Senior Java Developer Contracts in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 385 363
Rank change year-on-year -47 -22 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 106 277 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.55% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.59% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 226 452
10th Percentile £533 £513 £520
25th Percentile £650 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +14.29% +2.08%
75th Percentile £863 £788 £750
90th Percentile £888 £900 £838
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £605
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
75th Percentile £69.63 - £57.50
90th Percentile £77.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London -29 86 £800 +10.34% 25
North of England +19 11 £613 -2.00% 3
North West +24 8 £625 -5.66% 2
South East +11 5 £675 +16.38% 5
Midlands +31 3 £398 - 1
Yorkshire +12 3 £400 -33.33%
West Midlands +26 2 - - 1
East of England +10 1 £600 +9.69%
East Midlands - 1 £398 -
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (43.40%) Finance
3 45 (42.45%) Agile
4 42 (39.62%) Microservices
5 36 (33.96%) TDD
6 34 (32.08%) DevOps
7 33 (31.13%) CI/CD
8 30 (28.30%) Spring Boot
9 29 (27.36%) Mockito
10 27 (25.47%) Linux
11 26 (24.53%) AWS
12 25 (23.58%) Spring
12 25 (23.58%) Jenkins
13 24 (22.64%) Test Automation
14 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
15 22 (20.75%) SDLC
15 22 (20.75%) Front Office
16 21 (19.81%) MongoDB
17 20 (18.87%) BDD
17 20 (18.87%) Docker
18 19 (17.92%) Kafka
18 19 (17.92%) Unix
18 19 (17.92%) Software Engineering
19 18 (16.98%) ActiveMQ
19 18 (16.98%) Electronic Trading
19 18 (16.98%) JUnit
19 18 (16.98%) GitLab
20 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
20 16 (15.09%) Low Latency
20 16 (15.09%) Cucumber

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (3.77%) Apache
1 4 (3.77%) SAS
2 3 (2.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) GemFire
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) RMDS
2 1 (0.94%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.53%) AWS
2 13 (12.26%) GCP
3 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (7.55%) Amazon S3
3 8 (7.55%) Azure
4 7 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.60%) Serverless
5 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.94%) dbt
6 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.94%) Firewall
2 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.81%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.38%) KDB
3 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.89%) MySQL
5 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (0.94%) Big Data
6 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.94%) DB2
6 1 (0.94%) Dremio
6 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.94%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 29 (27.36%) Mockito
2 25 (23.58%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.98%) GitLab
3 18 (16.98%) JUnit
4 16 (15.09%) Cucumber
5 10 (9.43%) JIRA
6 7 (6.60%) Git
7 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.77%) Sourcetree
8 3 (2.83%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.83%) Selenium
8 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 46 (43.40%) Finance
2 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.75%) Front Office
4 15 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.15%) Banking
5 3 (2.83%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.83%) Law
5 3 (2.83%) Police
5 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.30%) Spring Boot
2 25 (23.58%) Spring
3 19 (17.92%) Kafka
4 18 (16.98%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (13.21%) JAX-RS
6 9 (8.49%) Node.js
7 8 (7.55%) React
7 8 (7.55%) REST
7 8 (7.55%) RESTful
8 7 (6.60%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.66%) HTML
10 4 (3.77%) .NET
10 4 (3.77%) CSS
10 4 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (3.77%) Middleware
10 4 (3.77%) Rendezvous
11 3 (2.83%) Java EE
11 3 (2.83%) Restlet
11 3 (2.83%) Web Services
11 3 (2.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (13.21%) Fixed Income
3 12 (11.32%) Derivative
4 11 (10.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (7.55%) Data Structures
7 6 (5.66%) Algorithms
7 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (4.72%) Equities
8 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.77%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.77%) Market Risk
9 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (2.83%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.47%) Linux
2 19 (17.92%) Unix
3 13 (12.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.45%) Agile
2 42 (39.62%) Microservices
3 36 (33.96%) TDD
4 34 (32.08%) DevOps
5 33 (31.13%) CI/CD
6 24 (22.64%) Test Automation
7 22 (20.75%) SDLC
8 20 (18.87%) BDD
9 19 (17.92%) Software Engineering
10 18 (16.98%) Electronic Trading
11 16 (15.09%) Low Latency
12 15 (14.15%) OO
13 14 (13.21%) Pair Programming
13 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (12.26%) Computer Science
14 13 (12.26%) Containerisation
14 13 (12.26%) Web Development
15 12 (11.32%) Continuous Deployment
16 11 (10.38%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (10.38%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (9.43%) SQL
3 9 (8.49%) Python
4 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.66%) Scala
5 3 (2.83%) C#
6 1 (0.94%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.94%) Ruby
6 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.21%) Degree
3 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (18.87%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.66%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (4.72%) Terraform
4 3 (2.83%) Ansible
4 3 (2.83%) Podman
5 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Oracle
2 9 (8.49%) ION Trading
2 9 (8.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.66%) Google
3 6 (5.66%) Solace
4 5 (4.72%) IBM
5 4 (3.77%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.94%) Sybase
6 1 (0.94%) Tradeweb
6 1 (0.94%) Virgin Media
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