Senior Java Software Engineer Contracts

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java daily rate in the UK is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 705 744
Rank change year-on-year +144 +39 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 25 17 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.028% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.030% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 81
10th Percentile £450 £492 -
25th Percentile £491 £506 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +3.13% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £749 £675
90th Percentile - £800 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +40.54%

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Software Engineer
Top 6 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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Work from Home +140 23 £738 +19.19% 15
England +132 23 £738 +5.36% 28
London +114 16 £800 +9.22% 17
UK excluding London +75 7 £625 +8.70% 12
South East - 6 £650 - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Java
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) AWS
3 12 (48.00%) Finance
3 12 (48.00%) Agile
4 11 (44.00%) Banking
4 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
4 11 (44.00%) Fixed Income
4 11 (44.00%) Equities
4 11 (44.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (44.00%) Front Office
4 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (44.00%) Apache
4 11 (44.00%) Python
4 11 (44.00%) Hedge funds
4 11 (44.00%) SciPy
4 11 (44.00%) NumPy
4 11 (44.00%) Derivative
4 11 (44.00%) Investment Banking
4 11 (44.00%) Investment Management
4 11 (44.00%) Apache Arrow
4 11 (44.00%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (44.00%) Dremio
4 11 (44.00%) dbt
4 11 (44.00%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
4 11 (44.00%) Pandas
4 11 (44.00%) gRPC
4 11 (44.00%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (44.00%) Amazon Athena

Senior Java Software Engineer 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 11 (44.00%) Apache
1 11 (44.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) dbt
3 10 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 7 (28.00%) Azure
5 3 (12.00%) Miro
6 2 (8.00%) AWS IoT
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Amazon Athena
1 11 (44.00%) Apache Arrow
1 11 (44.00%) Apache Ignite
1 11 (44.00%) Dremio
2 10 (40.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
1 5 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 5 (20.00%) Selenium
1 5 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Banking
2 11 (44.00%) Front Office
2 11 (44.00%) Investment Banking
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.00%) Law
5 4 (16.00%) Police
5 4 (16.00%) Retail
6 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) gRPC
1 11 (44.00%) NumPy
1 11 (44.00%) Pandas
1 11 (44.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 11 (44.00%) SciPy
2 9 (36.00%) Java EE
2 9 (36.00%) REST
3 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
4 4 (16.00%) SOAP
4 4 (16.00%) Spring
4 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 2 (8.00%) Symfony
6 1 (4.00%) CSS
6 1 (4.00%) HTML
6 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Derivative
1 11 (44.00%) Equities
1 11 (44.00%) Fixed Income
1 11 (44.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 11 (44.00%) Hedge funds
2 4 (16.00%) Pricing Data
3 2 (8.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
3 11 (44.00%) Investment Management
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) API Development
5 6 (24.00%) Greeks
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) TDD
6 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.00%) Software Architecture
6 5 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) BDD
8 3 (12.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (44.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Ruby
4 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (20.00%) Podman
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform