Senior Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 450 571
Rank change year-on-year +145 +121 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 39 21 52
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.082% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.086% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 42
10th Percentile £450 £496 £565
25th Percentile £481 £522 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +31.71%
75th Percentile £850 £663 £713
90th Percentile - £744 £749
UK median daily rate £534 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -17.85% - +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Senior Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Senior Java Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024, 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 39 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (84.62%) Software Engineering
3 24 (61.54%) AWS
4 21 (53.85%) Agile
5 19 (48.72%) TypeScript
6 16 (41.03%) Finance
6 16 (41.03%) Hedge funds
7 14 (35.90%) SciPy
7 14 (35.90%) NumPy
7 14 (35.90%) Investment Management
7 14 (35.90%) Asset Management
7 14 (35.90%) Derivative
7 14 (35.90%) Investment Banking
7 14 (35.90%) Front Office
7 14 (35.90%) Fixed Income
7 14 (35.90%) Equities
7 14 (35.90%) Banking
7 14 (35.90%) Apache
7 14 (35.90%) Python
7 14 (35.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (35.90%) JavaScript
7 14 (35.90%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (35.90%) Pandas
7 14 (35.90%) gRPC
7 14 (35.90%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (35.90%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (35.90%) Apache Ignite
7 14 (35.90%) Dremio
7 14 (35.90%) dbt
7 14 (35.90%) Apache Arrow

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 14 (35.90%) Apache
1 14 (35.90%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) dbt
3 13 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 9 (23.08%) Azure
5 2 (5.13%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.13%) Datadog
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Miro
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Firewall
1 5 (12.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (35.90%) Apache Arrow
1 14 (35.90%) Apache Ignite
1 14 (35.90%) Dremio
2 13 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Selenium
2 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
2 5 (12.82%) GitLab
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) REST Assured
2 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.13%) JMeter
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Banking
2 14 (35.90%) Front Office
2 14 (35.90%) Investment Banking
3 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Law
5 4 (10.26%) Police
6 3 (7.69%) Retail
7 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) gRPC
1 14 (35.90%) NumPy
1 14 (35.90%) Pandas
1 14 (35.90%) Protocol Buffers
1 14 (35.90%) SciPy
2 10 (25.64%) REST
3 8 (20.51%) Java EE
4 7 (17.95%) React
5 5 (12.82%) ARM Templates
5 5 (12.82%) CSS
5 5 (12.82%) HTML
5 5 (12.82%) Spring
5 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
6 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.69%) SOAP
8 2 (5.13%) Kafka
8 2 (5.13%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.13%) Spring WebFlux
8 2 (5.13%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Hedge funds
2 14 (35.90%) Derivative
2 14 (35.90%) Equities
2 14 (35.90%) Fixed Income
2 14 (35.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (15.38%) Pricing Data
4 2 (5.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 21 (53.85%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) Asset Management
3 14 (35.90%) Investment Management
4 12 (30.77%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) API Development
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (17.95%) Greeks
6 7 (17.95%) TDD
7 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
7 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.82%) Identity Management
7 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.82%) Load Balancing
7 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (48.72%) TypeScript
3 14 (35.90%) JavaScript
3 14 (35.90%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) C++
4 2 (5.13%) PHP
4 2 (5.13%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Ruby
5 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (12.82%) Podman
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) New Relic