Senior Java Developer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the North of England is £67,500 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 299 368 404
Rank change year-on-year +69 +36 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 9 25 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.082% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 17
10th Percentile £58,800 £50,000 £56,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £51,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -13.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £96,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £83,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.43% -6.94% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West +22 6 £67,500 +6.30% 18
North East +50 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +70 1 £75,000 +36.36% 17
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (66.67%) SDLC
3 6 (66.67%) Docker
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (55.56%) User Experience
4 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
4 5 (55.56%) Kafka
4 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
4 5 (55.56%) React
4 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (44.44%) Python
5 4 (44.44%) CRM
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (44.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (44.44%) Case Management
5 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
6 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (33.33%) RESTful
6 3 (33.33%) Microservices
6 3 (33.33%) Spring
6 3 (33.33%) AWS
7 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) SQL
7 2 (22.22%) TDD
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
7 2 (22.22%) Clean Code

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Gradle
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Games
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) React
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Corretto
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
1 4 (44.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) e-Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 6 (66.67%) SDLC
2 5 (55.56%) User Experience
3 4 (44.44%) Case Management
3 4 (44.44%) CRM
3 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) High Availability
6 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 4 (44.44%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google