Senior Java Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in England is £106,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 533 623
Rank change year-on-year +26 +90 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 91 152 49
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.30% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.33% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 72 109 40
10th Percentile £70,000 £64,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £56,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £106,250 £115,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +76.92% -27.78%
75th Percentile £135,000 £137,500 £77,813
90th Percentile - £148,750 £93,991
UK median annual salary £105,000 £115,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +67.88% -23.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 47,767 46,622 43,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 93.23% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 30,073 24,925 34,193
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +16 81 £110,000 -4.35% 51
North of England -1 4 £72,500 +11.54% 39
South East +19 3 £68,750 -1.79% 28
North West +5 2 £70,000 +7.69% 25
South West -1 2 £59,500 +19.00% 10
Yorkshire -2 2 £72,500 - 13
Midlands +30 1 £57,500 - 22
West Midlands +30 1 £57,500 - 10
Senior Java Engineer
UK

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, Senior Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (69.23%) AWS
3 61 (67.03%) Software Engineering
4 47 (51.65%) Agile
5 38 (41.76%) JavaScript
6 37 (40.66%) Python
7 36 (39.56%) Investment Management
7 36 (39.56%) TypeScript
8 35 (38.46%) Amazon Athena
8 35 (38.46%) Apache
8 35 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
8 35 (38.46%) Apache Arrow
8 35 (38.46%) Apache Iceberg
8 35 (38.46%) Apache Ignite
8 35 (38.46%) Asset Management
8 35 (38.46%) Data Lake
8 35 (38.46%) dbt
8 35 (38.46%) Dremio
8 35 (38.46%) gRPC
8 35 (38.46%) NumPy
8 35 (38.46%) Pandas
8 35 (38.46%) Protocol Buffers
8 35 (38.46%) SciPy
8 35 (38.46%) Snowflake
9 30 (32.97%) Spring
10 26 (28.57%) Spring Boot
11 22 (24.18%) Mentoring
12 21 (23.08%) CI/CD
13 19 (20.88%) Kotlin
14 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (38.46%) Apache
1 35 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 63 (69.23%) AWS
2 35 (38.46%) dbt
2 35 (38.46%) Snowflake
3 11 (12.09%) SaaS
4 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.10%) Azure
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) AMQP
1 1 (1.10%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (38.46%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (38.46%) Apache Arrow
1 35 (38.46%) Apache Iceberg
1 35 (38.46%) Apache Ignite
1 35 (38.46%) Data Lake
1 35 (38.46%) Dremio
2 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) GitLab
2 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
2 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.20%) Gradle
4 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) JUnit
General
1 57 (62.64%) Finance
2 41 (45.05%) Banking
3 35 (38.46%) Front Office
3 35 (38.46%) Investment Banking
4 11 (12.09%) Financial Institution
4 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Games
7 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Back Office
7 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.30%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Aviation
8 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.46%) gRPC
1 35 (38.46%) NumPy
1 35 (38.46%) Pandas
1 35 (38.46%) Protocol Buffers
1 35 (38.46%) SciPy
2 30 (32.97%) Spring
3 26 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 8 (8.79%) Kafka
5 6 (6.59%) RESTful
6 3 (3.30%) Akka
6 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.30%) Node.js
6 3 (3.30%) React
6 3 (3.30%) RxJava
6 3 (3.30%) Spring WebFlux
7 2 (2.20%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.20%) REST
7 2 (2.20%) SOAP
7 2 (2.20%) Web Services
8 1 (1.10%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (38.46%) Derivative
1 35 (38.46%) Equities
1 35 (38.46%) Fixed Income
1 35 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 35 (38.46%) Hedge funds
1 35 (38.46%) Pricing Data
2 16 (17.58%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.69%) Blog
4 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.30%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.10%) NHS
7 1 (1.10%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.03%) Software Engineering
2 47 (51.65%) Agile
3 36 (39.56%) Investment Management
4 35 (38.46%) Asset Management
5 22 (24.18%) Mentoring
6 21 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.68%) Microservices
9 16 (17.58%) Event-Driven
10 12 (13.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (9.89%) Fintech
12 8 (8.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (8.79%) B2B
12 8 (8.79%) Collaborative Culture
12 8 (8.79%) Insurtech
12 8 (8.79%) Observability
13 7 (7.69%) Design Patterns
13 7 (7.69%) Machine Learning
13 7 (7.69%) Open Source
13 7 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (41.76%) JavaScript
3 37 (40.66%) Python
4 36 (39.56%) TypeScript
5 19 (20.88%) Kotlin
6 9 (9.89%) SQL
7 2 (2.20%) Go
8 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Degree
1 7 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana