Senior Java Developer Contracts

Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 426 373
Rank change year-on-year -29 -53 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 132 298 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.55% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 239 489
10th Percentile £513 £510 £506
25th Percentile £603 £587 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £605
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +5.22%
75th Percentile £838 £788 £744
90th Percentile £881 £890 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £583 £539
% change year-on-year +2.06% +8.21% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
75th Percentile £69.63 - £57.50
90th Percentile £77.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -23 108 £750 +7.14% 40
London -36 88 £800 +10.34% 23
Work from Home +60 65 £738 +18.00% 24
UK excluding London +47 37 £595 +2.06% 20
Scotland +37 17 £435 -30.40% 2
North of England +22 11 £613 +2.08% 3
North West +35 8 £625 - 2
South East +11 5 £675 +16.38% 8
Midlands +27 3 £398 - 1
Yorkshire +13 3 £400 -30.43%
West Midlands +23 2 - - 1
East of England +14 1 £600 +9.69%
East Midlands - 1 £398 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 132 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (47.73%) Agile
3 53 (40.15%) Microservices
4 49 (37.12%) Spring Boot
4 49 (37.12%) Finance
5 46 (34.85%) Spring
6 42 (31.82%) TDD
7 35 (26.52%) AWS
8 34 (25.76%) DevOps
8 34 (25.76%) Social Skills
8 34 (25.76%) CI/CD
9 30 (22.73%) Jenkins
10 28 (21.21%) Mockito
10 28 (21.21%) Linux
11 27 (20.45%) Test Automation
11 27 (20.45%) Kafka
12 24 (18.18%) JUnit
13 23 (17.42%) Front Office
13 23 (17.42%) Docker
13 23 (17.42%) SDLC
14 22 (16.67%) SQL
15 21 (15.91%) Electronic Trading
15 21 (15.91%) BDD
15 21 (15.91%) MongoDB
16 20 (15.15%) Cucumber
16 20 (15.15%) Software Engineering
17 19 (14.39%) Degree
17 19 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (14.39%) Unix
17 19 (14.39%) REST

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (6.06%) Confluence
2 6 (4.55%) Apache
3 5 (3.79%) SAS
4 2 (1.52%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) GemFire
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) RMDS
2 1 (0.76%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) AWS
2 16 (12.12%) GCP
3 8 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (6.06%) Amazon S3
3 8 (6.06%) Azure
4 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.30%) Serverless
5 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.76%) dbt
6 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.76%) 5G
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) MongoDB
2 13 (9.85%) KDB
3 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.52%) MySQL
6 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.76%) Dremio
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 30 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.21%) Mockito
3 24 (18.18%) JUnit
4 20 (15.15%) Cucumber
5 17 (12.88%) GitLab
6 15 (11.36%) JIRA
7 14 (10.61%) Git
8 5 (3.79%) Maven
8 5 (3.79%) Postman
9 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.03%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.03%) Sourcetree
10 3 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.27%) Selenium
10 3 (2.27%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 49 (37.12%) Finance
2 34 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.42%) Front Office
4 17 (12.88%) Banking
5 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Law
7 3 (2.27%) Police
7 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (37.12%) Spring Boot
2 46 (34.85%) Spring
3 27 (20.45%) Kafka
4 19 (14.39%) REST
5 17 (12.88%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (12.12%) RESTful
7 15 (11.36%) JAX-RS
8 12 (9.09%) React
9 11 (8.33%) Node.js
10 8 (6.06%) HTML
10 8 (6.06%) J2EE
11 7 (5.30%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.30%) Apache Camel
12 6 (4.55%) Web Services
13 5 (3.79%) CSS
13 5 (3.79%) XML
14 4 (3.03%) .NET
14 4 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (3.03%) Middleware
14 4 (3.03%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Credit Derivative
1 16 (12.12%) Fixed Income
2 12 (9.09%) Derivative
2 12 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.82%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.30%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.55%) Equities
7 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.03%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.03%) Market Risk
9 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.21%) Linux
2 19 (14.39%) Unix
3 13 (9.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (47.73%) Agile
2 53 (40.15%) Microservices
3 42 (31.82%) TDD
4 34 (25.76%) CI/CD
4 34 (25.76%) DevOps
5 27 (20.45%) Test Automation
6 23 (17.42%) SDLC
7 21 (15.91%) BDD
7 21 (15.91%) Electronic Trading
8 20 (15.15%) Software Engineering
9 19 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (13.64%) Low Latency
10 18 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (12.12%) Computer Science
11 16 (12.12%) OO
12 14 (10.61%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.61%) Pair Programming
12 14 (10.61%) Web Development
13 12 (9.09%) Design Patterns
13 12 (9.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (16.67%) SQL
3 10 (7.58%) Python
4 8 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.55%) Scala
6 4 (3.03%) C#
7 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.76%) Ruby
8 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.39%) Degree
2 16 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.79%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 17 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (3.79%) Terraform
4 4 (3.03%) Kibana
5 3 (2.27%) Ansible
5 3 (2.27%) Podman
5 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (11.36%) Oracle
2 11 (8.33%) ION Trading
3 9 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.06%) Google
5 7 (5.30%) Solace
6 6 (4.55%) IBM
7 4 (3.03%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.76%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.76%) Virgin Media
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