI/CD
16 49 (24.75%) SDLC
17 42 (21.21%) Fintech

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 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 138 (69.70%) 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 5 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.53%) GitHub
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.52%) Azure
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 1 (0.51%) BlazeMeter
12 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 17 (8.59%) MongoDB
5 15 (7.58%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (5.05%) Big Data
7 5 (2.53%) MySQL
7 5 (2.53%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.52%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.52%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (7.07%) Git
2 9 (4.55%) JUnit
3 7 (3.54%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.53%) Maven
5 4 (2.02%) Mockito
6 3 (1.52%) git-flow
6 3 (1.52%) Vite
7 2 (1.01%) GitLab
7 2 (1.01%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) Appium
8 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Gradle
8 1 (0.51%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 168 (84.85%) Finance
2 118 (59.60%) Banking
3 75 (37.88%) Front Office
4 71 (35.86%) Investment Banking
5 66 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (33.33%) Law
6 31 (15.66%) Financial Institution
7 16 (8.08%) 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
15 3 (1.52%) Wholesale Banking
16 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 60 (30.30%) gRPC
2 60 (30.30%) Protocol Buffers
3 57 (28.79%) Spring
4 41 (20.71%) Kafka
5 37 (18.69%) Spring Boot
6 31 (15.66%) 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 15 (7.58%) Public Cloud
10 6 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
11 5 (2.53%) Blog
11 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.51%) PKI
13 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (96.46%) Software Engineering
2 145 (73.23%) Agile
3 69 (34.85%) Investment Management
4 66 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 59 (29.80%) Microservices
6 49 (24.75%) CI/CD
6 49 (24.75%) SDLC
7 42 (21.21%) Fintech
8 33 (16.67%) Operational Stability
9 32 (16.16%) Community of Practice
10 28 (14.14%) Machine Learning
11 27 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (13.13%) TDD
13 25 (12.63%) Multithreading
14 24 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (11.62%) AI
16 21 (10.61%) Pair Programming
16 21 (10.61%) Visualisation
17 19 (9.60%) Architectural Patterns
18 18 (9.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 198 (100.00%) Java
2 90 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 82 (41.41%) Python
4 81 (40.91%) JavaScript
5 30 (15.15%) Kotlin
6 22 (11.11%) SQL
7 12 (6.06%) Go
8 9 (4.55%) Scala
9 6 (3.03%) C++
10 3 (1.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (5.56%) Degree
2 9 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
3 5 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.02%) AWS Certification
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 28 (14.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.12%) 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%) SAP
3 3 (1.52%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) Sybase
5 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.51%) Databricks
5 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock