Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 610 550 428
Rank change year-on-year -60 -122 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 307 489 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.47% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.51% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 242 426 903
10th Percentile £59,025 £59,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +30.77%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,125 £120,000 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

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 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -5 274 £85,000 -5.56% 40
Work from Home +24 171 £86,250 +11.29% 24
London +28 160 £100,000 +2.56% 27
UK excluding London -26 140 £70,000 - 18
South East +48 62 £70,000 -1.75% 5
North of England +31 25 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Scotland -71 18 £66,250 -7.02% 2
South West -20 17 £61,500 -7.17% 3
North West +11 16 £63,500 -15.33% 2
Yorkshire +96 7 £55,000 -8.33%
Midlands -17 7 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Wales +13 5 £50,000 +19.05%
West Midlands +12 5 £67,500 +12.50% 1
East of England +8 5 £62,500 -26.47% 1
North East -7 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -14 2 - -
Northern Ireland +20 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 153 (49.84%) Spring
3 146 (47.56%) AWS
4 119 (38.76%) Finance
5 93 (30.29%) JavaScript
5 93 (30.29%) Agile
6 91 (29.64%) Microservices
7 89 (28.99%) Docker
8 88 (28.66%) Kubernetes
9 80 (26.06%) Spring Boot
10 78 (25.41%) AngularJS
10 78 (25.41%) SQL
11 65 (21.17%) Full Stack Development
12 63 (20.52%) Hibernate
13 58 (18.89%) TDD
14 53 (17.26%) React
15 52 (16.94%) DevOps
15 52 (16.94%) Git
16 49 (15.96%) Social Skills
17 47 (15.31%) Banking
17 47 (15.31%) Software Engineering
18 46 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
19 44 (14.33%) Jenkins
20 43 (14.01%) Kafka
20 43 (14.01%) CI/CD
21 41 (13.36%) Fintech
21 41 (13.36%) Mentoring
22 40 (13.03%) RESTful
23 36 (11.73%) Azure
23 36 (11.73%) Low Latency

Senior Java Developer 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 25 (8.14%) Confluence
2 11 (3.58%) Apache
3 10 (3.26%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.61%) JBoss
4 8 (2.61%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (1.95%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.33%) Drupal
8 1 (0.33%) GemFire
8 1 (0.33%) Jetty
8 1 (0.33%) Mule
8 1 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.33%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 146 (47.56%) AWS
2 36 (11.73%) Azure
3 24 (7.82%) Serverless
4 17 (5.54%) SaaS
5 15 (4.89%) GCP
6 11 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.61%) GitHub
9 7 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.65%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (0.65%) dbt
12 2 (0.65%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.33%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.28%) Internet
2 3 (0.98%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.65%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.47%) MySQL
1 26 (8.47%) Relational Database
2 23 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.89%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.58%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.30%) Flink
7 3 (0.98%) Big Data
7 3 (0.98%) CouchDB
7 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.98%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.65%) Dremio
9 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (16.94%) Git
2 44 (14.33%) Jenkins
3 28 (9.12%) JIRA
4 25 (8.14%) JUnit
5 17 (5.54%) Maven
6 9 (2.93%) Selenium
7 6 (1.95%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.30%) Mockito
9 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.98%) JHipster
10 2 (0.65%) GitLab
10 2 (0.65%) Gradle
10 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 119 (38.76%) Finance
2 49 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.31%) Banking
4 24 (7.82%) Front Office
5 18 (5.86%) Police
6 17 (5.54%) Investment Banking
7 16 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.26%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.61%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.28%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.63%) Marketing
11 5 (1.63%) Retail
12 4 (1.30%) Games
13 2 (0.65%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.33%) Advertising
14 1 (0.33%) International Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Law
14 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (49.84%) Spring
2 80 (26.06%) Spring Boot
3 78 (25.41%) AngularJS
4 63 (20.52%) Hibernate
5 53 (17.26%) React
6 43 (14.01%) Kafka
7 40 (13.03%) RESTful
8 30 (9.77%) REST
9 24 (7.82%) Node.js
10 22 (7.17%) Web Services
11 20 (6.51%) CSS
11 20 (6.51%) HTML
12 18 (5.86%) JMS
13 15 (4.89%) JSON
14 14 (4.56%) SOAP
15 11 (3.58%) J2EE
16 10 (3.26%) Apache Camel
16 10 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (3.26%) GWT
17 9 (2.93%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.45%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (9.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.89%) Equities
5 13 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.26%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.95%) Derivative
9 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.30%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.30%) PropTech
11 3 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.98%) Kindle
11 3 (0.98%) NHS
11 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.98%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.89%) Linux
2 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.29%) Agile
2 91 (29.64%) Microservices
3 65 (21.17%) Full Stack Development
4 58 (18.89%) TDD
5 52 (16.94%) DevOps
6 47 (15.31%) Software Engineering
7 46 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (14.01%) CI/CD
9 41 (13.36%) Fintech
9 41 (13.36%) Mentoring
10 36 (11.73%) Low Latency
11 35 (11.40%) Computer Science
12 29 (9.45%) SDLC
13 28 (9.12%) Multithreading
13 28 (9.12%) Scrum
14 24 (7.82%) Integration Testing
15 21 (6.84%) BDD
16 20 (6.51%) OO
16 20 (6.51%) Test Automation
17 18 (5.86%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 93 (30.29%) JavaScript
3 78 (25.41%) SQL
4 27 (8.79%) Python
5 14 (4.56%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.23%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.61%) C#
8 6 (1.95%) Perl
9 4 (1.30%) Groovy
10 3 (0.98%) C++
10 3 (0.98%) Go
11 2 (0.65%) Bash
11 2 (0.65%) Ruby
11 2 (0.65%) Scala
12 1 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (10.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.79%) Degree
4 16 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.65%) OCP
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.65%) PhD
7 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.93%) QA
2 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 89 (28.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 88 (28.66%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.86%) Ansible
3 8 (2.61%) Terraform
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Istio
4 1 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.19%) Google
2 14 (4.56%) Oracle
3 10 (3.26%) WSO2
4 5 (1.63%) Sybase
5 4 (1.30%) Facebook
5 4 (1.30%) ForgeRock
5 4 (1.30%) Vertica
6 3 (0.98%) Apple
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.65%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) SAP