Senior Java Developer Jobs in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 560 563
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 64 275 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.34% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 45 222 369
10th Percentile £62,500 £59,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -6.94% +5.88%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £130,500 £121,125 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% -2.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -6 42 £87,500 -12.50% 54
South East +58 11 £65,000 -7.14% 46
North of England +69 9 £67,500 +12.50% 41
North West +22 6 £67,500 +6.30% 18
Midlands +77 2 £68,750 +1.85% 31
North East +50 2 - - 6
West Midlands +47 2 £68,750 +1.85% 17
Yorkshire +70 1 £75,000 +36.36% 17
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 64 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (54.69%) AWS
3 33 (51.56%) Spring
4 30 (46.88%) Spring Boot
5 24 (37.50%) Serverless
5 24 (37.50%) Finance
6 23 (35.94%) DevOps
6 23 (35.94%) SDLC
7 19 (29.69%) Software Engineering
8 18 (28.13%) Linux
8 18 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
9 17 (26.56%) C++
9 17 (26.56%) Amazon S3
10 16 (25.00%) Docker
10 16 (25.00%) Microservices
10 16 (25.00%) Analytics
10 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 16 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (25.00%) Mockito
10 16 (25.00%) Kafka
10 16 (25.00%) JUnit
10 16 (25.00%) Maven
10 16 (25.00%) GitLab
10 16 (25.00%) CI/CD
11 15 (23.44%) Terraform
11 15 (23.44%) Python
11 15 (23.44%) IBM
11 15 (23.44%) Git
12 14 (21.88%) Amazon EC2

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 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) AWS
2 24 (37.50%) Serverless
3 18 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (26.56%) Amazon S3
5 14 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (21.88%) Datadog
6 11 (17.19%) Azure
7 9 (14.06%) GCP
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.13%) PaaS
10 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.69%) Flink
5 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.13%) CouchDB
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) GitLab
1 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 16 (25.00%) JUnit
1 16 (25.00%) Maven
1 16 (25.00%) Mockito
2 15 (23.44%) Git
3 14 (21.88%) Cucumber
3 14 (21.88%) IntelliJ
4 3 (4.69%) Gradle
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 24 (37.50%) Finance
2 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 8 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (9.38%) Front Office
6 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.56%) Electronics
10 1 (1.56%) Games
10 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.56%) Marketing
10 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) Spring
2 30 (46.88%) Spring Boot
3 16 (25.00%) Kafka
4 14 (21.88%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (21.88%) JMS
5 12 (18.75%) RESTful
6 10 (15.63%) React
6 10 (15.63%) REST
7 7 (10.94%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.81%) JSON
9 5 (7.81%) Node.js
9 5 (7.81%) Web Services
10 3 (4.69%) Django
10 3 (4.69%) Flask
10 3 (4.69%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.69%) Middleware
11 2 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
11 2 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (21.88%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (21.88%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Derivative
6 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.56%) Equities
6 1 (1.56%) Life Science
6 1 (1.56%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) DevOps
1 23 (35.94%) SDLC
2 19 (29.69%) Software Engineering
3 16 (25.00%) Analytics
3 16 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.00%) Microservices
4 14 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (18.75%) Multithreading
6 11 (17.19%) Mentoring
7 10 (15.63%) Low Latency
7 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.50%) Clean Code
9 7 (10.94%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.94%) Front End Development
10 6 (9.38%) Customer Experience
10 6 (9.38%) TDD
10 6 (9.38%) User Experience
11 5 (7.81%) Agile
11 5 (7.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (26.56%) C++
3 15 (23.44%) Python
4 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.06%) SQL
6 2 (3.13%) Bash
6 2 (3.13%) C
6 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.44%) Terraform
3 14 (21.88%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) IBM
2 3 (4.69%) Google
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle
2 3 (4.69%) SimCorp
3 1 (1.56%) Cisco
3 1 (1.56%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.56%) SAP
3 1 (1.56%) Solace