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Senior Java jobs in the UK

Live senior Java jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly.

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271 Live vacancies
118 Employers hiring
£90,000 Median advertised
42% Remote
21 hours ago Last updated

We are currently tracking 271 live vacancies matching senior Java jobs in the UK, advertised by 118 different employers. 36 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are A Listware, Bdtechture, Krify and Certifieddevs. 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 271 roles, 18 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £90,000. The middle half of the market sits between £80,000 and £110,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for senior Java jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.

On working pattern, 42% are fully remote, 31% are hybrid and 1% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 100% at senior level. Filter by any of these on the left.

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

271 live vacancies

Senior Application Support Engineer

Spektrum · Leeds · On-site
Java C# JavaScript AWS Azure
First seen 21 hours ago

Senior IAM Engineer

Nccgroup · Manchester · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java JavaScript AWS Google Cloud SAP
First seen 1 day ago

Senior Java Developer (Azure)

Mindera · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java Azure
First seen 1 day ago

Senior Full-Stack Engineer @ CyberCube | MTech Capital Job Board

Mtechcapital · London · On-site
Java TypeScript React AWS Kubernetes
First seen 1 day ago

Senior Devops Engineer DevOps · Cordoba

Avenga · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java TypeScript Angular AWS Playwright
First seen 1 day ago

Senior AI Driven Automation QA Engineer Multiple locations

Avenga · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java TypeScript Angular AWS Playwright
First seen 1 day ago

Senior Data Engineer Multiple locations · Fully Remote

Avenga · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java TypeScript Angular AWS Playwright
First seen 1 day ago

Senior Application & IT Security Support Engineer

Spektrum · Leeds · On-site
Java C# JavaScript AWS Azure
First seen 3 days ago

Senior Angular Developer (Retail Financing / Consumer Loans)

Certifieddevs · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java C# JavaScript TypeScript React
First seen 4 days ago

Senior Angular Developer (Data Visualisation)

Certifieddevs · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# JavaScript TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Senior AI Agent Systems Engineer – Harness & Runtime (Worldwide, Part-Time)

Certifieddevs · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# JavaScript TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Certifieddevs · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# JavaScript TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform

Lifeatspotify · London · Hybrid
Hybrid
Java Kubernetes Spark SQL
First seen 4 days ago

Job opportunity: Senior Backend Engineer

Personetics · London · On-site
Python Java AWS Azure Kubernetes
First seen 4 days ago

Software engineering Senior GPU / Compiler Engineer Remote

A Listware · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# PHP TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Devops Senior Platform Engineer (AWS) Remote

A Listware · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# PHP TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Full-stack Senior XP Full-Stack Engineer (Java / React) Remote

A Listware · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# PHP TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Software engineering Senior AI Engineer Remote

A Listware · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# PHP TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Full-stack Senior Full-stack Engineer (.Net / React) Remote

A Listware · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# PHP TypeScript
First seen 4 days ago

Software engineering Senior Backend AI Engineer (Python) Remote

A Listware · Hybrid
Hybrid
Python Java C# PHP TypeScript
First seen 4 days 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 senior Java jobs in the UK are there right now?

We are tracking 271 live vacancies across 118 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 senior Java jobs in the UK pay?

The median advertised ceiling is £90,000, based on the 18 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £80,000 to £110,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.

Can these roles be done remotely?

42% are advertised as fully remote and 31% 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?

1% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.

Which employers are hiring?

The most active right now are A Listware, Bdtechture, Krify, Certifieddevs and Technocred. 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, React, C#, TypeScript and AWS. 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?

£90,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 64% 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: 253 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?

196 of the 271 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 113 fully remote and 83 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?

Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.

What job titles are used for this role?

Employers on this page advertise it as Senior Data Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Senior Java Developer, Senior Product Designer and Senior Backend Engineer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.

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