Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 615 567 421
Rank change year-on-year -48 -146 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 295 475 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.51% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 229 417 896
10th Percentile £58,700 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +25.93%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 11 May 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 11 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
England -37 267 £82,500 -8.33% 41
London +17 156 £100,000 +2.56% 24
Work from Home +8 155 £85,000 +7.94% 25
UK excluding London -27 132 £70,000 - 21
South East +34 63 £70,000 - 7
North of England +36 25 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North West +4 17 £69,250 -23.06% 2
South West -38 15 £60,500 -13.57% 5
Scotland -76 13 £61,000 -12.86% 2
Yorkshire +83 6 £55,000 -10.20%
Midlands -23 6 £68,750 +14.58% 1
Wales +8 5 £50,000 +19.05%
East of England +14 4 £58,750 -30.88%
West Midlands -5 4 £68,750 +14.58% 1
North East -7 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -18 2 - -
Northern Ireland +21 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 149 (50.51%) Spring
3 141 (47.80%) AWS
4 113 (38.31%) Finance
5 90 (30.51%) JavaScript
6 89 (30.17%) Agile
7 85 (28.81%) Docker
7 85 (28.81%) Microservices
7 85 (28.81%) Kubernetes
8 76 (25.76%) SQL
9 74 (25.08%) AngularJS
10 73 (24.75%) Spring Boot
11 65 (22.03%) Full Stack Development
12 63 (21.36%) Hibernate
13 54 (18.31%) TDD
14 51 (17.29%) Git
15 49 (16.61%) React
16 48 (16.27%) DevOps
16 48 (16.27%) Software Engineering
17 45 (15.25%) Banking
18 44 (14.92%) Social Skills
19 41 (13.90%) Fintech
19 41 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
20 40 (13.56%) CI/CD
20 40 (13.56%) Mentoring
20 40 (13.56%) Kafka
21 39 (13.22%) Jenkins
22 36 (12.20%) RESTful
23 35 (11.86%) Low Latency
24 33 (11.19%) Azure

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 25 (8.47%) Confluence
2 11 (3.73%) Apache
3 10 (3.39%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.71%) JBoss
4 8 (2.71%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (2.03%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.34%) Drupal
8 1 (0.34%) GemFire
8 1 (0.34%) Jetty
8 1 (0.34%) Mule
8 1 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.34%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 141 (47.80%) AWS
2 33 (11.19%) Azure
3 25 (8.47%) Serverless
4 16 (5.42%) SaaS
5 13 (4.41%) GCP
6 12 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.03%) GitHub
11 4 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.68%) dbt
12 2 (0.68%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.34%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.37%) Internet
2 3 (1.02%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.81%) Relational Database
2 24 (8.14%) MySQL
3 23 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.36%) Flink
6 4 (1.36%) Tick Data
7 3 (1.02%) Big Data
7 3 (1.02%) CouchDB
7 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Arrow
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (0.68%) Dremio
9 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (17.29%) Git
2 39 (13.22%) Jenkins
3 28 (9.49%) JIRA
4 25 (8.47%) JUnit
5 12 (4.07%) Maven
6 10 (3.39%) Selenium
7 4 (1.36%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.02%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.02%) JHipster
8 3 (1.02%) Mockito
9 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.68%) GitLab
9 2 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
General
1 113 (38.31%) Finance
2 45 (15.25%) Banking
3 44 (14.92%) Social Skills
4 22 (7.46%) Front Office
5 18 (6.10%) Police
6 17 (5.76%) Investment Banking
7 15 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.71%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.71%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.37%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.69%) Marketing
12 4 (1.36%) Games
13 3 (1.02%) Retail
14 2 (0.68%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) International Banking
15 1 (0.34%) Law
15 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (50.51%) Spring
2 74 (25.08%) AngularJS
3 73 (24.75%) Spring Boot
4 63 (21.36%) Hibernate
5 49 (16.61%) React
6 40 (13.56%) Kafka
7 36 (12.20%) RESTful
8 31 (10.51%) REST
9 21 (7.12%) Node.js
10 20 (6.78%) Web Services
11 18 (6.10%) JMS
12 16 (5.42%) CSS
12 16 (5.42%) HTML
13 15 (5.08%) JSON
14 13 (4.41%) SOAP
15 10 (3.39%) Apache Camel
15 10 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (3.39%) GWT
16 9 (3.05%) J2EE
16 9 (3.05%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (9.49%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.75%) Equities
5 10 (3.39%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.71%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) Derivative
8 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.36%) PropTech
9 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.02%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.02%) Kindle
9 3 (1.02%) NHS
9 3 (1.02%) Wiki
10 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.17%) Agile
2 85 (28.81%) Microservices
3 65 (22.03%) Full Stack Development
4 54 (18.31%) TDD
5 48 (16.27%) DevOps
5 48 (16.27%) Software Engineering
6 41 (13.90%) Fintech
6 41 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.56%) CI/CD
7 40 (13.56%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.86%) Low Latency
9 33 (11.19%) Computer Science
10 30 (10.17%) SDLC
11 29 (9.83%) Multithreading
12 26 (8.81%) Scrum
13 24 (8.14%) Integration Testing
14 18 (6.10%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (6.10%) BDD
15 17 (5.76%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (5.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 90 (30.51%) JavaScript
3 76 (25.76%) SQL
4 24 (8.14%) Python
5 14 (4.75%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.41%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.03%) Perl
8 5 (1.69%) C#
9 4 (1.36%) Groovy
10 2 (0.68%) Go
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.47%) Degree
4 14 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.68%) PhD
6 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 85 (28.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 85 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.10%) Ansible
3 6 (2.03%) Terraform
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Istio
4 1 (0.34%) Kibana
4 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.44%) Google
2 15 (5.08%) Oracle
3 10 (3.39%) WSO2
4 5 (1.69%) Sybase
5 4 (1.36%) Facebook
5 4 (1.36%) ForgeRock
5 4 (1.36%) Vertica
6 3 (1.02%) Apple
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.34%) SAP