Senior Java Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 577 472
Rank change year-on-year -63 -105 -119
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 118 158 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.28% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.32% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 95 138 358
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +13.91%
75th Percentile £74,375 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,584 50,145 71,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.91% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,010 29,573 42,922
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
South East +35 56 £70,000 - 7
North of England +27 25 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North West -7 19 £63,500 -29.44% 8
South West -37 14 £60,500 -13.57% 3
Scotland -97 11 £61,000 -14.39%
Yorkshire +62 4 £52,500 -14.29%
Wales +9 4 £50,000 +19.05%
East of England -10 4 £58,750 -30.88%
Midlands -37 4 £67,500 +12.50% 2
East Midlands -13 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2
North East -16 2 £57,500 -17.86%
West Midlands -22 2 £68,750 +14.58%
Senior Java Developer
UK

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (61.02%) AWS
3 60 (50.85%) Spring
4 54 (45.76%) Agile
4 54 (45.76%) Docker
5 49 (41.53%) Kubernetes
6 38 (32.20%) DevOps
7 37 (31.36%) JavaScript
8 36 (30.51%) TDD
9 34 (28.81%) Microservices
10 32 (27.12%) React
11 31 (26.27%) CI/CD
11 31 (26.27%) Azure
12 29 (24.58%) Git
12 29 (24.58%) SQL
13 28 (23.73%) Software Engineering
13 28 (23.73%) AngularJS
14 26 (22.03%) Spring Boot
14 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
14 26 (22.03%) Hibernate
15 24 (20.34%) JUnit
16 22 (18.64%) Integration Testing
16 22 (18.64%) REST
16 22 (18.64%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (18.64%) SDLC
17 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
17 20 (16.95%) Scrum
18 18 (15.25%) Relational Database
18 18 (15.25%) Jenkins
19 17 (14.41%) Serverless

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (6.78%) Confluence
1 8 (6.78%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.08%) JBoss
2 6 (5.08%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (2.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Jetty
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 72 (61.02%) AWS
2 31 (26.27%) Azure
3 17 (14.41%) Serverless
4 15 (12.71%) SaaS
5 9 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (7.63%) GCP
6 8 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.54%) GitHub
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) Relational Database
2 16 (13.56%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.86%) MySQL
3 14 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.78%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.69%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (24.58%) Git
2 24 (20.34%) JUnit
3 18 (15.25%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.32%) Selenium
5 10 (8.47%) JIRA
6 8 (6.78%) Maven
7 3 (2.54%) GitLab
7 3 (2.54%) Mockito
8 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.69%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.69%) Gradle
8 2 (1.69%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.85%) JHipster
General
1 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.56%) Finance
3 11 (9.32%) Banking
3 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.39%) Games
4 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.69%) Automotive
5 2 (1.69%) Marketing
5 2 (1.69%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Law
6 1 (0.85%) Retail
6 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (50.85%) Spring
2 32 (27.12%) React
3 28 (23.73%) AngularJS
4 26 (22.03%) Hibernate
4 26 (22.03%) Spring Boot
5 22 (18.64%) REST
6 16 (13.56%) Node.js
6 16 (13.56%) Web Services
7 14 (11.86%) Kafka
8 13 (11.02%) RESTful
9 8 (6.78%) Apache Camel
9 8 (6.78%) CSS
9 8 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (6.78%) HTML
9 8 (6.78%) JSON
9 8 (6.78%) SOAP
10 7 (5.93%) J2EE
11 5 (4.24%) jQuery
12 4 (3.39%) OAuth
12 4 (3.39%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (12.71%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.54%) NHS
6 3 (2.54%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) PropTech
7 2 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.69%) Wiki
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) Blog
8 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.85%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.76%) Agile
2 38 (32.20%) DevOps
3 36 (30.51%) TDD
4 34 (28.81%) Microservices
5 31 (26.27%) CI/CD
6 28 (23.73%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.64%) Integration Testing
7 22 (18.64%) SDLC
8 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
8 20 (16.95%) Scrum
9 16 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (12.71%) OOD
11 14 (11.86%) BDD
12 13 (11.02%) Full Stack Development
13 12 (10.17%) Kanban
14 11 (9.32%) Fintech
14 11 (9.32%) OO
15 10 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.47%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (31.36%) JavaScript
3 29 (24.58%) SQL
4 12 (10.17%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.39%) C#
5 4 (3.39%) Groovy
5 4 (3.39%) Python
6 1 (0.85%) Bicep
6 1 (0.85%) Go
6 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Degree
4 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (45.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (41.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.47%) Ansible
3 5 (4.24%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Istio
4 1 (0.85%) Kibana
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Oracle
2 10 (8.47%) Google
3 8 (6.78%) WSO2
4 4 (3.39%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.69%) Sybase
6 1 (0.85%) Apple
6 1 (0.85%) Atlassian