Senior Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Java Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 333 398
Rank change year-on-year -7 +65 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 41 44 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.28% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.30% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 9
10th Percentile £398 £613 £586
25th Percentile £600 £712 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £725
90th Percentile - £884 £790
England median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West London - 2 £300 - 1
Central London - 2 £538 -
South London - 1 £537 -
Senior Java Engineer
England

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (90.24%) AWS
3 31 (75.61%) Software Engineering
4 30 (73.17%) Agile
5 29 (70.73%) Python
6 28 (68.29%) gRPC
6 28 (68.29%) JavaScript
7 27 (65.85%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (65.85%) Apache
7 27 (65.85%) Apache Airflow
7 27 (65.85%) Apache Arrow
7 27 (65.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 27 (65.85%) Apache Ignite
7 27 (65.85%) Asset Management
7 27 (65.85%) Data Lake
7 27 (65.85%) dbt
7 27 (65.85%) Dremio
7 27 (65.85%) Investment Management
7 27 (65.85%) NumPy
7 27 (65.85%) Pandas
7 27 (65.85%) Protocol Buffers
7 27 (65.85%) SciPy
7 27 (65.85%) Snowflake
7 27 (65.85%) TypeScript
8 9 (21.95%) Azure
9 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
9 8 (19.51%) Microservices
10 6 (14.63%) DevOps
10 6 (14.63%) Docker
10 6 (14.63%) Spring

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 27 (65.85%) Apache
1 27 (65.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 37 (90.24%) AWS
2 27 (65.85%) dbt
2 27 (65.85%) Snowflake
3 9 (21.95%) Azure
4 5 (12.20%) GCP
5 3 (7.32%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.44%) Akamai
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (65.85%) Amazon Athena
1 27 (65.85%) Apache Arrow
1 27 (65.85%) Apache Iceberg
1 27 (65.85%) Apache Ignite
1 27 (65.85%) Data Lake
1 27 (65.85%) Dremio
2 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.44%) Big Data
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.44%) Gatling
1 1 (2.44%) Git
1 1 (2.44%) GitLab
1 1 (2.44%) Gradle
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) JMeter
1 1 (2.44%) JUnit
1 1 (2.44%) Postman
1 1 (2.44%) Selenium
1 1 (2.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 30 (73.17%) Finance
2 29 (70.73%) Banking
3 28 (68.29%) Front Office
3 28 (68.29%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (68.29%) gRPC
2 27 (65.85%) NumPy
2 27 (65.85%) Pandas
2 27 (65.85%) Protocol Buffers
2 27 (65.85%) SciPy
3 6 (14.63%) Spring
4 3 (7.32%) Kafka
4 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.88%) React
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) Spring WebFlux
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) JPA
6 1 (2.44%) JSON
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.44%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.44%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (70.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (65.85%) Derivative
2 27 (65.85%) Equities
2 27 (65.85%) Fixed Income
2 27 (65.85%) Hedge funds
2 27 (65.85%) Pricing Data
3 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Software Engineering
2 30 (73.17%) Agile
3 27 (65.85%) Asset Management
3 27 (65.85%) Investment Management
4 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.51%) Microservices
5 6 (14.63%) DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (7.32%) High Availability
6 3 (7.32%) Low Latency
6 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.32%) TDD
7 2 (4.88%) Code Quality
7 2 (4.88%) Containerisation
7 2 (4.88%) Multithreading
7 2 (4.88%) Observability
7 2 (4.88%) Refactoring
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (4.88%) Test Automation
7 2 (4.88%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (70.73%) Python
3 28 (68.29%) JavaScript
4 27 (65.85%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.32%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) Calypso
2 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (2.44%) Splunk
2 1 (2.44%) TIBCO
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