Senior Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 360 413
Rank change year-on-year -20 +53 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.012% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.013% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £456 - £521
25th Percentile £466 - £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £850 £543
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% +56.68% -9.39%
75th Percentile £516 - £552
90th Percentile £529 - £552
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £638
% change year-on-year -6.25% +25.49% -8.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 14,261 15,903 19,853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.62% 92.27% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,772 9,032 13,229
10th Percentile £206 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £370 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,341 1,203 1,255
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
North of England - 2 - - 3
Scotland - 2 £488 - 3
North West - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk