Senior Java Developer Jobs in the South East

Senior Java Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the South East is £65,000 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 277 335 381
Rank change year-on-year +58 +46 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 11 62 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.40% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 51 34
10th Percentile £58,750 £61,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -1.75% -8.06%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £87,500
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey +70 8 £65,000 -14.75%
Thames Valley +52 2 £66,250 -19.70%
Berkshire +35 2 £66,250 -17.19%
Sussex - 1 £75,000 -
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Degree
3 5 (45.45%) JSON
3 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 5 (45.45%) Python
3 5 (45.45%) React
3 5 (45.45%) Node.js
3 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
4 4 (36.36%) Docker
4 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
4 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
5 3 (27.27%) REST
5 3 (27.27%) Kafka
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
7 1 (9.09%) Public Sector

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
1 3 (27.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Gradle
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
2 5 (45.45%) JSON
2 5 (45.45%) Node.js
2 5 (45.45%) React
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
2 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (27.27%) Kafka
4 3 (27.27%) REST
4 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
5 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) MVC
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) IBM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP