Senior Java Engineer Contracts

Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in the UK is £534 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 543 655 656
Rank change year-on-year +112 +1 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 43 61 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 182
10th Percentile £450 £468 £538
25th Percentile £463 £566 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £713
90th Percentile £850 £789 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -11.00% -7.69% +35.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +103 40 £534 -17.85% 32
Work from Home +136 30 £567 -9.28% 21
London +89 24 £525 -26.32% 18
UK excluding London +80 17 £534 -11.00% 18
East of England +21 7 £534 -5.07%
South East - 6 £650 - 2
North of England +38 3 £425 -29.17% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
Scotland +40 1 - - 5
North West +23 1 - - 4

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

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

1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (65.12%) Software Engineering
3 18 (41.86%) Agile
4 17 (39.53%) AWS
5 16 (37.21%) DevOps
6 15 (34.88%) REST
7 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
9 12 (27.91%) Finance
9 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
10 11 (25.58%) Microservices
10 11 (25.58%) Python
10 11 (25.58%) Docker
11 10 (23.26%) Equities
11 10 (23.26%) TDD
11 10 (23.26%) Banking
11 10 (23.26%) Investment Banking
11 10 (23.26%) Spring
11 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
12 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
12 9 (20.93%) API Development
12 9 (20.93%) Java EE
12 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
12 9 (20.93%) Azure
13 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
13 8 (18.60%) Derivative
13 8 (18.60%) Investment Management
13 8 (18.60%) Pandas
13 8 (18.60%) Hedge funds
13 8 (18.60%) SciPy

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (18.60%) Apache
1 8 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 8 (18.60%) dbt
4 7 (16.28%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.98%) Datadog
5 3 (6.98%) GCP
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 3 (6.98%) Miro
6 2 (4.65%) AWS IoT
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Run
6 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
1 6 (13.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (18.60%) Apache Arrow
1 8 (18.60%) Apache Ignite
1 8 (18.60%) Data Lake
1 8 (18.60%) Dremio
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) HBase
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
1 7 (16.28%) Selenium
2 6 (13.95%) Cucumber
2 6 (13.95%) JIRA
3 5 (11.63%) GitLab
3 5 (11.63%) REST Assured
3 5 (11.63%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.65%) Gradle
4 2 (4.65%) JMeter
4 2 (4.65%) JUnit
5 1 (2.33%) Ant
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.33%) Git
5 1 (2.33%) Maven
5 1 (2.33%) Postman
5 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (27.91%) Finance
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Banking
2 10 (23.26%) Investment Banking
3 8 (18.60%) Front Office
4 7 (16.28%) Retail
5 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.30%) Law
6 4 (9.30%) Police
7 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.33%) Automotive
8 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) REST
2 10 (23.26%) Spring
3 9 (20.93%) Java EE
3 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
4 8 (18.60%) gRPC
4 8 (18.60%) NumPy
4 8 (18.60%) Pandas
4 8 (18.60%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (18.60%) SciPy
5 7 (16.28%) React
6 6 (13.95%) CSS
6 6 (13.95%) HTML
7 5 (11.63%) ARM Templates
7 5 (11.63%) GraphQL
8 4 (9.30%) Kafka
8 4 (9.30%) SOAP
9 3 (6.98%) Spring WebFlux
10 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
10 2 (4.65%) Symfony
11 1 (2.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Equities
2 8 (18.60%) Derivative
2 8 (18.60%) Fixed Income
2 8 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (18.60%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.65%) IoT
3 2 (4.65%) Pricing Data
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Software Engineering
2 18 (41.86%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) DevOps
4 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.58%) Microservices
6 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.26%) TDD
7 9 (20.93%) API Development
8 8 (18.60%) Asset Management
8 8 (18.60%) Investment Management
8 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (13.95%) Identity Management
10 6 (13.95%) Load Balancing
11 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
11 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
11 5 (11.63%) Greeks
11 5 (11.63%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (30.23%) TypeScript
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) Scala
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) PHP
7 1 (2.33%) C
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.33%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) WCAG
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 5 (11.63%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (11.63%) Podman
4 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 3 (6.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) New Relic
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle