Java Software Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Java Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 326 374
Rank change year-on-year +33 +48 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 15 67 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 15 53 37
10th Percentile £32,500 £49,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +24.69% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £108,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £107,500 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +48.28% -14.71% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the North of England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the North of England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the North of England

Java Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -7 9 £65,000 -0.71% 22
Yorkshire +68 4 £35,000 -46.54% 8
North East +45 2 £65,000 -0.71% 5
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) CSS
3 6 (40.00%) XML
3 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) React
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) Online Betting
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Law
5 3 (20.00%) C#
6 2 (13.33%) MySQL
6 2 (13.33%) Games
6 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (13.33%) Online Games
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 2 (13.33%) Confluence
6 2 (13.33%) JIRA
6 2 (13.33%) React Native
6 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Law
2 3 (20.00%) Online Betting
3 2 (13.33%) Games
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) CSS
1 6 (40.00%) HTML
1 6 (40.00%) XML
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) React Native
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Online Games
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) API Design
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.67%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Microservices
5 1 (6.67%) Observability
5 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes