Senior Java Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,465 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 611 666 623
Rank change year-on-year +55 -43 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 157 70 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.12% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.14% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 65 27 99
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,938 £56,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,500 £76,500
UK median annual salary £83,038 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.10% +2.94% +25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Scotland -4 81 £66,500 -1.48% 1
North of England +47 32 £65,465 -3.02% 5
South East +4 19 £72,500 +11.54% 1
North West -2 13 £65,465 -18.17% 4
Yorkshire +68 12 £65,465 +24.69% 1
South West -21 12 £83,577 +23.82% 7
Midlands -4 10 £65,465 -
West Midlands - 10 £65,465 -
North East - 7 £65,465 -
East of England -1 3 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Senior Java Engineer
UK

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 133 (84.71%) Software Engineering
3 122 (77.71%) Agile
4 93 (59.24%) SQL
5 87 (55.41%) Finance
6 86 (54.78%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (54.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 85 (54.14%) SDLC
8 77 (49.04%) Law
8 77 (49.04%) NoSQL
9 76 (48.41%) AWS
9 76 (48.41%) Operational Stability
9 76 (48.41%) Tech Ops
10 74 (47.13%) Marketing
11 73 (46.50%) Azure
12 67 (42.68%) Artificial Intelligence
13 56 (35.67%) Machine Learning
14 53 (33.76%) Microservices
15 47 (29.94%) Big Data
15 47 (29.94%) Spring
16 45 (28.66%) Influencing Skills
16 45 (28.66%) Apache Spark
16 45 (28.66%) Performance Tuning
16 45 (28.66%) Scala
17 42 (26.75%) Mentoring
18 41 (26.11%) Kubernetes
19 39 (24.84%) TDD
20 36 (22.93%) Public Sector
21 35 (22.29%) Decision-Making
21 35 (22.29%) Coaching

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 45 (28.66%) Apache Spark
2 17 (10.83%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 76 (48.41%) AWS
2 73 (46.50%) Azure
3 32 (20.38%) GCP
4 7 (4.46%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.55%) Serverless
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.64%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.64%) SaaS
7 1 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.83%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (49.04%) NoSQL
2 47 (29.94%) Big Data
3 29 (18.47%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (17.83%) MySQL
5 27 (17.20%) MongoDB
6 17 (10.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (10.83%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.55%) Git
2 9 (5.73%) Maven
3 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.55%) Eclipse
4 4 (2.55%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.64%) Jasmine
General
1 87 (55.41%) Finance
2 86 (54.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 77 (49.04%) Law
4 74 (47.13%) Marketing
5 45 (28.66%) Influencing Skills
6 36 (22.93%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.46%) Banking
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.55%) Retail
9 2 (1.27%) Games
9 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Social Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.94%) Spring
2 33 (21.02%) Kafka
3 31 (19.75%) RESTful
4 28 (17.83%) REST
5 17 (10.83%) GraphQL
5 17 (10.83%) OAuth
5 17 (10.83%) React
6 15 (9.55%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.73%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.46%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.55%) CSS
9 4 (2.55%) HTML
9 4 (2.55%) JSON
9 4 (2.55%) Servlets
9 4 (2.55%) SOAP
10 3 (1.91%) J2EE
10 3 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.27%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (1.27%) Web Services
11 2 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.47%) Public Cloud
2 19 (12.10%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.46%) Blockchain
3 7 (4.46%) e-Learning
3 7 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.27%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) AIX
2 4 (2.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (84.71%) Software Engineering
2 122 (77.71%) Agile
3 86 (54.78%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (54.14%) SDLC
5 76 (48.41%) Operational Stability
5 76 (48.41%) Tech Ops
6 67 (42.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 56 (35.67%) Machine Learning
8 53 (33.76%) Microservices
9 45 (28.66%) Performance Tuning
10 42 (26.75%) Mentoring
11 39 (24.84%) TDD
12 35 (22.29%) Coaching
12 35 (22.29%) Decision-Making
13 28 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (17.20%) BDD
14 27 (17.20%) Test Automation
15 26 (16.56%) Continuous Deployment
16 19 (12.10%) Computer Science
16 19 (12.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 93 (59.24%) SQL
3 45 (28.66%) Scala
4 15 (9.55%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.64%) Python
6 11 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.27%) C#
7 2 (1.27%) Ruby
8 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) QA
System Software
1 22 (14.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 27 (17.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (10.83%) Google
2 7 (4.46%) IBM
2 7 (4.46%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle