Senior Java Developer Contracts in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 437 387
Rank change year-on-year +56 -50 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 104 105 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.28% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.30% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 92 237
10th Percentile £410 £529 £513
25th Percentile £531 £644 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +15.70%
75th Percentile £779 £863 £788
90th Percentile £863 £886 £900
UK median daily rate £588 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -21.67% +7.14% +15.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +34 81 £725 -9.38% 28
North of England +20 12 £590 -3.67% 9
Yorkshire +13 8 £790 +97.50% 3
North West +13 4 £400 -36.00% 4
Midlands +22 3 £420 +5.66% 1
West Midlands +15 3 £420 - 1
South East +43 2 - - 11
Senior Java Developer
UK

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (47.12%) Spring
3 48 (46.15%) TDD
4 47 (45.19%) SQL
5 42 (40.38%) Microservices
5 42 (40.38%) CI/CD
6 39 (37.50%) Agile
7 36 (34.62%) JUnit
7 36 (34.62%) Finance
8 35 (33.65%) Relational Database
9 34 (32.69%) Kafka
9 34 (32.69%) Spring Boot
9 34 (32.69%) Social Skills
10 32 (30.77%) Linux
10 32 (30.77%) AWS
11 31 (29.81%) Software Engineering
11 31 (29.81%) Docker
12 30 (28.85%) Banking
13 29 (27.88%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (27.88%) MongoDB
14 28 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
14 28 (26.92%) Kubernetes
15 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (24.04%) Performance Tuning
16 25 (24.04%) Multithreading
17 24 (23.08%) BDD
18 23 (22.12%) Python
19 21 (20.19%) DevOps
20 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
20 19 (18.27%) SC Cleared

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (7.69%) Confluence
1 8 (7.69%) GemFire
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle Coherence
2 7 (6.73%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.81%) Apache
4 2 (1.92%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.77%) AWS
2 11 (10.58%) Serverless
3 8 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (7.69%) Slack
4 7 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.85%) Azure
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.88%) GitHub
6 3 (2.88%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.92%) GCP
8 1 (0.96%) IaaS
8 1 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (33.65%) Relational Database
2 29 (27.88%) MongoDB
2 29 (27.88%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (13.46%) MySQL
4 12 (11.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (10.58%) DB2
6 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.88%) KDB
8 3 (2.88%) Redis
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.92%) Big Data
9 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (34.62%) JUnit
2 17 (16.35%) Jenkins
3 15 (14.42%) Gradle
4 13 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 13 (12.50%) Git
5 12 (11.54%) JIRA
6 11 (10.58%) Mockito
7 9 (8.65%) Jasmine
8 7 (6.73%) Maven
9 6 (5.77%) Liquibase
10 5 (4.81%) IntelliJ
11 3 (2.88%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (2.88%) git-flow
11 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.92%) GitLab
12 2 (1.92%) JMeter
13 1 (0.96%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.96%) TestNG
General
1 36 (34.62%) Finance
2 34 (32.69%) Social Skills
3 30 (28.85%) Banking
4 28 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (17.31%) Investment Banking
5 18 (17.31%) Public Sector
6 16 (15.38%) Front Office
7 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (47.12%) Spring
2 34 (32.69%) Kafka
2 34 (32.69%) Spring Boot
3 18 (17.31%) RESTful
4 17 (16.35%) OpenAPI
4 17 (16.35%) Swagger
5 16 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 15 (14.42%) JMS
7 13 (12.50%) Spring Batch
8 11 (10.58%) Spring Security
9 8 (7.69%) .NET
9 8 (7.69%) ASP.NET
9 8 (7.69%) React
10 7 (6.73%) HTML
11 6 (5.77%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (5.77%) Hibernate
11 6 (5.77%) JPA
11 6 (5.77%) REST
11 6 (5.77%) Web Services
11 6 (5.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Equities
2 12 (11.54%) Data Structures
3 11 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.81%) Derivative
6 5 (4.81%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.81%) Market Risk
6 5 (4.81%) State Machine
7 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.92%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.77%) Linux
2 15 (14.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (46.15%) TDD
2 42 (40.38%) CI/CD
2 42 (40.38%) Microservices
3 39 (37.50%) Agile
4 31 (29.81%) Software Engineering
5 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (24.04%) Multithreading
6 25 (24.04%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (23.08%) BDD
8 21 (20.19%) DevOps
9 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (17.31%) Containerisation
11 16 (15.38%) API Design
11 16 (15.38%) SDLC
12 14 (13.46%) Test Automation
13 12 (11.54%) Computer Science
13 12 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
13 12 (11.54%) High Availability
13 12 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (10.58%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (45.19%) SQL
3 23 (22.12%) Python
4 15 (14.42%) Shell Script
5 12 (11.54%) Bash
6 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.92%) Clojure
8 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.92%) Scala
9 1 (0.96%) C#
9 1 (0.96%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (18.27%) SC Cleared
1 19 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.54%) Degree
3 8 (7.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (29.81%) Docker
2 8 (7.69%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 28 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.58%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) Kibana
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (12.50%) Sybase
2 10 (9.62%) Oracle
3 7 (6.73%) ION Trading
4 5 (4.81%) Solace
4 5 (4.81%) Splunk
4 5 (4.81%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.92%) IBM
5 2 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) Virgin Media