Senior Java Developer Contracts in South London

Senior Java Developer
London > South London

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Java Developer daily rate in South London.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.16% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.89%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £725 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% +11.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 171 236 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.52% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 278
10th Percentile £224 £202 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in South London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in South London

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bromley - 2 - -
Croydon - 2 - -
Senior Java Developer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 South London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (50.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Kibana
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) WireMock
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Applications

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (50.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Swing
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Process Management
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO