Senior Java Developer Contracts

Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the UK 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 461 420 377
Rank change year-on-year -41 -43 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 131 318 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.54% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.57% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 249 492
10th Percentile £513 £513 £513
25th Percentile £595 £588 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £605
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +5.22%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £738
90th Percentile £885 £888 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £613 £539
% change year-on-year -2.86% +13.69% +2.62%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 13 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 Developer within the UK 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
England -47 106 £750 +7.14% 38
London -29 86 £800 +10.34% 25
Work from Home +72 63 £750 +20.00% 21
UK excluding London +42 38 £595 -2.86% 17
Scotland +39 18 £435 -30.40% 2
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (48.09%) Agile
3 54 (41.22%) Microservices
4 50 (38.17%) Spring Boot
5 48 (36.64%) Finance
6 45 (34.35%) Spring
7 41 (31.30%) TDD
8 36 (27.48%) AWS
9 35 (26.72%) DevOps
10 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
10 34 (25.95%) CI/CD
11 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
12 29 (22.14%) Mockito
13 27 (20.61%) Test Automation
13 27 (20.61%) Kafka
13 27 (20.61%) Linux
14 25 (19.08%) JUnit
14 25 (19.08%) SDLC
15 23 (17.56%) Docker
15 23 (17.56%) SQL
16 22 (16.79%) Front Office
17 21 (16.03%) Cucumber
17 21 (16.03%) MongoDB
18 20 (15.27%) BDD
18 20 (15.27%) REST
18 20 (15.27%) Software Engineering
19 19 (14.50%) Degree
19 19 (14.50%) Unix
20 18 (13.74%) ActiveMQ
20 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration

Senior Java Developer 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 (6.11%) Confluence
2 6 (4.58%) Apache
3 4 (3.05%) SAS
4 2 (1.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) GemFire
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) RMDS
2 1 (0.76%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.48%) AWS
2 15 (11.45%) GCP
3 8 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (6.11%) Azure
4 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.34%) Serverless
5 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.76%) dbt
6 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.76%) 5G
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.03%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.40%) KDB
3 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.53%) MySQL
6 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.76%) Big Data
7 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) DB2
7 1 (0.76%) Dremio
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.76%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.14%) Mockito
3 25 (19.08%) JUnit
4 21 (16.03%) Cucumber
5 18 (13.74%) GitLab
6 15 (11.45%) JIRA
7 14 (10.69%) Git
8 5 (3.82%) Maven
8 5 (3.82%) Postman
9 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.05%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.05%) Sourcetree
10 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.29%) Selenium
10 3 (2.29%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.53%) Subversion
General
1 48 (36.64%) Finance
2 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Front Office
4 17 (12.98%) Banking
5 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Law
7 3 (2.29%) Police
7 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (38.17%) Spring Boot
2 45 (34.35%) Spring
3 27 (20.61%) Kafka
4 20 (15.27%) REST
5 18 (13.74%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (12.21%) RESTful
7 15 (11.45%) JAX-RS
8 12 (9.16%) React
9 11 (8.40%) Node.js
10 8 (6.11%) HTML
10 8 (6.11%) J2EE
11 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.34%) Apache Camel
12 6 (4.58%) CSS
12 6 (4.58%) Web Services
13 5 (3.82%) XML
14 4 (3.05%) .NET
14 4 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (3.05%) Middleware
14 4 (3.05%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (10.69%) Fixed Income
3 12 (9.16%) Derivative
4 11 (8.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (6.11%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.34%) Cloud Native
8 6 (4.58%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.82%) Equities
9 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
10 4 (3.05%) Credit Risk
10 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
10 4 (3.05%) Market Risk
11 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (2.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.61%) Linux
2 19 (14.50%) Unix
3 13 (9.92%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.09%) Agile
2 54 (41.22%) Microservices
3 41 (31.30%) TDD
4 35 (26.72%) DevOps
5 34 (25.95%) CI/CD
6 27 (20.61%) Test Automation
7 25 (19.08%) SDLC
8 20 (15.27%) BDD
8 20 (15.27%) Software Engineering
9 18 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (13.74%) Electronic Trading
9 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.21%) Low Latency
11 15 (11.45%) Computer Science
11 15 (11.45%) OO
11 15 (11.45%) Pair Programming
12 14 (10.69%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.69%) Web Development
13 12 (9.16%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (8.40%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (17.56%) SQL
3 10 (7.63%) Python
4 9 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.58%) Scala
6 4 (3.05%) C#
7 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.76%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Degree
2 16 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 17 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (3.82%) Terraform
4 4 (3.05%) Kibana
5 3 (2.29%) Ansible
5 3 (2.29%) Podman
5 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) Oracle
2 9 (6.87%) ION Trading
2 9 (6.87%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.34%) Google
3 7 (5.34%) IBM
4 6 (4.58%) Solace
5 4 (3.05%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.76%) Sybase
6 1 (0.76%) Tradeweb
6 1 (0.76%) Virgin Media
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