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 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 459 407 364
Rank change year-on-year -52 -43 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 127 338 620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.56% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.60% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 269 504
10th Percentile £513 £512 £513
25th Percentile £598 £586 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £775 £725
90th Percentile £876 £878 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £543
% change year-on-year - +10.60% +4.83%
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 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 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 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
England -57 103 £750 +7.14% 53
London -40 82 £800 +10.34% 36
Work from Home +56 60 £750 +20.00% 28
UK excluding London +46 39 £600 - 22
Scotland +25 18 £435 -30.40% 2
North of England +25 11 £613 +2.08% 5
North West +20 8 £625 -10.71% 4
South East +2 5 £675 +16.38% 5
Midlands +28 4 £511 - 1
Yorkshire +21 3 £400 -30.43%
West Midlands +28 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £511 -
East of England +11 1 £600 +9.69% 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 127 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (50.39%) Agile
3 54 (42.52%) Microservices
4 48 (37.80%) Spring Boot
5 47 (37.01%) Finance
6 43 (33.86%) Spring
7 38 (29.92%) TDD
8 37 (29.13%) AWS
9 36 (28.35%) DevOps
10 34 (26.77%) CI/CD
11 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
12 31 (24.41%) Jenkins
13 29 (22.83%) Mockito
14 27 (21.26%) Kafka
15 26 (20.47%) Linux
16 25 (19.69%) JUnit
16 25 (19.69%) Test Automation
16 25 (19.69%) SDLC
17 23 (18.11%) Docker
17 23 (18.11%) SQL
18 22 (17.32%) Front Office
19 21 (16.54%) Software Engineering
19 21 (16.54%) Cucumber
19 21 (16.54%) MongoDB
20 19 (14.96%) BDD
20 19 (14.96%) Degree
21 18 (14.17%) Continuous Integration
21 18 (14.17%) ActiveMQ
21 18 (14.17%) Unix
21 18 (14.17%) 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 (6.30%) Confluence
2 6 (4.72%) Apache
3 4 (3.15%) SAS
4 2 (1.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) GemFire
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) ION MarketView
1 1 (0.79%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.13%) AWS
2 12 (9.45%) GCP
3 8 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (6.30%) Amazon S3
3 8 (6.30%) Azure
4 7 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.51%) Serverless
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.79%) dbt
6 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.79%) 5G
2 1 (0.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.54%) MongoDB
2 10 (7.87%) KDB
3 6 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.57%) MySQL
6 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.79%) Big Data
7 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.79%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.79%) DB2
7 1 (0.79%) Dremio
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.79%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 31 (24.41%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.83%) Mockito
3 25 (19.69%) JUnit
4 21 (16.54%) Cucumber
5 18 (14.17%) GitLab
6 15 (11.81%) JIRA
7 14 (11.02%) Git
8 5 (3.94%) Postman
9 4 (3.15%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.15%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.15%) Sourcetree
10 3 (2.36%) Maven
10 3 (2.36%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.36%) Selenium
10 3 (2.36%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.57%) Subversion
General
1 47 (37.01%) Finance
2 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.32%) Front Office
4 16 (12.60%) Banking
5 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Law
7 3 (2.36%) Police
7 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (37.80%) Spring Boot
2 43 (33.86%) Spring
3 27 (21.26%) Kafka
4 18 (14.17%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (14.17%) REST
5 15 (11.81%) RESTful
6 13 (10.24%) JAX-RS
7 11 (8.66%) Node.js
7 11 (8.66%) React
8 8 (6.30%) J2EE
9 7 (5.51%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.51%) Apache Camel
9 7 (5.51%) HTML
10 6 (4.72%) CSS
10 6 (4.72%) Web Services
11 5 (3.94%) XML
12 4 (3.15%) .NET
13 3 (2.36%) Java EE
13 3 (2.36%) Middleware
13 3 (2.36%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.60%) Credit Derivative
2 13 (10.24%) Fixed Income
3 12 (9.45%) Derivative
4 10 (7.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (6.30%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.51%) Cloud Native
8 6 (4.72%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.94%) Equities
9 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.94%) Public Cloud
10 4 (3.15%) Credit Risk
10 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (3.15%) Market Risk
11 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (2.36%) Hedge funds
11 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.47%) Linux
2 18 (14.17%) Unix
3 13 (10.24%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.39%) Agile
2 54 (42.52%) Microservices
3 38 (29.92%) TDD
4 36 (28.35%) DevOps
5 34 (26.77%) CI/CD
6 25 (19.69%) SDLC
6 25 (19.69%) Test Automation
7 21 (16.54%) Software Engineering
8 19 (14.96%) BDD
9 18 (14.17%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.60%) Electronic Trading
11 15 (11.81%) Computer Science
11 15 (11.81%) Containerisation
11 15 (11.81%) Pair Programming
12 14 (11.02%) Low Latency
12 14 (11.02%) OO
12 14 (11.02%) Web Development
13 12 (9.45%) Continuous Deployment
13 12 (9.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 127 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (18.11%) SQL
3 10 (7.87%) Python
4 9 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.94%) Scala
6 4 (3.15%) C#
7 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (14.96%) Degree
2 16 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (18.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 18 (14.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.72%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (3.94%) Terraform
4 4 (3.15%) Kibana
5 3 (2.36%) Ansible
5 3 (2.36%) Podman
6 2 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Oracle
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.30%) ION Trading
4 7 (5.51%) IBM
5 4 (3.15%) Google
5 4 (3.15%) Solace
6 3 (2.36%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.79%) Sybase
7 1 (0.79%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.79%) Virgin Media
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