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 £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 372 386
Rank change year-on-year +31 +14 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 64 37 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.39% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.27% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 52 34 88
10th Percentile £62,075 £62,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -8.06% +19.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,375 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram 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 19 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +8 32 £70,000 - 1
Thames Valley +23 26 £82,500 +6.45% 2
Berkshire +37 23 £80,000 +6.67% 2
Surrey +13 6 £76,250 -10.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -15 2 £87,500 +12.90%
Oxfordshire 0 1 £110,000 +89.66%
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 19 April 2024, 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 64 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (65.63%) AWS
3 38 (59.38%) Docker
4 36 (56.25%) Spring
5 32 (50.00%) Agile
5 32 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 28 (43.75%) DevOps
7 27 (42.19%) JavaScript
8 22 (34.38%) JUnit
8 22 (34.38%) TDD
8 22 (34.38%) Git
9 21 (32.81%) Microservices
10 19 (29.69%) CI/CD
10 19 (29.69%) Node.js
11 18 (28.13%) Serverless
12 17 (26.56%) MySQL
13 16 (25.00%) SQL
14 15 (23.44%) Hibernate
14 15 (23.44%) SDLC
14 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
14 15 (23.44%) Spring Boot
15 14 (21.88%) Relational Database
15 14 (21.88%) AngularJS
16 13 (20.31%) SaaS
16 13 (20.31%) BDD
16 13 (20.31%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (20.31%) React
16 13 (20.31%) Full Stack Development
16 13 (20.31%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering

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 11 (17.19%) OpenStack
2 9 (14.06%) JBoss
2 9 (14.06%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (10.94%) Tomcat
4 4 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (65.63%) AWS
2 18 (28.13%) Serverless
3 13 (20.31%) SaaS
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (17.19%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.94%) Azure
5 7 (10.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) MySQL
2 14 (21.88%) Relational Database
3 9 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (10.94%) DynamoDB
4 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) CouchDB
6 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (34.38%) Git
1 22 (34.38%) JUnit
2 12 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.94%) Maven
4 4 (6.25%) JIRA
5 3 (4.69%) Selenium
6 2 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (1.56%) Police
4 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (56.25%) Spring
2 19 (29.69%) Node.js
3 15 (23.44%) Hibernate
3 15 (23.44%) Spring Boot
4 14 (21.88%) AngularJS
5 13 (20.31%) React
6 11 (17.19%) Apache Camel
6 11 (17.19%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (17.19%) REST
7 10 (15.63%) RESTful
8 9 (14.06%) J2EE
8 9 (14.06%) SOAP
8 9 (14.06%) Web Services
9 7 (10.94%) jQuery
10 4 (6.25%) Kafka
11 2 (3.13%) .NET
12 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (20.31%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 2 (3.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Agile
2 28 (43.75%) DevOps
3 22 (34.38%) TDD
4 21 (32.81%) Microservices
5 19 (29.69%) CI/CD
6 15 (23.44%) SDLC
7 13 (20.31%) BDD
7 13 (20.31%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (20.31%) Integration Testing
7 13 (20.31%) OOD
7 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
8 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
8 11 (17.19%) Kanban
8 11 (17.19%) OOP
8 11 (17.19%) Scrum
9 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.94%) Software Architecture
10 7 (10.94%) Visualisation
10 7 (10.94%) Web Application Development
11 6 (9.38%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (42.19%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
System Software
1 38 (59.38%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.19%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) WSO2
2 3 (4.69%) Google
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle