Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs in Merton

Senior Software Engineer - Java
South London > Merton

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in Merton is £107,500 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 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 14.71% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 15.38% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £103,625 - -
25th Percentile £103,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 - -
75th Percentile £111,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £107,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merton. 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 Merton with a recognized job title 65 124 130
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.59% 96.88% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 57 51 40
10th Percentile £46,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £32,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £92,500
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in Merton

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Merton

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in Merton

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton 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
Wimbledon - 10 £107,500 -
Senior Java Software Engineer
South London

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton

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 Merton region featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) BDD
1 10 (100.00%) High Availability
1 10 (100.00%) Kafka
1 10 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 10 (100.00%) Akka
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 10 (100.00%) Fintech
2 6 (60.00%) RxJava
2 6 (60.00%) Spring WebFlux
2 6 (60.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
1 10 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Akka
1 10 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 10 (100.00%) Kafka
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (60.00%) RxJava
2 6 (60.00%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) BDD
1 10 (100.00%) Fintech
1 10 (100.00%) High Availability
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes