Senior Java Developer Contracts in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 134 143
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 8 36 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.37% 1.01% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 1.07% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 35 41
10th Percentile £418 £560 £563
25th Percentile £613 £613 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £605
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +11.57% -6.92%
75th Percentile £731 £775 £744
90th Percentile £750 £783 £808
Central London median daily rate £700 £675 £605
% change year-on-year +3.70% +11.57% -6.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,060 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Java Developer contract 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 contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Mac OS X
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (37.50%) Kafka
3 3 (37.50%) JAX-RS
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (25.00%) Front Office
4 2 (25.00%) Equities
4 2 (25.00%) Web Design
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) KDB
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) KDB
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JAX-RS
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) GWT
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Restlet
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Equities
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Mac OS X
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) TDD
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft