Senior Java Developer Jobs in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 566 417
Rank change year-on-year -4 -149 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 273 421 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.46% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.50% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 221 365 856
10th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £126,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% - +25.93%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 6 May 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 6 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
London +15 159 £100,000 +2.56% 22
South East +48 64 £70,000 - 5
North of England +52 25 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North West +15 16 £63,500 -29.44% 2
South West -39 16 £60,500 -12.00% 3
Yorkshire +99 7 £55,000 -8.33%
Midlands -1 7 £67,500 +12.50% 1
West Midlands +12 5 £67,500 +12.50% 1
East of England +11 4 £58,750 -30.88%
North East -10 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -15 2 - -
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

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

1 273 (100.00%) Java
2 132 (48.35%) AWS
3 129 (47.25%) Spring
4 110 (40.29%) Finance
5 87 (31.87%) Microservices
6 84 (30.77%) Kubernetes
6 84 (30.77%) JavaScript
6 84 (30.77%) Agile
7 79 (28.94%) Docker
8 71 (26.01%) Spring Boot
9 70 (25.64%) SQL
10 63 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
11 62 (22.71%) Hibernate
11 62 (22.71%) AngularJS
12 53 (19.41%) TDD
13 47 (17.22%) Software Engineering
14 45 (16.48%) Banking
14 45 (16.48%) DevOps
15 43 (15.75%) Social Skills
16 41 (15.02%) Mentoring
17 38 (13.92%) React
18 37 (13.55%) Kafka
18 37 (13.55%) CI/CD
19 36 (13.19%) Low Latency
20 35 (12.82%) Fintech
21 33 (12.09%) Git
21 33 (12.09%) Computer Science
22 29 (10.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 28 (10.26%) Multithreading
23 28 (10.26%) SDLC

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 14 (5.13%) Confluence
2 11 (4.03%) Apache
3 10 (3.66%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.93%) JBoss
4 8 (2.93%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (2.20%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.37%) Drupal
8 1 (0.37%) GemFire
8 1 (0.37%) Jetty
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 132 (48.35%) AWS
2 25 (9.16%) Azure
3 20 (7.33%) Serverless
4 16 (5.86%) SaaS
5 10 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (3.30%) GCP
7 8 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.73%) dbt
9 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.56%) Internet
2 2 (0.73%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 24 (8.79%) MySQL
3 20 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.59%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.47%) Flink
7 4 (1.47%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.10%) Big Data
8 3 (1.10%) CouchDB
8 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.73%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.73%) Dremio
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (12.09%) Git
2 23 (8.42%) JUnit
3 19 (6.96%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.23%) JIRA
5 11 (4.03%) Maven
6 7 (2.56%) Selenium
7 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.73%) GitLab
8 2 (0.73%) Gradle
8 2 (0.73%) JHipster
9 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 110 (40.29%) Finance
2 45 (16.48%) Banking
3 43 (15.75%) Social Skills
4 23 (8.42%) Front Office
5 17 (6.23%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.93%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.56%) Police
9 7 (2.56%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.83%) Marketing
11 4 (1.47%) Retail
12 2 (0.73%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) International Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (47.25%) Spring
2 71 (26.01%) Spring Boot
3 62 (22.71%) AngularJS
3 62 (22.71%) Hibernate
4 38 (13.92%) React
5 37 (13.55%) Kafka
6 26 (9.52%) RESTful
7 21 (7.69%) REST
8 20 (7.33%) Node.js
9 18 (6.59%) JMS
10 13 (4.76%) CSS
10 13 (4.76%) HTML
10 13 (4.76%) Web Services
11 11 (4.03%) SOAP
12 10 (3.66%) Apache Camel
12 10 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (3.66%) GWT
13 9 (3.30%) jQuery
13 9 (3.30%) JSON
14 8 (2.93%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.49%) Equities
5 14 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.66%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.93%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.83%) Derivative
11 4 (1.47%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.47%) PropTech
12 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.10%) NHS
12 3 (1.10%) Wiki
13 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.73%) Kindle
13 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.87%) Microservices
2 84 (30.77%) Agile
3 63 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
4 53 (19.41%) TDD
5 47 (17.22%) Software Engineering
6 45 (16.48%) DevOps
7 41 (15.02%) Mentoring
8 37 (13.55%) CI/CD
9 36 (13.19%) Low Latency
10 35 (12.82%) Fintech
11 33 (12.09%) Computer Science
12 28 (10.26%) Multithreading
12 28 (10.26%) SDLC
13 27 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.16%) Scrum
15 22 (8.06%) Integration Testing
16 19 (6.96%) BDD
17 16 (5.86%) OOD
18 15 (5.49%) Investment Management
18 15 (5.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 273 (100.00%) Java
2 84 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 70 (25.64%) SQL
4 24 (8.79%) Python
5 13 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.20%) C#
7 6 (2.20%) Perl
8 2 (0.73%) C++
8 2 (0.73%) Go
8 2 (0.73%) Ruby
8 2 (0.73%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) Bicep
9 1 (0.37%) PHP
9 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (9.16%) Degree
2 19 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.23%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.13%) 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 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.66%) QA
2 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 79 (28.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 84 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.59%) Ansible
3 6 (2.20%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Istio
4 1 (0.37%) Kibana
4 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.96%) Google
2 12 (4.40%) Oracle
3 10 (3.66%) WSO2
4 5 (1.83%) Sybase
5 4 (1.47%) Facebook
5 4 (1.47%) Vertica
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.73%) Apple
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) SAP