Senior Java Software Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Software Engineer - Java
England > London

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 491 519
Rank change year-on-year +113 +28 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 13 8 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.073% 0.029% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.031% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 81
10th Percentile - £481 -
25th Percentile £450 £628 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £733 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +22.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £675
90th Percentile - £834 £713
England median daily rate £650 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,618 26,148 37,443
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.28% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,014 18,877 27,349
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 297 456
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.08
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £44.50 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.95 £76.95 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in London

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior Java Software Engineer 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 London region featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Apache Arrow
2 8 (61.54%) Investment Management
2 8 (61.54%) Hedge funds
2 8 (61.54%) SciPy
2 8 (61.54%) NumPy
2 8 (61.54%) Protocol Buffers
2 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 8 (61.54%) Pandas
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) gRPC
2 8 (61.54%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (61.54%) Apache Ignite
2 8 (61.54%) Dremio
2 8 (61.54%) dbt
2 8 (61.54%) Derivative
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Banking
2 8 (61.54%) Asset Management
2 8 (61.54%) Investment Banking
2 8 (61.54%) Front Office
2 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Fixed Income
2 8 (61.54%) Equities
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) Apache
2 8 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (61.54%) Apache
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) dbt
2 7 (53.85%) Snowflake
3 3 (23.08%) Miro
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Arrow
1 8 (61.54%) Apache Ignite
1 8 (61.54%) Dremio
2 7 (53.85%) Data Lake
General
1 8 (61.54%) Banking
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
1 8 (61.54%) Front Office
1 8 (61.54%) Investment Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) gRPC
1 8 (61.54%) NumPy
1 8 (61.54%) Pandas
1 8 (61.54%) Protocol Buffers
1 8 (61.54%) SciPy
2 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java EE
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) SOAP
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Derivative
1 8 (61.54%) Equities
1 8 (61.54%) Fixed Income
1 8 (61.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (61.54%) Hedge funds
2 2 (15.38%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Asset Management
2 8 (61.54%) Investment Management
3 5 (38.46%) API Development
3 5 (38.46%) Greeks
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) BDD
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality