Java Software Engineer Jobs

Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 516 504
Rank change year-on-year +239 -12 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1,090 502 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.59% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 323 319 618
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +45.45%
75th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £135,500 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 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 9 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 +259 875 £65,465 +0.71% 49
Scotland +147 752 £50,000 -28.57% 10
England -23 335 £90,000 +4.35% 63
Work from Home -24 256 £90,000 -2.53% 61
London +20 213 £115,000 +15.00% 33
North of England +15 51 £65,465 +0.71% 10
South West -10 43 £52,500 -24.40% 16
North West -7 37 £65,465 -9.70% 9
South East -23 17 £87,500 +2.94%
West Midlands -12 9 £65,465 +9.11% 1
Midlands -48 9 £65,465 +30.93% 1
Yorkshire +46 7 £65,465 +30.93%
North East - 7 £65,465 - 1
Wales +6 2 £55,000 - 2
East of England -17 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,090 (100.00%) Java
2 1,086 (99.63%) Software Engineering
3 916 (84.04%) Agile
4 868 (79.63%) Finance
5 754 (69.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 741 (67.98%) Law
7 646 (59.27%) SDLC
8 641 (58.81%) CI/CD
9 622 (57.06%) Operational Stability
10 540 (49.54%) Machine Learning
11 539 (49.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 532 (48.81%) AWS
13 478 (43.85%) SQL
14 463 (42.48%) Spring
15 392 (35.96%) Community of Practice
16 341 (31.28%) Banking
17 292 (26.79%) Microservices
18 287 (26.33%) Investment Banking
19 283 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
20 282 (25.87%) React
21 277 (25.41%) Marketing
22 272 (24.95%) Risk Management
23 271 (24.86%) Visualisation
23 271 (24.86%) Cloud Native
24 263 (24.13%) NoSQL
25 255 (23.39%) JavaScript
26 249 (22.84%) Algorithms
27 247 (22.66%) AngularJS
28 246 (22.57%) Legal
29 235 (21.56%) Spring Boot

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
1 168 (15.41%) Apache Spark
2 131 (12.02%) Apache
3 125 (11.47%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.85%) FileNet
5 32 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
6 21 (1.93%) GemFire
7 4 (0.37%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.092%) JBoss
9 1 (0.092%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 532 (48.81%) AWS
2 115 (10.55%) dbt
3 112 (10.28%) Snowflake
4 101 (9.27%) GCP
5 95 (8.72%) Azure
6 42 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 42 (3.85%) BlazeMeter
7 33 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (2.57%) GitHub
9 13 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (1.19%) Serverless
10 11 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (0.64%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (0.37%) npm
14 4 (0.37%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.18%) Cloud Computing
16 1 (0.092%) Datadog
16 1 (0.092%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.56%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.19%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (24.13%) NoSQL
2 159 (14.59%) Big Data
3 115 (10.55%) Amazon Athena
3 115 (10.55%) Apache Arrow
3 115 (10.55%) Apache Ignite
3 115 (10.55%) Dremio
4 111 (10.18%) Data Lake
5 110 (10.09%) MongoDB
6 97 (8.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 84 (7.71%) Elasticsearch
8 67 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
9 63 (5.78%) Hadoop
10 55 (5.05%) MySQL
11 45 (4.13%) Relational Database
12 38 (3.49%) CockroachDB
13 21 (1.93%) Hazelcast
14 18 (1.65%) Apache Hive
15 17 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (1.19%) RDBMS
17 10 (0.92%) HBase
Development Applications
1 131 (12.02%) JUnit
2 85 (7.80%) Cypress.io
3 81 (7.43%) Jasmine
4 62 (5.69%) Selenium
5 60 (5.50%) Karma Test Runner
5 60 (5.50%) Protractor
5 60 (5.50%) WebDriver
6 48 (4.40%) Jenkins
7 35 (3.21%) Git
8 31 (2.84%) Maven
9 30 (2.75%) Cucumber
10 28 (2.57%) JMeter
11 26 (2.39%) Mockito
12 21 (1.93%) Jaeger
13 18 (1.65%) Gradle
13 18 (1.65%) JIRA
14 8 (0.73%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.55%) IntelliJ
16 5 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
17 4 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 868 (79.63%) Finance
2 754 (69.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 741 (67.98%) Law
4 341 (31.28%) Banking
5 287 (26.33%) Investment Banking
