Senior Java Developer Jobs in London

Senior Java Developer
England > London

The median Senior Java Developer salary in London is £103,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 321 400
Rank change year-on-year -36 +79 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 68 167 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.78% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.82% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 36 142 262
10th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,938 £80,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 £100,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £128,125 £121,125 £120,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -2.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 14,423 20,347 38,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 94.54% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,872 16,262 28,304
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,420 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.36% +5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £94,504
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +3.33%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 16 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Central London -33 4 £117,500 +11.90%
Senior Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 February 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 London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (64.71%) AWS
3 38 (55.88%) Spring
4 36 (52.94%) Spring Boot
5 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
6 28 (41.18%) Jenkins
7 27 (39.71%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (39.71%) Finance
7 27 (39.71%) Serverless
8 25 (36.76%) Maven
8 25 (36.76%) Mockito
9 24 (35.29%) Terraform
9 24 (35.29%) Microservices
9 24 (35.29%) Git
10 23 (33.82%) Linux
11 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
12 20 (29.41%) C++
12 20 (29.41%) Software Engineering
12 20 (29.41%) Agile
12 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
12 20 (29.41%) SDLC
12 20 (29.41%) DevOps
12 20 (29.41%) Analytics
13 19 (27.94%) Docker
14 18 (26.47%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (26.47%) Amazon S3
14 18 (26.47%) Credit Derivative
15 17 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (25.00%) JUnit
15 17 (25.00%) JMS

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 44 (64.71%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (39.71%) Serverless
3 18 (26.47%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (26.47%) Amazon S3
4 16 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (23.53%) Datadog
5 13 (19.12%) GCP
6 8 (11.76%) Azure
6 8 (11.76%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.41%) SaaS
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Flink
3 2 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 28 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 25 (36.76%) Maven
2 25 (36.76%) Mockito
3 24 (35.29%) Git
4 17 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 17 (25.00%) GitLab
4 17 (25.00%) JUnit
5 16 (23.53%) Gradle
5 16 (23.53%) IntelliJ
6 8 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.59%) Front Office
4 7 (10.29%) Banking
5 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (55.88%) Spring
2 36 (52.94%) Spring Boot
3 17 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (25.00%) JMS
4 16 (23.53%) RESTful
5 14 (20.59%) Kafka
6 8 (11.76%) OAuth
6 8 (11.76%) OAuth2
6 8 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (11.76%) SAML
7 4 (5.88%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.41%) React
9 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Credit Derivative
2 17 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (23.53%) Management Information System
4 14 (20.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (14.71%) Equities
6 6 (8.82%) Fixed Income
7 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (5.88%) Derivative
9 2 (2.94%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 24 (35.29%) Microservices
3 20 (29.41%) Agile
3 20 (29.41%) Analytics
3 20 (29.41%) DevOps
3 20 (29.41%) SDLC
3 20 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 16 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
4 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.59%) Event-Driven
6 10 (14.71%) TDD
6 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
7 9 (13.24%) Electronic Trading
7 9 (13.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (11.76%) Architectural Design
8 8 (11.76%) CAP Theorem
8 8 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (11.76%) Low Latency
8 8 (11.76%) Secure Coding
8 8 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (29.41%) C++
3 14 (20.59%) SQL
4 8 (11.76%) Go
5 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.35%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.41%) Python
7 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 19 (27.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (35.29%) Terraform
2 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 16 (23.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (2.94%) Revolut
2 2 (2.94%) TIBCO
3 1 (1.47%) Monzo