Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 667 737 569
Rank change year-on-year +70 -168 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 251 231 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.24% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 127 167 282
10th Percentile - £52,500 £55,125
25th Percentile £58,938 £66,875 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% +30.77%
75th Percentile £99,625 £120,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £140,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.19% -1.85% +17.39%

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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +106 182 £65,465 -1.19% 18
England +62 157 £75,000 -20.21% 38
Work from Home +61 114 £70,000 -17.65% 21
Scotland +4 87 £66,500 -1.48%
London +43 67 £94,750 -13.86% 21
North of England +70 41 £65,465 +3.50% 4
South East +37 20 £72,500 +13.73% 6
North West +24 19 £65,465 -3.02% 3
Yorkshire +92 15 £65,465 +24.69% 1
South West -19 14 £83,577 +23.82% 2
Midlands +23 12 £65,465 -13.61% 5
West Midlands +24 10 £65,465 -13.61% 3
North East - 7 £65,465 -
Northern Ireland +27 3 - - 1
East of England +14 3 £80,000 +45.45%
Wales +13 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 251 (100.00%) Java
2 214 (85.26%) Software Engineering
3 195 (77.69%) Agile
4 132 (52.59%) AWS
5 124 (49.40%) Finance
6 116 (46.22%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (41.43%) SQL
8 93 (37.05%) Azure
9 91 (36.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 86 (34.26%) SDLC
11 84 (33.47%) NoSQL
11 84 (33.47%) Spring
12 83 (33.07%) Mentoring
13 81 (32.27%) Law
14 79 (31.47%) Microservices
15 78 (31.08%) Tech Ops
15 78 (31.08%) Operational Stability
16 76 (30.28%) Marketing
17 71 (28.29%) Public Sector
18 69 (27.49%) Artificial Intelligence
19 66 (26.29%) RESTful
20 59 (23.51%) Machine Learning
21 58 (23.11%) REST
22 55 (21.91%) TDD
23 53 (21.12%) Kubernetes
24 48 (19.12%) JavaScript
25 47 (18.73%) Python
25 47 (18.73%) Scala
25 47 (18.73%) Big Data
26 46 (18.33%) Apache Spark

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 (18.33%) Apache Spark
2 33 (13.15%) Apache
3 32 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (11.16%) JBoss
4 28 (11.16%) Red Hat Fuse
5 17 (6.77%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 132 (52.59%) AWS
2 93 (37.05%) Azure
3 36 (14.34%) GCP
4 32 (12.75%) dbt
5 30 (11.95%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.79%) IBM Cloud
7 5 (1.99%) Serverless
8 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.80%) Dagster
10 2 (0.80%) Prefect
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.77%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (33.47%) NoSQL
2 47 (18.73%) Big Data
3 44 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (14.34%) MySQL
5 34 (13.55%) MongoDB
6 32 (12.75%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (11.95%) Apache Arrow
7 30 (11.95%) Apache Ignite
7 30 (11.95%) Dremio
8 28 (11.16%) Data Lake
9 17 (6.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (6.77%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.59%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.80%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.80%) Metadata
13 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.40%) Flink
13 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 32 (12.75%) IntelliJ
2 18 (7.17%) Git
3 10 (3.98%) Maven
4 6 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.59%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.59%) GitLab
5 4 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.80%) JIRA
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.40%) mountebank
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 124 (49.40%) Finance
2 91 (36.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 81 (32.27%) Law
4 76 (30.28%) Marketing
5 71 (28.29%) Public Sector
6 45 (17.93%) Influencing Skills
7 37 (14.74%) Banking
8 31 (12.35%) Front Office
9 30 (11.95%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.59%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Social Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.80%) Games
12 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.80%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (33.47%) Spring
2 66 (26.29%) RESTful
3 58 (23.11%) REST
4 45 (17.93%) Kafka
5 37 (14.74%) AngularJS
5 37 (14.74%) Hibernate
6 32 (12.75%) JSON
6 32 (12.75%) SOAP
7 31 (12.35%) XML
8 30 (11.95%) gRPC
8 30 (11.95%) Java EE
8 30 (11.95%) JPA
8 30 (11.95%) NumPy
8 30 (11.95%) Pandas
8 30 (11.95%) Protocol Buffers
8 30 (11.95%) SciPy
8 30 (11.95%) Web Services
9 28 (11.16%) XSD
10 18 (7.17%) React
10 18 (7.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.35%) Fixed Income
1 31 (12.35%) Public Cloud
2 30 (11.95%) Derivative
2 30 (11.95%) Equities
2 30 (11.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (11.95%) Hedge funds
3 27 (10.76%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.17%) Pricing Data
5 7 (2.79%) Blockchain
5 7 (2.79%) e-Learning
5 7 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.80%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.59%) Linux
2 4 (1.59%) AIX
2 4 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (85.26%) Software Engineering
2 195 (77.69%) Agile
3 116 (46.22%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (34.26%) SDLC
5 83 (33.07%) Mentoring
6 79 (31.47%) Microservices
7 78 (31.08%) Operational Stability
7 78 (31.08%) Tech Ops
8 69 (27.49%) Artificial Intelligence
9 59 (23.51%) Machine Learning
10 55 (21.91%) TDD
11 45 (17.93%) Performance Tuning
12 41 (16.33%) Coaching
13 37 (14.74%) Decision-Making
14 35 (13.94%) Asset Management
14 35 (13.94%) BDD
14 35 (13.94%) Test Automation
15 34 (13.55%) Investment Management
16 33 (13.15%) Continuous Deployment
17 30 (11.95%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 251 (100.00%) Java
2 104 (41.43%) SQL
3 48 (19.12%) JavaScript
4 47 (18.73%) Python
4 47 (18.73%) Scala
5 41 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.59%) Ruby
7 3 (1.20%) C#
7 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.40%) Go
8 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.20%) Degree
4 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.39%) QA
System Software
1 28 (11.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (21.12%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.40%) Istio
3 1 (0.40%) Kibana
3 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.77%) Google
2 8 (3.19%) Oracle
3 7 (2.79%) IBM
3 7 (2.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.40%) Xamarin