Senior Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Senior Java Developer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Liverpool is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 4.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £510 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 137 172 185
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.86% 93.99% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 75 105
10th Percentile £185 £157 £223
25th Percentile £363 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £535
90th Percentile £740 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £431 £400 £455
% change year-on-year +7.75% -12.09% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 14
10th Percentile - £15.99 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.76 £18.11 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -7.13% +13.87%
75th Percentile £17.44 £23.53 £28.58
90th Percentile - £28.91 £44.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.37 £18.12 £19.50
% change year-on-year -4.14% -7.08% +11.24%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Liverpool

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 Liverpool region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) API Development
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Thymeleaf
2 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) POJO
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (66.67%) User Research
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) POJO
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) API Development
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes