Senior Java Developer Contracts in the South East

Senior Java Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 207 256
Rank change year-on-year +9 +49 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 5 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.090% 0.24% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.25% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 4
10th Percentile - £510 -
25th Percentile £650 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -1.28% +11.90%
75th Percentile £688 £637 £647
90th Percentile - £700 £664
England median daily rate £750 £700 £605
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +0.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,140 5,495 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.56% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,084 3,832 5,042
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.80
90th Percentile £76.89 £75.00 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Thames Valley +11 5 £675 +28.57% 1
Berkshire -5 3 £675 +29.81% 1
Buckinghamshire +28 2 £650 +23.81%
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 South East region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Law
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Java EE
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Law
1 3 (60.00%) Police
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (60.00%) Java EE
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Software Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Podman
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform