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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 361 429
Rank change year-on-year -233 +68 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 148 318 361
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.73% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.80% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 127 219 304
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £60,250 £78,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -2.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +20.00%

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 88,542 39,676 68,922
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.61% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 62,156 23,891 46,902
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -201 75 £100,000 -9.09% 74
North of England -28 37 £70,000 +7.69% 9
North West +16 32 £70,000 -20.45% 6
South West -57 22 £60,000 +26.32% 16
South East -18 7 £90,000 +28.57% 3
Midlands -44 5 £60,000 - 7
Yorkshire -23 3 £55,000 +57.14% 3
West Midlands -35 3 £45,000 -25.00% 5
North East -57 2 £53,565 -17.59%
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £72,500 - 4
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 August 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 146 (98.65%) Software Engineering
3 55 (37.16%) AWS
4 48 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (29.05%) Spring
6 40 (27.03%) Spring Boot
7 36 (24.32%) Microservices
8 33 (22.30%) Agile
9 27 (18.24%) AI
10 20 (13.51%) Test Automation
11 19 (12.84%) Python
11 19 (12.84%) SQL
12 18 (12.16%) React
13 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
13 17 (11.49%) Kubernetes
14 14 (9.46%) Clean Code
14 14 (9.46%) Kafka
14 14 (9.46%) SaaS
15 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
16 12 (8.11%) Claude Code
16 12 (8.11%) Computer Science
16 12 (8.11%) Continuous Deployment
16 12 (8.11%) DevOps
16 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
17 11 (7.43%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (7.43%) RESTful
18 10 (6.76%) Degree
18 10 (6.76%) Fintech
18 10 (6.76%) Kotlin

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 (0.68%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.68%) Camunda
1 1 (0.68%) Confluence
1 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
1 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 55 (37.16%) AWS
2 14 (9.46%) SaaS
3 11 (7.43%) Anthropic Claude
4 9 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (6.08%) Azure
4 9 (6.08%) GCP
5 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.68%) Serverless
6 1 (0.68%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.73%) MySQL
4 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.68%) Db2
5 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Claude Code
2 8 (5.41%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.35%) JUnit
3 2 (1.35%) Selenium
4 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.68%) Git
4 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 30 (20.27%) Finance
2 14 (9.46%) Banking
2 14 (9.46%) Front Office
3 12 (8.11%) Health Technology
4 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.08%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.08%) Tech for Good
5 8 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.41%) Law
5 8 (5.41%) Retail
6 4 (2.70%) Back Office
6 4 (2.70%) Digital Health
6 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.35%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.05%) Spring
2 40 (27.03%) Spring Boot
3 18 (12.16%) React
4 14 (9.46%) Kafka
5 11 (7.43%) RESTful
6 10 (6.76%) Node.js
7 8 (5.41%) REST
8 7 (4.73%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.05%) Redux
10 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.03%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (2.03%) Next.js
11 3 (2.03%) Vue
12 2 (1.35%) .NET
12 2 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.35%) Swing
13 1 (0.68%) CSS
13 1 (0.68%) Gherkin
13 1 (0.68%) Hibernate
13 1 (0.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.70%) Blog
6 3 (2.03%) Equities
6 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.35%) Derivative
7 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) NHS
8 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (98.65%) Software Engineering
2 48 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (24.32%) Microservices
4 33 (22.30%) Agile
5 27 (18.24%) AI
6 20 (13.51%) Test Automation
7 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
8 14 (9.46%) Clean Code
9 12 (8.11%) Computer Science
9 12 (8.11%) Continuous Deployment
9 12 (8.11%) DevOps
10 11 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (6.76%) Fintech
12 9 (6.08%) Investment Management
12 9 (6.08%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (5.41%) Data Science
13 8 (5.41%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (5.41%) Design Patterns
13 8 (5.41%) Design Thinking
13 8 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (12.84%) Python
2 19 (12.84%) SQL
3 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
4 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.76%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.41%) Go
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (6.76%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.35%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.76%) Terraform
3 8 (5.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (0.68%) Google
1 1 (0.68%) IBM
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.68%) OpenAI