Java Software Engineer Jobs in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 506 491
Rank change year-on-year -58 -15 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 281 469 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.52% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.57% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 247 364 571
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £70,735
Median % change year-on-year - +20.17% +23.02%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +7 155 £115,000 +24.32% 49
North of England +37 53 £65,465 +16.38% 7
North West +13 38 £65,465 -9.70% 5
South West -11 38 £52,500 -20.75% 13
South East -6 22 £87,500 +9.38% 7
Midlands -27 12 £65,465 +45.48% 6
West Midlands +9 11 £65,465 +13.85% 4
Yorkshire +67 8 £65,465 +24.69% 1
North East +1 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
East of England -2 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -36 1 - - 2
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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.

1 281 (100.00%) Java
2 278 (98.93%) Software Engineering
3 207 (73.67%) AWS
4 169 (60.14%) Agile
5 109 (38.79%) Microservices
6 97 (34.52%) JavaScript
7 90 (32.03%) Python
8 88 (31.32%) Finance
9 86 (30.60%) Banking
10 80 (28.47%) Investment Banking
10 80 (28.47%) Front Office
11 76 (27.05%) Spring
12 73 (25.98%) Fixed Income
13 70 (24.91%) Hedge funds
14 69 (24.56%) TypeScript
14 69 (24.56%) gRPC
14 69 (24.56%) Apache
14 69 (24.56%) Derivative
14 69 (24.56%) Asset Management
15 68 (24.20%) Equities
15 68 (24.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 68 (24.20%) Apache Airflow
15 68 (24.20%) Pandas
15 68 (24.20%) Protocol Buffers
15 68 (24.20%) SciPy
15 68 (24.20%) NumPy
15 68 (24.20%) Apache Arrow
15 68 (24.20%) Amazon Athena
15 68 (24.20%) Apache Ignite
15 68 (24.20%) Dremio

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 69 (24.56%) Apache
2 68 (24.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.49%) JBoss
3 7 (2.49%) Red Hat Fuse
4 4 (1.42%) Confluence
5 2 (0.71%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 207 (73.67%) AWS
2 68 (24.20%) dbt
3 66 (23.49%) Azure
4 64 (22.78%) Snowflake
5 53 (18.86%) GCP
6 10 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.42%) npm
8 3 (1.07%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.07%) Serverless
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.36%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (24.20%) Amazon Athena
1 68 (24.20%) Apache Arrow
1 68 (24.20%) Apache Ignite
1 68 (24.20%) Dremio
2 64 (22.78%) Data Lake
3 56 (19.93%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (19.22%) MySQL
5 36 (12.81%) NoSQL
6 33 (11.74%) MongoDB
7 14 (4.98%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.14%) CouchDB
8 6 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.71%) Big Data
10 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.36%) Flink
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) Redis
11 1 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (7.47%) Git
2 12 (4.27%) IntelliJ
3 10 (3.56%) Maven
4 8 (2.85%) Gradle
4 8 (2.85%) JIRA
4 8 (2.85%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.78%) JUnit
6 5 (1.78%) Mockito
6 5 (1.78%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) GitLab
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 88 (31.32%) Finance
2 86 (30.60%) Banking
3 80 (28.47%) Front Office
3 80 (28.47%) Investment Banking
4 49 (17.44%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (5.69%) Social Skills
6 14 (4.98%) Law
7 9 (3.20%) Legal
8 7 (2.49%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.78%) Retail
10 5 (1.78%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (27.05%) Spring
2 69 (24.56%) gRPC
3 68 (24.20%) NumPy
3 68 (24.20%) Pandas
3 68 (24.20%) Protocol Buffers
3 68 (24.20%) SciPy
4 64 (22.78%) Spring Boot
5 46 (16.37%) RESTful
6 39 (13.88%) Kafka
7 23 (8.19%) AngularJS
8 20 (7.12%) React
9 17 (6.05%) Hibernate
9 17 (6.05%) Node.js
10 14 (4.98%) REST
11 11 (3.91%) JPA
11 11 (3.91%) SOAP
12 10 (3.56%) XML
13 9 (3.20%) JSON
14 7 (2.49%) Java EE
14 7 (2.49%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 73 (25.98%) Fixed Income
2 70 (24.91%) Hedge funds
3 69 (24.56%) Derivative
4 68 (24.20%) Equities
4 68 (24.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (8.54%) Pricing Data
6 20 (7.12%) Cloud Native
7 14 (4.98%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.14%) PropTech
9 5 (1.78%) Blog
9 5 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.71%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.36%) PKI
12 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.20%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Unix
2 2 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (98.93%) Software Engineering
2 169 (60.14%) Agile
3 109 (38.79%) Microservices
4 69 (24.56%) Asset Management
5 65 (23.13%) Investment Management
6 61 (21.71%) TDD
7 55 (19.57%) Mentoring
8 50 (17.79%) Test Automation
9 44 (15.66%) Continuous Deployment
10 43 (15.30%) BDD
11 35 (12.46%) Coaching
12 32 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (9.61%) CI/CD
14 25 (8.90%) Scrum
15 24 (8.54%) Fintech
16 23 (8.19%) DevOps
17 20 (7.12%) Greeks
17 20 (7.12%) Line Management
18 15 (5.34%) Computer Science
19 13 (4.63%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 281 (100.00%) Java
2 97 (34.52%) JavaScript
3 90 (32.03%) Python
4 69 (24.56%) TypeScript
5 54 (19.22%) SQL
6 33 (11.74%) Kotlin
7 19 (6.76%) C#
8 13 (4.63%) Scala
9 4 (1.42%) Go
9 4 (1.42%) Ruby
10 3 (1.07%) C++
11 2 (0.71%) PHP
11 2 (0.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Dart
12 1 (0.36%) F#
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (6.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.34%) Degree
3 12 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.42%) PhD
6 3 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.42%) QA
System Software
1 37 (13.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (16.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.19%) Terraform
3 14 (4.98%) Ansible
4 6 (2.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.36%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (2.14%) Oracle
2 3 (1.07%) Google
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.36%) Xamarin