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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 530 494
Rank change year-on-year +264 -36 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1,106 525 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 0.52% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.57% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 270 380 609
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £122,500 £115,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
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 9 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 9 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 +339 950 £65,000 +8.33% 41
Scotland +166 819 £50,000 -27.27% 7
England -44 281 £85,000 - 79
Work from Home -25 209 £75,000 -14.29% 46
London -11 154 £115,000 +24.32% 45
North of England +49 53 £65,465 +24.69% 6
South West -2 39 £52,500 -20.75% 14
North West +21 38 £65,465 -9.70% 4
South East -11 22 £87,500 +9.38% 5
Midlands -33 12 £65,465 +45.48% 6
West Midlands +10 11 £65,465 +13.85% 4
Yorkshire +74 8 £65,465 +24.69% 1
North East 0 7 £65,465 +39.29% 1
Wales +3 3 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +23 1 - - 2
East of England -2 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -37 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,106 (100.00%) Java
2 1,103 (99.73%) Software Engineering
3 951 (85.99%) Agile
4 891 (80.56%) Finance
5 821 (74.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 809 (73.15%) Law
7 711 (64.29%) SDLC
8 692 (62.57%) CI/CD
9 686 (62.03%) Operational Stability
10 584 (52.80%) Machine Learning
11 583 (52.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 539 (48.73%) AWS
13 522 (47.20%) SQL
14 521 (47.11%) Spring
15 415 (37.52%) Community of Practice
16 319 (28.84%) Banking
17 309 (27.94%) Microservices
18 306 (27.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 305 (27.58%) Marketing
20 299 (27.03%) React
21 295 (26.67%) Risk Management
22 294 (26.58%) Visualisation
23 288 (26.04%) AngularJS
24 286 (25.86%) Cloud Native
25 277 (25.05%) NoSQL
26 272 (24.59%) Algorithms
27 269 (24.32%) Legal
28 261 (23.60%) Spring Boot
29 260 (23.51%) Full Stack Development
30 252 (22.78%) 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 (17.45%) Apache Spark
2 92 (8.32%) Apache
3 84 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.80%) FileNet
5 32 (2.89%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.90%) GemFire
7 12 (1.08%) JBoss
7 12 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
8 4 (0.36%) Confluence
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.090%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 539 (48.73%) AWS
2 113 (10.22%) Azure
3 101 (9.13%) GCP
4 68 (6.15%) dbt
5 65 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 42 (3.80%) Amazon S3
6 42 (3.80%) BlazeMeter
7 40 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (2.71%) GitHub
9 17 (1.54%) Serverless
10 14 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (1.18%) 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 3 (0.27%) OpenShift
16 1 (0.090%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.54%) Kerberos
2 10 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (25.05%) NoSQL
2 178 (16.09%) Big Data
3 122 (11.03%) MongoDB
4 96 (8.68%) Apache Cassandra
5 90 (8.14%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (7.50%) Hadoop
7 68 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
7 68 (6.15%) Apache Arrow
7 68 (6.15%) Apache Ignite
7 68 (6.15%) Dremio
8 64 (5.79%) Data Lake
9 58 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
10 54 (4.88%) MySQL
10 54 (4.88%) Relational Database
11 38 (3.44%) CockroachDB
12 29 (2.62%) Apache Hive
13 21 (1.90%) Hazelcast
14 17 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (1.45%) HBase
15 16 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 129 (11.66%) JUnit
2 85 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 81 (7.32%) Jasmine
4 65 (5.88%) Selenium
5 60 (5.42%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.42%) Protractor
5 60 (5.42%) WebDriver
6 55 (4.97%) Jenkins
7 39 (3.53%) Git
8 33 (2.98%) Maven
9 27 (2.44%) JMeter
10 26 (2.35%) Cucumber
10 26 (2.35%) Mockito
