Senior Java Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £738 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 348 374
Rank change year-on-year +66 +26 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 65 121 264
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.51% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 95 207
10th Percentile £516 £483 £513
25th Percentile £575 £531 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +2.04% +13.43%
75th Percentile £863 £775 £725
90th Percentile £888 £840 £800
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £605
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Java Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Java Developer.

Senior Java Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Senior Java Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 23 (35.38%) Finance
4 22 (33.85%) DevOps
5 20 (30.77%) SDLC
5 20 (30.77%) Agile
6 19 (29.23%) Front Office
7 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
8 16 (24.62%) GitLab
8 16 (24.62%) Microservices
8 16 (24.62%) JUnit
8 16 (24.62%) Mockito
8 16 (24.62%) Cucumber
8 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
9 14 (21.54%) AWS
9 14 (21.54%) TDD
10 13 (20.00%) Spring
10 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 12 (18.46%) Credit Derivative
11 12 (18.46%) Degree
12 11 (16.92%) GCP
13 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
14 9 (13.85%) Low Latency
15 8 (12.31%) Kafka
15 8 (12.31%) REST
15 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
15 8 (12.31%) Electronic Trading
15 8 (12.31%) Banking
15 8 (12.31%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (12.31%) Docker

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.15%) Apache
2 2 (3.08%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) GemFire
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.54%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) GCP
3 7 (10.77%) Azure
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.08%) Serverless
5 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) dbt
5 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.62%) KDB
3 2 (3.08%) MySQL
3 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.54%) Dremio
4 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Cucumber
1 16 (24.62%) GitLab
1 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
1 16 (24.62%) JUnit
1 16 (24.62%) Mockito
2 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
2 3 (4.62%) Selenium
2 3 (4.62%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.08%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) Subversion
4 1 (1.54%) Maven
General
1 23 (35.38%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Front Office
3 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.62%) Law
6 3 (4.62%) Police
7 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 13 (20.00%) Spring
3 8 (12.31%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (12.31%) Kafka
3 8 (12.31%) REST
4 6 (9.23%) React
5 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.69%) HTML
5 5 (7.69%) JAX-RS
5 5 (7.69%) Node.js
5 5 (7.69%) XML
6 4 (6.15%) .NET
6 4 (6.15%) Web Services
7 3 (4.62%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.62%) CSS
7 3 (4.62%) Java EE
7 3 (4.62%) JSON
7 3 (4.62%) Restlet
7 3 (4.62%) SAML
8 2 (3.08%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Credit Derivative
2 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.15%) Equities
3 4 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.62%) Derivative
5 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
1 4 (6.15%) Unix
2 3 (4.62%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) DevOps
2 20 (30.77%) Agile
2 20 (30.77%) SDLC
3 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
4 16 (24.62%) Microservices
5 14 (21.54%) TDD
6 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.85%) Low Latency
8 8 (12.31%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.77%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (9.23%) BDD
10 6 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (9.23%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 5 (7.69%) E-Commerce
11 5 (7.69%) Scrum
11 5 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
2 6 (9.23%) Python
3 4 (6.15%) C#
3 4 (6.15%) SQL
4 3 (4.62%) Scala
5 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Ruby
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.23%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (4.62%) Ansible
3 3 (4.62%) Podman
3 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Google
1 7 (10.77%) IBM
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.08%) Solace