Senior Java Developer Jobs in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 555 419
Rank change year-on-year -6 -136 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 275 437 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.47% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.51% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 224 379 850
10th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +25.93%
75th Percentile £103,125 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,875 £120,000 £127,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% - +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +22 160 £100,000 +2.56% 27
South East +54 62 £70,000 -1.75% 6
North of England +40 26 £58,750 -16.07% 4
South West -25 17 £61,500 -7.17% 4
North West +2 16 £63,500 -15.33% 3
Yorkshire +99 7 £55,000 -8.33%
Midlands -11 7 £67,500 +12.50% 1
East of England +19 5 £62,500 -26.47% 1
West Midlands +12 5 £67,500 +12.50% 1
North East -2 3 £56,250 -19.64% 1
East Midlands -20 2 - -
Senior Java Developer
UK

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior Java Developer 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 England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 275 (100.00%) Java
2 133 (48.36%) AWS
3 131 (47.64%) Spring
4 110 (40.00%) Finance
5 89 (32.36%) Microservices
6 85 (30.91%) Agile
7 83 (30.18%) JavaScript
8 81 (29.45%) Kubernetes
9 76 (27.64%) Docker
10 71 (25.82%) SQL
11 69 (25.09%) Spring Boot
12 63 (22.91%) AngularJS
13 61 (22.18%) Hibernate
13 61 (22.18%) Full Stack Development
14 53 (19.27%) TDD
15 45 (16.36%) Banking
15 45 (16.36%) Software Engineering
15 45 (16.36%) DevOps
16 44 (16.00%) Social Skills
17 42 (15.27%) Mentoring
18 38 (13.82%) React
18 38 (13.82%) Kafka
19 37 (13.45%) CI/CD
20 36 (13.09%) Low Latency
21 35 (12.73%) Computer Science
22 34 (12.36%) Fintech
23 33 (12.00%) Git
24 30 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
25 28 (10.18%) Multithreading
26 27 (9.82%) RESTful

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.73%) Confluence
2 11 (4.00%) Apache
3 10 (3.64%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.91%) JBoss
4 8 (2.91%) Red Hat Fuse
5 7 (2.55%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) GemFire
8 1 (0.36%) Jetty
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 133 (48.36%) AWS
2 25 (9.09%) Azure
3 19 (6.91%) Serverless
4 16 (5.82%) SaaS
5 10 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (3.64%) GCP
6 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.55%) GitHub
7 6 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.73%) dbt
8 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.36%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Internet
2 2 (0.73%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.09%) MySQL
1 25 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 20 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.55%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.55%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.45%) Flink
7 3 (1.09%) Big Data
7 3 (1.09%) CouchDB
7 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.09%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.73%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.73%) Dremio
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (12.00%) Git
2 22 (8.00%) JUnit
3 20 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.82%) JIRA
5 13 (4.73%) Maven
6 6 (2.18%) Selenium
7 5 (1.82%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.09%) Gradle
9 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.73%) GitLab
9 2 (0.73%) JHipster
10 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 110 (40.00%) Finance
2 45 (16.36%) Banking
3 44 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 24 (8.73%) Front Office
5 17 (6.18%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.91%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.55%) Police
9 7 (2.55%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.82%) Marketing
10 5 (1.82%) Retail
11 2 (0.73%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) International Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (47.64%) Spring
2 69 (25.09%) Spring Boot
3 63 (22.91%) AngularJS
4 61 (22.18%) Hibernate
5 38 (13.82%) Kafka
5 38 (13.82%) React
6 27 (9.82%) RESTful
7 21 (7.64%) REST
8 20 (7.27%) Node.js
9 18 (6.55%) JMS
10 14 (5.09%) CSS
10 14 (5.09%) HTML
10 14 (5.09%) Web Services
11 13 (4.73%) SOAP
12 10 (3.64%) Apache Camel
12 10 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (3.64%) GWT
13 9 (3.27%) J2EE
13 9 (3.27%) jQuery
13 9 (3.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (9.45%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.45%) Equities
5 13 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.64%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.18%) Derivative
9 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.45%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.45%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.45%) PropTech
11 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.09%) NHS
11 3 (1.09%) Wiki
12 2 (0.73%) Kindle
12 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.36%) Microservices
2 85 (30.91%) Agile
3 61 (22.18%) Full Stack Development
4 53 (19.27%) TDD
5 45 (16.36%) DevOps
5 45 (16.36%) Software Engineering
6 42 (15.27%) Mentoring
7 37 (13.45%) CI/CD
8 36 (13.09%) Low Latency
9 35 (12.73%) Computer Science
10 34 (12.36%) Fintech
11 30 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (10.18%) Multithreading
13 26 (9.45%) SDLC
14 25 (9.09%) Scrum
15 21 (7.64%) Integration Testing
16 20 (7.27%) BDD
17 16 (5.82%) Investment Management
17 16 (5.82%) OOD
18 15 (5.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 275 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (30.18%) JavaScript
3 71 (25.82%) SQL
4 26 (9.45%) Python
5 13 (4.73%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.91%) C#
8 6 (2.18%) Perl
9 4 (1.45%) C++
10 2 (0.73%) Go
10 2 (0.73%) Ruby
10 2 (0.73%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) Bash
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (9.82%) Degree
2 19 (6.91%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.18%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.73%) PhD
6 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 76 (27.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 81 (29.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.55%) Ansible
3 6 (2.18%) Terraform
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Istio
4 1 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.91%) Google
2 11 (4.00%) Oracle
3 10 (3.64%) WSO2
4 5 (1.82%) Sybase
5 4 (1.45%) Facebook
5 4 (1.45%) Vertica
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.73%) Apple
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.36%) SAP