Senior Java Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the South East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 377 406
Rank change year-on-year +98 +29 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 9 20 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile - £57,500 £54,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +13.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £80,625
90th Percentile - £79,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £72,500 £94,500
% change year-on-year +51.72% -23.28% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in the South East

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hampshire +71 9 £67,500 - 2
Senior Java Engineer
England

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 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 South East region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 6 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 6 (66.67%) OO
2 6 (66.67%) OOD
2 6 (66.67%) IBM
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 6 (66.67%) e-Learning
2 6 (66.67%) Maven
2 6 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Git
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 6 (66.67%) Coaching
2 6 (66.67%) TDD
2 6 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (66.67%) SDLC
2 6 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (66.67%) SOLID
2 6 (66.67%) Blockchain
2 6 (66.67%) IBM Cloud
2 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (33.33%) Spring
3 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) IBM Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Maven
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Blockchain
1 6 (66.67%) e-Learning
1 6 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Coaching
1 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
1 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 6 (66.67%) OO
1 6 (66.67%) OOD
1 6 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 6 (66.67%) SDLC
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) SOLID
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Big Data Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) IBM
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat