Senior Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 514 584 676
Rank change year-on-year +70 +92 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 43 182 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 65 36
10th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +0.71% -3.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £75,781
90th Percentile - £84,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £72,500 £91,250
% change year-on-year +58.62% -20.55% +4.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South West +114 21 - - 1
North of England +55 11 £65,000 -0.71% 10
North West +23 10 £65,000 -0.71% 5
South East +98 9 £67,500 -6.90% 12
Midlands +72 2 - - 3
West Midlands +42 2 - - 2
North East +44 1 £55,000 -15.98% 3
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (83.72%) SDLC
3 35 (81.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (81.40%) Public Sector
3 35 (81.40%) Artificial Intelligence
4 31 (72.09%) Agile
5 17 (39.53%) Software Engineering
6 13 (30.23%) OO
6 13 (30.23%) OOD
6 13 (30.23%) Red Hat
6 13 (30.23%) Design Patterns
7 12 (27.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (27.91%) Customer Service
7 12 (27.91%) Performance Optimisation
7 12 (27.91%) SOLID
7 12 (27.91%) Blockchain
7 12 (27.91%) IBM Cloud
7 12 (27.91%) Maven
7 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
7 12 (27.91%) Git
7 12 (27.91%) DevOps
7 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
7 12 (27.91%) Coaching
7 12 (27.91%) IBM
7 12 (27.91%) TDD
7 12 (27.91%) e-Learning
7 12 (27.91%) Dependency Injection
8 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 4 (9.30%) CSS
8 4 (9.30%) XML

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) IBM Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Big Data
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Git
1 12 (27.91%) Maven
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (81.40%) Public Sector
2 12 (27.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) CSS
1 4 (9.30%) HTML
1 4 (9.30%) XML
2 3 (6.98%) Spring
2 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (81.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (27.91%) Blockchain
2 12 (27.91%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Solaris
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (83.72%) SDLC
2 35 (81.40%) Artificial Intelligence
3 31 (72.09%) Agile
4 17 (39.53%) Software Engineering
5 13 (30.23%) Design Patterns
5 13 (30.23%) OO
5 13 (30.23%) OOD
6 12 (27.91%) Coaching
6 12 (27.91%) Customer Service
6 12 (27.91%) Dependency Injection
6 12 (27.91%) DevOps
6 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
6 12 (27.91%) Performance Optimisation
6 12 (27.91%) SOLID
6 12 (27.91%) TDD
7 3 (6.98%) Big Data Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) CI/CD
7 3 (6.98%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.98%) Data Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Red Hat
2 12 (27.91%) IBM
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle