Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK 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 656 757 566
Rank change year-on-year +101 -191 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 240 238 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.23% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 119 173 289
10th Percentile - £52,500 £53,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +2.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,500 £140,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.71% -3.70% +12.50%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java 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 Senior Java Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +102 179 £65,465 +0.71% 15
England +62 149 £72,500 -22.25% 31
Work from Home +62 106 £66,500 -21.76% 18
Scotland +5 84 £66,500 -1.48% 1
London +48 59 £93,500 -15.00% 18
North of England +69 41 £65,465 +14.85% 5
South East +39 20 £72,500 +13.73% 1
North West +18 19 £65,465 -3.02% 4
Yorkshire +103 15 £65,465 +24.69% 1
South West -17 14 £83,577 +26.15% 2
Midlands +10 12 £65,465 -13.61% 5
West Midlands +28 10 £65,465 -13.61% 3
North East - 7 £65,465 -
East of England +20 3 £80,000 +23.08%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Wales +8 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 2

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

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 featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 240 (100.00%) Java
2 203 (84.58%) Software Engineering
3 184 (76.67%) Agile
4 123 (51.25%) AWS
5 113 (47.08%) Finance
5 113 (47.08%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (43.33%) SQL
7 93 (38.75%) Azure
8 88 (36.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 84 (35.00%) NoSQL
10 83 (34.58%) Mentoring
10 83 (34.58%) SDLC
11 82 (34.17%) Spring
12 79 (32.92%) Microservices
13 78 (32.50%) Law
14 75 (31.25%) Tech Ops
14 75 (31.25%) Operational Stability
15 74 (30.83%) Marketing
16 71 (29.58%) Public Sector
17 68 (28.33%) Artificial Intelligence
18 66 (27.50%) RESTful
19 58 (24.17%) REST
19 58 (24.17%) Machine Learning
20 55 (22.92%) TDD
21 51 (21.25%) Kubernetes
22 47 (19.58%) Big Data
22 47 (19.58%) Scala
23 46 (19.17%) Apache Spark
24 45 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
24 45 (18.75%) Influencing Skills

Senior Java 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 46 (19.17%) Apache Spark
2 28 (11.67%) JBoss
2 28 (11.67%) Red Hat Fuse
3 25 (10.42%) Apache
4 24 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (7.08%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 123 (51.25%) AWS
2 93 (38.75%) Azure
3 36 (15.00%) GCP
4 24 (10.00%) dbt
5 22 (9.17%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.92%) IBM Cloud
7 5 (2.08%) Serverless
8 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.83%) Dagster
10 2 (0.83%) Prefect
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.08%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 47 (19.58%) Big Data
3 44 (18.33%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (15.00%) MySQL
5 34 (14.17%) MongoDB
6 24 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (9.17%) Apache Arrow
7 22 (9.17%) Apache Ignite
7 22 (9.17%) Dremio
8 20 (8.33%) Data Lake
9 17 (7.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (7.08%) CockroachDB
10 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.83%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.83%) Metadata
13 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (13.33%) IntelliJ
2 18 (7.50%) Git
3 8 (3.33%) Maven
4 6 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.67%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.67%) GitLab
5 4 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.83%) JIRA
8 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.42%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.42%) mountebank
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 113 (47.08%) Finance
2 88 (36.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 78 (32.50%) Law
4 74 (30.83%) Marketing
5 71 (29.58%) Public Sector
6 45 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (11.67%) Banking
8 23 (9.58%) Front Office
9 22 (9.17%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.67%) Retail
10 4 (1.67%) Social Skills
11 3 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.25%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Games
12 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.42%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.17%) Spring
2 66 (27.50%) RESTful
3 58 (24.17%) REST
4 43 (17.92%) Kafka
5 37 (15.42%) AngularJS
5 37 (15.42%) Hibernate
6 32 (13.33%) JSON
6 32 (13.33%) SOAP
7 31 (12.92%) XML
8 30 (12.50%) Java EE
8 30 (12.50%) JPA
8 30 (12.50%) Web Services
9 28 (11.67%) XSD
10 22 (9.17%) gRPC
10 22 (9.17%) NumPy
10 22 (9.17%) Pandas
10 22 (9.17%) Protocol Buffers
10 22 (9.17%) SciPy
11 18 (7.50%) React
12 17 (7.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.08%) Public Cloud
2 25 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.58%) Fixed Income
4 22 (9.17%) Derivative
4 22 (9.17%) Equities
4 22 (9.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (9.17%) Hedge funds
5 12 (5.00%) Pricing Data
6 7 (2.92%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.92%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.67%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Linux
2 4 (1.67%) AIX
2 4 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (84.58%) Software Engineering
2 184 (76.67%) Agile
3 113 (47.08%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (34.58%) Mentoring
4 83 (34.58%) SDLC
5 79 (32.92%) Microservices
6 75 (31.25%) Operational Stability
6 75 (31.25%) Tech Ops
7 68 (28.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 58 (24.17%) Machine Learning
9 55 (22.92%) TDD
10 45 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
11 41 (17.08%) Coaching
12 35 (14.58%) BDD
12 35 (14.58%) Test Automation
13 34 (14.17%) Decision-Making
14 33 (13.75%) Continuous Deployment
15 30 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
15 30 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (12.08%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 240 (100.00%) Java
2 104 (43.33%) SQL
3 47 (19.58%) Scala
4 40 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.83%) Python
6 33 (13.75%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.67%) Ruby
8 3 (1.25%) C#
8 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.42%) Go
9 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.25%) Degree
4 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 28 (11.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Grafana
3 1 (0.42%) Istio
3 1 (0.42%) Kibana
3 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.08%) Google
2 7 (2.92%) IBM
2 7 (2.92%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.42%) Xamarin