Senior Java Developer Contracts in London

Senior Java Developer
England > London

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 275 250
Rank change year-on-year -37 -25 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 82 243 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.90% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.94% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 201 382
10th Percentile £566 £525 £538
25th Percentile £681 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £863 £810 £775
90th Percentile £896 £900 £850
England median daily rate £750 £700 £605
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +0.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Central London +4 8 £700 +1.82%
Senior Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (47.56%) Finance
3 38 (46.34%) Agile
4 30 (36.59%) Microservices
5 29 (35.37%) Mockito
6 28 (34.15%) DevOps
7 27 (32.93%) TDD
8 26 (31.71%) CI/CD
9 24 (29.27%) Spring Boot
9 24 (29.27%) Linux
10 22 (26.83%) Front Office
11 21 (25.61%) SDLC
12 20 (24.39%) Jenkins
12 20 (24.39%) AWS
13 19 (23.17%) Test Automation
14 18 (21.95%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (20.73%) JUnit
16 16 (19.51%) Unix
16 16 (19.51%) Credit Derivative
16 16 (19.51%) Electronic Trading
16 16 (19.51%) BDD
16 16 (19.51%) MongoDB
16 16 (19.51%) Spring
16 16 (19.51%) Docker
17 15 (18.29%) Kafka
18 13 (15.85%) JAX-RS
18 13 (15.85%) GitLab
18 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
18 13 (15.85%) Web Development
18 13 (15.85%) Cucumber

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.88%) Apache
1 4 (4.88%) SAS
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) GemFire
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) ION MarketView
1 1 (1.22%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.39%) AWS
2 11 (13.41%) GCP
3 8 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (9.76%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.32%) Serverless
5 5 (6.10%) Azure
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.22%) dbt
7 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.20%) KDB
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.44%) MySQL
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (1.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.22%) DB2
5 1 (1.22%) Dremio
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.22%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 29 (35.37%) Mockito
2 20 (24.39%) Jenkins
3 17 (20.73%) JUnit
4 13 (15.85%) Cucumber
4 13 (15.85%) GitLab
5 7 (8.54%) Git
5 7 (8.54%) JIRA
6 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.88%) Sourcetree
General
1 39 (47.56%) Finance
2 22 (26.83%) Front Office
3 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.41%) Banking
5 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.27%) Spring Boot
2 18 (21.95%) ActiveMQ
3 16 (19.51%) Spring
4 15 (18.29%) Kafka
5 13 (15.85%) JAX-RS
6 4 (4.88%) .NET
6 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.88%) HTML
6 4 (4.88%) Node.js
7 3 (3.66%) CSS
7 3 (3.66%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (3.66%) Middleware
7 3 (3.66%) React
7 3 (3.66%) Rendezvous
7 3 (3.66%) RESTful
7 3 (3.66%) Web Services
7 3 (3.66%) XML
8 2 (2.44%) Ext JS
8 2 (2.44%) REST
8 2 (2.44%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Credit Derivative
2 13 (15.85%) Fixed Income
3 10 (12.20%) Derivative
3 10 (12.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.32%) Data Structures
5 5 (6.10%) Equities
5 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.88%) Credit Risk
6 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.88%) Market Risk
6 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (29.27%) Linux
2 16 (19.51%) Unix
3 13 (15.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) Agile
2 30 (36.59%) Microservices
3 28 (34.15%) DevOps
4 27 (32.93%) TDD
5 26 (31.71%) CI/CD
6 21 (25.61%) SDLC
7 19 (23.17%) Test Automation
8 16 (19.51%) BDD
8 16 (19.51%) Electronic Trading
9 13 (15.85%) Pair Programming
9 13 (15.85%) Web Development
10 12 (14.63%) Continuous Deployment
11 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
11 11 (13.41%) Low Latency
11 11 (13.41%) OO
11 11 (13.41%) Responsive Web Design
11 11 (13.41%) Software Engineering
11 11 (13.41%) Web Design
12 9 (10.98%) Containerisation
13 8 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (10.98%) Python
2 9 (10.98%) SQL
3 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.66%) C#
4 3 (3.66%) Scala
5 1 (1.22%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.22%) Ruby
5 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) Degree
3 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (19.51%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.22%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.66%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Oracle
2 8 (9.76%) ION Trading
3 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.10%) IBM
5 4 (4.88%) Google
5 4 (4.88%) Solace
6 3 (3.66%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase
7 1 (1.22%) Tradeweb
7 1 (1.22%) Virgin Media