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 £92, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 113 131
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.052% 0.33% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £544 £438
25th Percentile £88 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £92 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -83.24% +4.76% -30.00%
75th Percentile £96 £725 £606
90th Percentile - £815 £633
Central London median daily rate £92 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -83.24% -8.33% -20.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,809 1,695 2,279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 92.98% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,024 1,637
10th Percentile £350 £351 £347
25th Percentile £433 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 21
10th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +60.42% -28.89%
75th Percentile £51.00 £80.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +34.62% -10.34%

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, 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 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperledger
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperledger
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript