Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Software Engineer - Java
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in London is £115,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 551 687
Rank change year-on-year +117 +136 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 73 57 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.18% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 73 53 104
10th Percentile £70,250 £52,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £128,750
90th Percentile - - £130,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £86,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +24.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,635 31,175 69,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.11% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,797 22,984 34,588
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 across the London region featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Java
1 73 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (84.93%) Agile
3 57 (78.08%) JavaScript
3 57 (78.08%) Python
4 56 (76.71%) Apache
4 56 (76.71%) Finance
4 56 (76.71%) Banking
4 56 (76.71%) Asset Management
5 55 (75.34%) Investment Banking
5 55 (75.34%) Fixed Income
5 55 (75.34%) Equities
5 55 (75.34%) Front Office
5 55 (75.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 55 (75.34%) Hedge funds
5 55 (75.34%) SciPy
5 55 (75.34%) NumPy
5 55 (75.34%) Investment Management
5 55 (75.34%) Derivative
5 55 (75.34%) Apache Arrow
5 55 (75.34%) Amazon Athena
5 55 (75.34%) Apache Ignite
5 55 (75.34%) dbt
5 55 (75.34%) Dremio
5 55 (75.34%) TypeScript
5 55 (75.34%) Pandas
5 55 (75.34%) Protocol Buffers
5 55 (75.34%) gRPC
5 55 (75.34%) Apache Airflow

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 56 (76.71%) Apache
2 55 (75.34%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (75.34%) dbt
3 53 (72.60%) Snowflake
4 8 (10.96%) Azure
5 3 (4.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (75.34%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (75.34%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (75.34%) Apache Ignite
1 55 (75.34%) Dremio
2 53 (72.60%) Data Lake
3 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.59%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.22%) MySQL
6 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.37%) Flink
7 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) Redis
7 1 (1.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 56 (76.71%) Banking
1 56 (76.71%) Finance
2 55 (75.34%) Front Office
2 55 (75.34%) Investment Banking
3 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.74%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.37%) Aeronautics
5 1 (1.37%) Automotive
5 1 (1.37%) Aviation
5 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.37%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (75.34%) gRPC
1 55 (75.34%) NumPy
1 55 (75.34%) Pandas
1 55 (75.34%) Protocol Buffers
1 55 (75.34%) SciPy
2 9 (12.33%) Kafka
3 6 (8.22%) RESTful
4 3 (4.11%) Spring
5 2 (2.74%) React
5 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.37%) Micronaut
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (75.34%) Derivative
1 55 (75.34%) Equities
1 55 (75.34%) Fixed Income
1 55 (75.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 55 (75.34%) Hedge funds
2 36 (49.32%) Pricing Data
3 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 62 (84.93%) Agile
3 56 (76.71%) Asset Management
4 55 (75.34%) Investment Management
5 17 (23.29%) Greeks
6 13 (17.81%) Microservices
7 10 (13.70%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.59%) BDD
8 7 (9.59%) TDD
8 7 (9.59%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.22%) Coaching
9 6 (8.22%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (2.74%) Analytics
10 2 (2.74%) CI/CD
10 2 (2.74%) Computer Science
10 2 (2.74%) Data Architecture
10 2 (2.74%) Product Management
11 1 (1.37%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (1.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (78.08%) JavaScript
2 57 (78.08%) Python
3 55 (75.34%) TypeScript
4 11 (15.07%) SQL
5 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.74%) Ruby
5 2 (2.74%) Scala
6 1 (1.37%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (2.74%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) Istio
2 1 (1.37%) Kibana
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle
2 1 (1.37%) Xamarin