Senior Java Software Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java 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 283 321 468
Rank change year-on-year +38 +147 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 21 24 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.16% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.17% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 6
10th Percentile - £453 £500
25th Percentile £675 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £619
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +29.29% -8.33%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £705
90th Percentile £888 - £819
UK median daily rate £750 £675 £619
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% +3.13%
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 Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Java Software 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 Software Engineer.

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

Senior Java Software 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Java
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (95.24%) AWS
3 19 (90.48%) TypeScript
3 19 (90.48%) Agile
3 19 (90.48%) Finance
4 18 (85.71%) Data Lake
4 18 (85.71%) gRPC
4 18 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (85.71%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (85.71%) Apache Ignite
4 18 (85.71%) Apache Arrow
4 18 (85.71%) Apache Iceberg
4 18 (85.71%) Dremio
4 18 (85.71%) dbt
4 18 (85.71%) Snowflake
4 18 (85.71%) Fixed Income
4 18 (85.71%) Equities
4 18 (85.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (85.71%) JavaScript
4 18 (85.71%) Apache
4 18 (85.71%) Python
4 18 (85.71%) Banking
4 18 (85.71%) Asset Management
4 18 (85.71%) Front Office
4 18 (85.71%) Investment Banking
4 18 (85.71%) Pandas
4 18 (85.71%) Protocol Buffers
4 18 (85.71%) Derivative
4 18 (85.71%) Hedge funds

Senior Java Software 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 (85.71%) Apache
1 18 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) AWS
2 18 (85.71%) dbt
2 18 (85.71%) Snowflake
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (28.57%) Dagster
3 6 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (85.71%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (85.71%) Apache Iceberg
1 18 (85.71%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (85.71%) Data Lake
1 18 (85.71%) Dremio
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Gradle
1 1 (4.76%) Jasmine
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) JUnit
General
1 19 (90.48%) Finance
2 18 (85.71%) Banking
2 18 (85.71%) Front Office
2 18 (85.71%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (85.71%) gRPC
1 18 (85.71%) NumPy
1 18 (85.71%) Pandas
1 18 (85.71%) Protocol Buffers
1 18 (85.71%) SciPy
2 6 (28.57%) PySpark
3 3 (14.29%) Spring
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.52%) Swagger
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 18 (85.71%) Derivative
1 18 (85.71%) Equities
1 18 (85.71%) Fixed Income
1 18 (85.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (85.71%) Hedge funds
2 12 (57.14%) Pricing Data
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (90.48%) Agile
3 18 (85.71%) Asset Management
4 12 (57.14%) Investment Management
5 6 (28.57%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) TDD
8 1 (4.76%) BDD
8 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
8 1 (4.76%) Containerisation
8 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.76%) High Availability
8 1 (4.76%) Kernel Tuning
8 1 (4.76%) Microservices
8 1 (4.76%) Operational Stability
8 1 (4.76%) OWASP
8 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
8 1 (4.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (90.48%) TypeScript
3 18 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 18 (85.71%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
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