Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in England is £70,000 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 733 852 816
Rank change year-on-year +119 -36 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 89 89 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.095% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.10% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 71 72 171
10th Percentile - £46,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £54,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -8.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £128,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £66,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -19.39% -8.33% +38.46%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 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
London +131 42 £100,000 +8.11% 14
North of England +60 30 £65,465 +24.69% 5
North West +14 13 £65,465 -3.02% 4
Yorkshire +98 10 £65,465 +24.69% 1
Midlands +11 8 £65,465 - 4
North East - 7 £65,465 -
West Midlands +29 6 £65,465 - 2
South East +27 6 £72,500 +1.75% 1
South West -21 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
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 26 April 2024, 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 89 (100.00%) Java
1 89 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 75 (84.27%) Agile
3 66 (74.16%) AWS
4 53 (59.55%) Mentoring
5 50 (56.18%) Public Sector
6 49 (55.06%) RESTful
7 44 (49.44%) Microservices
8 37 (41.57%) SQL
9 36 (40.45%) TDD
10 35 (39.33%) PostgreSQL
11 34 (38.20%) Azure
12 33 (37.08%) Test Automation
12 33 (37.08%) BDD
12 33 (37.08%) MongoDB
12 33 (37.08%) NoSQL
13 32 (35.96%) Coaching
13 32 (35.96%) Continuous Deployment
13 32 (35.96%) MySQL
14 25 (28.09%) JavaScript
15 24 (26.97%) Python
16 23 (25.84%) Finance
16 23 (25.84%) Banking
16 23 (25.84%) Asset Management
16 23 (25.84%) Apache
17 22 (24.72%) Pandas
17 22 (24.72%) Hedge funds
17 22 (24.72%) SciPy
17 22 (24.72%) NumPy
17 22 (24.72%) Protocol Buffers

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 23 (25.84%) Apache
2 22 (24.72%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (19.10%) JBoss
3 17 (19.10%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 66 (74.16%) AWS
2 34 (38.20%) Azure
3 22 (24.72%) dbt
4 20 (22.47%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.25%) GCP
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (39.33%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (37.08%) MongoDB
2 33 (37.08%) NoSQL
3 32 (35.96%) MySQL
4 22 (24.72%) Amazon Athena
4 22 (24.72%) Apache Arrow
4 22 (24.72%) Apache Ignite
4 22 (24.72%) Dremio
5 20 (22.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.12%) Flink
7 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.12%) Redis
7 1 (1.12%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 17 (19.10%) IntelliJ
2 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.12%) Maven
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
General
1 50 (56.18%) Public Sector
2 23 (25.84%) Banking
2 23 (25.84%) Finance
3 22 (24.72%) Front Office
3 22 (24.72%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.25%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.12%) Aeronautics
5 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.12%) Aviation
5 1 (1.12%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (55.06%) RESTful
2 22 (24.72%) gRPC
2 22 (24.72%) NumPy
2 22 (24.72%) Pandas
2 22 (24.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 22 (24.72%) SciPy
2 22 (24.72%) Spring
3 18 (20.22%) REST
3 18 (20.22%) XML
4 17 (19.10%) AngularJS
4 17 (19.10%) Hibernate
4 17 (19.10%) Java EE
4 17 (19.10%) JPA
4 17 (19.10%) JSON
4 17 (19.10%) SOAP
4 17 (19.10%) Web Services
4 17 (19.10%) XSD
5 8 (8.99%) Kafka
6 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Derivative
1 22 (24.72%) Equities
1 22 (24.72%) Fixed Income
1 22 (24.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 22 (24.72%) Hedge funds
2 12 (13.48%) Pricing Data
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 75 (84.27%) Agile
3 53 (59.55%) Mentoring
4 44 (49.44%) Microservices
5 36 (40.45%) TDD
6 33 (37.08%) BDD
6 33 (37.08%) Test Automation
7 32 (35.96%) Coaching
7 32 (35.96%) Continuous Deployment
8 23 (25.84%) Asset Management
9 22 (24.72%) Investment Management
10 20 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (20.22%) User Experience
11 18 (20.22%) UX Design
12 17 (19.10%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (19.10%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (19.10%) Data Design
12 17 (19.10%) Front End Development
13 8 (8.99%) Greeks
14 6 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (41.57%) SQL
3 25 (28.09%) JavaScript
4 24 (26.97%) Python
5 22 (24.72%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.25%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.25%) Ruby
6 2 (2.25%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Grafana
2 1 (1.12%) Istio
2 1 (1.12%) Kibana
2 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle
2 1 (1.12%) Xamarin