Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 656 754 555
Rank change year-on-year +98 -199 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 241 240 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.23% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 120 173 287
10th Percentile - £52,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £66,250 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +2.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £124,500 £148,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.71% -3.70% +12.50%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Top 17 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 25 April 2024. 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 +113 180 £65,465 +0.71% 13
England +54 149 £72,500 -23.28% 36
Work from Home +75 106 £66,500 -21.76% 20
Scotland +5 84 £66,500 -1.48% 1
London +31 59 £93,500 -15.00% 24
North of England +66 41 £65,465 +14.85% 5
South East +31 20 £72,500 +13.73% 1
North West +23 19 £65,465 -3.02% 5
Yorkshire +94 15 £65,465 +24.69%
South West -14 14 £83,577 +26.15% 1
Midlands +9 12 £65,465 -13.61% 4
West Midlands +18 10 £65,465 -13.61% 3
North East - 7 £65,465 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £110,000 - 1
East of England +24 3 £80,000 +23.08%
Wales +5 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 241 (100.00%) Java
2 203 (84.23%) Software Engineering
3 185 (76.76%) Agile
4 124 (51.45%) AWS
5 114 (47.30%) Finance
6 113 (46.89%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (43.15%) SQL
8 93 (38.59%) Azure
9 88 (36.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 84 (34.85%) NoSQL
11 83 (34.44%) Mentoring
11 83 (34.44%) SDLC
11 83 (34.44%) Spring
12 80 (33.20%) Microservices
13 78 (32.37%) Law
14 75 (31.12%) Tech Ops
14 75 (31.12%) Operational Stability
15 74 (30.71%) Marketing
16 71 (29.46%) Public Sector
17 68 (28.22%) Artificial Intelligence
18 66 (27.39%) RESTful
19 58 (24.07%) REST
19 58 (24.07%) Machine Learning
20 55 (22.82%) TDD
21 51 (21.16%) Kubernetes
22 47 (19.50%) Big Data
22 47 (19.50%) Scala
23 46 (19.09%) Apache Spark
24 45 (18.67%) Performance Tuning
24 45 (18.67%) Influencing Skills

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 46 (19.09%) Apache Spark
2 28 (11.62%) JBoss
2 28 (11.62%) Red Hat Fuse
3 25 (10.37%) Apache
4 24 (9.96%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (7.05%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 124 (51.45%) AWS
2 93 (38.59%) Azure
3 36 (14.94%) GCP
4 24 (9.96%) dbt
5 22 (9.13%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.90%) IBM Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) Serverless
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.24%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.83%) Dagster
10 2 (0.83%) Prefect
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.41%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.05%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (34.85%) NoSQL
2 47 (19.50%) Big Data
3 44 (18.26%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (15.35%) MySQL
5 34 (14.11%) MongoDB
6 24 (9.96%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (9.13%) Apache Arrow
7 22 (9.13%) Apache Ignite
7 22 (9.13%) Dremio
8 20 (8.30%) Data Lake
9 17 (7.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (7.05%) CockroachDB
10 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.66%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.83%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.83%) Metadata
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (13.69%) IntelliJ
2 18 (7.47%) Git
3 8 (3.32%) Maven
4 6 (2.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.66%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.66%) GitLab
5 4 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.83%) JIRA
8 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.41%) mountebank
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 114 (47.30%) Finance
2 88 (36.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 78 (32.37%) Law
4 74 (30.71%) Marketing
5 71 (29.46%) Public Sector
6 45 (18.67%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (11.62%) Banking
8 23 (9.54%) Front Office
9 22 (9.13%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.66%) Retail
10 4 (1.66%) Social Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Games
12 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.41%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (34.44%) Spring
2 66 (27.39%) RESTful
3 58 (24.07%) REST
4 43 (17.84%) Kafka
5 38 (15.77%) Hibernate
6 37 (15.35%) AngularJS
7 33 (13.69%) JSON
8 32 (13.28%) SOAP
9 31 (12.86%) XML
10 30 (12.45%) Java EE
10 30 (12.45%) JPA
10 30 (12.45%) Web Services
11 28 (11.62%) XSD
12 22 (9.13%) gRPC
12 22 (9.13%) NumPy
12 22 (9.13%) Pandas
12 22 (9.13%) Protocol Buffers
12 22 (9.13%) SciPy
13 18 (7.47%) React
14 17 (7.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.03%) Public Cloud
2 25 (10.37%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.54%) Fixed Income
4 22 (9.13%) Derivative
4 22 (9.13%) Equities
4 22 (9.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (9.13%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.98%) Pricing Data
6 7 (2.90%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.90%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.66%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.73%) Linux
2 5 (2.07%) Windows
3 4 (1.66%) AIX
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (84.23%) Software Engineering
2 185 (76.76%) Agile
3 113 (46.89%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (34.44%) Mentoring
4 83 (34.44%) SDLC
5 80 (33.20%) Microservices
6 75 (31.12%) Operational Stability
6 75 (31.12%) Tech Ops
7 68 (28.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 58 (24.07%) Machine Learning
9 55 (22.82%) TDD
10 45 (18.67%) Performance Tuning
11 41 (17.01%) Coaching
12 35 (14.52%) BDD
12 35 (14.52%) Test Automation
13 34 (14.11%) Decision-Making
14 33 (13.69%) Continuous Deployment
15 30 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
15 30 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (12.03%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 241 (100.00%) Java
2 104 (43.15%) SQL
3 47 (19.50%) Scala
4 40 (16.60%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.77%) Python
6 33 (13.69%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.66%) Ruby
8 3 (1.24%) C#
8 3 (1.24%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.41%) Go
9 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.24%) Degree
4 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.49%) QA
System Software
1 29 (12.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (21.16%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.03%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Istio
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
4 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.05%) Google
2 7 (2.90%) IBM
2 7 (2.90%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.41%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.41%) Solace
4 1 (0.41%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.41%) Xamarin