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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 431 391
Rank change year-on-year +67 -40 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 105 106 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.29% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.31% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 93 229
10th Percentile £410 £533 £513
25th Percentile £531 £650 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +15.70%
75th Percentile £778 £863 £788
90th Percentile £860 £888 £900
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -23.33% +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 22,563 34,396 47,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.72% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,024 22,838 33,731
10th Percentile £300 £280 £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 £640 £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 907 2,437 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.66 £76.85
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

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 3 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 3 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 +41 82 £725 -9.38% 30
North of England +12 12 £590 -3.67% 8
Yorkshire +13 8 £790 +97.50% 2
North West +6 4 £400 -36.00% 3
Midlands +18 3 £420 +5.66% 1
West Midlands +14 3 £420 - 1
South East +33 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 3 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (46.67%) Spring
3 48 (45.71%) TDD
4 47 (44.76%) SQL
5 43 (40.95%) Microservices
6 42 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 39 (37.14%) Agile
8 37 (35.24%) Finance
9 36 (34.29%) JUnit
10 35 (33.33%) Relational Database
11 34 (32.38%) Kafka
11 34 (32.38%) Spring Boot
11 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
12 32 (30.48%) Linux
12 32 (30.48%) AWS
13 31 (29.52%) Banking
13 31 (29.52%) Software Engineering
13 31 (29.52%) Docker
14 30 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
15 29 (27.62%) MongoDB
16 28 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
16 28 (26.67%) Kubernetes
17 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
18 25 (23.81%) Multithreading
19 24 (22.86%) BDD
20 23 (21.90%) Python
21 21 (20.00%) DevOps
22 19 (18.10%) Continuous Integration
22 19 (18.10%) 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 (7.62%) Confluence
1 8 (7.62%) GemFire
1 8 (7.62%) Oracle Coherence
2 7 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
4 2 (1.90%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.48%) AWS
2 11 (10.48%) Serverless
3 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (7.62%) Slack
4 7 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.81%) Azure
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.86%) GCP
6 3 (2.86%) GitHub
6 3 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.95%) IaaS
8 1 (0.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 30 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (27.62%) MongoDB
4 15 (14.29%) MySQL
5 12 (11.43%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (10.48%) DB2
7 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.81%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.81%) Redis
9 3 (2.86%) KDB
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.90%) Big Data
10 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (34.29%) JUnit
2 17 (16.19%) Jenkins
3 15 (14.29%) Gradle
4 13 (12.38%) Cucumber
4 13 (12.38%) Git
5 12 (11.43%) JIRA
6 11 (10.48%) Mockito
7 9 (8.57%) Jasmine
8 7 (6.67%) Maven
9 6 (5.71%) Liquibase
10 5 (4.76%) IntelliJ
11 3 (2.86%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (2.86%) git-flow
11 3 (2.86%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.90%) GitLab
12 2 (1.90%) JMeter
13 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.95%) Eclipse
General
1 37 (35.24%) Finance
2 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
3 31 (29.52%) Banking
4 28 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (17.14%) Investment Banking
5 18 (17.14%) Public Sector
6 16 (15.24%) Front Office
7 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Billing
8 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.95%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (46.67%) Spring
2 34 (32.38%) Kafka
2 34 (32.38%) Spring Boot
3 18 (17.14%) RESTful
4 17 (16.19%) OpenAPI
4 17 (16.19%) Swagger
5 16 (15.24%) AngularJS
6 15 (14.29%) JMS
7 13 (12.38%) Spring Batch
8 11 (10.48%) Spring Security
9 8 (7.62%) .NET
9 8 (7.62%) ASP.NET
9 8 (7.62%) React
10 7 (6.67%) HTML
11 6 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (5.71%) Hibernate
11 6 (5.71%) JPA
11 6 (5.71%) REST
11 6 (5.71%) Web Services
11 6 (5.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Equities
2 12 (11.43%) Data Structures
3 11 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (7.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.76%) Derivative
7 5 (4.76%) Fixed Income
7 5 (4.76%) Market Risk
7 5 (4.76%) State Machine
8 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.90%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.48%) Linux
2 15 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.71%) TDD
2 43 (40.95%) Microservices
3 42 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 39 (37.14%) Agile
5 31 (29.52%) Software Engineering
6 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (23.81%) Multithreading
7 25 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (22.86%) BDD
9 21 (20.00%) DevOps
10 19 (18.10%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
12 16 (15.24%) API Design
12 16 (15.24%) SDLC
13 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
14 12 (11.43%) Computer Science
14 12 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (11.43%) High Availability
14 12 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (10.48%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (44.76%) SQL
3 23 (21.90%) Python
4 15 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 12 (11.43%) Bash
6 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.90%) Clojure
8 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.95%) C#
9 1 (0.95%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) SC Cleared
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.43%) Degree
3 8 (7.62%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.86%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (29.52%) Docker
2 8 (7.62%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 28 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 4 (3.81%) Ansible
4 2 (1.90%) Kibana
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) Sybase
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) ION Trading
4 5 (4.76%) Solace
4 5 (4.76%) Splunk
4 5 (4.76%) TIBCO
5 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.90%) Google
5 2 (1.90%) IBM
5 2 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) Virgin Media