Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 528 484
Rank change year-on-year +273 -44 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1,112 555 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.53% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.58% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 253 406 633
10th Percentile £46,544 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £115,000 £111,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Top 17 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 26 April 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
UK excluding London +323 973 £61,250 +11.36% 51
Scotland +163 812 £50,000 -25.93% 6
England -40 286 £72,500 -14.71% 87
Work from Home -23 212 £70,000 -20.00% 50
London -10 134 £105,000 +13.51% 43
North of England +51 67 £65,465 +24.69% 9
North West +23 48 £65,465 -6.48% 7
South West -1 43 £52,500 -19.23% 21
South East +20 25 £87,500 +2.94% 5
Midlands -19 15 £62,732 +39.41% 5
Yorkshire +83 12 £65,465 +24.69% 1
West Midlands +24 12 £62,732 +9.10% 4
North East +4 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Northern Ireland +27 5 - - 1
Wales +9 5 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands -40 3 - - 1
East of England -4 1 £65,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,112 (100.00%) Java
2 1,109 (99.73%) Software Engineering
3 941 (84.62%) Agile
4 857 (77.07%) Finance
5 808 (72.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 797 (71.67%) Law
7 703 (63.22%) SDLC
8 685 (61.60%) CI/CD
9 679 (61.06%) Operational Stability
10 579 (52.07%) Machine Learning
11 578 (51.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 550 (49.46%) Spring
13 518 (46.58%) AWS
14 516 (46.40%) SQL
15 413 (37.14%) Community of Practice
16 324 (29.14%) Microservices
17 316 (28.42%) React
18 306 (27.52%) AngularJS
19 302 (27.16%) Continuous Improvement
20 301 (27.07%) Marketing
21 297 (26.71%) Banking
22 292 (26.26%) Visualisation
23 289 (25.99%) Risk Management
24 279 (25.09%) Cloud Native
25 275 (24.73%) NoSQL
26 270 (24.28%) Algorithms
27 264 (23.74%) Legal
28 259 (23.29%) Full Stack Development
29 257 (23.11%) Spring Boot
30 238 (21.40%) Kafka

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
1 193 (17.36%) Apache Spark
2 73 (6.56%) Apache
3 65 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (3.60%) FileNet
5 31 (2.79%) Cloud Foundry
6 28 (2.52%) JBoss
6 28 (2.52%) Red Hat Fuse
7 21 (1.89%) GemFire
8 4 (0.36%) Confluence
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.090%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 518 (46.58%) AWS
2 119 (10.70%) Azure
3 98 (8.81%) GCP
4 49 (4.41%) dbt
5 43 (3.87%) Snowflake
6 41 (3.69%) BlazeMeter
7 40 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (3.60%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.24%) Serverless
9 27 (2.43%) GitHub
10 14 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (0.99%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (0.36%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (0.36%) npm
14 4 (0.36%) SaaS
15 1 (0.090%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 1 (0.090%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.53%) Kerberos
2 9 (0.81%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (24.73%) NoSQL
2 178 (16.01%) Big Data
3 120 (10.79%) MongoDB
4 94 (8.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 85 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (7.46%) Hadoop
7 54 (4.86%) MySQL
7 54 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
7 54 (4.86%) Relational Database
8 49 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
8 49 (4.41%) Apache Arrow
8 49 (4.41%) Apache Ignite
8 49 (4.41%) Dremio
9 42 (3.78%) Data Lake
10 38 (3.42%) CockroachDB
11 29 (2.61%) Apache Hive
12 21 (1.89%) Hazelcast
13 17 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.44%) HBase
14 16 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 127 (11.42%) JUnit
2 84 (7.55%) Cypress.io
3 80 (7.19%) Jasmine
4 65 (5.85%) Selenium
5 60 (5.40%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.40%) Protractor
5 60 (5.40%) WebDriver
6 58 (5.22%) Git
7 56 (5.04%) Jenkins
8 33 (2.97%) IntelliJ
9 31 (2.79%) Maven
10 26 (2.34%) JMeter
11 25 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 25 (2.25%) Mockito
12 21 (1.89%) Jaeger
13 18 (1.62%) Gradle
14 17 (1.53%) JIRA
15 8 (0.72%) TeamCity
