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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 275 252
Rank change year-on-year -29 -23 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 86 230 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.86% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.90% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 192 381
10th Percentile £563 £525 £538
25th Percentile £675 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £863 £807 £775
90th Percentile £900 £900 £850
England median daily rate £750 £700 £613
% change year-on-year +7.14% +14.29% +2.08%

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 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
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 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +10 9 £700 +3.70%
Senior Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 86 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (46.51%) Finance
3 38 (44.19%) Agile
4 30 (34.88%) Microservices
5 29 (33.72%) TDD
5 29 (33.72%) Mockito
6 28 (32.56%) DevOps
7 26 (30.23%) CI/CD
8 25 (29.07%) Spring Boot
8 25 (29.07%) Linux
9 22 (25.58%) Front Office
9 22 (25.58%) SDLC
10 20 (23.26%) Jenkins
10 20 (23.26%) AWS
10 20 (23.26%) Test Automation
11 18 (20.93%) Electronic Trading
11 18 (20.93%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (19.77%) JUnit
12 17 (19.77%) Unix
12 17 (19.77%) BDD
12 17 (19.77%) Spring
13 16 (18.60%) MongoDB
13 16 (18.60%) Credit Derivative
13 16 (18.60%) Docker
14 15 (17.44%) Kafka
15 14 (16.28%) JAX-RS
15 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
15 14 (16.28%) Fixed Income
16 13 (15.12%) Pair Programming
16 13 (15.12%) Mac OS X

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 (4.65%) Apache
1 4 (4.65%) SAS
2 3 (3.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) GemFire
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) RMDS
2 1 (1.16%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.26%) AWS
2 13 (15.12%) GCP
3 8 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (9.30%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (6.98%) Serverless
5 5 (5.81%) Azure
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.16%) dbt
7 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.60%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.79%) KDB
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (1.16%) Big Data
5 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.16%) DB2
5 1 (1.16%) Dremio
5 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.16%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 29 (33.72%) Mockito
2 20 (23.26%) Jenkins
3 17 (19.77%) JUnit
4 13 (15.12%) Cucumber
4 13 (15.12%) GitLab
5 7 (8.14%) Git
5 7 (8.14%) JIRA
6 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.65%) Sourcetree
7 1 (1.16%) Maven
General
1 40 (46.51%) Finance
2 22 (25.58%) Front Office
3 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.95%) Banking
5 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) Spring Boot
2 18 (20.93%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (19.77%) Spring
4 15 (17.44%) Kafka
5 14 (16.28%) JAX-RS
6 5 (5.81%) HTML
7 4 (4.65%) .NET
7 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (4.65%) Middleware
7 4 (4.65%) Node.js
7 4 (4.65%) React
7 4 (4.65%) Rendezvous
7 4 (4.65%) RESTful
8 3 (3.49%) CSS
8 3 (3.49%) REST
8 3 (3.49%) Restlet
8 3 (3.49%) Web Services
8 3 (3.49%) XML
9 2 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (16.28%) Fixed Income
3 11 (12.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (11.63%) Derivative
5 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.81%) Equities
6 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.65%) Credit Risk
7 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.65%) Market Risk
7 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.49%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.49%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.07%) Linux
2 17 (19.77%) Unix
3 13 (15.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.19%) Agile
2 30 (34.88%) Microservices
3 29 (33.72%) TDD
4 28 (32.56%) DevOps
5 26 (30.23%) CI/CD
6 22 (25.58%) SDLC
7 20 (23.26%) Test Automation
8 18 (20.93%) Electronic Trading
9 17 (19.77%) BDD
10 13 (15.12%) Low Latency
10 13 (15.12%) Pair Programming
10 13 (15.12%) Web Development
11 12 (13.95%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (13.95%) OO
12 11 (12.79%) Computer Science
12 11 (12.79%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (12.79%) Software Engineering
12 11 (12.79%) Web Design
13 9 (10.47%) Containerisation
14 8 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (10.47%) Python
2 9 (10.47%) SQL
3 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.65%) Scala
5 3 (3.49%) C#
6 1 (1.16%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.16%) Ruby
6 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.63%) Degree
3 9 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (18.60%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Oracle
2 9 (10.47%) ION Trading
3 6 (6.98%) Google
3 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) Solace
4 5 (5.81%) IBM
5 4 (4.65%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.16%) Sybase
6 1 (1.16%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.16%) Virgin Media