Senior Java Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 600 614
Rank change year-on-year +128 +14 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 71 38 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.080% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.085% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 34 145
10th Percentile £450 £463 £538
25th Percentile £500 £526 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -0.96% +18.18%
75th Percentile £850 £753 £738
90th Percentile - £763 £778
UK median daily rate £675 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in England

Senior Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London +110 54 £800 +23.08% 22
South East +17 7 £650 +18.18% 1
East of England +12 7 £534 -0.19% 2
North of England +28 3 £425 -34.62% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 1
North West +19 1 - - 4
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (70.42%) Software Engineering
3 39 (54.93%) AWS
4 38 (53.52%) Finance
5 37 (52.11%) Agile
6 31 (43.66%) Hedge funds
6 31 (43.66%) TypeScript
7 30 (42.25%) Banking
7 30 (42.25%) Equities
7 30 (42.25%) Investment Banking
8 29 (40.85%) Python
9 27 (38.03%) JavaScript
10 26 (36.62%) Front Office
10 26 (36.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 26 (36.62%) Derivative
10 26 (36.62%) Apache
10 26 (36.62%) Fixed Income
10 26 (36.62%) Asset Management
10 26 (36.62%) Pandas
10 26 (36.62%) Protocol Buffers
10 26 (36.62%) SciPy
10 26 (36.62%) NumPy
10 26 (36.62%) Investment Management
10 26 (36.62%) Apache Arrow
10 26 (36.62%) Data Lake
10 26 (36.62%) gRPC
10 26 (36.62%) Apache Airflow
10 26 (36.62%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (36.62%) Apache Ignite
10 26 (36.62%) Dremio

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (36.62%) Apache
1 26 (36.62%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.93%) AWS
2 26 (36.62%) dbt
3 25 (35.21%) Snowflake
4 10 (14.08%) Azure
5 6 (8.45%) GCP
6 5 (7.04%) Datadog
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub
7 4 (5.63%) Cloud Run
7 4 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.63%) Miro
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Firewall
1 6 (8.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.62%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (36.62%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (36.62%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (36.62%) Data Lake
1 26 (36.62%) Dremio
2 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.63%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.41%) Big Data
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.41%) HBase
6 1 (1.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
1 7 (9.86%) Selenium
2 6 (8.45%) Cucumber
3 5 (7.04%) GitLab
3 5 (7.04%) JIRA
3 5 (7.04%) REST Assured
3 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.63%) Gradle
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.82%) JMeter
5 2 (2.82%) JUnit
5 2 (2.82%) Maven
5 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.41%) Ant
6 1 (1.41%) Mockito
General
1 38 (53.52%) Finance
2 30 (42.25%) Banking
2 30 (42.25%) Investment Banking
3 26 (36.62%) Front Office
4 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
5 10 (14.08%) Retail
6 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Law
7 4 (5.63%) Police
8 1 (1.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) gRPC
1 26 (36.62%) NumPy
1 26 (36.62%) Pandas
1 26 (36.62%) Protocol Buffers
1 26 (36.62%) SciPy
2 18 (25.35%) REST
3 13 (18.31%) Spring Boot
4 12 (16.90%) React
4 12 (16.90%) Spring
5 10 (14.08%) Java EE
6 7 (9.86%) GraphQL
7 6 (8.45%) CSS
7 6 (8.45%) HTML
8 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.04%) ARM Templates
8 5 (7.04%) SOAP
9 4 (5.63%) Spring WebFlux
10 3 (4.23%) Kafka
11 2 (2.82%) RESTful
11 2 (2.82%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 31 (43.66%) Hedge funds
2 30 (42.25%) Equities
3 26 (36.62%) Derivative
3 26 (36.62%) Fixed Income
3 26 (36.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (19.72%) Pricing Data
5 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (70.42%) Software Engineering
2 37 (52.11%) Agile
3 26 (36.62%) Asset Management
3 26 (36.62%) Investment Management
4 17 (23.94%) DevOps
4 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (21.13%) Microservices
6 14 (19.72%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.90%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (16.90%) TDD
8 11 (15.49%) API Development
8 11 (15.49%) Greeks
8 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.45%) BDD
11 6 (8.45%) Identity Management
11 6 (8.45%) Load Balancing
12 5 (7.04%) Configuration Management
12 5 (7.04%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (43.66%) TypeScript
3 29 (40.85%) Python
4 27 (38.03%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.45%) C++
6 3 (4.23%) Scala
7 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.82%) SQL
8 1 (1.41%) C
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.82%) WCAG
3 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
3 5 (7.04%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (7.04%) Podman
4 4 (5.63%) Grafana
4 4 (5.63%) Kibana
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.04%) New Relic
2 1 (1.41%) Confluent
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft