Senior Java Developer Jobs

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 leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 623 541 443
Rank change year-on-year -82 -98 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 223 385 1,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.48% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.52% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 166 358 868
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,125 £53,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,438 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
England -74 193 £85,000 -5.56% 30
London -8 114 £92,500 -5.13% 15
UK excluding London -84 91 £62,500 -10.71% 18
Work from Home -66 89 £85,000 +9.68% 18
South East +6 32 £70,000 - 5
North of England +13 25 £60,000 -14.29% 6
North West +1 21 £63,750 -29.17% 6
Scotland -73 10 £61,750 -11.79% 2
South West -19 9 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Wales +30 5 £50,000 +19.05%
East of England 0 5 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Midlands -38 4 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -27 3 £60,000 -14.29%
Yorkshire +55 2 £60,000 -9.43%
North East -13 2 £57,500 -17.86%
Northern Ireland +18 1 £47,500 - 1
West Midlands -21 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 223 (100.00%) Java
2 108 (48.43%) AWS
3 96 (43.05%) Spring
4 82 (36.77%) Finance
5 76 (34.08%) Spring Boot
6 72 (32.29%) Kubernetes
7 70 (31.39%) Docker
8 61 (27.35%) Microservices
9 60 (26.91%) Agile
10 59 (26.46%) JavaScript
11 53 (23.77%) SQL
12 45 (20.18%) Hibernate
12 45 (20.18%) Kafka
12 45 (20.18%) Full Stack Development
13 41 (18.39%) Software Engineering
13 41 (18.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 40 (17.94%) AngularJS
14 40 (17.94%) Social Skills
15 36 (16.14%) Banking
16 35 (15.70%) React
17 33 (14.80%) Low Latency
18 31 (13.90%) SDLC
19 29 (13.00%) TDD
20 28 (12.56%) REST
20 28 (12.56%) Fintech
21 26 (11.66%) Azure
22 25 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
23 24 (10.76%) Git
24 23 (10.31%) CI/CD
25 22 (9.87%) DevOps

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 15 (6.73%) Apache
2 9 (4.04%) Confluence
3 5 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.35%) nginx
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) JBoss
5 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Documentum
6 1 (0.45%) Drupal
6 1 (0.45%) GemFire
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.24%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 108 (48.43%) AWS
2 26 (11.66%) Azure
3 17 (7.62%) GCP
4 11 (4.93%) Serverless
5 10 (4.48%) SaaS
6 8 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.24%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.35%) GitHub
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.90%) dbt
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.62%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.48%) Big Data
5 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.59%) MySQL
7 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.69%) Tick Data
9 5 (2.24%) DB2
9 5 (2.24%) Flink
10 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
11 2 (0.90%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.90%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.90%) Dremio
11 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.90%) Redis
12 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (10.76%) Git
2 15 (6.73%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.73%) JIRA
3 14 (6.28%) JUnit
4 8 (3.59%) Maven
5 7 (3.14%) IntelliJ
6 6 (2.69%) Selenium
7 5 (2.24%) GitLab
8 4 (1.79%) Gradle
9 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.90%) Mockito
11 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 82 (36.77%) Finance
2 40 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.14%) Banking
4 17 (7.62%) Front Office
5 14 (6.28%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.04%) Marketing
8 6 (2.69%) Police
8 6 (2.69%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.79%) Games
11 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.90%) Automotive
12 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (43.05%) Spring
2 76 (34.08%) Spring Boot
3 45 (20.18%) Hibernate
3 45 (20.18%) Kafka
4 40 (17.94%) AngularJS
5 35 (15.70%) React
6 28 (12.56%) REST
7 22 (9.87%) CSS
7 22 (9.87%) HTML
8 16 (7.17%) JSON
9 15 (6.73%) Web Services
10 14 (6.28%) RESTful
10 14 (6.28%) XML
11 11 (4.93%) Spring MVC
12 9 (4.04%) J2EE
12 9 (4.04%) JPA
13 8 (3.59%) Apache Wicket
13 8 (3.59%) HTML5
13 8 (3.59%) JSP
13 8 (3.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (6.28%) Equities
4 10 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.04%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.14%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.69%) Wiki
8 5 (2.24%) Derivative
8 5 (2.24%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.24%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) PropTech
12 1 (0.45%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.35%) Microservices
2 60 (26.91%) Agile
3 45 (20.18%) Full Stack Development
4 41 (18.39%) Software Engineering
5 33 (14.80%) Low Latency
6 31 (13.90%) SDLC
7 29 (13.00%) TDD
8 28 (12.56%) Fintech
9 25 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (10.31%) CI/CD
11 22 (9.87%) DevOps
12 20 (8.97%) Mentoring
13 19 (8.52%) Integration Testing
13 19 (8.52%) Multithreading
14 16 (7.17%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (7.17%) Scrum
15 14 (6.28%) Front End Development
15 14 (6.28%) Proprietary Trading
16 13 (5.83%) MVC
16 13 (5.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 223 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (26.46%) JavaScript
3 53 (23.77%) SQL
4 16 (7.17%) TypeScript
5 15 (6.73%) Python
6 8 (3.59%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.35%) C#
8 2 (0.90%) Go
8 2 (0.90%) Ruby
8 2 (0.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.45%) C++
9 1 (0.45%) Groovy
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) PHP
9 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (9.87%) Degree
2 15 (6.73%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.35%) PhD
6 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.73%) QA
System Software
1 70 (31.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 72 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.69%) Ansible
3 2 (0.90%) Terraform
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Istio
4 1 (0.45%) Kibana
4 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (6.28%) Oracle
2 7 (3.14%) Google
3 6 (2.69%) Sybase
4 5 (2.24%) Sony
5 4 (1.79%) Facebook
5 4 (1.79%) Vertica
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.90%) WSO2
7 1 (0.45%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.45%) iManage
7 1 (0.45%) Informatica
7 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.45%) Solace
7 1 (0.45%) Tradeweb