Java Software Engineer Jobs

Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 284 457
Rank change year-on-year -86 +173 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 427 1,027 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.99% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.05% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 226 370 275
10th Percentile £58,125 £50,000 £49,400
25th Percentile £78,750 £60,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £148,750 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,465 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% +0.71% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 53,806 98,156 78,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 94.80% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 29,744 68,646 53,875
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £44,109
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.00%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
England +85 317 £110,000 +15.79% 52
London +63 251 £110,000 -4.35% 22
Work from Home -15 175 £110,000 +15.79% 40
UK excluding London -179 165 £65,000 -0.71% 44
Scotland -53 100 - - 3
South West +93 24 £47,500 -13.64% 8
North of England +12 22 £65,000 -0.71% 13
North West -10 16 £76,500 +15.07% 10
Midlands +79 11 £60,000 -8.35% 2
West Midlands +73 11 £60,000 -8.35% 1
South East +70 8 £70,000 -20.00% 9
Yorkshire +37 3 £35,000 -46.54% 1
North East +33 3 £65,000 -0.71% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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 featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 427 (100.00%) Java
1 427 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 353 (82.67%) Agile
3 349 (81.73%) Finance
4 278 (65.11%) AWS
5 217 (50.82%) Banking
6 194 (45.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 186 (43.56%) Law
8 185 (43.33%) Spring
9 171 (40.05%) SDLC
10 151 (35.36%) CI/CD
11 141 (33.02%) TypeScript
12 135 (31.62%) Python
13 132 (30.91%) JavaScript
13 132 (30.91%) Front Office
14 128 (29.98%) Fixed Income
15 127 (29.74%) Operational Stability
16 125 (29.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 123 (28.81%) Amazon Athena
18 122 (28.57%) Asset Management
19 119 (27.87%) Apache Iceberg
20 118 (27.63%) Investment Banking
20 118 (27.63%) Equities
21 116 (27.17%) Kafka
22 115 (26.93%) dbt
22 115 (26.93%) Apache Arrow
22 115 (26.93%) Apache Airflow
22 115 (26.93%) Dremio
22 115 (26.93%) Kubernetes
23 114 (26.70%) Microservices

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 115 (26.93%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (21.55%) Apache
3 13 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.64%) Confluence
5 4 (0.94%) Camunda
5 4 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 278 (65.11%) AWS
2 115 (26.93%) dbt
3 91 (21.31%) Snowflake
4 59 (13.82%) GCP
5 25 (5.85%) Azure
6 23 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (4.68%) Serverless
8 19 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (4.45%) GitHub
9 16 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.04%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.58%) Dagster
13 7 (1.64%) Amazon MSK
14 5 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.94%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
16 3 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (0.70%) BlazeMeter
16 3 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.70%) Internet
1 3 (0.70%) SSL
2 2 (0.47%) Broadband
3 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (28.81%) Amazon Athena
2 119 (27.87%) Apache Iceberg
3 115 (26.93%) Apache Arrow
3 115 (26.93%) Dremio
4 75 (17.56%) Apache Ignite
4 75 (17.56%) Data Lake
5 40 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (9.13%) NoSQL
7 23 (5.39%) Big Data
8 22 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 18 (4.22%) MongoDB
10 13 (3.04%) MySQL
11 12 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (2.58%) Oracle Database
13 9 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.87%) KDB
14 8 (1.87%) Kdb+
14 8 (1.87%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (5.85%) Git
2 23 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.92%) Maven
4 18 (4.22%) JUnit
5 8 (1.87%) JIRA
6 7 (1.64%) Selenium
7 6 (1.41%) Mockito
8 5 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.17%) GitLab
8 5 (1.17%) Gradle
9 4 (0.94%) git-flow
9 4 (0.94%) Subversion
9 4 (0.94%) Vite
10 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.47%) NetBeans
10 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.47%) Spock
10 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.23%) Protractor
11 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 349 (81.73%) Finance
2 217 (50.82%) Banking
3 194 (45.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 186 (43.56%) Law
5 132 (30.91%) Front Office
6 118 (27.63%) Investment Banking
7 60 (14.05%) Marketing
8 44 (10.30%) Social Skills
9 37 (8.67%) Financial Institution
10 29 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (5.62%) Legal
12 10 (2.34%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.17%) Electronics
13 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.94%) Retail
14 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
15 3 (0.70%) Online Betting
16 2 (0.47%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (43.33%) Spring
2 116 (27.17%) Kafka
3 105 (24.59%) React
3 105 (24.59%) Spring Boot
4 103 (24.12%) Pandas
5 99 (23.19%) NumPy
5 99 (23.19%) SciPy
6 80 (18.74%) gRPC
6 80 (18.74%) Protocol Buffers
7 78 (18.27%) AngularJS
8 37 (8.67%) Node.js
9 30 (7.03%) REST
9 30 (7.03%) RESTful
10 28 (6.56%) PySpark
10 28 (6.56%) Vue
11 27 (6.32%) Akka
12 20 (4.68%) Web Services
13 19 (4.45%) RxJava
13 19 (4.45%) Spring WebFlux
14 13 (3.04%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 128 (29.98%) Fixed Income
2 125 (29.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 118 (27.63%) Equities
4 112 (26.23%) Derivative
5 91 (21.31%) Hedge funds
6 78 (18.27%) Cloud Native
7 71 (16.63%) Algorithms
8 64 (14.99%) Pricing Data
9 30 (7.03%) Public Cloud
10 28 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.81%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (2.11%) Mobile Banking
14 8 (1.87%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (1.87%) Reference Data
15 5 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
15 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.17%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
16 4 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.34%) Linux
2 5 (1.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 353 (82.67%) Agile
3 171 (40.05%) SDLC
4 151 (35.36%) CI/CD
5 127 (29.74%) Operational Stability
6 122 (28.57%) Asset Management
7 114 (26.70%) Microservices
8 98 (22.95%) Investment Management
9 96 (22.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 93 (21.78%) Community of Practice
11 90 (21.08%) Machine Learning
12 82 (19.20%) Fintech
13 73 (17.10%) TDD
14 69 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (15.46%) Visualisation
16 62 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
17 56 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
17 56 (13.11%) Risk Management
18 50 (11.71%) Multithreading
19 45 (10.54%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 427 (100.00%) Java
2 141 (33.02%) TypeScript
3 135 (31.62%) Python
4 132 (30.91%) JavaScript
5 91 (21.31%) SQL
6 33 (7.73%) Kotlin
7 21 (4.92%) Go
8 16 (3.75%) Scala
9 12 (2.81%) C#
10 11 (2.58%) C++
11 5 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.17%) Rust
12 4 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
14 1 (0.23%) Fortran
14 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (4.22%) Degree
2 8 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.64%) PhD
4 6 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.41%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.47%) Def Stans
1 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
1 2 (0.47%) QA
2 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 79 (18.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 115 (26.93%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.49%) Terraform
3 9 (2.11%) Grafana
4 4 (0.94%) Netcool
4 4 (0.94%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (0.94%) Tivoli
5 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.48%) Oracle
2 12 (2.81%) Google
3 11 (2.58%) Splunk
4 9 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.64%) Databricks
6 6 (1.41%) Facebook
7 5 (1.17%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.94%) IBM
8 4 (0.94%) Microsoft
8 4 (0.94%) SAP
8 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.70%) Sybase
10 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.23%) CA Agile Central