11 21 (1.90%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.63%) Gradle
13 17 (1.54%) IntelliJ
13 17 (1.54%) JIRA
14 8 (0.72%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
15 5 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 891 (80.56%) Finance
2 821 (74.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 809 (73.15%) Law
4 319 (28.84%) Banking
5 305 (27.58%) Marketing
6 269 (24.32%) Legal
7 252 (22.78%) Investment Banking
8 96 (8.68%) Influencing Skills
9 80 (7.23%) Front Office
10 71 (6.42%) Social Skills
11 57 (5.15%) Private Banking
11 57 (5.15%) Public Sector
12 23 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 22 (1.99%) Prime Brokerage
14 15 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
15 5 (0.45%) Retail
15 5 (0.45%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.27%) Games
17 2 (0.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 521 (47.11%) Spring
2 299 (27.03%) React
3 288 (26.04%) AngularJS
4 261 (23.60%) Spring Boot
5 241 (21.79%) Kafka
6 179 (16.18%) J2EE
7 145 (13.11%) HTML
8 143 (12.93%) Hibernate
9 129 (11.66%) Node.js
10 122 (11.03%) JMS
11 112 (10.13%) CSS
11 112 (10.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 108 (9.76%) RESTful
13 104 (9.40%) JSON
14 95 (8.59%) REST
15 83 (7.50%) jQuery
16 71 (6.42%) JPA
16 71 (6.42%) Web Services
17 69 (6.24%) gRPC
18 68 (6.15%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 286 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 272 (24.59%) Algorithms
3 105 (9.49%) Public Cloud
4 89 (8.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 75 (6.78%) Data Structures
6 73 (6.60%) Fixed Income
7 70 (6.33%) Hedge funds
7 70 (6.33%) Onboarding
8 69 (6.24%) Derivative
9 68 (6.15%) Equities
10 48 (4.34%) Reference Data
11 43 (3.89%) Legacy Code
12 31 (2.80%) Private Cloud
13 27 (2.44%) Market Risk
14 24 (2.17%) Pricing Data
15 21 (1.90%) Replication
16 14 (1.27%) Client/Server
16 14 (1.27%) Credit Risk
17 7 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
18 6 (0.54%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.71%) Unix
2 21 (1.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (99.73%) Software Engineering
2 951 (85.99%) Agile
3 711 (64.29%) SDLC
4 692 (62.57%) CI/CD
5 686 (62.03%) Operational Stability
6 584 (52.80%) Machine Learning
7 583 (52.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 415 (37.52%) Community of Practice
9 309 (27.94%) Microservices
10 306 (27.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 295 (26.67%) Risk Management
12 294 (26.58%) Visualisation
13 260 (23.51%) Full Stack Development
14 217 (19.62%) Decision-Making
15 169 (15.28%) TDD
16 148 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
17 140 (12.66%) Asset Management
18 136 (12.30%) BDD
19 134 (12.12%) Architectural Design
20 122 (11.03%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (100.00%) Java
2 522 (47.20%) SQL
3 203 (18.35%) JavaScript
4 165 (14.92%) Python
5 163 (14.74%) TypeScript
6 152 (13.74%) Scala
7 35 (3.16%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.17%) C#
9 22 (1.99%) Groovy
10 7 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.54%) Ruby
12 5 (0.45%) C++
13 4 (0.36%) Go
14 3 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.18%) PHP
15 2 (0.18%) Rust
15 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.090%) Dart
16 1 (0.090%) F#
16 1 (0.090%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (3.44%) Degree
2 25 (2.26%) Security Cleared
3 19 (1.72%) 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 (2.35%) SLA
2 20 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 61 (5.52%) Docker
2 16 (1.45%) HDFS
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 136 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 86 (7.78%) Terraform
3 50 (4.52%) Grafana
4 23 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.99%) Kibana
6 21 (1.90%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 21 (1.90%) Zipkin
7 14 (1.27%) Ansible
8 7 (0.63%) Graphite
9 1 (0.090%) Istio
Vendors
1 172 (15.55%) Oracle
2 54 (4.88%) Databricks
3 47 (4.25%) Splunk
4 43 (3.89%) Dynatrace
5 29 (2.62%) Google
6 18 (1.63%) SaltStack
7 16 (1.45%) Cloudera
8 9 (0.81%) TOWER Software
9 6 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.090%) Xamarin