Senior Java Developer Jobs in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 603 549 420
Rank change year-on-year -54 -129 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 252 394 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.45% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.49% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 210 351 847
10th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £53,650
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,125 £120,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% - +25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 83,455 79,786 132,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.48% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 62,071 51,010 74,787
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London +12 152 £100,000 +2.56% 46
South East +25 57 £70,000 - 23
North of England +38 22 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North West +10 16 £63,500 -29.44% 7
South West -26 14 £60,500 -13.57% 3
Yorkshire +72 4 £52,500 -14.29%
East of England +9 4 £58,750 -30.88%
Midlands -31 3 £68,750 +14.58% 3
North East -5 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
West Midlands -6 2 £68,750 +14.58% 2
East Midlands -20 1 - - 1
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 across the England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 252 (100.00%) Java
2 127 (50.40%) AWS
3 112 (44.44%) Spring
4 103 (40.87%) Finance
5 83 (32.94%) Microservices
5 83 (32.94%) Kubernetes
6 79 (31.35%) Agile
7 77 (30.56%) JavaScript
8 76 (30.16%) Docker
9 67 (26.59%) Spring Boot
10 65 (25.79%) SQL
11 59 (23.41%) AngularJS
12 58 (23.02%) Hibernate
12 58 (23.02%) Full Stack Development
13 50 (19.84%) TDD
14 47 (18.65%) Software Engineering
15 44 (17.46%) Banking
16 39 (15.48%) Social Skills
17 38 (15.08%) DevOps
17 38 (15.08%) Mentoring
18 37 (14.68%) Kafka
19 36 (14.29%) Low Latency
19 36 (14.29%) React
19 36 (14.29%) CI/CD
20 32 (12.70%) Fintech
20 32 (12.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 30 (11.90%) Computer Science
22 28 (11.11%) SDLC
23 27 (10.71%) Multithreading
24 26 (10.32%) Azure

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (4.76%) Apache
2 8 (3.17%) Confluence
2 8 (3.17%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.38%) JBoss
3 6 (2.38%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.59%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) Drupal
7 1 (0.40%) GemFire
7 1 (0.40%) Jetty
7 1 (0.40%) Mule
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 127 (50.40%) AWS
2 26 (10.32%) Azure
3 17 (6.75%) Serverless
4 16 (6.35%) SaaS
5 9 (3.57%) GCP
6 8 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.59%) GitHub
9 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.79%) dbt
9 2 (0.79%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.40%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Internet
2 2 (0.79%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.92%) Relational Database
2 22 (8.73%) MySQL
3 19 (7.54%) NoSQL
4 18 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.75%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.98%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.98%) Flink
7 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.59%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.19%) Big Data
8 3 (1.19%) CouchDB
8 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.79%) Dremio
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (9.13%) Git
2 21 (8.33%) JUnit
3 11 (4.37%) JIRA
4 10 (3.97%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.17%) Selenium
6 7 (2.78%) Maven
7 4 (1.59%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.79%) GitLab
8 2 (0.79%) Gradle
8 2 (0.79%) JHipster
9 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 103 (40.87%) Finance
2 44 (17.46%) Banking
3 39 (15.48%) Social Skills
4 21 (8.33%) Front Office
5 16 (6.35%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.57%) Tech for Good
8 8 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.78%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.98%) Marketing
11 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.79%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.79%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) International Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (44.44%) Spring
2 67 (26.59%) Spring Boot
3 59 (23.41%) AngularJS
4 58 (23.02%) Hibernate
5 37 (14.68%) Kafka
6 36 (14.29%) React
7 20 (7.94%) REST
8 16 (6.35%) Node.js
9 15 (5.95%) JMS
9 15 (5.95%) RESTful
10 12 (4.76%) CSS
10 12 (4.76%) HTML
11 11 (4.37%) Web Services
12 9 (3.57%) JSON
12 9 (3.57%) SOAP
13 8 (3.17%) Apache Camel
13 8 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.17%) GWT
14 7 (2.78%) jQuery
14 7 (2.78%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (9.92%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.16%) Equities
6 10 (3.97%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.17%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Derivative
9 4 (1.59%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.59%) PropTech
9 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.19%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.19%) NHS
10 3 (1.19%) Wiki
11 2 (0.79%) Kindle
11 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.40%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.94%) Microservices
2 79 (31.35%) Agile
3 58 (23.02%) Full Stack Development
4 50 (19.84%) TDD
5 47 (18.65%) Software Engineering
6 38 (15.08%) DevOps
6 38 (15.08%) Mentoring
7 36 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 36 (14.29%) Low Latency
8 32 (12.70%) Fintech
9 30 (11.90%) Computer Science
10 28 (11.11%) SDLC
11 27 (10.71%) Multithreading
12 21 (8.33%) Scrum
13 20 (7.94%) Integration Testing
14 19 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (6.35%) BDD
15 16 (6.35%) OOD
16 14 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
16 14 (5.56%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 252 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (30.56%) JavaScript
3 65 (25.79%) SQL
4 24 (9.52%) Python
5 13 (5.16%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.37%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.38%) Perl
8 5 (1.98%) C#
9 2 (0.79%) Go
9 2 (0.79%) Ruby
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
10 1 (0.40%) C++
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (9.52%) Degree
2 13 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.79%) PhD
6 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.37%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 76 (30.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.40%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 83 (32.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.35%) Ansible
3 6 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Istio
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (7.14%) Google
2 13 (5.16%) Oracle
3 8 (3.17%) WSO2
4 5 (1.98%) Sybase
5 4 (1.59%) Facebook
5 4 (1.59%) Vertica
6 3 (1.19%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) SAP