Senior Java Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 576 627
Rank change year-on-year +124 +51 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 62 13 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.032% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.035% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 11 115
10th Percentile £613 £550 £518
25th Percentile £750 £580 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £688 £763
90th Percentile - £775 £788
UK median daily rate £800 £650 £700
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

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 October 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 October 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 +99 60 £800 +23.08% 14
South East +40 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £850 -
Midlands - 1 £850 -
Senior Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 62 (100.00%) Java
2 54 (87.10%) AWS
3 53 (85.48%) Finance
3 53 (85.48%) Software Engineering
4 49 (79.03%) Hedge funds
5 48 (77.42%) Banking
6 46 (74.19%) Python
6 46 (74.19%) Agile
7 45 (72.58%) Investment Banking
7 45 (72.58%) Front Office
8 44 (70.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 44 (70.97%) Fixed Income
8 44 (70.97%) JavaScript
8 44 (70.97%) Equities
8 44 (70.97%) Asset Management
8 44 (70.97%) Derivative
8 44 (70.97%) TypeScript
9 39 (62.90%) Data Lake
9 39 (62.90%) gRPC
9 39 (62.90%) Apache Airflow
9 39 (62.90%) Amazon Athena
9 39 (62.90%) Apache Arrow
9 39 (62.90%) Apache Ignite
9 39 (62.90%) Dremio
9 39 (62.90%) dbt
9 39 (62.90%) Snowflake
9 39 (62.90%) Pandas
9 39 (62.90%) Protocol Buffers
9 39 (62.90%) SciPy
9 39 (62.90%) NumPy

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 39 (62.90%) Apache
1 39 (62.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.61%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (87.10%) AWS
2 39 (62.90%) dbt
2 39 (62.90%) Snowflake
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (8.06%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (8.06%) Serverless
4 4 (6.45%) GCP
5 3 (4.84%) Azure
6 1 (1.61%) Datadog
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.61%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (62.90%) Amazon Athena
1 39 (62.90%) Apache Arrow
1 39 (62.90%) Apache Ignite
1 39 (62.90%) Data Lake
1 39 (62.90%) Dremio
2 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.23%) DB2
3 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.61%) KDB
4 1 (1.61%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Redis
4 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
1 2 (3.23%) Gradle
2 1 (1.61%) GitLab
2 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.61%) JUnit
2 1 (1.61%) Maven
2 1 (1.61%) Mockito
General
1 53 (85.48%) Finance
2 48 (77.42%) Banking
3 45 (72.58%) Front Office
3 45 (72.58%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (62.90%) gRPC
1 39 (62.90%) NumPy
1 39 (62.90%) Pandas
1 39 (62.90%) Protocol Buffers
1 39 (62.90%) SciPy
2 10 (16.13%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.06%) Kafka
3 5 (8.06%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (8.06%) React
4 3 (4.84%) REST
4 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.23%) JPA
5 2 (3.23%) Spring
6 1 (1.61%) EDIFACT
6 1 (1.61%) Java EE
6 1 (1.61%) JSON
6 1 (1.61%) SOAP
6 1 (1.61%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (79.03%) Hedge funds
2 44 (70.97%) Derivative
2 44 (70.97%) Equities
2 44 (70.97%) Fixed Income
2 44 (70.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (48.39%) Pricing Data
4 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (85.48%) Software Engineering
2 46 (74.19%) Agile
3 44 (70.97%) Asset Management
4 39 (62.90%) Investment Management
5 12 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (14.52%) Greeks
6 9 (14.52%) Microservices
7 8 (12.90%) DevOps
8 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
9 5 (8.06%) Matrix Organization
10 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (4.84%) BDD
11 3 (4.84%) Computer Science
11 3 (4.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (4.84%) Event-Driven
12 2 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
12 2 (3.23%) Incident Management
12 2 (3.23%) TDD
12 2 (3.23%) Unit Testing
12 2 (3.23%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (74.19%) Python
3 44 (70.97%) JavaScript
3 44 (70.97%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.68%) SQL
5 5 (8.06%) C++
6 2 (3.23%) Rust
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Go
7 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.23%) Degree
1 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.23%) Confluent
1 2 (3.23%) ForgeRock
1 2 (3.23%) Ping Identity
2 1 (1.61%) Google
2 1 (1.61%) MKS
2 1 (1.61%) New Relic
2 1 (1.61%) Splunk