Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 536 506
Rank change year-on-year +278 -30 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1,132 525 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.57% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 261 380 612
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,232 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.72% - +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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 7 May 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 7 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
UK excluding London +341 978 £65,232 +8.72% 49
Scotland +166 823 £50,000 -27.27% 7
England -42 295 £80,000 -5.88% 92
Work from Home -14 219 £75,000 -14.29% 51
London -2 150 £115,000 +24.32% 49
North of England +49 63 £65,465 +24.69% 6
North West +27 44 £65,465 -9.70% 4
South West -8 42 £52,500 -20.75% 18
South East +13 25 £87,500 +9.38% 8
Midlands -19 14 £65,465 +45.48% 6
Yorkshire +69 12 £65,465 +24.69% 1
West Midlands +15 11 £65,465 +13.85% 4
North East +1 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Northern Ireland +30 5 - - 1
Wales +13 5 £55,000 -
East Midlands -34 3 - - 2
East of England -6 1 £65,000 +18.18% 3

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,132 (100.00%) Java
2 1,129 (99.73%) Software Engineering
3 960 (84.81%) Agile
4 883 (78.00%) Finance
5 821 (72.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 809 (71.47%) Law
7 711 (62.81%) SDLC
8 692 (61.13%) CI/CD
9 686 (60.60%) Operational Stability
10 584 (51.59%) Machine Learning
11 583 (51.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 555 (49.03%) Spring
13 531 (46.91%) AWS
14 521 (46.02%) SQL
15 415 (36.66%) Community of Practice
16 327 (28.89%) Microservices
17 318 (28.09%) React
18 312 (27.56%) Banking
19 306 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
20 305 (26.94%) Marketing
21 304 (26.86%) AngularJS
22 295 (26.06%) Risk Management
23 294 (25.97%) Visualisation
24 286 (25.27%) Cloud Native
25 277 (24.47%) NoSQL
26 272 (24.03%) Algorithms
27 269 (23.76%) Legal
28 260 (22.97%) Spring Boot
28 260 (22.97%) Full Stack Development
29 245 (21.64%) Investment Banking

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 (17.05%) Apache Spark
2 85 (7.51%) Apache
3 77 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.71%) FileNet
5 32 (2.83%) Cloud Foundry
6 28 (2.47%) JBoss
6 28 (2.47%) Red Hat Fuse
7 21 (1.86%) GemFire
8 4 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.088%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 531 (46.91%) AWS
2 113 (9.98%) Azure
3 101 (8.92%) GCP
4 61 (5.39%) dbt
5 58 (5.12%) Snowflake
6 42 (3.71%) Amazon S3
6 42 (3.71%) BlazeMeter
7 40 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (3.18%) Serverless
9 29 (2.56%) GitHub
10 14 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (0.35%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (0.35%) npm
14 4 (0.35%) SaaS
15 3 (0.27%) OpenShift
16 1 (0.088%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.50%) Kerberos
2 10 (0.88%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (24.47%) NoSQL
2 178 (15.72%) Big Data
3 122 (10.78%) MongoDB
4 96 (8.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 90 (7.95%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (7.33%) Hadoop
7 61 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
7 61 (5.39%) Apache Arrow
7 61 (5.39%) Apache Ignite
7 61 (5.39%) Dremio
8 57 (5.04%) Data Lake
8 57 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
9 54 (4.77%) MySQL
9 54 (4.77%) Relational Database
10 38 (3.36%) CockroachDB
11 29 (2.56%) Apache Hive
12 21 (1.86%) Hazelcast
13 17 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.41%) HBase
14 16 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 129 (11.40%) JUnit
2 85 (7.51%) Cypress.io
3 81 (7.16%) Jasmine
4 65 (5.74%) Selenium
5 60 (5.30%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.30%) Protractor
5 60 (5.30%) WebDriver
6 58 (5.12%) Git
7 55 (4.86%) Jenkins
8 33 (2.92%) IntelliJ
8 33 (2.92%) Maven
9 27 (2.39%) JMeter
10 26 (2.30%) Cucumber
10 26 (2.30%) Mockito
11 21 (1.86%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.59%) Gradle
13 17 (1.50%) JIRA
14 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.44%) Robot Framework
