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 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 620 572 424
Rank change year-on-year -48 -148 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 303 483 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.47% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.51% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 236 420 909
10th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +25.93%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 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 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
England -22 273 £82,500 -8.33% 38
Work from Home +14 164 £85,000 +7.94% 21
London +16 159 £100,000 +2.56% 25
UK excluding London -33 138 £70,000 - 17
South East +46 64 £70,000 - 5
North of England +31 25 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North West +7 16 £63,500 -23.03% 2
South West -24 16 £60,500 -10.37% 3
Scotland -79 16 £63,000 -11.58% 2
Yorkshire +93 7 £55,000 -8.33%
Midlands 0 7 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Wales +12 5 £50,000 +19.05%
West Midlands +1 5 £67,500 +12.50% 1
East of England +16 4 £58,750 -30.88%
North East -6 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -14 2 - -
Northern Ireland +19 1 - - 3

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

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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 303 (100.00%) Java
2 154 (50.83%) Spring
3 143 (47.19%) AWS
4 118 (38.94%) Finance
5 92 (30.36%) Agile
6 91 (30.03%) JavaScript
7 90 (29.70%) Microservices
8 88 (29.04%) Docker
8 88 (29.04%) Kubernetes
9 79 (26.07%) Spring Boot
10 76 (25.08%) SQL
11 75 (24.75%) AngularJS
12 64 (21.12%) Hibernate
12 64 (21.12%) Full Stack Development
13 57 (18.81%) TDD
14 51 (16.83%) React
14 51 (16.83%) DevOps
14 51 (16.83%) Git
15 47 (15.51%) Software Engineering
16 46 (15.18%) Banking
16 46 (15.18%) Social Skills
17 43 (14.19%) Kafka
18 42 (13.86%) Mentoring
18 42 (13.86%) CI/CD
18 42 (13.86%) Fintech
19 41 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
19 41 (13.53%) Jenkins
20 38 (12.54%) RESTful
21 35 (11.55%) Low Latency
22 34 (11.22%) Azure

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 26 (8.58%) Confluence
2 11 (3.63%) Apache
3 10 (3.30%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.64%) JBoss
4 8 (2.64%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (1.98%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.66%) 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
1 143 (47.19%) AWS
2 34 (11.22%) Azure
3 25 (8.25%) Serverless
4 16 (5.28%) SaaS
5 13 (4.29%) GCP
6 12 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.98%) GitHub
11 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.66%) dbt
12 2 (0.66%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.33%) AWS CodeBuild
13 1 (0.33%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.31%) Internet
2 3 (0.99%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.66%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.58%) Relational Database
2 24 (7.92%) MySQL
3 23 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.63%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.32%) Flink
6 4 (1.32%) Tick Data
7 3 (0.99%) Big Data
7 3 (0.99%) CouchDB
7 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.66%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.66%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.66%) Dremio
9 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (16.83%) Git
2 41 (13.53%) Jenkins
3 29 (9.57%) JIRA
4 26 (8.58%) JUnit
5 14 (4.62%) Maven
6 10 (3.30%) Selenium
7 4 (1.32%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.32%) Mockito
8 3 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.99%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.99%) JHipster
9 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.66%) GitLab
9 2 (0.66%) Gradle
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 118 (38.94%) Finance
2 46 (15.18%) Banking
2 46 (15.18%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.59%) Front Office
4 18 (5.94%) Police
5 17 (5.61%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.64%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.31%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.65%) Marketing
10 5 (1.65%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Games
12 2 (0.66%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.33%) Advertising
13 1 (0.33%) International Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Law
13 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (50.83%) Spring
2 79 (26.07%) Spring Boot
3 75 (24.75%) AngularJS
4 64 (21.12%) Hibernate
5 51 (16.83%) React
6 43 (14.19%) Kafka
7 38 (12.54%) RESTful
8 30 (9.90%) REST
9 22 (7.26%) Node.js
10 20 (6.60%) Web Services
11 18 (5.94%) JMS
12 17 (5.61%) CSS
12 17 (5.61%) HTML
13 15 (4.95%) JSON
14 13 (4.29%) SOAP
15 10 (3.30%) Apache Camel
15 10 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (3.30%) GWT
16 9 (2.97%) J2EE
16 9 (2.97%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.90%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (9.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.95%) Equities
5 14 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.30%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.65%) Derivative
10 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.32%) PropTech
11 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.99%) Kindle
11 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.99%) NHS
11 3 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (30.36%) Agile
2 90 (29.70%) Microservices
3 64 (21.12%) Full Stack Development
4 57 (18.81%) TDD
5 51 (16.83%) DevOps
6 47 (15.51%) Software Engineering
7 42 (13.86%) CI/CD
7 42 (13.86%) Fintech
7 42 (13.86%) Mentoring
8 41 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (11.55%) Low Latency
10 34 (11.22%) Computer Science
11 30 (9.90%) SDLC
12 28 (9.24%) Multithreading
12 28 (9.24%) Scrum
13 25 (8.25%) Integration Testing
14 19 (6.27%) BDD
14 19 (6.27%) OO
14 19 (6.27%) Test Automation
15 18 (5.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 303 (100.00%) Java
2 91 (30.03%) JavaScript
3 76 (25.08%) SQL
4 24 (7.92%) Python
5 14 (4.62%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.98%) C#
7 6 (1.98%) Perl
8 4 (1.32%) Groovy
9 2 (0.66%) C++
9 2 (0.66%) Go
9 2 (0.66%) Ruby
9 2 (0.66%) Scala
10 1 (0.33%) Bicep
10 1 (0.33%) PHP
10 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.58%) Degree
4 15 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.66%) PhD
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) OCP
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.30%) QA
2 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 88 (29.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 88 (29.04%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.94%) Ansible
3 7 (2.31%) Terraform
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Istio
4 1 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.27%) Google
2 15 (4.95%) Oracle
3 10 (3.30%) WSO2
4 5 (1.65%) Sybase
5 4 (1.32%) Facebook
5 4 (1.32%) ForgeRock
5 4 (1.32%) Vertica
6 3 (0.99%) Apple
6 3 (0.99%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) SAP