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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 659 571 467
Rank change year-on-year -88 -104 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 121 157 479
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 94 137 362
10th Percentile £50,375 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £74,688 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year - - +17.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +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 12 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 12 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 -3 59 £70,000 - 12
North of England +13 26 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North West -17 20 £63,500 -29.44% 6
South West -52 13 £60,500 -13.57% 3
Scotland -94 11 £61,000 -12.86% 1
Yorkshire +65 4 £52,500 -14.29%
Wales +13 4 £50,000 +19.05% 1
East of England -11 4 £58,750 -30.88%
Midlands -55 3 £63,750 +6.25% 3
North East -20 2 £57,500 -17.86% 2
East Midlands -30 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Northern Ireland +16 1 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -27 1 £67,500 +12.50% 1
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 12 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.

1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (61.16%) AWS
3 63 (52.07%) Spring
4 53 (43.80%) Docker
5 51 (42.15%) Agile
6 48 (39.67%) Kubernetes
7 38 (31.40%) JavaScript
8 37 (30.58%) Microservices
9 36 (29.75%) DevOps
10 35 (28.93%) TDD
11 33 (27.27%) Azure
11 33 (27.27%) React
12 29 (23.97%) Git
12 29 (23.97%) SQL
13 28 (23.14%) AngularJS
13 28 (23.14%) CI/CD
14 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
14 27 (22.31%) Software Engineering
15 26 (21.49%) Hibernate
15 26 (21.49%) Spring Boot
16 24 (19.83%) JUnit
17 23 (19.01%) REST
18 22 (18.18%) SDLC
18 22 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
19 21 (17.36%) Integration Testing
20 19 (15.70%) Scrum
20 19 (15.70%) Relational Database
21 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
21 18 (14.88%) Kafka
21 18 (14.88%) Jenkins

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 (6.61%) Confluence
1 8 (6.61%) OpenStack
2 6 (4.96%) JBoss
2 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (2.48%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Jetty
5 1 (0.83%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 74 (61.16%) AWS
2 33 (27.27%) Azure
3 17 (14.05%) Serverless
4 15 (12.40%) SaaS
5 12 (9.92%) GCP
6 9 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.48%) GitHub
10 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.83%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.83%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) Relational Database
2 16 (13.22%) NoSQL
3 15 (12.40%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (11.57%) MySQL
5 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.44%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.65%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (23.97%) Git
2 24 (19.83%) JUnit
3 18 (14.88%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.09%) Selenium
5 10 (8.26%) JIRA
6 8 (6.61%) Maven
7 3 (2.48%) Mockito
8 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.65%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.65%) GitLab
8 2 (1.65%) Gradle
8 2 (1.65%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.83%) JHipster
General
1 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.05%) Finance
3 11 (9.09%) Banking
3 11 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.31%) Games
5 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.65%) Automotive
6 2 (1.65%) Marketing
6 2 (1.65%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Law
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (52.07%) Spring
2 33 (27.27%) React
3 28 (23.14%) AngularJS
4 26 (21.49%) Hibernate
4 26 (21.49%) Spring Boot
5 23 (19.01%) REST
6 18 (14.88%) Kafka
7 17 (14.05%) Web Services
8 16 (13.22%) Node.js
9 12 (9.92%) RESTful
10 9 (7.44%) CSS
10 9 (7.44%) HTML
11 8 (6.61%) Apache Camel
11 8 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (6.61%) J2EE
11 8 (6.61%) JSON
11 8 (6.61%) SOAP
12 6 (4.96%) jQuery
13 5 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (3.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (12.40%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.48%) NHS
6 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) PropTech
7 2 (1.65%) Wiki
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) Blog
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.83%) Kindle
8 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.15%) Agile
2 37 (30.58%) Microservices
3 36 (29.75%) DevOps
4 35 (28.93%) TDD
5 28 (23.14%) CI/CD
6 27 (22.31%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.18%) SDLC
8 21 (17.36%) Integration Testing
9 19 (15.70%) Scrum
10 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.22%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (12.40%) OOD
13 13 (10.74%) BDD
13 13 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
14 12 (9.92%) Kanban
15 10 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (8.26%) Fintech
15 10 (8.26%) OO
15 10 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.26%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (31.40%) JavaScript
3 29 (23.97%) SQL
4 11 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.31%) C#
5 4 (3.31%) Groovy
5 4 (3.31%) Python
6 1 (0.83%) Go
6 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.96%) Degree
4 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (43.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (39.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.26%) Ansible
3 4 (3.31%) Terraform
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Istio
4 1 (0.83%) Kibana
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (13.22%) Oracle
2 9 (7.44%) Google
3 8 (6.61%) WSO2
4 4 (3.31%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.65%) Sybase
6 1 (0.83%) Apple
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft