Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 780 936
Rank change year-on-year +145 +156 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 209 107 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 149 62 159
10th Percentile £58,938 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £70,313 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £91,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% +1.39% +20.00%
75th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £100,640
90th Percentile - - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.70% +11.54% +18.18%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 12 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 26 July 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
England +114 157 £95,000 +4.11% 1
Work from Home +101 142 £90,000 -14.29% 4
London +152 126 £115,000 +9.52% 1
UK excluding London +2 82 £65,465 -9.70% 1
Scotland -6 52 £66,500 -
North of England +19 22 £65,465 -3.02%
North West -8 8 £65,465 -15.53%
Yorkshire +61 7 £65,465 -1.19%
North East - 7 £65,465 -
Midlands -15 6 £65,465 -
West Midlands - 6 £65,465 -
South West -7 2 £57,500 -8.00%

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 209 (100.00%) Java
1 209 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 196 (93.78%) Agile
3 174 (83.25%) AWS
4 162 (77.51%) Finance
5 116 (55.50%) Banking
6 112 (53.59%) Asset Management
7 111 (53.11%) JavaScript
8 106 (50.72%) Python
9 105 (50.24%) TypeScript
10 104 (49.76%) Hedge funds
10 104 (49.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 104 (49.76%) Front Office
10 104 (49.76%) Fixed Income
10 104 (49.76%) Equities
10 104 (49.76%) Derivative
10 104 (49.76%) Investment Banking
10 104 (49.76%) Investment Management
11 103 (49.28%) Apache
12 102 (48.80%) Pandas
12 102 (48.80%) SciPy
12 102 (48.80%) NumPy
12 102 (48.80%) Protocol Buffers
12 102 (48.80%) Apache Arrow
12 102 (48.80%) Dremio
12 102 (48.80%) dbt
12 102 (48.80%) gRPC
12 102 (48.80%) Apache Airflow
12 102 (48.80%) Amazon Athena
12 102 (48.80%) Apache Ignite

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
1 103 (49.28%) Apache
2 102 (48.80%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (14.35%) Apache Spark
4 17 (8.13%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 174 (83.25%) AWS
2 102 (48.80%) dbt
3 101 (48.33%) Snowflake
4 54 (25.84%) Azure
5 29 (13.88%) GCP
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.44%) Serverless
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (48.80%) Amazon Athena
1 102 (48.80%) Apache Arrow
1 102 (48.80%) Apache Ignite
1 102 (48.80%) Dremio
2 100 (47.85%) Data Lake
3 61 (29.19%) NoSQL
4 33 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (15.31%) MongoDB
5 32 (15.31%) MySQL
6 29 (13.88%) Big Data
7 17 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (8.13%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.48%) Flink
9 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Maven
2 2 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) Gradle
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 162 (77.51%) Finance
2 116 (55.50%) Banking
3 104 (49.76%) Front Office
3 104 (49.76%) Investment Banking
4 57 (27.27%) Law
5 52 (24.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (23.44%) Marketing
7 32 (15.31%) Public Sector
8 29 (13.88%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.87%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Games
10 2 (0.96%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (48.80%) gRPC
1 102 (48.80%) NumPy
1 102 (48.80%) Pandas
1 102 (48.80%) Protocol Buffers
1 102 (48.80%) SciPy
2 33 (15.79%) RESTful
3 30 (14.35%) Spring
4 27 (12.92%) Kafka
5 18 (8.61%) OAuth
6 17 (8.13%) GraphQL
6 17 (8.13%) REST
7 7 (3.35%) React
7 7 (3.35%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.96%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.48%) Java SE
9 1 (0.48%) Micronaut
9 1 (0.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 104 (49.76%) Derivative
1 104 (49.76%) Equities
1 104 (49.76%) Fixed Income
1 104 (49.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 104 (49.76%) Hedge funds
2 72 (34.45%) Pricing Data
3 25 (11.96%) Cloud Native
4 20 (9.57%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.87%) Blockchain
5 6 (2.87%) NFT
6 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 196 (93.78%) Agile
3 112 (53.59%) Asset Management
4 104 (49.76%) Investment Management
5 53 (25.36%) SDLC
6 51 (24.40%) Operational Stability
7 50 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (23.92%) Tech Ops
8 45 (21.53%) Microservices
9 35 (16.75%) Mentoring
10 34 (16.27%) Test Automation
11 32 (15.31%) BDD
11 32 (15.31%) Coaching
11 32 (15.31%) Continuous Deployment
11 32 (15.31%) TDD
12 30 (14.35%) Artificial Intelligence
12 30 (14.35%) Machine Learning
13 29 (13.88%) Performance Tuning
14 28 (13.40%) Greeks
15 23 (11.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 209 (100.00%) Java
2 111 (53.11%) JavaScript
3 106 (50.72%) Python
4 105 (50.24%) TypeScript
5 81 (38.76%) SQL
6 32 (15.31%) Scala
7 7 (3.35%) Rust
8 6 (2.87%) Solidity
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (0.96%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
2 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.40%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (3.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.13%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.13%) Google
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle
3 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity