Senior Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the City of London is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 117 138
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 3 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £524 - £519
25th Percentile £555 £575 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £713 £725
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -1.72% +0.69%
75th Percentile £680 £760 £813
90th Percentile £715 £829 £855
Central London median daily rate £615 £713 £725
% change year-on-year -13.68% -1.72% +0.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,591 1,962 2,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 93.25% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,206 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £363 £357
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £18.45
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +55.41% -10.30%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £49.69
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -2.78% -12.20%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the City of London

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Senior Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Cache
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Ehcache
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (33.33%) Hazelcast
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Murex
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Hazelcast
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Ehcache
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Cache
1 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Murex