Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK is £69,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 616 699 652
Rank change year-on-year +83 -47 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 114 397 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 44 270 305
10th Percentile £51,513 £46,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.06% - +44.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £120,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £130,375 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.17% -11.54% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,561 117,203 121,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.41% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36,942 73,752 84,378
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,798 £32,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +210 88 £64,500 +12.17% 26
England +55 75 £65,000 -27.78% 36
North of England +137 28 £64,000 +21.90% 8
Work from Home +68 24 £65,000 -16.13% 27
North West +135 20 £67,000 +3.88% 5
London +38 15 £120,000 +14.29% 16
South West +78 14 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Scotland +39 14 - - 2
South East +135 10 £68,500 -8.67% 9
Northern Ireland - 10 £110,000 - 1
Yorkshire +81 8 £57,125 +8.81% 2
Midlands +112 6 £67,500 -10.93% 1
Wales - 6 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 5 - -
West Midlands +102 1 £67,500 -10.93% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2023, 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 featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) Java
2 97 (85.09%) Agile
2 97 (85.09%) Software Engineering
3 80 (70.18%) Spring
4 74 (64.91%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (64.04%) Mentoring
6 70 (61.40%) Security Cleared
6 70 (61.40%) AngularJS
7 67 (58.77%) Hibernate
7 67 (58.77%) Web Services
7 67 (58.77%) XML
8 66 (57.89%) JSON
8 66 (57.89%) REST
9 65 (57.02%) SC Cleared
9 65 (57.02%) SOAP
9 65 (57.02%) IntelliJ
10 64 (56.14%) User Experience
10 64 (56.14%) Collaborative Working
10 64 (56.14%) Public Sector
11 63 (55.26%) Red Hat Fuse
11 63 (55.26%) Actionable Insight
11 63 (55.26%) Front End Development
11 63 (55.26%) Data Design
11 63 (55.26%) JBoss
11 63 (55.26%) XSD
11 63 (55.26%) JPA
11 63 (55.26%) UX Design
12 56 (49.12%) RESTful
13 50 (43.86%) Java EE
14 30 (26.32%) AWS

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 63 (55.26%) JBoss
1 63 (55.26%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (1.75%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.32%) AWS
2 21 (18.42%) Azure
3 5 (4.39%) GCP
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.63%) Serverless
5 2 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.75%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) HTTP
1 2 (1.75%) Multicast
1 2 (1.75%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) MySQL
2 10 (8.77%) MongoDB
2 10 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) Power BI
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (57.02%) IntelliJ
2 5 (4.39%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.51%) Maven
4 3 (2.63%) GitLab
5 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.75%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
General
1 64 (56.14%) Public Sector
2 16 (14.04%) Finance
3 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (3.51%) Law
3 4 (3.51%) Marketing
4 3 (2.63%) Aviation
5 2 (1.75%) Banking
5 2 (1.75%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Electronics
6 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Retail
6 1 (0.88%) Retail Finance
6 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (70.18%) Spring
2 70 (61.40%) AngularJS
3 67 (58.77%) Hibernate
3 67 (58.77%) Web Services
3 67 (58.77%) XML
4 66 (57.89%) JSON
4 66 (57.89%) REST
5 65 (57.02%) SOAP
6 63 (55.26%) JPA
6 63 (55.26%) XSD
7 56 (49.12%) RESTful
8 50 (43.86%) Java EE
9 9 (7.89%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.14%) HTML
10 7 (6.14%) React
11 6 (5.26%) CSS
11 6 (5.26%) Kafka
12 2 (1.75%) Apache Camel
12 2 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (1.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.88%) Equities
4 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.88%) IoT
4 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (85.09%) Agile
1 97 (85.09%) Software Engineering
2 74 (64.91%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (64.04%) Mentoring
4 64 (56.14%) Collaborative Working
4 64 (56.14%) User Experience
5 63 (55.26%) Actionable Insight
5 63 (55.26%) Data Design
5 63 (55.26%) Front End Development
5 63 (55.26%) UX Design
6 22 (19.30%) Microservices
7 14 (12.28%) DevOps
8 11 (9.65%) TDD
9 10 (8.77%) Containerisation
10 9 (7.89%) Continuous Deployment
10 9 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (7.89%) Machine Learning
11 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (7.02%) SDLC
12 7 (6.14%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.77%) SQL
4 6 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.39%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.51%) Python
7 3 (2.63%) C++
8 2 (1.75%) Rust
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (61.40%) Security Cleared
2 65 (57.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (4.39%) Oracle
2 2 (1.75%) Solace
2 2 (1.75%) TIBCO
3 1 (0.88%) Google