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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 564 432
Rank change year-on-year -44 -132 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 289 466 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.47% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.51% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 225 413 905
10th Percentile £58,100 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
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 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,250 £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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 -27 261 £85,000 - 55
London +12 155 £100,000 +2.56% 37
Work from Home +8 148 £85,000 +9.68% 29
UK excluding London -44 126 £70,000 - 31
South East +36 60 £70,000 - 17
North of England +35 24 £60,000 -14.29% 4
North West +1 17 £69,250 -23.06% 3
South West -33 15 £60,500 -13.57% 2
Scotland -84 13 £61,000 -15.86% 2
Yorkshire +82 5 £52,500 -14.29%
Wales +10 5 £50,000 +19.05%
East of England 0 4 £58,750 -30.88%
Midlands -26 4 £68,750 +14.58% 3
North East -4 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
West Midlands -5 2 £68,750 +14.58% 3
East Midlands -19 2 - -
Northern Ireland +26 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 289 (100.00%) Java
2 144 (49.83%) Spring
3 139 (48.10%) AWS
4 110 (38.06%) Finance
5 87 (30.10%) Kubernetes
6 86 (29.76%) Docker
6 86 (29.76%) JavaScript
7 85 (29.41%) Agile
8 84 (29.07%) Microservices
9 74 (25.61%) Spring Boot
10 73 (25.26%) SQL
11 72 (24.91%) AngularJS
12 61 (21.11%) Hibernate
12 61 (21.11%) Full Stack Development
13 54 (18.69%) TDD
14 50 (17.30%) Git
15 48 (16.61%) React
15 48 (16.61%) Software Engineering
16 45 (15.57%) DevOps
17 44 (15.22%) Banking
18 41 (14.19%) Social Skills
18 41 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (14.19%) Kafka
19 40 (13.84%) Fintech
19 40 (13.84%) CI/CD
20 39 (13.49%) Mentoring
21 38 (13.15%) Jenkins
22 37 (12.80%) Low Latency
23 35 (12.11%) RESTful
24 34 (11.76%) 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 26 (9.00%) Confluence
2 11 (3.81%) Apache
3 9 (3.11%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.42%) JBoss
4 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Fuse
5 5 (1.73%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.35%) Drupal
8 1 (0.35%) GemFire
8 1 (0.35%) Jetty
8 1 (0.35%) Mule
8 1 (0.35%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.35%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (48.10%) AWS
2 34 (11.76%) Azure
3 23 (7.96%) Serverless
4 16 (5.54%) SaaS
5 13 (4.50%) GCP
6 11 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.73%) GitHub
11 4 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.69%) dbt
12 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.35%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) Internet
2 3 (1.04%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.00%) Relational Database
2 24 (8.30%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.96%) MySQL
4 22 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.46%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.38%) Flink
7 4 (1.38%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.04%) Big Data
8 3 (1.04%) CouchDB
8 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.69%) Dremio
10 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (17.30%) Git
2 38 (13.15%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.03%) JIRA
4 24 (8.30%) JUnit
5 11 (3.81%) Selenium
6 10 (3.46%) Maven
7 4 (1.38%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.04%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.04%) JHipster
8 3 (1.04%) Mockito
9 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.69%) GitLab
9 2 (0.69%) Gradle
10 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 110 (38.06%) Finance
2 44 (15.22%) Banking
3 41 (14.19%) Social Skills
4 21 (7.27%) Front Office
5 18 (6.23%) Police
6 16 (5.54%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.11%) Tech for Good
9 8 (2.77%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.42%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.73%) Marketing
12 4 (1.38%) Games
12 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.04%) Retail
14 2 (0.69%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.35%) Advertising
15 1 (0.35%) International Banking
15 1 (0.35%) Law
15 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (49.83%) Spring
2 74 (25.61%) Spring Boot
3 72 (24.91%) AngularJS
4 61 (21.11%) Hibernate
5 48 (16.61%) React
6 41 (14.19%) Kafka
7 35 (12.11%) RESTful
8 30 (10.38%) REST
9 19 (6.57%) Node.js
9 19 (6.57%) Web Services
10 16 (5.54%) CSS
10 16 (5.54%) HTML
10 16 (5.54%) JMS
11 15 (5.19%) JSON
12 12 (4.15%) SOAP
13 9 (3.11%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.11%) GWT
14 8 (2.77%) J2EE
14 8 (2.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (9.69%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.50%) Equities
6 10 (3.46%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.77%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.38%) Derivative
9 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.38%) PropTech
9 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.04%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.04%) Kindle
10 3 (1.04%) NHS
10 3 (1.04%) Wiki
11 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.41%) Agile
2 84 (29.07%) Microservices
3 61 (21.11%) Full Stack Development
4 54 (18.69%) TDD
5 48 (16.61%) Software Engineering
6 45 (15.57%) DevOps
7 41 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (13.84%) CI/CD
8 40 (13.84%) Fintech
9 39 (13.49%) Mentoring
10 37 (12.80%) Low Latency
11 31 (10.73%) Computer Science
12 30 (10.38%) SDLC
13 28 (9.69%) Multithreading
14 24 (8.30%) Scrum
15 23 (7.96%) Integration Testing
16 18 (6.23%) Actionable Insight
16 18 (6.23%) Continuous Integration
17 17 (5.88%) BDD
18 16 (5.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 289 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 73 (25.26%) SQL
4 24 (8.30%) Python
5 14 (4.84%) Kotlin
5 14 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.08%) Perl
7 5 (1.73%) C#
8 4 (1.38%) Groovy
9 2 (0.69%) Go
9 2 (0.69%) Ruby
9 2 (0.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.35%) Bicep
10 1 (0.35%) C++
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.69%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.30%) Degree
4 13 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.69%) PhD
6 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.81%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 86 (29.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 87 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.88%) Ansible
3 6 (2.08%) Terraform
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Istio
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.57%) Google
2 16 (5.54%) Oracle
3 9 (3.11%) WSO2
4 5 (1.73%) Sybase
5 4 (1.38%) Facebook
5 4 (1.38%) ForgeRock
5 4 (1.38%) Vertica
6 3 (1.04%) Apple
6 3 (1.04%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.35%) SAP