Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs

The median annual salary for a Senior Java Software Engineer was £60,000 in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

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

Senior Software Engineer - Java UK
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	785	828	879
Rank change year-on-year	+43	+51
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer	104	112	103
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.12%	0.11%	0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.12%	0.12%	0.096%
Number of salaries quoted	104	83	78
UK median annual salary	£60,000	£57,500	£55,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+4.34%	+4.54%
10th Percentile	£40,375	£42,750	£37,500
90th Percentile	£85,000	£86,250	£73,250
UK excluding London median annual salary	£60,000	£50,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	-4.76%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles UK
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	85307	94661	107304
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	95.92%	96.51%	96.56%
Number of salaries quoted	283995	351566	402215
UK median annual salary	£47,000	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-1.05%	+5.55%
10th Percentile	£26,250	£26,250	£25,500
90th Percentile	£76,250	£72,500	£75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£42,500	£40,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+4.93%	+1.25%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 9 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 3 months to 29 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+50	102	£60,000	+4.34%	15
UK excluding London	+34	77	£60,000	+20.00%	16
North of England	+33	44	£60,000	+4.34%	4
London	+11	27	£70,000	+7.69%	3
South East	+31	14	£70,000	+40.00%	3
South West	-3	13	£40,000	-15.78%	2
Midlands	+14	2	£56,250	+9.75%	1
Scotland	+3	2	£50,000	-	4
East of England	-24	2	£62,500	+5.93%	2

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, Senior Java Software Engineer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1	222 (100.00%)	Java
2	219 (98.65%)	Software Engineering
3	123 (55.41%)	OO
4	113 (50.90%)	SQL
5	94 (42.34%)	Continuous Integration
6	91 (40.99%)	Degree
7	90 (40.54%)	Test Automation
8	87 (39.19%)	Agile Software Development
9	86 (38.74%)	NoSQL
10	83 (37.39%)	Git (software)
11	76 (34.23%)	Algorithms
12	74 (33.33%)	Subversion
13	73 (32.88%)	Data Structures
14	72 (32.43%)	Spring
15	68 (30.63%)	Mercurial

16	58 (26.13%)	JavaScript
17	51 (22.97%)	Scrum
18	48 (21.62%)	Hibernate
19	44 (19.82%)	AngularJS
20	41 (18.47%)	HTML
21	40 (18.02%)	RESTful
21	40 (18.02%)	TDD
22	38 (17.12%)	C++
23	37 (16.67%)	Tomcat
24	36 (16.22%)	REST
25	33 (14.86%)	Linux
25	33 (14.86%)	J2EE
26	32 (14.41%)	Windows
27	30 (13.51%)	Mentoring
27	30 (13.51%)	Python

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	37 (16.67%)	Tomcat
2	15 (6.76%)	JBoss
3	13 (5.86%)	Elasticsearch
4	8 (3.60%)	Apache
5	6 (2.70%)	Jetty
5	6 (2.70%)	nginx
5	6 (2.70%)	Oracle Workflow
5	6 (2.70%)	WebLogic
5	6 (2.70%)	WebSphere
6	4 (1.80%)	Apache Spark
6	4 (1.80%)	IIS
7	3 (1.35%)	Apache Solr
8	1 (0.45%)	Mule
8	1 (0.45%)	Mule ESB

Business Applications
1	1 (0.45%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	25 (11.26%)	Amazon AWS
2	7 (3.15%)	Cloud Computing
2	7 (3.15%)	Microsoft Azure
3	3 (1.35%)	Amazon Kinesis
4	2 (0.90%)	Amazon EC2
4	2 (0.90%)	Amazon EMR
4	2 (0.90%)	Amazon S3
4	2 (0.90%)	Amazon SQS
4	2 (0.90%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	2 (0.90%)	AWS Lambda
4	2 (0.90%)	CloudFront
4	2 (0.90%)	Google Cloud Platform
4	2 (0.90%)	Heroku
4	2 (0.90%)	Route 53
5	1 (0.45%)	Force.com
5	1 (0.45%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	10 (4.50%)	DNS
2	6 (2.70%)	Wireless
3	5 (2.25%)	802.11
3	5 (2.25%)	Bluetooth
4	4 (1.80%)	HTTP
5	2 (0.90%)	Firewall
6	1 (0.45%)	Internet
6	1 (0.45%)	PPP
6	1 (0.45%)	SMS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	86 (38.74%)	NoSQL
2	20 (9.01%)	MySQL
2	20 (9.01%)	Relational Database
3	19 (8.56%)	MongoDB
4	11 (4.95%)	PostgreSQL
5	9 (4.05%)	Apache Cassandra
6	7 (3.15%)	Big Data
6	7 (3.15%)	SQL Server
7	6 (2.70%)	Hadoop
7	6 (2.70%)	InterSystems Cache
7	6 (2.70%)	Oracle Database
7	6 (2.70%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	6 (2.70%)	RDBMS
8	4 (1.80%)	Blockchain
9	3 (1.35%)	Geospatial Data
9	3 (1.35%)	GIS
9	3 (1.35%)	JasperReports
9	3 (1.35%)	Triplestore
10	2 (0.90%)	CouchDB
10	2 (0.90%)	Neo4j

Development Applications
1	83 (37.39%)	Git (software)
2	74 (33.33%)	Subversion
3	68 (30.63%)	Mercurial
4	26 (11.71%)	Maven
5	23 (10.36%)	JUnit
6	20 (9.01%)	Jenkins
7	14 (6.31%)	Ant
8	11 (4.95%)	Hudson
9	10 (4.50%)	Mockito
10	9 (4.05%)	Eclipse
10	9 (4.05%)	JIRA
11	6 (2.70%)	Selenium
11	6 (2.70%)	Sonatype Nexus
11	6 (2.70%)	Talend Open Studio
12	5 (2.25%)	Cucumber
12	5 (2.25%)	Gradle
12	5 (2.25%)	Team Foundation Server
12	5 (2.25%)	Travis CI
13	3 (1.35%)	Atlassian Bamboo
13	3 (1.35%)	TeamCity

General
1	29 (13.06%)	Finance
2	7 (3.15%)	Banking
2	7 (3.15%)	Electronics
3	5 (2.25%)	Publishing
4	3 (1.35%)	Advertising
4	3 (1.35%)	Retail
5	2 (0.90%)	Financial Institution
5	2 (0.90%)	Manufacturing
5	2 (0.90%)	Marketing
5	2 (0.90%)	Telecoms
6	1 (0.45%)	Aerospace
6	1 (0.45%)	Military

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	72 (32.43%)	Spring
2	48 (21.62%)	Hibernate
3	44 (19.82%)	AngularJS
4	41 (18.47%)	HTML
5	40 (18.02%)	RESTful
6	36 (16.22%)	REST
7	33 (14.86%)	J2EE
8	29 (13.06%)	Java EE
9	26 (11.71%)	CSS
10	23 (10.36%)	Ember.js
10	23 (10.36%)	Web Services
11	20 (9.01%)	JSON
12	18 (8.11%)	XML
13	17 (7.66%)	JMS
14	15 (6.76%)	HTML5
14	15 (6.76%)	JPA
14	15 (6.76%)	Spring Boot
15	14 (6.31%)	React
16	13 (5.86%)	SOAP
17	12 (5.41%)	JSP

Miscellaneous
1	76 (34.23%)	Algorithms
2	73 (32.88%)	Data Structures
3	16 (7.21%)	Computer Science
4	13 (5.86%)	Greenfield Project
5	11 (4.95%)	Embedded Systems
5	11 (4.95%)	Fintech
6	6 (2.70%)	Linux Command Line
7	5 (2.25%)	Semantic Web
7	5 (2.25%)	User Experience
8	3 (1.35%)	Enterprise Software
8	3 (1.35%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	2 (0.90%)	Digital Media
9	2 (0.90%)	Mobile App
10	1 (0.45%)	Client/Server
10	1 (0.45%)	Internet of Things

Operating Systems
1	33 (14.86%)	Linux
2	32 (14.41%)	Windows
3	24 (10.81%)	Android
4	12 (5.41%)	Unix
5	7 (3.15%)	Apple iOS
6	5 (2.25%)	Windows Server
6	5 (2.25%)	Windows Server 2003
7	3 (1.35%)	Mac OS X

Processes & Methodologies
1	219 (98.65%)	Software Engineering
2	123 (55.41%)	OO
3	94 (42.34%)	Continuous Integration
4	90 (40.54%)	Test Automation
5	87 (39.19%)	Agile Software Development
6	51 (22.97%)	Scrum
7	40 (18.02%)	TDD
8	30 (13.51%)	Mentoring
9	25 (11.26%)	Microservices
10	23 (10.36%)	Pair Programming
11	21 (9.46%)	Unit Testing
12	20 (9.01%)	Extreme Programming
13	19 (8.56%)	Multithreading
13	19 (8.56%)	MVC
13	19 (8.56%)	Open Source
14	18 (8.11%)	OOD
15	17 (7.66%)	High Availability
15	17 (7.66%)	UML
16	16 (7.21%)	OOP
17	14 (6.31%)	Kanban

Programming Languages
1	222 (100.00%)	Java
2	113 (50.90%)	SQL
3	58 (26.13%)	JavaScript
4	38 (17.12%)	C++
5	30 (13.51%)	C#
5	30 (13.51%)	Python
6	16 (7.21%)	Scala
7	13 (5.86%)	C
8	11 (4.95%)	Delphi
9	10 (4.50%)	Bash Shell
10	9 (4.05%)	Groovy
11	7 (3.15%)	Perl
11	7 (3.15%)	Shell Script
12	5 (2.25%)	Clojure
12	5 (2.25%)	CoffeeScript
13	4 (1.80%)	Ruby
14	3 (1.35%)	Erlang
14	3 (1.35%)	F#
14	3 (1.35%)	Objective-C
14	3 (1.35%)	SPARQL

Qualifications
1	91 (40.99%)	Degree
2	12 (5.41%)	SC Cleared
2	12 (5.41%)	Security Cleared
3	7 (3.15%)	Computer Science Degree
4	2 (0.90%)	Sun Certification
5	1 (0.45%)	Numerate Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	3 (1.35%)	QA
2	1 (0.45%)	PCI DSS
2	1 (0.45%)	SEPA

System Software
1	20 (9.01%)	Docker
2	4 (1.80%)	Active Directory

Systems Management
1	5 (2.25%)	Packer
1	5 (2.25%)	Terraform
2	4 (1.80%)	Kibana
3	2 (0.90%)	Ansible
3	2 (0.90%)	logstash
3	2 (0.90%)	Puppet
4	1 (0.45%)	Opsview

Vendors
1	15 (6.76%)	Oracle
2	12 (5.41%)	VMware
3	8 (3.60%)	Google
4	7 (3.15%)	Splunk
5	6 (2.70%)	Altova
5	6 (2.70%)	Fiorano
5	6 (2.70%)	ILOG
5	6 (2.70%)	Talend
5	6 (2.70%)	WSO2
6	4 (1.80%)	Atlassian
7	3 (1.35%)	Adobe
7	3 (1.35%)	Facebook
7	3 (1.35%)	Twitter
8	2 (0.90%)	F5
8	2 (0.90%)	Microsoft
9	1 (0.45%)	Clearswift
9	1 (0.45%)	SAP
9	1 (0.45%)	Sun