Senior Java Software Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Java Software Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Software Developer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 - 547
Rank change year-on-year - - +86
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Developer 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £514 - £616
25th Percentile £532 - £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £713
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £594 - £816
90th Percentile £598 - £859
UK median daily rate £575 £325 £713
% change year-on-year +76.92% -54.39% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 39,651 22,840 34,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.32% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,409 15,016 22,678
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,798 1,018 2,675
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%

Senior Java Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior Java Software Developer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Java Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Software Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Software Developer job vacancies in England

Senior Java Software 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 Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
London - 3 £575 - 1
South East - 1 £600 - 2
Senior Java Software Developer
UK

Senior Java Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 June 2026, Senior Java Software Developer 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 England region featuring Senior Java Software Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Fintech
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake

Senior Java Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Fintech
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft