Java Software Engineer Jobs

Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 513 501
Rank change year-on-year +246 -12 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1,118 504 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 0.53% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.58% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 309 334 616
10th Percentile £48,500 £48,289 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £61,180 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,938 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.74% +4.17% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Top 15 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 1 June 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 +299 920 £65,465 +4.74% 45
Scotland +143 796 £50,000 -25.93% 8
England -46 319 £90,000 +5.88% 66
Work from Home -46 243 £90,000 -2.35% 54
London +49 197 £115,000 +17.95% 38
North of England +22 51 £65,465 +2.69% 9
South West -11 40 £52,500 -22.22% 15
North West -1 37 £65,465 -9.70% 8
South East -21 20 £87,500 +9.38%
West Midlands -15 10 £65,465 +9.11% 1
Midlands -29 10 £65,465 +30.93% 1
Yorkshire +43 7 £65,465 +30.93%
North East -4 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +3 2 £55,000 - 2
East of England -7 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 1,118 (100.00%) Java
2 1,114 (99.64%) Software Engineering
3 947 (84.70%) Agile
4 900 (80.50%) Finance
5 800 (71.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 787 (70.39%) Law
7 689 (61.63%) SDLC
8 679 (60.73%) CI/CD
9 664 (59.39%) Operational Stability
10 570 (50.98%) Machine Learning
11 569 (50.89%) Artificial Intelligence
12 553 (49.46%) AWS
13 508 (45.44%) SQL
14 494 (44.19%) Spring
15 406 (36.31%) Community of Practice
16 343 (30.68%) Banking
17 305 (27.28%) Microservices
18 299 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 293 (26.21%) React
20 292 (26.12%) Marketing
20 292 (26.12%) Risk Management
21 287 (25.67%) Visualisation
22 281 (25.13%) Investment Banking
23 280 (25.04%) Cloud Native
24 275 (24.60%) NoSQL
25 266 (23.79%) Legal
26 265 (23.70%) AngularJS
26 265 (23.70%) Algorithms
27 253 (22.63%) Spring Boot
28 250 (22.36%) Full Stack Development

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
1 187 (16.73%) Apache Spark
2 125 (11.18%) Apache
3 115 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.76%) FileNet
5 32 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.88%) GemFire
7 4 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.089%) JBoss
9 1 (0.089%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 553 (49.46%) AWS
2 104 (9.30%) Azure
3 103 (9.21%) GCP
4 101 (9.03%) dbt
5 98 (8.77%) Snowflake
6 42 (3.76%) Amazon S3
6 42 (3.76%) BlazeMeter
7 38 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (2.59%) GitHub
9 17 (1.52%) Serverless
10 14 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (0.36%) npm
14 4 (0.36%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.18%) IBM Cloud
15 2 (0.18%) SaaS
16 1 (0.089%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.52%) Kerberos
2 11 (0.98%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (24.60%) NoSQL
2 174 (15.56%) Big Data
3 117 (10.47%) MongoDB
4 101 (9.03%) Amazon Athena
4 101 (9.03%) Apache Arrow
4 101 (9.03%) Apache Ignite
4 101 (9.03%) Dremio
5 97 (8.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 97 (8.68%) Data Lake
6 87 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
7 79 (7.07%) Hadoop
8 66 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
9 55 (4.92%) MySQL
10 48 (4.29%) Relational Database
11 38 (3.40%) CockroachDB
12 25 (2.24%) Apache Hive
13 21 (1.88%) Hazelcast
14 17 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (1.25%) HBase
15 14 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 131 (11.72%) JUnit
2 85 (7.60%) Cypress.io
3 81 (7.25%) Jasmine
4 63 (5.64%) Selenium
5 60 (5.37%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.37%) Protractor
5 60 (5.37%) WebDriver
6 53 (4.74%) Jenkins
7 36 (3.22%) Git
8 31 (2.77%) Maven
9 30 (2.68%) Cucumber
10 28 (2.50%) JMeter
11 26 (2.33%) Mockito
12 21 (1.88%) Jaeger
13 18 (1.61%) JIRA
14 17 (1.52%) Gradle
15 8 (0.72%) TeamCity
16 6 (0.54%) IntelliJ
17 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
17 5 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 900 (80.50%) Finance
2 800 (71.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 787 (70.39%) Law
4 343 (30.68%) Banking
5 292 (26.12%) Marketing
6 281 (25.13%) Investment Banking
7 266 (23.79%) Legal
8 113 (10.11%) Front Office
9 96 (8.59%) Influencing Skills
10 70 (6.26%) Social Skills
11 53 (4.74%) Private Banking
12 43 (3.85%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.97%) Prime Brokerage
14 21 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.45%) Retail
18 3 (0.27%) Games
19 2 (0.18%) Aviation
19 2 (0.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (44.19%) Spring
2 293 (26.21%) React
3 265 (23.70%) AngularJS
4 253 (22.63%) Spring Boot
5 237 (21.20%) Kafka
6 175 (15.65%) J2EE
7 143 (12.79%) HTML
8 132 (11.81%) Node.js
9 129 (11.54%) Hibernate
10 121 (10.82%) JMS
11 112 (10.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 111 (9.93%) CSS
13 102 (9.12%) gRPC
14 101 (9.03%) NumPy
14 101 (9.03%) Pandas
14 101 (9.03%) Protocol Buffers
14 101 (9.03%) SciPy
15 91 (8.14%) RESTful
16 90 (8.05%) JSON
17 83 (7.42%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 280 (25.04%) Cloud Native
2 265 (23.70%) Algorithms
3 122 (10.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 106 (9.48%) Fixed Income
5 103 (9.21%) Hedge funds
6 102 (9.12%) Derivative
7 101 (9.03%) Equities
8 98 (8.77%) Public Cloud
9 73 (6.53%) Data Structures
10 69 (6.17%) Onboarding
11 44 (3.94%) Reference Data
12 42 (3.76%) Pricing Data
13 41 (3.67%) Legacy Code
14 28 (2.50%) Private Cloud
15 27 (2.42%) Market Risk
16 21 (1.88%) Replication
17 14 (1.25%) Client/Server
17 14 (1.25%) Credit Risk
18 9 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
19 6 (0.54%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.49%) Unix
2 21 (1.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,114 (99.64%) Software Engineering
2 947 (84.70%) Agile
3 689 (61.63%) SDLC
4 679 (60.73%) CI/CD
5 664 (59.39%) Operational Stability
6 570 (50.98%) Machine Learning
7 569 (50.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 406 (36.31%) Community of Practice
9 305 (27.28%) Microservices
10 299 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 292 (26.12%) Risk Management
12 287 (25.67%) Visualisation
13 250 (22.36%) Full Stack Development
14 208 (18.60%) Decision-Making
15 170 (15.21%) TDD
16 167 (14.94%) Asset Management
17 148 (13.24%) Investment Management
18 136 (12.16%) BDD
18 136 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
19 128 (11.45%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (100.00%) Java
2 508 (45.44%) SQL
3 240 (21.47%) JavaScript
4 195 (17.44%) Python
5 194 (17.35%) TypeScript
6 152 (13.60%) Scala
7 36 (3.22%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.15%) C#
9 22 (1.97%) Groovy
10 6 (0.54%) Ruby
11 5 (0.45%) Go
12 4 (0.36%) C++
12 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.27%) C
14 2 (0.18%) PHP
14 2 (0.18%) Rust
15 1 (0.089%) Dart
15 1 (0.089%) F#
15 1 (0.089%) Fortran
15 1 (0.089%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 36 (3.22%) Degree
2 13 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.07%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.72%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.36%) PhD
7 2 (0.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.089%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.15%) SLA
3 14 (1.25%) QA
4 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.089%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.089%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 56 (5.01%) Docker
2 14 (1.25%) HDFS
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 133 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 87 (7.78%) Terraform
3 51 (4.56%) Grafana
4 23 (2.06%) Kibana
4 23 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.88%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.88%) Zipkin
6 17 (1.52%) Ansible
7 7 (0.63%) Graphite
8 1 (0.089%) Istio
Vendors
1 165 (14.76%) Oracle
2 52 (4.65%) Databricks
3 48 (4.29%) Splunk
4 43 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 25 (2.24%) Google
6 18 (1.61%) SaltStack
7 14 (1.25%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.81%) TOWER Software
9 4 (0.36%) IBM
10 3 (0.27%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.089%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.089%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.089%) Xamarin