Senior Java Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in England is £750, 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 446 493 601
Rank change year-on-year +47 +108 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 39 49 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 45
10th Percentile £411 £450 £463
25th Percentile £673 £491 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £534 £650
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% -17.85% -
75th Percentile £825 £850 £763
90th Percentile £875 - £795
UK median daily rate £750 £534 £650
% change year-on-year +40.45% -17.85% -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +42 37 £750 - 23
North of England +18 2 £750 +76.47% 10
North West +17 1 - - 5
Yorkshire +7 1 £750 +76.47% 2
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (79.49%) AWS
3 30 (76.92%) Agile
4 26 (66.67%) Finance
5 24 (61.54%) Banking
5 24 (61.54%) Software Engineering
6 21 (53.85%) Python
6 21 (53.85%) JavaScript
7 20 (51.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (48.72%) Front Office
9 18 (46.15%) Fixed Income
9 18 (46.15%) Equities
9 18 (46.15%) Investment Banking
9 18 (46.15%) Asset Management
9 18 (46.15%) Apache
9 18 (46.15%) Derivative
9 18 (46.15%) Hedge funds
9 18 (46.15%) SciPy
9 18 (46.15%) NumPy
9 18 (46.15%) Data Lake
9 18 (46.15%) gRPC
9 18 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
9 18 (46.15%) Protocol Buffers
9 18 (46.15%) TypeScript
9 18 (46.15%) Pandas
9 18 (46.15%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (46.15%) Dremio
9 18 (46.15%) dbt
9 18 (46.15%) Snowflake
9 18 (46.15%) Amazon Athena

Senior Java Engineer 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 18 (46.15%) Apache
1 18 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (79.49%) AWS
2 18 (46.15%) dbt
2 18 (46.15%) Snowflake
3 9 (23.08%) GCP
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (15.38%) Dagster
5 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.13%) Azure
6 2 (5.13%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Datadog
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Slack
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) Multicast
2 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (46.15%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (46.15%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (46.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 18 (46.15%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (46.15%) Data Lake
1 18 (46.15%) Dremio
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
3 2 (5.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) Gradle
4 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Mockito
General
1 26 (66.67%) Finance
2 24 (61.54%) Banking
3 19 (48.72%) Front Office
4 18 (46.15%) Investment Banking
5 5 (12.82%) Retail
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) gRPC
1 18 (46.15%) NumPy
1 18 (46.15%) Pandas
1 18 (46.15%) Protocol Buffers
1 18 (46.15%) SciPy
2 12 (30.77%) Spring
3 11 (28.21%) Spring Boot
4 8 (20.51%) Kafka
5 6 (15.38%) PySpark
6 4 (10.26%) Micronaut
7 3 (7.69%) Jest
7 3 (7.69%) Node.js
7 3 (7.69%) Playwright
7 3 (7.69%) REST
7 3 (7.69%) RESTful
7 3 (7.69%) Swagger
8 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.56%) Spring Security
9 1 (2.56%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (46.15%) Derivative
2 18 (46.15%) Equities
2 18 (46.15%) Fixed Income
2 18 (46.15%) Hedge funds
3 12 (30.77%) Pricing Data
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) Agile
2 24 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 18 (46.15%) Asset Management
4 12 (30.77%) Investment Management
5 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Microservices
7 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.82%) TDD
9 4 (10.26%) Fintech
9 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.26%) Test Strategy
10 3 (7.69%) BDD
10 3 (7.69%) Coaching
10 3 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (7.69%) DevOps
10 3 (7.69%) Performance Testing
10 3 (7.69%) Security Testing
10 3 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 21 (53.85%) Python
3 18 (46.15%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.13%) Scala
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.56%) Confluent
2 1 (2.56%) Google
2 1 (2.56%) New Relic