Senior Java Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the South East is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 404 409
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 20 10 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.066% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.073% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 38
10th Percentile £57,500 £54,375 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £85,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £93,250 £87,500
% change year-on-year -22.25% +6.57% +34.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,620 13,675 18,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.62% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,331 8,566 12,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Thames Valley +21 10 £72,500 -9.38%
Hampshire -4 6 - - 1
Berkshire +16 5 £75,000 -6.25%
Surrey +9 4 £72,500 +16.00%
Oxfordshire - 4 £67,500 -
Buckinghamshire -17 1 £75,000 -
Senior Java Engineer
England

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 South East region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) TDD
4 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (35.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (35.00%) SDLC
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) OO
5 7 (35.00%) OOD
6 6 (30.00%) IBM
6 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (30.00%) e-Learning
6 6 (30.00%) Maven
6 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (30.00%) Dependency Injection
6 6 (30.00%) Git
6 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (30.00%) SOLID
6 6 (30.00%) Blockchain
6 6 (30.00%) Coaching
6 6 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (30.00%) IBM Cloud
6 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
7 5 (25.00%) Microservices
7 5 (25.00%) REST
7 5 (25.00%) Multithreading
8 4 (20.00%) Spring

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.00%) JBoss
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) IBM Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (35.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (10.00%) Java EE
4 2 (10.00%) JPA
4 2 (10.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) React
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
4 2 (10.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) XML
4 2 (10.00%) XSD
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Blockchain
1 6 (30.00%) e-Learning
1 6 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) TDD
3 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) OO
4 7 (35.00%) OOD
4 7 (35.00%) SDLC
5 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Coaching
5 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (30.00%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) SOLID
6 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) Multithreading
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
8 3 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) IBM
1 6 (30.00%) Red Hat