Senior Java Engineer Job Trends in Bournemouth

Senior Java Engineer
Dorset > Bournemouth

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in Bournemouth is £54,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 1.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 - -
75th Percentile £56,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median annual salary £54,000 £48,750 -
% change year-on-year +10.77% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 Bournemouth with a recognized job title 76 498 132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 91.38% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 45 194 127
10th Percentile £27,707 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,439 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +8.88% -1.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £77,500
Dorset median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in Bournemouth

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in Bournemouth.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in Bournemouth

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, 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 Bournemouth region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform