Senior Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London 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 521 627 587
Rank change year-on-year +106 -40 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 36 139 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31 105 135
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,500 £59,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £73,750 £86,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% -2.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +128 13 £55,000 -15.38% 12
South East +58 11 £65,000 -7.14% 45
North of England +69 9 £67,500 +12.50% 41
North West +22 6 £67,500 +6.30% 18
Midlands +77 2 £68,750 +1.85% 31
North East +50 2 - - 6
West Midlands +47 2 £68,750 +1.85% 17
Yorkshire +70 1 £75,000 +36.36% 17
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 7
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (38.89%) Spring
5 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 12 (33.33%) React
5 12 (33.33%) Azure
5 12 (33.33%) Docker
6 11 (30.56%) Kafka
6 11 (30.56%) AWS
7 10 (27.78%) RESTful
7 10 (27.78%) TypeScript
7 10 (27.78%) Python
7 10 (27.78%) C++
7 10 (27.78%) Visual Studio
7 10 (27.78%) Windows
8 9 (25.00%) Degree
8 9 (25.00%) DevOps
8 9 (25.00%) Spring Boot
8 9 (25.00%) Microservices
8 9 (25.00%) SDLC
9 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 8 (22.22%) Agile
10 7 (19.44%) Scrum
10 7 (19.44%) SQL
10 7 (19.44%) MFC
10 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
10 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
2 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.78%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.78%) DB2
5 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Visual Studio
2 5 (13.89%) JUnit
3 4 (11.11%) Gradle
3 4 (11.11%) Mockito
4 3 (8.33%) Git
4 3 (8.33%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.33%) Maven
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Electronics
6 1 (2.78%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (38.89%) Spring
2 12 (33.33%) React
3 11 (30.56%) Kafka
4 10 (27.78%) RESTful
5 9 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
6 7 (19.44%) MFC
7 6 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (13.89%) JSON
8 5 (13.89%) Node.js
8 5 (13.89%) REST
8 5 (13.89%) Web Services
9 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
9 2 (5.56%) JPA
9 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon Corretto
10 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
10 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
10 1 (2.78%) jQuery
10 1 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 4 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) DevOps
2 9 (25.00%) Microservices
2 9 (25.00%) SDLC
3 8 (22.22%) Agile
3 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 7 (19.44%) Scrum
5 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
6 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
6 5 (13.89%) User Experience
7 4 (11.11%) Case Management
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.11%) CRM
7 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
7 4 (11.11%) TDD
8 3 (8.33%) Code Quality
8 3 (8.33%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) C++
2 10 (27.78%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) IBM
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) SAP
2 1 (2.78%) Sybase