Senior Java Engineer Contracts 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 7 July 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
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 317 463
Rank change year-on-year +7 +146 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 50 72 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.41% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.44% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 60 26
10th Percentile £427 £450 £463
25th Percentile £675 £538 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £753
90th Percentile - - £825
England median daily rate £750 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% -7.41%

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 12,413 16,511 24,440
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 93.96% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,375 11,812 17,856
10th Percentile £331 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 306 280
10th Percentile £18.86 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £20.23 £22.86
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -25.68% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £68.38 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.81
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.69% +77.28%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Engineer 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 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, Senior Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (86.00%) AWS
3 42 (84.00%) Agile
4 39 (78.00%) Software Engineering
5 38 (76.00%) Finance
6 36 (72.00%) JavaScript
7 35 (70.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (70.00%) Python
7 35 (70.00%) Banking
8 34 (68.00%) TypeScript
8 34 (68.00%) Front Office
9 33 (66.00%) Investment Banking
9 33 (66.00%) Asset Management
9 33 (66.00%) Fixed Income
9 33 (66.00%) Equities
9 33 (66.00%) Apache
9 33 (66.00%) Derivative
9 33 (66.00%) Hedge funds
9 33 (66.00%) SciPy
9 33 (66.00%) NumPy
9 33 (66.00%) Protocol Buffers
9 33 (66.00%) Pandas
9 33 (66.00%) Data Lake
9 33 (66.00%) gRPC
9 33 (66.00%) Apache Airflow
9 33 (66.00%) Amazon Athena
9 33 (66.00%) Apache Ignite
9 33 (66.00%) dbt
9 33 (66.00%) Snowflake
9 33 (66.00%) Apache Arrow

Senior Java Engineer 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 33 (66.00%) Apache
1 33 (66.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 43 (86.00%) AWS
2 33 (66.00%) dbt
2 33 (66.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (8.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.00%) Dagster
4 3 (6.00%) SaaS
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) Azure
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (66.00%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (66.00%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (66.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 33 (66.00%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (66.00%) Data Lake
1 33 (66.00%) Dremio
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (8.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.00%) Gatling
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) JUnit
3 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.00%) Maven
3 1 (2.00%) Postman
General
1 38 (76.00%) Finance
2 35 (70.00%) Banking
3 34 (68.00%) Front Office
4 33 (66.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (66.00%) gRPC
1 33 (66.00%) NumPy
1 33 (66.00%) Pandas
1 33 (66.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 33 (66.00%) SciPy
2 8 (16.00%) Spring
3 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.00%) Kafka
4 4 (8.00%) Playwright
5 3 (6.00%) Jest
5 3 (6.00%) Node.js
5 3 (6.00%) PySpark
5 3 (6.00%) REST
5 3 (6.00%) RESTful
6 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (4.00%) Micronaut
6 2 (4.00%) Swagger
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (70.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (66.00%) Derivative
2 33 (66.00%) Equities
2 33 (66.00%) Fixed Income
2 33 (66.00%) Hedge funds
3 30 (60.00%) Pricing Data
4 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (84.00%) Agile
2 39 (78.00%) Software Engineering
3 33 (66.00%) Asset Management
4 30 (60.00%) Investment Management
5 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (8.00%) Performance Testing
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) Test Strategy
8 3 (6.00%) Coaching
8 3 (6.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.00%) Exploratory Testing
8 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.00%) Microservices
8 3 (6.00%) Migration
8 3 (6.00%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (6.00%) Security Testing
8 3 (6.00%) TDD
8 3 (6.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (72.00%) JavaScript
3 35 (70.00%) Python
4 34 (68.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.00%) Ada
5 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.00%) QA
1 1 (2.00%) SEPA
1 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle