Senior Java Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 252 330
Rank change year-on-year -14 +78 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 23 6 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.087% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.094% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 15
10th Percentile £58,125 £52,725 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% +1.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £75,700 £74,500 £81,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 12,699 6,399 13,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 92.74% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,921 3,615 11,271
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Yorkshire -28 12 £63,750 -15.00% 3
North West 0 11 £70,000 +23.89% 9
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 11 March 2026, Senior Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
3 17 (73.91%) Docker
4 15 (65.22%) DevOps
4 15 (65.22%) Spring Boot
5 14 (60.87%) Agile
6 13 (56.52%) Spring
7 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
7 11 (47.83%) Node.js
7 11 (47.83%) Serverless
7 11 (47.83%) TypeScript
8 9 (39.13%) Git
8 9 (39.13%) TDD
9 8 (34.78%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
9 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (34.78%) Azure
9 8 (34.78%) Clean Code
9 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (34.78%) SQL
10 7 (30.43%) GitHub
11 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
11 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (26.09%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
11 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (26.09%) DynamoDB
11 6 (26.09%) GCP
11 6 (26.09%) GitHub Actions

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Serverless
3 8 (34.78%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
3 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (34.78%) Azure
4 7 (30.43%) GitHub
5 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (26.09%) GCP
5 6 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (17.39%) Datadog
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (13.04%) ChatGPT
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (8.70%) Apigee
8 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) DynamoDB
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) Maven
4 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) Spring Boot
2 13 (56.52%) Spring
3 11 (47.83%) Node.js
4 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
4 6 (26.09%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.04%) Jest
6 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.70%) Gherkin
6 2 (8.70%) Grails
6 2 (8.70%) Kafka
6 2 (8.70%) Mustache
6 2 (8.70%) React
6 2 (8.70%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) RESTful
6 2 (8.70%) Web Services
7 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 15 (65.22%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Agile
4 9 (39.13%) TDD
5 8 (34.78%) Clean Code
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
6 6 (26.09%) SDLC
7 5 (21.74%) AI
8 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps
8 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Open Source
8 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (17.39%) Principle of Least Privilege
8 4 (17.39%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 4 (17.39%) Workflow
8 4 (17.39%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) TypeScript
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 6 (26.09%) Kotlin
5 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Groovy
6 2 (8.70%) Python
6 2 (8.70%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) HP Fortify
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Google