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 £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 633 568 479
Rank change year-on-year -65 -89 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 131 164 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.28% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.31% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 99 139 342
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,250 £61,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile £74,375 £80,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% - +25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 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
South East +31 62 £70,000 - 8
North of England +39 25 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North West +4 17 £69,250 -23.06% 2
South West -35 15 £60,500 -13.57% 3
Scotland -74 13 £61,000 -15.86% 2
Yorkshire +90 6 £55,000 -10.20%
Midlands -22 6 £68,750 +14.58% 1
Wales +12 5 £50,000 +19.05%
West Midlands +2 4 £68,750 +14.58% 1
East of England -2 4 £58,750 -30.88%
North East -6 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -18 2 - -
Northern Ireland +21 1 - - 2
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 15 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (58.78%) AWS
3 74 (56.49%) Spring
4 57 (43.51%) Agile
4 57 (43.51%) Docker
5 51 (38.93%) Kubernetes
6 41 (31.30%) Git
7 40 (30.53%) JavaScript
8 39 (29.77%) DevOps
9 36 (27.48%) Microservices
9 36 (27.48%) TDD
10 33 (25.19%) React
11 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
12 29 (22.14%) Spring Boot
12 29 (22.14%) AngularJS
12 29 (22.14%) Jenkins
12 29 (22.14%) SQL
12 29 (22.14%) Azure
13 26 (19.85%) Hibernate
13 26 (19.85%) Social Skills
14 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
14 25 (19.08%) RESTful
15 24 (18.32%) JUnit
16 23 (17.56%) REST
17 22 (16.79%) Mentoring
17 22 (16.79%) Integration Testing
18 21 (16.03%) Security Cleared
18 21 (16.03%) Scrum
18 21 (16.03%) Greenfield Project
18 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving

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 18 (13.74%) Confluence
2 9 (6.87%) OpenStack
3 7 (5.34%) JBoss
3 7 (5.34%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (3.82%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Jetty
5 1 (0.76%) Mule
5 1 (0.76%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 77 (58.78%) AWS
2 29 (22.14%) Azure
3 20 (15.27%) Serverless
4 14 (10.69%) SaaS
5 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.87%) GCP
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.82%) GitHub
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.76%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) AMQP
2 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.50%) Relational Database
2 17 (12.98%) NoSQL
3 16 (12.21%) MySQL
4 15 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (9.16%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.63%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.53%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (31.30%) Git
2 29 (22.14%) Jenkins
3 24 (18.32%) JUnit
4 20 (15.27%) JIRA
5 11 (8.40%) Maven
5 11 (8.40%) Selenium
6 3 (2.29%) Mockito
7 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.53%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.53%) GitLab
7 2 (1.53%) Gradle
7 2 (1.53%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) JHipster
General
1 26 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.50%) Finance
3 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.63%) Banking
4 10 (7.63%) Police
5 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.05%) Games
7 2 (1.53%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (56.49%) Spring
2 33 (25.19%) React
3 29 (22.14%) AngularJS
3 29 (22.14%) Spring Boot
4 26 (19.85%) Hibernate
5 25 (19.08%) RESTful
6 23 (17.56%) REST
7 19 (14.50%) Node.js
8 16 (12.21%) Web Services
9 15 (11.45%) Kafka
10 9 (6.87%) Apache Camel
10 9 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (6.87%) SOAP
11 8 (6.11%) CSS
11 8 (6.11%) HTML
11 8 (6.11%) J2EE
11 8 (6.11%) JSON
12 7 (5.34%) jQuery
13 4 (3.05%) OAuth
13 4 (3.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (10.69%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.58%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.29%) NHS
6 3 (2.29%) PropTech
7 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Wiki
8 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.76%) Blog
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.76%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.51%) Agile
2 39 (29.77%) DevOps
3 36 (27.48%) Microservices
3 36 (27.48%) TDD
4 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
5 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
6 22 (16.79%) Integration Testing
6 22 (16.79%) Mentoring
7 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.03%) Scrum
8 20 (15.27%) SDLC
9 15 (11.45%) BDD
9 15 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (11.45%) Full Stack Development
10 14 (10.69%) OOD
11 13 (9.92%) Kanban
12 12 (9.16%) Fintech
12 12 (9.16%) OO
13 11 (8.40%) OOP
14 10 (7.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (30.53%) JavaScript
3 29 (22.14%) SQL
4 11 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.05%) C#
5 4 (3.05%) Groovy
5 4 (3.05%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) Bicep
6 1 (0.76%) Go
6 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (43.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (38.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.40%) Ansible
3 5 (3.82%) Terraform
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Istio
4 1 (0.76%) Kibana
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) Oracle
2 10 (7.63%) Google
3 9 (6.87%) WSO2
4 4 (3.05%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.53%) Sybase
6 1 (0.76%) Apple
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian