Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 458 476 384
Rank change year-on-year +18 -92 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 284 841 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.67% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.70% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 220 573 945
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,938 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England -8 230 £82,500 -2.94% 56
Work from Home +65 173 £80,000 +3.23% 28
UK excluding London +26 143 £70,000 -6.67% 31
London +66 139 £90,000 -5.26% 35
South East +84 36 £72,500 -14.71% 17
Scotland +58 36 £70,000 - 2
North of England +56 24 £63,750 -8.93% 4
South West +46 18 £70,000 -16.42% 3
North West +52 13 £67,500 -20.59% 3
Midlands +64 10 £66,250 +1.92% 3
Yorkshire +74 8 £60,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +32 8 £70,000 +16.67% 1
East of England +114 7 £75,000 -9.09% 2
West Midlands +62 6 £66,250 +1.92% 3
East Midlands +43 4 - -
Wales +15 4 £62,500 +8.70%
North East +43 3 £55,000 -4.35% 1

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 284 (100.00%) Java
2 137 (48.24%) AWS
3 128 (45.07%) Spring
4 109 (38.38%) Agile
5 106 (37.32%) Microservices
6 94 (33.10%) Docker
7 89 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (29.58%) Finance
9 83 (29.23%) Social Skills
10 77 (27.11%) Spring Boot
11 65 (22.89%) Git
12 64 (22.54%) JavaScript
13 61 (21.48%) Kubernetes
14 55 (19.37%) Jenkins
15 53 (18.66%) SQL
16 52 (18.31%) React
17 51 (17.96%) AngularJS
17 51 (17.96%) REST
17 51 (17.96%) Mathematics
18 50 (17.61%) Computer Science
19 49 (17.25%) Mentoring
20 48 (16.90%) IntelliJ
21 47 (16.55%) Software Engineering
21 47 (16.55%) SC Cleared
21 47 (16.55%) Security Cleared
22 46 (16.20%) DevOps
22 46 (16.20%) Maven
23 44 (15.49%) Degree
23 44 (15.49%) Kafka
24 43 (15.14%) MySQL

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (9.51%) JBoss
1 27 (9.51%) Red Hat Fuse
2 16 (5.63%) Confluence
3 13 (4.58%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.76%) Apache
4 5 (1.76%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.70%) Jetty
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 137 (48.24%) AWS
2 37 (13.03%) GitHub
3 33 (11.62%) SaaS
4 30 (10.56%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (9.51%) Azure
6 21 (7.39%) Serverless
7 20 (7.04%) GCP
8 16 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.70%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (0.70%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.70%) HTTP
2 2 (0.70%) Multicast
2 2 (0.70%) Unicast
3 1 (0.35%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.14%) MySQL
2 30 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.99%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.11%) Redis
8 5 (1.76%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.76%) Flink
9 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.70%) OLAP
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.35%) Big Data
11 1 (0.35%) DB2
11 1 (0.35%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (22.89%) Git
2 55 (19.37%) Jenkins
3 48 (16.90%) IntelliJ
4 46 (16.20%) Maven
5 17 (5.99%) JIRA
6 10 (3.52%) JUnit
7 5 (1.76%) Gradle
8 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.70%) GitLab
10 2 (0.70%) Mockito
10 2 (0.70%) Subversion
11 1 (0.35%) Ant
11 1 (0.35%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.35%) jMock
11 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 84 (29.58%) Finance
2 83 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.51%) Front Office
5 22 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (7.39%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.63%) Retail
8 14 (4.93%) Games
9 13 (4.58%) Banking
10 12 (4.23%) Police
11 9 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.70%) French Language
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) Automotive
14 1 (0.35%) iGaming
14 1 (0.35%) Law
14 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (45.07%) Spring
2 77 (27.11%) Spring Boot
3 52 (18.31%) React
4 51 (17.96%) AngularJS
4 51 (17.96%) REST
5 44 (15.49%) Kafka
6 39 (13.73%) Web Services
7 36 (12.68%) Hibernate
7 36 (12.68%) RESTful
7 36 (12.68%) SOAP
8 34 (11.97%) HTML
8 34 (11.97%) J2EE
9 33 (11.62%) CSS
10 30 (10.56%) XML
11 29 (10.21%) JSON
12 26 (9.15%) jOOQ
12 26 (9.15%) React Native
12 26 (9.15%) Redux
13 24 (8.45%) JPA
13 24 (8.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.27%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (8.45%) Equities
3 23 (8.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (7.75%) Derivative
5 21 (7.39%) Management Information System
6 16 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (4.23%) Cloud Native
7 12 (4.23%) Sports Betting
8 9 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Hackathon
10 6 (2.11%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.41%) IoT
13 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
14 2 (0.70%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.15%) Mac OS
2 25 (8.80%) Linux
3 5 (1.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (38.38%) Agile
2 106 (37.32%) Microservices
3 89 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (17.96%) Mathematics
5 50 (17.61%) Computer Science
6 49 (17.25%) Mentoring
7 47 (16.55%) Software Engineering
8 46 (16.20%) DevOps
9 43 (15.14%) Actionable Insight
10 42 (14.79%) CI/CD
11 37 (13.03%) User Experience
12 35 (12.32%) TDD
13 34 (11.97%) Fintech
14 32 (11.27%) Translating Business Requirements
15 30 (10.56%) OO
16 26 (9.15%) Customer Service
16 26 (9.15%) Market Making
16 26 (9.15%) Prototyping
17 25 (8.80%) Front End Development
17 25 (8.80%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 284 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (22.54%) JavaScript
3 53 (18.66%) SQL
4 42 (14.79%) Python
5 26 (9.15%) Bash
6 12 (4.23%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.46%) C#
8 5 (1.76%) C++
9 2 (0.70%) Clojure
9 2 (0.70%) Go
9 2 (0.70%) Rust
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (16.55%) SC Cleared
1 47 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.49%) Degree
3 40 (14.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.06%) OCP
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.70%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.06%) QA
2 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 94 (33.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.82%) Terraform
3 5 (1.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (2.46%) Google
2 5 (1.76%) WSO2
3 3 (1.06%) Oracle
4 2 (0.70%) Algorithmics
4 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.35%) Cadence
5 1 (0.35%) New Relic
5 1 (0.35%) Sony
5 1 (0.35%) Splunk