Senior Java Software Engineer Jobs

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 713 804 878
Rank change year-on-year +91 +74 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 192 115 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 121 67 172
10th Percentile - £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £58,938 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,465 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.02% - +22.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 13 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 6 months to 12 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
England +69 121 £90,000 +4.35% 18
Work from Home +54 114 £90,000 +2.86% 17
UK excluding London -6 102 £65,465 -3.02% 8
London +124 89 £115,000 +15.00% 13
Scotland -15 71 £66,500 -1.48% 1
North of England +17 21 £65,465 -3.02% 2
Yorkshire +67 7 £65,465 +11.43%
North West -25 7 £65,465 -18.17% 2
North East - 7 £65,465 -
Midlands -32 6 £65,465 -
West Midlands - 6 £65,465 -
South East -28 3 £75,000 -6.25%
South West -42 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 192 (100.00%) Java
1 192 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 176 (91.67%) Agile
3 141 (73.44%) AWS
4 139 (72.40%) Finance
5 96 (50.00%) SQL
6 77 (40.10%) Python
7 75 (39.06%) Banking
7 75 (39.06%) NoSQL
8 74 (38.54%) Asset Management
9 73 (38.02%) Investment Management
9 73 (38.02%) JavaScript
10 72 (37.50%) Apache
10 72 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (36.98%) Amazon Athena
11 71 (36.98%) Apache Ignite
11 71 (36.98%) Dremio
11 71 (36.98%) gRPC
11 71 (36.98%) Apache Airflow
11 71 (36.98%) Apache Arrow
11 71 (36.98%) dbt
11 71 (36.98%) Pandas
11 71 (36.98%) TypeScript
11 71 (36.98%) Protocol Buffers
11 71 (36.98%) Hedge funds
11 71 (36.98%) SciPy
11 71 (36.98%) NumPy
11 71 (36.98%) Front Office
11 71 (36.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 71 (36.98%) Derivative

Senior Java Software 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 72 (37.50%) Apache
2 71 (36.98%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (22.40%) Apache Spark
4 17 (8.85%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 141 (73.44%) AWS
2 71 (36.98%) dbt
3 70 (36.46%) Snowflake
4 57 (29.69%) Azure
5 26 (13.54%) GCP
6 3 (1.56%) Serverless
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (39.06%) NoSQL
2 71 (36.98%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (36.98%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (36.98%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (36.98%) Dremio
3 69 (35.94%) Data Lake
4 42 (21.88%) Big Data
5 35 (18.23%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (17.19%) MongoDB
7 32 (16.67%) MySQL
8 17 (8.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (8.85%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.52%) Flink
10 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.52%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Git
1 3 (1.56%) Maven
2 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.52%) Gradle
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 139 (72.40%) Finance
2 75 (39.06%) Banking
3 71 (36.98%) Front Office
3 71 (36.98%) Investment Banking
4 69 (35.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (34.90%) Law
6 65 (33.85%) Marketing
7 42 (21.88%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (18.23%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.04%) Games
9 2 (1.04%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.52%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Social Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (36.98%) gRPC
1 71 (36.98%) NumPy
1 71 (36.98%) Pandas
1 71 (36.98%) Protocol Buffers
1 71 (36.98%) SciPy
2 34 (17.71%) RESTful
3 28 (14.58%) Kafka
4 27 (14.06%) Spring
5 18 (9.38%) REST
6 17 (8.85%) GraphQL
6 17 (8.85%) OAuth
7 7 (3.65%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.08%) React
9 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.04%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.04%) Java EE
9 2 (1.04%) JPA
9 2 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.04%) Web Services
9 2 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (36.98%) Derivative
1 71 (36.98%) Equities
1 71 (36.98%) Fixed Income
1 71 (36.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 71 (36.98%) Hedge funds
2 48 (25.00%) Pricing Data
3 25 (13.02%) Cloud Native
4 24 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.04%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 176 (91.67%) Agile
3 74 (38.54%) Asset Management
4 73 (38.02%) Investment Management
5 72 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (35.42%) SDLC
7 67 (34.90%) Operational Stability
7 67 (34.90%) Tech Ops
8 48 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 48 (25.00%) Microservices
9 47 (24.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 42 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
11 39 (20.31%) Mentoring
12 35 (18.23%) TDD
13 34 (17.71%) Coaching
13 34 (17.71%) Test Automation
14 33 (17.19%) BDD
15 32 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
16 25 (13.02%) Decision-Making
17 21 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 192 (100.00%) Java
2 96 (50.00%) SQL
3 77 (40.10%) Python
4 73 (38.02%) JavaScript
5 71 (36.98%) TypeScript
6 44 (22.92%) Scala
7 4 (2.08%) Ruby
8 3 (1.56%) C#
8 3 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (2.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.04%) Degree
4 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
3 1 (0.52%) Istio
3 1 (0.52%) Kibana
3 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (8.85%) Google
2 4 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (0.52%) Xamarin