Senior Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Senior Java Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 374 381
Rank change year-on-year +46 +7 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 64 34 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.23% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.25% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 53 33 97
10th Percentile £61,750 £62,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +24.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,671 13,511 19,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.53% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,327 8,466 12,622
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Hampshire +3 33 £70,000 - 2
Thames Valley +35 25 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Berkshire +39 22 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Surrey +6 6 £76,250 -3.17% 1
Buckinghamshire -18 2 £87,500 +2.94%
Oxfordshire +14 1 £110,000 +89.66%
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 South East region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (65.63%) AWS
3 38 (59.38%) Docker
4 36 (56.25%) Spring
5 33 (51.56%) Kubernetes
6 32 (50.00%) Agile
7 28 (43.75%) DevOps
8 26 (40.63%) JavaScript
9 22 (34.38%) JUnit
9 22 (34.38%) TDD
10 21 (32.81%) Git
10 21 (32.81%) Microservices
11 20 (31.25%) CI/CD
12 17 (26.56%) Node.js
13 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
13 16 (25.00%) SDLC
13 16 (25.00%) Serverless
13 16 (25.00%) Hibernate
13 16 (25.00%) SQL
13 16 (25.00%) MySQL
14 14 (21.88%) OOD
14 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
14 14 (21.88%) Integration Testing
14 14 (21.88%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (21.88%) SaaS
14 14 (21.88%) AngularJS
14 14 (21.88%) React
14 14 (21.88%) Spring Boot
14 14 (21.88%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (21.88%) Relational Database

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (15.63%) OpenStack
2 8 (12.50%) JBoss
2 8 (12.50%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (9.38%) Tomcat
4 5 (7.81%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (65.63%) AWS
2 16 (25.00%) Serverless
3 14 (21.88%) SaaS
4 10 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (12.50%) Azure
6 6 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (9.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) MySQL
2 14 (21.88%) Relational Database
3 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) CouchDB
6 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (34.38%) JUnit
2 21 (32.81%) Git
3 11 (17.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.38%) Maven
5 5 (7.81%) JIRA
6 4 (6.25%) Selenium
7 2 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (1.56%) Police
4 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (56.25%) Spring
2 17 (26.56%) Node.js
3 16 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 14 (21.88%) AngularJS
4 14 (21.88%) React
4 14 (21.88%) Spring Boot
5 10 (15.63%) Apache Camel
5 10 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (15.63%) REST
6 9 (14.06%) RESTful
7 8 (12.50%) J2EE
7 8 (12.50%) SOAP
7 8 (12.50%) Web Services
8 6 (9.38%) jQuery
9 4 (6.25%) Kafka
10 2 (3.13%) .NET
11 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Enterprise Software
1 14 (21.88%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 2 (3.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Agile
2 28 (43.75%) DevOps
3 22 (34.38%) TDD
4 21 (32.81%) Microservices
5 20 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 16 (25.00%) SDLC
7 14 (21.88%) Integration Testing
7 14 (21.88%) OOD
7 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
8 13 (20.31%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (18.75%) BDD
10 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
10 10 (15.63%) Kanban
10 10 (15.63%) OOP
10 10 (15.63%) Scrum
11 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
12 6 (9.38%) OWASP
12 6 (9.38%) Software Architecture
12 6 (9.38%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (40.63%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 38 (59.38%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (51.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.63%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) WSO2
2 4 (6.25%) Google
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle