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Java jobs in the UK paying over £50k

Live Java jobs in the UK paying over £50k, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare like for like.

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93 Live vacancies
29 Employers hiring
£97,250 Median advertised
24% Remote
2 days ago Last updated

We are currently tracking 93 live vacancies matching Java jobs in the UK paying over £50k, advertised by 29 different employers. 17 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Mainframemaster, Wearemarmion, Avantirec and Transition Partners. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.

Of the 93 roles, 93 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £97,250. The middle half of the market sits between £80,000 and £123,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for Java jobs in the UK paying over £50k. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.

On working pattern, 24% are fully remote and 63% are hybrid. By seniority, 54% at mid level and 20% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.

Employers hiring for Java in this slice most often ask for it alongside Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, React and SQL. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.

93 live vacancies

Mobile Engineer | Careers

Mowt · London · Remote
Remote
£105,000 – £140,000 a year
Java TypeScript React Laravel GitHub Actions
First seen 1 month ago

Software Developer Recruitment Agency

Corriculo · London · On-site
£150,000 a year
Python Java C#
First seen 1 month ago

JCL Jobs | Mainframe Developer Careers | JCL Positions

Mainframemaster · Hybrid
Hybrid
£58,350 – £97,250 a year
Python Java JavaScript React AWS
First seen 1 month ago

COBOL Jobs | Mainframe Developer Careers | COBOL Positions

Mainframemaster · Hybrid
Hybrid
£58,350 – £97,250 a year
Python Java JavaScript React Angular
First seen 1 month ago

Head of Engineering | OHO Group

Oho · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£130,000 – £200,000 a year
Python Java C++ Rust
First seen 1 month ago

Lead / Senior Salesforce Consultant | Alscient | Salesforce Partner

Alscient · United Kingdom
£50,000 a year
Java Salesforce
First seen 1 month ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Kickfind · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£85,000 – £110,000 a year
Java TypeScript
First seen 1 month ago

Senior Fullstack Software Engineer - (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices) in UK Wide

Tpximpact · United Kingdom
£50,000 – £70,000 a year
Python Java JavaScript AWS Azure
First seen 2 months ago

Founding Software Engineer | OHO Group

Oho · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£70,000 – £130,000 a year
Python Java C# Go JavaScript
First seen 2 months ago

Graduate Software Engineer (Mobile App)

Recoreo · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
£45,000 – £55,000 a year
Java JavaScript TypeScript React Node.js
First seen 2 months ago

Delivery Manager | Alscient | Salesforce & AWS Partner

Alscient · United Kingdom
£55,000 a year
Java AWS Salesforce
First seen 2 months ago

Java Developer | Alscient | Salesforce & AWS Partner

Alscient · United Kingdom
£55,000 a year
Java AWS Azure Google Cloud Salesforce
First seen 2 months ago

Head of Engineering

20Twenty · Remote
Remote
£100,000 – £150,000 a year
Java
First seen 2 months ago

Job titles employers are advertising

The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.

Questions about these roles

How many Java jobs in the UK paying over £50k are there right now?

We are tracking 93 live vacancies across 29 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.

What do Java jobs in the UK paying over £50k pay?

The median advertised ceiling is £97,250, based on the 93 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £80,000 to £123,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.

Can these roles be done remotely?

24% are advertised as fully remote and 63% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.

Are these contract or permanent roles?

Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.

Which employers are hiring?

The most active right now are Mainframemaster, Wearemarmion, Avantirec, Transition Partners and Zwickytechnology. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.

What other skills do these roles ask for?

Most often Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and React. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.

How much does a Java developer earn in the UK?

£97,250 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 77% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 0 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.

Can you work from home as a Java developer in the UK?

81 of the 93 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 22 fully remote and 59 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.

Are there entry-level or graduate Java developer jobs in the UK?

3 of the roles on this page read as graduate or junior level, which is 3% of what is live. Level is read from the job title, so a role advertised without one is counted as mid-level and may still be open to less experience.

What job titles are used for this role?

Employers on this page advertise it as Software Engineer, Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Lead / Senior Salesforce Consultant | Alscient | Salesforce Partner, Mid to Snr Full Stack Developer and Senior Java Developer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.

How much experience do these roles need?

The largest group is mid level (54% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.

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