Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in the UK is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 692 910
Rank change year-on-year +24 +218 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 70 118 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 68 23 74
10th Percentile £82,750 £56,000 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% -6.45% -18.42%
75th Percentile £141,875 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £105,000 £112,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.14% +31.90% -25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 55,249 73,376 104,292
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 94.99% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 26,251 55,409 65,971
10th Percentile £34,905 £28,500 £32,575
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,430 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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
England +84 64 £115,000 +58.62% 19
Work from Home +153 61 £115,000 +50.82% 17
London +82 57 £115,000 +15.00% 10
UK excluding London -19 7 £65,000 -6.14% 13
North of England +15 6 £65,000 -8.77% 4
North West -12 6 £65,000 -10.34% 2
South East +38 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Java
1 70 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 61 (87.14%) Agile
3 54 (77.14%) AWS
4 53 (75.71%) Finance
4 53 (75.71%) JavaScript
5 50 (71.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (70.00%) Python
6 49 (70.00%) Banking
7 48 (68.57%) Asset Management
7 48 (68.57%) Fixed Income
7 48 (68.57%) Equities
7 48 (68.57%) Investment Banking
7 48 (68.57%) Derivative
7 48 (68.57%) Front Office
7 48 (68.57%) Hedge funds
7 48 (68.57%) TypeScript
8 46 (65.71%) Data Lake
8 46 (65.71%) gRPC
8 46 (65.71%) Apache Airflow
8 46 (65.71%) Amazon Athena
8 46 (65.71%) Apache Ignite
8 46 (65.71%) dbt
8 46 (65.71%) Snowflake
8 46 (65.71%) Apache Iceberg
8 46 (65.71%) Dremio
8 46 (65.71%) Apache Arrow
8 46 (65.71%) Pandas
8 46 (65.71%) Protocol Buffers
8 46 (65.71%) SciPy

Senior Java Software 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 (65.71%) Apache
1 46 (65.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 54 (77.14%) AWS
2 46 (65.71%) dbt
2 46 (65.71%) Snowflake
3 14 (20.00%) GCP
4 13 (18.57%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (14.29%) Dagster
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.86%) GitHub
7 2 (2.86%) Serverless
8 1 (1.43%) Azure
8 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DHCP
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) HTTP
1 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.43%) SMTP
1 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (65.71%) Amazon Athena
1 46 (65.71%) Apache Arrow
1 46 (65.71%) Apache Iceberg
1 46 (65.71%) Apache Ignite
1 46 (65.71%) Data Lake
1 46 (65.71%) Dremio
2 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 53 (75.71%) Finance
2 49 (70.00%) Banking
3 48 (68.57%) Front Office
3 48 (68.57%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Law
5 2 (2.86%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Automotive
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (65.71%) gRPC
1 46 (65.71%) NumPy
1 46 (65.71%) Pandas
1 46 (65.71%) Protocol Buffers
1 46 (65.71%) SciPy
2 10 (14.29%) PySpark
3 7 (10.00%) Spring
3 7 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.14%) CSS
4 5 (7.14%) HTML
4 5 (7.14%) Kafka
4 5 (7.14%) XML
5 3 (4.29%) Akka
6 2 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (2.86%) RESTful
7 1 (1.43%) OAuth
7 1 (1.43%) OpenID
7 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (71.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (68.57%) Derivative
2 48 (68.57%) Equities
2 48 (68.57%) Fixed Income
2 48 (68.57%) Hedge funds
3 36 (51.43%) Pricing Data
4 8 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
1 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 61 (87.14%) Agile
3 48 (68.57%) Asset Management
4 36 (51.43%) Investment Management
5 11 (15.71%) Fintech
6 10 (14.29%) Migration
7 9 (12.86%) Pair Programming
8 8 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.00%) DevOps
9 7 (10.00%) Garbage Collection
10 6 (8.57%) Extreme Programming
10 6 (8.57%) Memory Management
10 6 (8.57%) Microservices
11 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 5 (7.14%) TDD
12 4 (5.71%) BDD
12 4 (5.71%) Containerisation
12 4 (5.71%) High Availability
13 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 2 (2.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 70 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (75.71%) JavaScript
3 49 (70.00%) Python
4 48 (68.57%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.14%) SQL
6 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.86%) Rust
7 1 (1.43%) Go
7 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Ansible
2 1 (1.43%) Grafana
2 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (2.86%) Google
2 1 (1.43%) ForgeRock
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle
2 1 (1.43%) Ping Identity
2 1 (1.43%) Splunk