16 4 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 883 (78.00%) Finance
2 821 (72.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 809 (71.47%) Law
4 312 (27.56%) Banking
5 305 (26.94%) Marketing
6 269 (23.76%) Legal
7 245 (21.64%) Investment Banking
8 96 (8.48%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (6.45%) Front Office
9 73 (6.45%) Public Sector
10 71 (6.27%) Social Skills
11 57 (5.04%) Private Banking
12 23 (2.03%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.94%) Prime Brokerage
14 15 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
15 5 (0.44%) Retail
15 5 (0.44%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.27%) Games
17 2 (0.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 555 (49.03%) Spring
2 318 (28.09%) React
3 304 (26.86%) AngularJS
4 260 (22.97%) Spring Boot
5 241 (21.29%) Kafka
6 197 (17.40%) J2EE
7 159 (14.05%) Hibernate
8 145 (12.81%) HTML
9 129 (11.40%) Node.js
10 124 (10.95%) RESTful
11 122 (10.78%) JMS
12 120 (10.60%) JSON
13 112 (9.89%) CSS
13 112 (9.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 111 (9.81%) REST
15 87 (7.69%) JPA
15 87 (7.69%) Web Services
16 83 (7.33%) jQuery
17 77 (6.80%) XML
18 62 (5.48%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 286 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 272 (24.03%) Algorithms
3 104 (9.19%) Public Cloud
4 82 (7.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 75 (6.63%) Data Structures
6 70 (6.18%) Onboarding
7 66 (5.83%) Fixed Income
8 63 (5.57%) Hedge funds
9 62 (5.48%) Derivative
10 61 (5.39%) Equities
11 48 (4.24%) Reference Data
12 43 (3.80%) Legacy Code
13 31 (2.74%) Private Cloud
14 27 (2.39%) Market Risk
15 21 (1.86%) Replication
16 18 (1.59%) Pricing Data
17 14 (1.24%) Client/Server
17 14 (1.24%) Credit Risk
18 7 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
19 6 (0.53%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.62%) Unix
2 21 (1.86%) Linux
3 2 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,129 (99.73%) Software Engineering
2 960 (84.81%) Agile
3 711 (62.81%) SDLC
4 692 (61.13%) CI/CD
5 686 (60.60%) Operational Stability
6 584 (51.59%) Machine Learning
7 583 (51.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 415 (36.66%) Community of Practice
9 327 (28.89%) Microservices
10 306 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 295 (26.06%) Risk Management
12 294 (25.97%) Visualisation
13 260 (22.97%) Full Stack Development
14 217 (19.17%) Decision-Making
15 183 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
16 169 (14.93%) TDD
17 136 (12.01%) BDD
18 134 (11.84%) Architectural Design
19 133 (11.75%) Asset Management
20 119 (10.51%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,132 (100.00%) Java
2 521 (46.02%) SQL
3 196 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 177 (15.64%) Python
5 156 (13.78%) TypeScript
6 152 (13.43%) Scala
7 43 (3.80%) C#
8 34 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.21%) Ruby
10 22 (1.94%) Groovy
11 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.44%) C++
13 4 (0.35%) Go
14 3 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.18%) PHP
15 2 (0.18%) Rust
15 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.088%) Dart
16 1 (0.088%) F#
16 1 (0.088%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (3.62%) Security Cleared
2 38 (3.36%) Degree
3 35 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.35%) PhD
7 3 (0.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.088%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.30%) SLA
2 19 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 61 (5.39%) Docker
2 16 (1.41%) HDFS
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 136 (12.01%) Kubernetes
2 85 (7.51%) Terraform
3 50 (4.42%) Grafana
4 23 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.94%) Kibana
6 21 (1.86%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.86%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.86%) Zipkin
7 13 (1.15%) Ansible
8 7 (0.62%) Graphite
9 1 (0.088%) Istio
Vendors
1 171 (15.11%) Oracle
2 54 (4.77%) Databricks
3 47 (4.15%) Splunk
4 42 (3.71%) Dynatrace
5 29 (2.56%) Google
6 18 (1.59%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.41%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.80%) TOWER Software
9 6 (0.53%) IBM
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.088%) Xamarin