16 5 (0.45%) Robot Framework
17 3 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 857 (77.07%) Finance
2 808 (72.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 797 (71.67%) Law
4 301 (27.07%) Marketing
5 297 (26.71%) Banking
6 264 (23.74%) Legal
7 231 (20.77%) Investment Banking
8 96 (8.63%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (6.56%) Public Sector
10 70 (6.29%) Social Skills
11 61 (5.49%) Front Office
12 56 (5.04%) Private Banking
13 23 (2.07%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.98%) Prime Brokerage
15 15 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
16 5 (0.45%) Retail
17 3 (0.27%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.27%) Games
17 3 (0.27%) Tech for Good
18 2 (0.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 550 (49.46%) Spring
2 316 (28.42%) React
3 306 (27.52%) AngularJS
4 257 (23.11%) Spring Boot
5 238 (21.40%) Kafka
6 194 (17.45%) J2EE
7 157 (14.12%) Hibernate
8 146 (13.13%) HTML
9 125 (11.24%) Node.js
9 125 (11.24%) RESTful
10 121 (10.88%) JMS
11 119 (10.70%) JSON
12 111 (9.98%) CSS
12 111 (9.98%) REST
12 111 (9.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 89 (8.00%) Web Services
14 87 (7.82%) JPA
15 84 (7.55%) jQuery
16 78 (7.01%) XML
17 60 (5.40%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 279 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 270 (24.28%) Algorithms
3 101 (9.08%) Public Cloud
4 75 (6.74%) Data Structures
5 70 (6.29%) Onboarding
6 67 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 51 (4.59%) Fixed Income
8 48 (4.32%) Hedge funds
9 47 (4.23%) Derivative
9 47 (4.23%) Reference Data
10 46 (4.14%) Equities
11 43 (3.87%) Legacy Code
12 30 (2.70%) Private Cloud
13 26 (2.34%) Market Risk
14 21 (1.89%) Replication
15 14 (1.26%) Client/Server
16 12 (1.08%) Credit Risk
16 12 (1.08%) Pricing Data
17 6 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
17 6 (0.54%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.69%) Unix
2 20 (1.80%) Linux
3 2 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,109 (99.73%) Software Engineering
2 941 (84.62%) Agile
3 703 (63.22%) SDLC
4 685 (61.60%) CI/CD
5 679 (61.06%) Operational Stability
6 579 (52.07%) Machine Learning
7 578 (51.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 413 (37.14%) Community of Practice
9 324 (29.14%) Microservices
10 302 (27.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 292 (26.26%) Visualisation
12 289 (25.99%) Risk Management
13 259 (23.29%) Full Stack Development
14 212 (19.06%) Decision-Making
15 178 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
16 167 (15.02%) TDD
17 134 (12.05%) Architectural Design
17 134 (12.05%) BDD
18 120 (10.79%) Asset Management
19 118 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (100.00%) Java
2 516 (46.40%) SQL
3 189 (17.00%) JavaScript
4 168 (15.11%) Python
5 152 (13.67%) Scala
6 148 (13.31%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.87%) C#
8 32 (2.88%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.25%) Ruby
10 22 (1.98%) Groovy
11 5 (0.45%) C++
11 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.36%) Go
13 3 (0.27%) C
14 2 (0.18%) PHP
14 2 (0.18%) Rust
14 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.090%) Dart
15 1 (0.090%) F#
15 1 (0.090%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (3.87%) Security Cleared
2 38 (3.42%) Degree
3 37 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.36%) PhD
7 3 (0.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.090%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.34%) SLA
2 14 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.17%) QA
System Software
1 66 (5.94%) Docker
2 16 (1.44%) HDFS
3 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 135 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.55%) Terraform
3 50 (4.50%) Grafana
4 23 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.98%) Kibana
6 21 (1.89%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.89%) Zipkin
7 12 (1.08%) Ansible
8 7 (0.63%) Graphite
9 1 (0.090%) Istio
Vendors
1 165 (14.84%) Oracle
2 54 (4.86%) Databricks
3 47 (4.23%) Splunk
4 41 (3.69%) Dynatrace
5 29 (2.61%) Google
6 18 (1.62%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.44%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.81%) TOWER Software
9 5 (0.45%) IBM
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.090%) Xamarin