Senior Java Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Java Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in London is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 440 476
Rank change year-on-year +133 +36 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 93 67 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.30% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 90 62 133
10th Percentile £85,000 £59,044 £60,500
25th Percentile £103,750 £72,500 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £94,750 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% -13.86% +20.41%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £139,625 £148,750 £150,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £75,000 £94,000
% change year-on-year +46.67% -20.21% +7.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South London - 10 £107,500 -
Central London +26 4 £117,500 +80.77% 1
Senior Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (92.47%) AWS
3 73 (78.49%) Software Engineering
4 70 (75.27%) Agile
5 68 (73.12%) Finance
6 56 (60.22%) Banking
6 56 (60.22%) Python
7 54 (58.06%) Front Office
7 54 (58.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 54 (58.06%) Investment Banking
7 54 (58.06%) Derivative
7 54 (58.06%) gRPC
8 53 (56.99%) Apache
9 52 (55.91%) JavaScript
9 52 (55.91%) Asset Management
9 52 (55.91%) Fixed Income
9 52 (55.91%) Equities
9 52 (55.91%) Hedge funds
9 52 (55.91%) SciPy
9 52 (55.91%) NumPy
9 52 (55.91%) Apache Airflow
9 52 (55.91%) Amazon Athena
9 52 (55.91%) Apache Ignite
9 52 (55.91%) Dremio
9 52 (55.91%) Apache Arrow
9 52 (55.91%) dbt
9 52 (55.91%) Snowflake
9 52 (55.91%) Protocol Buffers
9 52 (55.91%) TypeScript
9 52 (55.91%) Pandas

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 53 (56.99%) Apache
2 52 (55.91%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 86 (92.47%) AWS
2 52 (55.91%) dbt
2 52 (55.91%) Snowflake
3 26 (27.96%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (15.05%) GCP
5 13 (13.98%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (13.98%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (12.90%) Dagster
7 3 (3.23%) SaaS
8 2 (2.15%) GitHub
9 1 (1.08%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (55.91%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (55.91%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (55.91%) Apache Iceberg
1 52 (55.91%) Apache Ignite
1 52 (55.91%) Data Lake
1 52 (55.91%) Dremio
2 18 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.15%) Redis
4 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) IntelliJ
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (73.12%) Finance
2 56 (60.22%) Banking
3 54 (58.06%) Front Office
3 54 (58.06%) Investment Banking
4 13 (13.98%) Financial Institution
5 7 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Local Government
7 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (58.06%) gRPC
2 52 (55.91%) NumPy
2 52 (55.91%) Pandas
2 52 (55.91%) Protocol Buffers
2 52 (55.91%) SciPy
3 17 (18.28%) Spring
4 16 (17.20%) Kafka
5 14 (15.05%) React
5 14 (15.05%) REST
5 14 (15.05%) Spring Boot
6 12 (12.90%) PySpark
7 10 (10.75%) Akka
7 10 (10.75%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.45%) RxJava
8 6 (6.45%) Spring WebFlux
9 4 (4.30%) .NET
10 2 (2.15%) WebSockets
11 1 (1.08%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 54 (58.06%) Derivative
1 54 (58.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 52 (55.91%) Equities
2 52 (55.91%) Fixed Income
2 52 (55.91%) Hedge funds
3 40 (43.01%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (78.49%) Software Engineering
2 70 (75.27%) Agile
3 52 (55.91%) Asset Management
4 40 (43.01%) Investment Management
5 26 (27.96%) TDD
6 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
6 18 (19.35%) Microservices
7 15 (16.13%) Application Security
7 15 (16.13%) Open Source
7 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (15.05%) Creative Thinking
8 14 (15.05%) Emotional Intelligence
8 14 (15.05%) Security Testing
8 14 (15.05%) Software Testing
9 12 (12.90%) Migration
9 12 (12.90%) Multithreading
10 11 (11.83%) BDD
10 11 (11.83%) Fintech
11 10 (10.75%) DevOps
11 10 (10.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (60.22%) Python
3 52 (55.91%) JavaScript
3 52 (55.91%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.23%) Rust
5 2 (2.15%) C++
6 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.13%) Degree
2 14 (15.05%) Master's Degree
2 14 (15.05%) PhD
System Software
1 34 (36.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (36.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.08%) Google
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle
1 1 (1.08%) Splunk