Senior Java Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in England 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 679 733 538
Rank change year-on-year +54 -195 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 157 194 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.23% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 125 157 260
10th Percentile - £52,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £58,938 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +8.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £148,750 £140,000 £128,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £94,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -20.21% +10.59% +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,478 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,133 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Engineer within the England region 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
London +41 68 £95,000 -13.64% 18
North of England +70 40 £65,465 +3.50% 3
South East +33 21 £72,500 +13.73% 6
North West +25 18 £65,465 -3.02% 2
Yorkshire +89 15 £65,465 +24.69% 1
South West -23 13 £83,577 +42.26% 1
Midlands +9 12 £65,465 -13.61% 5
West Midlands +22 10 £65,465 -13.61% 3
North East - 7 £65,465 -
East of England +13 3 £80,000 +45.45%
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Senior Java Engineer
UK

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Java 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 across the England region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 122 (77.71%) Software Engineering
3 103 (65.61%) Agile
4 100 (63.69%) AWS
5 76 (48.41%) Microservices
6 70 (44.59%) Mentoring
7 62 (39.49%) Azure
8 58 (36.94%) Public Sector
9 55 (35.03%) TDD
10 53 (33.76%) RESTful
11 51 (32.48%) Spring
12 47 (29.94%) Finance
12 47 (29.94%) JavaScript
13 44 (28.03%) Python
13 44 (28.03%) PostgreSQL
14 42 (26.75%) TypeScript
15 41 (26.11%) SQL
16 39 (24.84%) NoSQL
16 39 (24.84%) Coaching
17 36 (22.93%) MySQL
17 36 (22.93%) Banking
18 35 (22.29%) BDD
19 34 (21.66%) Test Automation
19 34 (21.66%) Asset Management
19 34 (21.66%) Apache
20 33 (21.02%) MongoDB
20 33 (21.02%) Investment Management
20 33 (21.02%) dbt
20 33 (21.02%) Apache Airflow
20 33 (21.02%) Continuous Deployment

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (21.66%) Apache
2 33 (21.02%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (10.83%) JBoss
3 17 (10.83%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 100 (63.69%) AWS
2 62 (39.49%) Azure
3 33 (21.02%) dbt
4 29 (18.47%) Snowflake
5 7 (4.46%) IBM Cloud
6 5 (3.18%) GCP
7 4 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.91%) Serverless
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.27%) Dagster
9 2 (1.27%) Prefect
10 1 (0.64%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) HTTP
1 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.03%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (24.84%) NoSQL
3 36 (22.93%) MySQL
4 33 (21.02%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (21.02%) MongoDB
5 31 (19.75%) Apache Arrow
5 31 (19.75%) Apache Ignite
5 31 (19.75%) Dremio
6 29 (18.47%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.27%) Big Data
9 2 (1.27%) Data Hub
9 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.27%) Metadata
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.64%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (13.38%) IntelliJ
2 16 (10.19%) Git
3 8 (5.10%) Maven
4 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.55%) Eclipse
5 4 (2.55%) GitLab
5 4 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.27%) JIRA
8 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.64%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.64%) mountebank
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 58 (36.94%) Public Sector
2 47 (29.94%) Finance
3 36 (22.93%) Banking
4 32 (20.38%) Front Office
5 31 (19.75%) Investment Banking
6 13 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.55%) Retail
7 4 (2.55%) Social Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Law
8 3 (1.91%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Aviation
10 1 (0.64%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.76%) RESTful
2 51 (32.48%) Spring
3 31 (19.75%) gRPC
3 31 (19.75%) NumPy
3 31 (19.75%) Pandas
3 31 (19.75%) Protocol Buffers
3 31 (19.75%) SciPy
4 30 (19.11%) REST
5 26 (16.56%) Kafka
6 24 (15.29%) AngularJS
7 23 (14.65%) Hibernate
8 21 (13.38%) JSON
8 21 (13.38%) SOAP
9 17 (10.83%) Java EE
9 17 (10.83%) JPA
9 17 (10.83%) Web Services
9 17 (10.83%) XML
9 17 (10.83%) XSD
10 16 (10.19%) React
11 14 (8.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.38%) Fixed Income
2 31 (19.75%) Derivative
2 31 (19.75%) Equities
2 31 (19.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (19.75%) Hedge funds
3 18 (11.46%) Pricing Data
4 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.46%) Blockchain
5 7 (4.46%) e-Learning
5 7 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.55%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) AIX
2 4 (2.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (77.71%) Software Engineering
2 103 (65.61%) Agile
3 76 (48.41%) Microservices
4 70 (44.59%) Mentoring
5 55 (35.03%) TDD
6 39 (24.84%) Coaching
7 35 (22.29%) BDD
8 34 (21.66%) Asset Management
8 34 (21.66%) Test Automation
9 33 (21.02%) Continuous Deployment
9 33 (21.02%) Investment Management
10 25 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (11.46%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (11.46%) DevOps
11 18 (11.46%) User Experience
11 18 (11.46%) UX Design
12 17 (10.83%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (10.83%) Data Design
12 17 (10.83%) Front End Development
13 14 (8.92%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (29.94%) JavaScript
3 44 (28.03%) Python
4 42 (26.75%) TypeScript
5 41 (26.11%) SQL
6 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.27%) Ruby
6 2 (1.27%) Scala
7 1 (0.64%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.91%) Degree
4 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.82%) QA
System Software
1 26 (16.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (20.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Ansible
2 1 (0.64%) Grafana
2 1 (0.64%) Istio
2 1 (0.64%) Kibana
2 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (4.46%) IBM
1 7 (4.46%) Red Hat
2 6 (3.82%) Oracle
3 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.64%) Xamarin