6 277 (25.41%) Marketing
7 246 (22.57%) Legal
8 127 (11.65%) Front Office
9 96 (8.81%) Influencing Skills
10 69 (6.33%) Social Skills
11 46 (4.22%) Private Banking
12 43 (3.94%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.02%) Prime Brokerage
14 17 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
16 6 (0.55%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.46%) Retail
18 3 (0.28%) Aviation
18 3 (0.28%) Games
19 2 (0.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (42.48%) Spring
2 282 (25.87%) React
3 247 (22.66%) AngularJS
4 235 (21.56%) Spring Boot
5 231 (21.19%) Kafka
6 168 (15.41%) J2EE
7 139 (12.75%) HTML
8 133 (12.20%) Node.js
9 128 (11.74%) Hibernate
10 117 (10.73%) JMS
11 116 (10.64%) gRPC
12 115 (10.55%) NumPy
12 115 (10.55%) Pandas
12 115 (10.55%) Protocol Buffers
12 115 (10.55%) SciPy
13 112 (10.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 107 (9.82%) CSS
15 89 (8.17%) JSON
16 85 (7.80%) RESTful
17 83 (7.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 271 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 249 (22.84%) Algorithms
3 136 (12.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 120 (11.01%) Fixed Income
5 117 (10.73%) Hedge funds
6 116 (10.64%) Derivative
7 115 (10.55%) Equities
8 83 (7.61%) Public Cloud
9 70 (6.42%) Data Structures
10 65 (5.96%) Onboarding
11 48 (4.40%) Pricing Data
12 39 (3.58%) Reference Data
13 37 (3.39%) Legacy Code
14 27 (2.48%) Market Risk
15 24 (2.20%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.93%) Replication
17 14 (1.28%) Client/Server
17 14 (1.28%) Credit Risk
18 9 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
19 6 (0.55%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.21%) Unix
2 22 (2.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (99.63%) Software Engineering
2 916 (84.04%) Agile
3 646 (59.27%) SDLC
4 641 (58.81%) CI/CD
5 622 (57.06%) Operational Stability
6 540 (49.54%) Machine Learning
7 539 (49.45%) Artificial Intelligence
8 392 (35.96%) Community of Practice
9 292 (26.79%) Microservices
10 283 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 272 (24.95%) Risk Management
12 271 (24.86%) Visualisation
13 231 (21.19%) Full Stack Development
14 189 (17.34%) Decision-Making
15 170 (15.60%) Asset Management
16 168 (15.41%) TDD
17 151 (13.85%) Investment Management
18 135 (12.39%) BDD
19 129 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
20 121 (11.10%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,090 (100.00%) Java
2 478 (43.85%) SQL
3 255 (23.39%) JavaScript
4 204 (18.72%) TypeScript
5 201 (18.44%) Python
6 144 (13.21%) Scala
7 35 (3.21%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.20%) C#
9 22 (2.02%) Groovy
10 6 (0.55%) Ruby
11 5 (0.46%) Go
12 4 (0.37%) C++
12 4 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.18%) PHP
14 2 (0.18%) Rust
15 1 (0.092%) Dart
15 1 (0.092%) F#
15 1 (0.092%) Fortran
15 1 (0.092%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (2.94%) Degree
2 13 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.10%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.73%) SC Cleared
5 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.37%) PhD
7 2 (0.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.092%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 20 (1.83%) SLA
3 14 (1.28%) QA
4 7 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.092%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.092%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 54 (4.95%) Docker
2 10 (0.92%) HDFS
3 2 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 131 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 85 (7.80%) Terraform
3 51 (4.68%) Grafana
4 23 (2.11%) Kibana
4 23 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.93%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.93%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.93%) Zipkin
6 18 (1.65%) Ansible
7 7 (0.64%) Graphite
8 1 (0.092%) Istio
Vendors
1 157 (14.40%) Oracle
2 48 (4.40%) Databricks
2 48 (4.40%) Splunk
3 43 (3.94%) Dynatrace
4 24 (2.20%) Google
5 18 (1.65%) SaltStack
6 10 (0.92%) Cloudera
7 9 (0.83%) TOWER Software
8 4 (0.37%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.28%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.28%) IBM
9 3 (0.28%) Reuters
10 1 (0.092%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.092%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.092%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.092%) Xamarin