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 11 July 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
11 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 450 604
Rank change year-on-year -6 +154 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 53 90 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 74 33
10th Percentile £480 £450 £463
25th Percentile £675 £517 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £688
90th Percentile - - £793
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £631
% change year-on-year -6.25% +26.73% -4.72%

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 24,952 34,304 45,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 92.90% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,248 22,463 32,217
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £740 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,207 2,466 1,398
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.00 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -9.09% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £39.53 £43.00
% change year-on-year -32.95% -8.08% +68.63%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -5 53 £750 -6.25% 9
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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 53 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (86.79%) AWS
3 44 (83.02%) Agile
4 41 (77.36%) Software Engineering
5 40 (75.47%) Finance
6 38 (71.70%) JavaScript
6 38 (71.70%) Python
7 37 (69.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (69.81%) Banking
8 36 (67.92%) TypeScript
8 36 (67.92%) Front Office
9 35 (66.04%) Fixed Income
9 35 (66.04%) Equities
9 35 (66.04%) Apache
9 35 (66.04%) Derivative
9 35 (66.04%) Asset Management
9 35 (66.04%) Hedge funds
9 35 (66.04%) SciPy
9 35 (66.04%) NumPy
9 35 (66.04%) Protocol Buffers
9 35 (66.04%) Investment Banking
9 35 (66.04%) Pandas
9 35 (66.04%) Data Lake
9 35 (66.04%) gRPC
9 35 (66.04%) Apache Airflow
9 35 (66.04%) Amazon Athena
9 35 (66.04%) Apache Arrow
9 35 (66.04%) Apache Iceberg
9 35 (66.04%) Apache Ignite
9 35 (66.04%) Dremio

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 35 (66.04%) Apache
1 35 (66.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 46 (86.79%) AWS
2 35 (66.04%) dbt
2 35 (66.04%) Snowflake
3 4 (7.55%) GCP
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.66%) Dagster
4 3 (5.66%) SaaS
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.77%) Azure
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.77%) Serverless
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
1 2 (3.77%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (66.04%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (66.04%) Apache Arrow
1 35 (66.04%) Apache Iceberg
1 35 (66.04%) Apache Ignite
1 35 (66.04%) Data Lake
1 35 (66.04%) Dremio
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
1 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.55%) REST Assured
2 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.89%) Gatling
3 1 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) JUnit
3 1 (1.89%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.89%) Maven
3 1 (1.89%) Postman
General
1 40 (75.47%) Finance
2 37 (69.81%) Banking
3 36 (67.92%) Front Office
4 35 (66.04%) Investment Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (66.04%) gRPC
1 35 (66.04%) NumPy
1 35 (66.04%) Pandas
1 35 (66.04%) Protocol Buffers
1 35 (66.04%) SciPy
2 8 (15.09%) Spring
3 6 (11.32%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.55%) Kafka
4 4 (7.55%) Playwright
4 4 (7.55%) REST
5 3 (5.66%) Jest
5 3 (5.66%) Node.js
5 3 (5.66%) PySpark
5 3 (5.66%) RESTful
6 2 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.77%) Micronaut
6 2 (3.77%) Swagger
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 37 (69.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 35 (66.04%) Derivative
2 35 (66.04%) Equities
2 35 (66.04%) Fixed Income
2 35 (66.04%) Hedge funds
3 32 (60.38%) Pricing Data
4 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (83.02%) Agile
2 41 (77.36%) Software Engineering
3 35 (66.04%) Asset Management
4 32 (60.38%) Investment Management
5 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
5 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
6 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
6 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.55%) Performance Testing
7 4 (7.55%) Test Strategy
8 3 (5.66%) Coaching
8 3 (5.66%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (5.66%) DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Exploratory Testing
8 3 (5.66%) Microservices
8 3 (5.66%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (5.66%) Security Testing
8 3 (5.66%) TDD
8 3 (5.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (71.70%) JavaScript
2 38 (71.70%) Python
3 36 (67.92%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.89%) Ada
4 1 (1.89%) Go
4 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.89%) QA
1 1 (1.89%) SEPA
1 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle
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