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 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 564 438
Rank change year-on-year -73 -126 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 276 454 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.51% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 225 404 911
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 £118,875 £120,000
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 95,996 89,726 157,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,581 56,645 84,697
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 £70,001 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 16 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 24 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 -35 253 £85,000 - 70
London -1 153 £100,000 +2.56% 49
Work from Home -13 134 £85,000 +9.68% 34
UK excluding London -70 115 £70,000 - 40
South East +43 57 £70,000 - 23
North of England +39 22 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North West +2 16 £63,500 -29.44% 7
South West -33 14 £60,500 -13.57% 3
Scotland -84 11 £61,000 -14.39% 1
Yorkshire +78 4 £52,500 -14.29%
Wales +14 4 £50,000 +19.05%
East of England +9 4 £58,750 -30.88%
Midlands -35 3 £68,750 +14.58% 2
West Midlands -5 2 £68,750 +14.58% 2
North East -10 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -12 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 276 (100.00%) Java
2 139 (50.36%) AWS
3 129 (46.74%) Spring
4 110 (39.86%) Finance
5 86 (31.16%) Kubernetes
6 85 (30.80%) Microservices
7 84 (30.43%) Docker
7 84 (30.43%) Agile
8 83 (30.07%) JavaScript
9 74 (26.81%) Spring Boot
10 72 (26.09%) SQL
11 70 (25.36%) AngularJS
12 60 (21.74%) Hibernate
13 59 (21.38%) Full Stack Development
14 53 (19.20%) TDD
15 48 (17.39%) Software Engineering
16 47 (17.03%) React
17 44 (15.94%) Banking
18 43 (15.58%) DevOps
19 42 (15.22%) Social Skills
19 42 (15.22%) Kafka
20 40 (14.49%) CI/CD
21 39 (14.13%) Fintech
21 39 (14.13%) Mentoring
22 37 (13.41%) Low Latency
23 36 (13.04%) Git
24 34 (12.32%) Azure
25 33 (11.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 30 (10.87%) Computer Science
26 30 (10.87%) SDLC

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 14 (5.07%) Confluence
2 12 (4.35%) Apache
3 8 (2.90%) OpenStack
4 6 (2.17%) JBoss
4 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
5 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.45%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) GemFire
8 1 (0.36%) Jetty
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (50.36%) AWS
2 34 (12.32%) Azure
3 22 (7.97%) Serverless
4 16 (5.80%) SaaS
5 13 (4.71%) GCP
6 11 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.45%) GitHub
12 2 (0.72%) dbt
12 2 (0.72%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.36%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Internet
2 3 (1.09%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.06%) Relational Database
2 24 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.97%) MySQL
4 21 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.16%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.81%) Flink
8 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.45%) Tick Data
9 3 (1.09%) Big Data
9 3 (1.09%) CouchDB
9 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.72%) Apache Arrow
10 2 (0.72%) Apache Ignite
10 2 (0.72%) Dremio
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (13.04%) Git
2 25 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.33%) JUnit
4 17 (6.16%) JIRA
5 11 (3.99%) Selenium
6 9 (3.26%) Maven
7 4 (1.45%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.09%) JHipster
8 3 (1.09%) Mockito
9 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.72%) GitLab
9 2 (0.72%) Gradle
10 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
General
1 110 (39.86%) Finance
2 44 (15.94%) Banking
3 42 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 21 (7.61%) Front Office
5 16 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 13 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.26%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.54%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.17%) Police
11 5 (1.81%) Marketing
12 4 (1.45%) Games
12 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.09%) Retail
14 2 (0.72%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.36%) Automotive
15 1 (0.36%) International Banking
15 1 (0.36%) Law
15 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (46.74%) Spring
2 74 (26.81%) Spring Boot
3 70 (25.36%) AngularJS
4 60 (21.74%) Hibernate
5 47 (17.03%) React
6 42 (15.22%) Kafka
7 29 (10.51%) REST
8 22 (7.97%) RESTful
9 18 (6.52%) Web Services
10 17 (6.16%) Node.js
11 16 (5.80%) CSS
11 16 (5.80%) HTML
12 15 (5.43%) JMS
12 15 (5.43%) JSON
13 11 (3.99%) SOAP
14 8 (2.90%) Apache Camel
14 8 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (2.90%) GWT
15 7 (2.54%) JPA
15 7 (2.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (10.14%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.71%) Equities
6 10 (3.62%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.90%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.45%) Derivative
9 4 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.45%) PropTech
9 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.09%) Kindle
10 3 (1.09%) NHS
10 3 (1.09%) Wiki
11 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (30.80%) Microservices
2 84 (30.43%) Agile
3 59 (21.38%) Full Stack Development
4 53 (19.20%) TDD
5 48 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 43 (15.58%) DevOps
7 40 (14.49%) CI/CD
8 39 (14.13%) Fintech
8 39 (14.13%) Mentoring
9 37 (13.41%) Low Latency
10 30 (10.87%) Computer Science
10 30 (10.87%) SDLC
11 28 (10.14%) Multithreading
11 28 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (8.33%) Integration Testing
12 23 (8.33%) Scrum
13 18 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (5.80%) BDD
14 16 (5.80%) OOD
14 16 (5.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 276 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (30.07%) JavaScript
3 72 (26.09%) SQL
4 24 (8.70%) Python
5 14 (5.07%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.71%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.17%) Perl
8 5 (1.81%) C#
9 4 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (0.72%) Go
10 2 (0.72%) Ruby
10 2 (0.72%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) C++
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (8.70%) Degree
2 18 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.72%) PhD
6 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 84 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 86 (31.16%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.80%) Ansible
3 6 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Istio
4 1 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (6.52%) Google
2 16 (5.80%) Oracle
3 8 (2.90%) WSO2
4 5 (1.81%) Sybase
5 4 (1.45%) Facebook
5 4 (1.45%) ForgeRock
5 4 (1.45%) Vertica
6 3 (1.09%) Apple
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.36%) SAP