Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 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 668 729 587
Rank change year-on-year +61 -142 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 247 232 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.24% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.26% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 152 159 275
10th Percentile - £53,500 £54,250
25th Percentile £58,938 £66,875 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +30.77%
75th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £140,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.02% +3.85% +13.04%

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 97,915 88,821 160,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 91.42% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,754 56,171 84,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Top 14 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 29 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
England +31 165 £81,250 -13.56% 39
UK excluding London +67 157 £65,465 -3.02% 18
Work from Home +50 139 £75,000 -11.76% 29
London +44 90 £100,000 -4.76% 23
Scotland -3 82 £66,500 -1.48%
North of England +47 32 £65,465 -3.02% 5
South East +4 19 £72,500 +13.73% 1
North West +2 13 £65,465 -12.71% 4
Yorkshire +84 12 £65,465 +24.69% 1
South West -14 11 £83,577 +23.82% 7
West Midlands +8 10 £65,465 -
Midlands -8 10 £65,465 -
North East - 7 £65,465 -
East of England -1 3 £80,000 +45.45% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 247 (100.00%) Java
2 211 (85.43%) Software Engineering
3 190 (76.92%) Agile
4 157 (63.56%) AWS
5 148 (59.92%) Finance
6 104 (42.11%) SQL
7 92 (37.25%) Azure
8 90 (36.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (35.22%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (34.82%) SDLC
11 84 (34.01%) NoSQL
12 80 (32.39%) Microservices
12 80 (32.39%) Law
13 77 (31.17%) Tech Ops
13 77 (31.17%) Operational Stability
14 75 (30.36%) Marketing
15 72 (29.15%) JavaScript
15 72 (29.15%) Python
16 68 (27.53%) Artificial Intelligence
17 66 (26.72%) TypeScript
18 63 (25.51%) Banking
19 60 (24.29%) Asset Management
20 59 (23.89%) Investment Management
21 58 (23.48%) Apache
21 58 (23.48%) Machine Learning
22 57 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
22 57 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
22 57 (23.08%) dbt
23 56 (22.67%) Fixed Income
23 56 (22.67%) Front Office

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 58 (23.48%) Apache
2 57 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (18.62%) Apache Spark
4 17 (6.88%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 157 (63.56%) AWS
2 92 (37.25%) Azure
3 57 (23.08%) dbt
4 54 (21.86%) Snowflake
5 36 (14.57%) GCP
6 7 (2.83%) IBM Cloud
7 5 (2.02%) Serverless
8 4 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.81%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.81%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.81%) Dagster
10 2 (0.81%) Prefect
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.40%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.88%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (34.01%) NoSQL
2 57 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (22.27%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (22.27%) Apache Ignite
3 55 (22.27%) Dremio
4 53 (21.46%) Data Lake
5 47 (19.03%) Big Data
6 44 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (14.57%) MySQL
8 34 (13.77%) MongoDB
9 17 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (6.88%) CockroachDB
10 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.62%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.81%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.81%) Metadata
13 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.40%) Flink
13 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (7.29%) Git
2 9 (3.64%) Maven
3 6 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.62%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.62%) GitLab
4 4 (1.62%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.81%) JIRA
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.40%) mountebank
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 148 (59.92%) Finance
2 90 (36.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 80 (32.39%) Law
4 75 (30.36%) Marketing
5 63 (25.51%) Banking
6 56 (22.67%) Front Office
7 55 (22.27%) Investment Banking
8 45 (18.22%) Influencing Skills
9 43 (17.41%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.62%) Retail
10 4 (1.62%) Social Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.81%) Games
12 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.67%) Spring
2 55 (22.27%) gRPC
2 55 (22.27%) NumPy
2 55 (22.27%) Pandas
2 55 (22.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 55 (22.27%) SciPy
3 46 (18.62%) Kafka
4 38 (15.38%) RESTful
5 30 (12.15%) REST
6 19 (7.69%) React
7 18 (7.29%) Spring Boot
8 17 (6.88%) GraphQL
8 17 (6.88%) OAuth
9 9 (3.64%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.24%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.62%) CSS
11 4 (1.62%) JSON
11 4 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.62%) Servlets
11 4 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.67%) Fixed Income
2 55 (22.27%) Derivative
2 55 (22.27%) Equities
2 55 (22.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 55 (22.27%) Hedge funds
3 36 (14.57%) Pricing Data
4 31 (12.55%) Public Cloud
5 27 (10.93%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.83%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.83%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.62%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.62%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.81%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.64%) Linux
2 4 (1.62%) AIX
2 4 (1.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (85.43%) Software Engineering
2 190 (76.92%) Agile
3 87 (35.22%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (34.82%) SDLC
5 80 (32.39%) Microservices
6 77 (31.17%) Operational Stability
6 77 (31.17%) Tech Ops
7 68 (27.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 60 (24.29%) Asset Management
9 59 (23.89%) Investment Management
10 58 (23.48%) Machine Learning
11 55 (22.27%) Mentoring
11 55 (22.27%) TDD
12 45 (18.22%) Performance Tuning
13 41 (16.60%) Coaching
14 36 (14.57%) Decision-Making
15 35 (14.17%) BDD
15 35 (14.17%) Test Automation
16 33 (13.36%) Continuous Deployment
17 29 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 247 (100.00%) Java
2 104 (42.11%) SQL
3 72 (29.15%) JavaScript
3 72 (29.15%) Python
4 66 (26.72%) TypeScript
5 47 (19.03%) Scala
6 4 (1.62%) Ruby
7 3 (1.21%) C#
7 3 (1.21%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.40%) Go
8 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (2.02%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.21%) Degree
4 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.43%) QA
System Software
1 28 (11.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (21.46%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.34%) 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 (6.88%) Google
2 8 (3.24%) Oracle
3 7 (2.83%) IBM
3 7 (2.83%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.40%) Xamarin