Senior Java Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 309 456
Rank change year-on-year +34 +147 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 29 36 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.23% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.25% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 10
10th Percentile £557 £450 £496
25th Percentile £675 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £663
90th Percentile £880 - £744
UK median daily rate £750 £534 £650
% change year-on-year +40.45% -17.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Java Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Java Engineer.

Senior Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Java Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Java 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (93.10%) AWS
3 26 (89.66%) Agile
4 24 (82.76%) Software Engineering
5 23 (79.31%) Finance
6 22 (75.86%) Banking
7 21 (72.41%) JavaScript
8 19 (65.52%) Front Office
8 19 (65.52%) TypeScript
9 18 (62.07%) Data Lake
9 18 (62.07%) gRPC
9 18 (62.07%) Apache Airflow
9 18 (62.07%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (62.07%) Protocol Buffers
9 18 (62.07%) Pandas
9 18 (62.07%) Apache Iceberg
9 18 (62.07%) Apache Ignite
9 18 (62.07%) Dremio
9 18 (62.07%) dbt
9 18 (62.07%) Snowflake
9 18 (62.07%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (62.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (62.07%) Apache
9 18 (62.07%) Python
9 18 (62.07%) Asset Management
9 18 (62.07%) Derivative
9 18 (62.07%) Fixed Income
9 18 (62.07%) Equities
9 18 (62.07%) Investment Banking
9 18 (62.07%) Hedge funds

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (62.07%) Apache
1 18 (62.07%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (93.10%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) dbt
2 18 (62.07%) Snowflake
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (20.69%) Dagster
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (62.07%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (62.07%) Apache Iceberg
1 18 (62.07%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (62.07%) Data Lake
1 18 (62.07%) Dremio
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
1 3 (10.34%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Gradle
2 1 (3.45%) Jasmine
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
General
1 23 (79.31%) Finance
2 22 (75.86%) Banking
3 19 (65.52%) Front Office
4 18 (62.07%) Investment Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Retail
6 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (62.07%) gRPC
1 18 (62.07%) NumPy
1 18 (62.07%) Pandas
1 18 (62.07%) Protocol Buffers
1 18 (62.07%) SciPy
2 7 (24.14%) Spring
3 6 (20.69%) PySpark
3 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.24%) Kafka
5 4 (13.79%) Micronaut
6 3 (10.34%) Jest
6 3 (10.34%) Node.js
6 3 (10.34%) Playwright
6 3 (10.34%) REST
7 2 (6.90%) RESTful
7 2 (6.90%) Swagger
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
8 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
8 1 (3.45%) Spring Batch
8 1 (3.45%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 18 (62.07%) Derivative
1 18 (62.07%) Equities
1 18 (62.07%) Fixed Income
1 18 (62.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (62.07%) Hedge funds
2 12 (41.38%) Pricing Data
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) Agile
2 24 (82.76%) Software Engineering
3 18 (62.07%) Asset Management
4 12 (41.38%) Investment Management
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.69%) Migration
6 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
7 4 (13.79%) Fintech
7 4 (13.79%) Microservices
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Coaching
8 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Exploratory Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Security Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
8 3 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (72.41%) JavaScript
3 19 (65.52%) TypeScript
4 18 (62.07%) Python
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
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