Senior Java Developer Contracts in London

Senior Java Developer
England > London

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 275 245
Rank change year-on-year -36 -30 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 88 219 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.84% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.88% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 186 384
10th Percentile £563 £525 £531
25th Percentile £675 £628 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £863 £812 £775
90th Percentile £900 £913 £868
England median daily rate £750 £700 £625
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% +4.17%

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 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +20 9 £700 +3.70% 2
Senior Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (46.59%) Finance
3 39 (44.32%) Agile
4 31 (35.23%) TDD
5 30 (34.09%) Microservices
6 28 (31.82%) Mockito
7 27 (30.68%) DevOps
8 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
8 26 (29.55%) Linux
9 24 (27.27%) Spring Boot
10 23 (26.14%) Front Office
11 21 (23.86%) Test Automation
11 21 (23.86%) Electronic Trading
12 20 (22.73%) AWS
12 20 (22.73%) SDLC
13 19 (21.59%) Jenkins
14 18 (20.45%) BDD
14 18 (20.45%) Spring
15 17 (19.32%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (19.32%) Unix
16 16 (18.18%) JUnit
16 16 (18.18%) Credit Derivative
16 16 (18.18%) Fixed Income
16 16 (18.18%) MongoDB
16 16 (18.18%) Docker
17 15 (17.05%) Low Latency
17 15 (17.05%) Kafka
18 14 (15.91%) JAX-RS
18 14 (15.91%) GCP
18 14 (15.91%) Social Skills

Senior Java Developer 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 5 (5.68%) SAS
2 4 (4.55%) Apache
3 3 (3.41%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) GemFire
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) RMDS
2 1 (1.14%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.73%) AWS
2 14 (15.91%) GCP
3 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (6.82%) Serverless
5 5 (5.68%) Azure
6 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.14%) dbt
7 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 13 (14.77%) KDB
3 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (1.14%) Dremio
6 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (31.82%) Mockito
2 19 (21.59%) Jenkins
3 16 (18.18%) JUnit
4 12 (13.64%) Cucumber
4 12 (13.64%) GitLab
5 7 (7.95%) Git
5 7 (7.95%) JIRA
6 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.55%) Sourcetree
7 1 (1.14%) Maven
General
1 41 (46.59%) Finance
2 23 (26.14%) Front Office
3 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.64%) Banking
5 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 18 (20.45%) Spring
3 17 (19.32%) ActiveMQ
4 15 (17.05%) Kafka
5 14 (15.91%) JAX-RS
6 6 (6.82%) HTML
7 5 (5.68%) React
8 4 (4.55%) .NET
8 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (4.55%) Middleware
8 4 (4.55%) Node.js
8 4 (4.55%) Rendezvous
8 4 (4.55%) RESTful
9 3 (3.41%) CSS
9 3 (3.41%) HTML5
9 3 (3.41%) REST
9 3 (3.41%) Restlet
9 3 (3.41%) Web Services
9 3 (3.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Credit Derivative
1 16 (18.18%) Fixed Income
2 12 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (11.36%) Derivative
4 7 (7.95%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.82%) Equities
6 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.55%) Credit Risk
7 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.55%) Market Risk
7 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.41%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.27%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.55%) Linux
2 17 (19.32%) Unix
3 13 (14.77%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) Agile
2 31 (35.23%) TDD
3 30 (34.09%) Microservices
4 27 (30.68%) DevOps
5 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
6 21 (23.86%) Electronic Trading
6 21 (23.86%) Test Automation
7 20 (22.73%) SDLC
8 18 (20.45%) BDD
9 15 (17.05%) Low Latency
10 13 (14.77%) OO
10 13 (14.77%) Pair Programming
10 13 (14.77%) Web Development
11 12 (13.64%) Computer Science
11 12 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 11 (12.50%) Web Design
13 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
14 9 (10.23%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (10.23%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) SQL
4 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.55%) Scala
6 3 (3.41%) C#
7 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) Ruby
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.36%) Degree
3 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) ION Trading
2 10 (11.36%) Oracle
3 7 (7.95%) Google
3 7 (7.95%) Solace
4 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.55%) IBM
5 4 (4.55%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.14%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.14%) Virgin Media