Senior Java Developer Job Trends

Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 574 480
Rank change year-on-year -32 -94 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 62 184 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.27% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38 114 254
10th Percentile - £57,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £84,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +5.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £77,125 £105,000 £94,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 43,959 67,207 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 95.34% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,826 38,508 41,480
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 13 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 16 October 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
England +8 55 £70,000 -17.65% 27
UK excluding London +43 39 £68,750 +10.00% 21
North of England +31 26 £65,000 +8.33% 5
London -28 21 £85,000 -5.56% 13
North West +16 19 £67,500 +12.50% 2
Work from Home +23 15 £66,250 -33.75% 23
Yorkshire +24 7 £65,000 - 3
Scotland +1 6 £70,000 +7.69% 1
West Midlands +43 4 £65,000 - 1
Midlands +41 4 £65,000 +8.33% 1
South East +5 4 £71,250 -8.06% 10
North East +12 2 £65,000 -
South West +44 1 £67,500 +12.50% 4

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, Senior Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (70.97%) AWS
3 35 (56.45%) Agile
3 35 (56.45%) Kubernetes
4 31 (50.00%) Docker
4 31 (50.00%) Spring Boot
5 30 (48.39%) Spring
6 27 (43.55%) Microservices
7 23 (37.10%) DevOps
8 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
9 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (32.26%) TDD
10 19 (30.65%) Azure
10 19 (30.65%) Serverless
11 18 (29.03%) Clean Code
12 17 (27.42%) Terraform
13 16 (25.81%) React
14 15 (24.19%) SDLC
14 15 (24.19%) Software Engineering
15 14 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (22.58%) TypeScript
16 13 (20.97%) Front End Development
16 13 (20.97%) GCP
16 13 (20.97%) Jenkins
16 13 (20.97%) Python
17 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
17 12 (19.35%) Kafka
18 11 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
18 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
18 11 (17.74%) Pair Programming

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
2 19 (30.65%) Serverless
3 14 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (20.97%) GCP
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.84%) Datadog
8 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.84%) SaaS
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.23%) Apigee
9 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.61%) Route 53
10 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Broadband
1 1 (1.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) DynamoDB
2 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.61%) DB2
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) MySQL
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.52%) JUnit
3 8 (12.90%) Mockito
4 7 (11.29%) Maven
5 6 (9.68%) Git
6 4 (6.45%) GitLab
7 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.84%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.61%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.61%) Gradle
9 1 (1.61%) JMeter
9 1 (1.61%) jMock
9 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (35.48%) Finance
2 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Banking
4 8 (12.90%) Games
5 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
6 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.45%) Law
7 4 (6.45%) Private Banking
7 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.23%) Front Office
8 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 2 (3.23%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 30 (48.39%) Spring
3 16 (25.81%) React
4 12 (19.35%) Kafka
5 11 (17.74%) REST
6 9 (14.52%) Hibernate
6 9 (14.52%) RESTful
7 8 (12.90%) Amazon Corretto
8 7 (11.29%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
10 4 (6.45%) Web Services
11 3 (4.84%) HTML
11 3 (4.84%) JMS
11 3 (4.84%) JPA
12 2 (3.23%) Bootstrap
12 2 (3.23%) CSS
12 2 (3.23%) Middleware
12 2 (3.23%) SOAP
12 2 (3.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.90%) e-Learning
3 6 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.84%) Credit Derivative
5 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) Equities
7 1 (1.61%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) Agile
2 27 (43.55%) Microservices
3 23 (37.10%) DevOps
4 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
5 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (32.26%) TDD
6 18 (29.03%) Clean Code
7 15 (24.19%) SDLC
7 15 (24.19%) Software Engineering
8 13 (20.97%) Front End Development
9 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
10 11 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
10 11 (17.74%) Pair Programming
10 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
10 11 (17.74%) User Experience
11 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
12 9 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (14.52%) UX Design
13 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (22.58%) TypeScript
3 13 (20.97%) Python
4 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.90%) SQL
6 6 (9.68%) Kotlin
7 5 (8.06%) C++
7 5 (8.06%) Scala
8 2 (3.23%) C
8 2 (3.23%) C#
8 2 (3.23%) Go
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
9 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.61%) R
9 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Degree
1 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 31 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (56.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (27.42%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Kibana
4 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) IBM
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Google
3 2 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.61%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) SimCorp
4 1 (1.61%) Solace
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Sybase