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 £478, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 121 149
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 5 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.46% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 8
10th Percentile - £540 £521
25th Percentile £435 £675 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £700 £738
Median % change year-on-year -31.79% -5.08% +21.90%
75th Percentile £565 £750 £794
90th Percentile £669 £752 £854
Central London median daily rate £478 £700 £738
% change year-on-year -31.79% -5.08% +21.90%

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 1,653 1,976 2,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 94.18% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,248 1,946
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.97%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer 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 18 September 2025.

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

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (20.00%) Distributed Cache
4 1 (20.00%) Quarkus
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Hazelcast

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Hazelcast
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Ehcache
2 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Cache
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Murex