Senior Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Senior Java Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £473, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 174 212
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 6 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.12% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £390 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -22.00% -12.78%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £557 £396 -
England median daily rate £575 £630 £750
% change year-on-year -8.73% -16.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 3,406 3,820 5,114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.73% 92.38% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,202 2,289 3,390
10th Percentile £204 £246 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £501
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.30% +0.20%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £685 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 216 250
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.97 £26.81 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.79 £57.52 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.86% +15.04% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.36 £67.05
90th Percentile £72.70 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.66% -10.64% +52.93%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Java Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Java Developer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Hampshire - 5 £473 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Senior Java Developer 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 South East region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Artifactory
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
2 5 (83.33%) DynamoDB
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 5 (83.33%) HBase
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (83.33%) OCP
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (83.33%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (83.33%) SOA
2 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 4 (66.67%) Kerberos
3 4 (66.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Agile

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Datadog
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) DynamoDB
1 5 (83.33%) HBase
1 5 (83.33%) MongoDB
1 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Artifactory
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) Gradle
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Gatling
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
1 5 (83.33%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (16.67%) Material Design
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) SOA
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) OCP
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Apple