Senior Java Developer Jobs in Leeds

Senior Java Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Java Developer salary in Leeds is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 124 177
Rank change year-on-year +43 +53 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 1 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.13% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £46,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 724 2,172 2,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 96.02% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 502 1,570 1,727
10th Percentile £28,888 £31,250 £32,087
25th Percentile £40,225 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,923 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Leeds

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Leeds region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) CouchDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google