Senior Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Senior Java Engineer
England > East of England

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.085% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £532 - -
England median daily rate £510 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -32.00% -6.25% +35.59%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 2,117 1,099 1,359
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 84.28% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 488 550
10th Percentile £190 £186 £200
25th Percentile £363 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £592 £596 £573
90th Percentile £693 £688 £610
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 264 357
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.38 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.05 £17.32 £21.37
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.38 £70.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Senior Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
Essex - 1 £510 - 1
Hertfordshire - 1 £500 -
Senior Java Engineer
England

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, Senior Java Engineer 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 East of England region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google