Senior Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hammersmith

Senior Java Engineer
West London > Hammersmith

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in Hammersmith is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hammersmith 6.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West London median daily rate £500 £300 -
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hammersmith

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hammersmith. 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 Hammersmith with a recognized job title 16 6 8
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 7
10th Percentile £209 - £165
25th Percentile £225 £231 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £226 £269 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% -48.32% +9.47%
75th Percentile £244 £331 £594
90th Percentile £312 £388 £689
West London median daily rate £520 £425 £495
% change year-on-year +22.35% -14.14% -12.00%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hammersmith

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

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Hammersmith

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hammersmith

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, Senior Java Engineer 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 Hammersmith region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hammersmith 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes