Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 743 840
Rank change year-on-year +154 +97 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 73 90 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 73 72 71
10th Percentile £67,500 - £46,250
25th Percentile £98,750 £58,938 £53,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £71,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.39% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £135,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £148,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £68,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +68.50% -17.27% -8.33%

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 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +137 69 £110,000 +10.00% 22
North of England +67 4 £65,000 -0.71% 2
North West +12 4 £65,000 -0.71% 1
Senior Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Java
1 73 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 68 (93.15%) Agile
3 64 (87.67%) AWS
4 61 (83.56%) Finance
5 52 (71.23%) JavaScript
6 50 (68.49%) Front Office
6 50 (68.49%) Python
6 50 (68.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (68.49%) Banking
6 50 (68.49%) Investment Banking
6 50 (68.49%) Derivative
7 48 (65.75%) Hedge funds
7 48 (65.75%) SciPy
7 48 (65.75%) NumPy
7 48 (65.75%) Protocol Buffers
7 48 (65.75%) TypeScript
7 48 (65.75%) Pandas
7 48 (65.75%) Apache
7 48 (65.75%) Asset Management
7 48 (65.75%) Fixed Income
7 48 (65.75%) Equities
7 48 (65.75%) Apache Iceberg
7 48 (65.75%) Dremio
7 48 (65.75%) Apache Arrow
7 48 (65.75%) Data Lake
7 48 (65.75%) gRPC
7 48 (65.75%) Apache Airflow
7 48 (65.75%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (65.75%) Apache Ignite

Senior Java Software 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 48 (65.75%) Apache
1 48 (65.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 64 (87.67%) AWS
2 48 (65.75%) dbt
2 48 (65.75%) Snowflake
3 14 (19.18%) GCP
4 13 (17.81%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (17.81%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (16.44%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (16.44%) Dagster
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (65.75%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (65.75%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (65.75%) Apache Iceberg
1 48 (65.75%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (65.75%) Data Lake
1 48 (65.75%) Dremio
2 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (83.56%) Finance
2 50 (68.49%) Banking
2 50 (68.49%) Front Office
2 50 (68.49%) Investment Banking
3 13 (17.81%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (65.75%) gRPC
1 48 (65.75%) NumPy
1 48 (65.75%) Pandas
1 48 (65.75%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (65.75%) SciPy
2 16 (21.92%) Spring
3 12 (16.44%) PySpark
3 12 (16.44%) Spring Boot
4 11 (15.07%) Kafka
5 10 (13.70%) Akka
5 10 (13.70%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.22%) RxJava
6 6 (8.22%) Spring WebFlux
7 4 (5.48%) .NET
7 4 (5.48%) CSS
7 4 (5.48%) HTML
7 4 (5.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (68.49%) Derivative
1 50 (68.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (65.75%) Equities
2 48 (65.75%) Fixed Income
2 48 (65.75%) Hedge funds
3 36 (49.32%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 68 (93.15%) Agile
3 48 (65.75%) Asset Management
4 36 (49.32%) Investment Management
5 15 (20.55%) Microservices
6 12 (16.44%) Migration
7 11 (15.07%) BDD
7 11 (15.07%) Fintech
7 11 (15.07%) TDD
8 10 (13.70%) High Availability
8 10 (13.70%) Multithreading
8 10 (13.70%) Pair Programming
9 9 (12.33%) DevOps
10 7 (9.59%) Concurrent Programming
11 4 (5.48%) CI/CD
11 4 (5.48%) Containerisation
11 4 (5.48%) Mentoring
11 4 (5.48%) SDLC
11 4 (5.48%) SOLID
12 2 (2.74%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (71.23%) JavaScript
3 50 (68.49%) Python
4 48 (65.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.74%) C++
6 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.37%) Rust
6 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.37%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.37%) Google
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle
1 1 (1.37%) Splunk