Senior Java Software Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java 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 466 587 711
Rank change year-on-year +121 +124 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 48 2 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.005% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.005% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 2 51
10th Percentile £613 £556 £525
25th Percentile £750 £566 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £588 £693
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% -15.16% +15.42%
75th Percentile £850 £616 £750
90th Percentile - £629 £813
UK median daily rate £800 £625 £681
% change year-on-year +28.00% -8.26% +13.54%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Software Engineer in England

Senior Java Software 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 Software 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 +97 48 £800 +28.00% 12
Senior Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Java
1 48 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 46 (95.83%) Banking
3 45 (93.75%) AWS
4 44 (91.67%) TypeScript
4 44 (91.67%) Derivative
4 44 (91.67%) Hedge funds
4 44 (91.67%) Asset Management
4 44 (91.67%) Investment Banking
4 44 (91.67%) Fixed Income
4 44 (91.67%) Equities
4 44 (91.67%) Agile
4 44 (91.67%) Front Office
4 44 (91.67%) Finance
4 44 (91.67%) JavaScript
4 44 (91.67%) Python
4 44 (91.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 39 (81.25%) Data Lake
5 39 (81.25%) gRPC
5 39 (81.25%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (81.25%) Amazon Athena
5 39 (81.25%) Apache Ignite
5 39 (81.25%) dbt
5 39 (81.25%) Snowflake
5 39 (81.25%) Dremio
5 39 (81.25%) Apache Arrow
5 39 (81.25%) Apache
5 39 (81.25%) SciPy
5 39 (81.25%) NumPy
5 39 (81.25%) Investment Management

Senior Java Software 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 (81.25%) Apache
1 39 (81.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 45 (93.75%) AWS
2 39 (81.25%) dbt
2 39 (81.25%) Snowflake
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (10.42%) Serverless
4 1 (2.08%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (81.25%) Amazon Athena
1 39 (81.25%) Apache Arrow
1 39 (81.25%) Apache Ignite
1 39 (81.25%) Data Lake
1 39 (81.25%) Dremio
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
General
1 46 (95.83%) Banking
2 44 (91.67%) Finance
2 44 (91.67%) Front Office
2 44 (91.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (81.25%) gRPC
1 39 (81.25%) NumPy
1 39 (81.25%) Pandas
1 39 (81.25%) Protocol Buffers
1 39 (81.25%) SciPy
2 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
2 5 (10.42%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) EDIFACT
4 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.08%) Java EE
4 1 (2.08%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) Kafka
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (91.67%) Derivative
1 44 (91.67%) Equities
1 44 (91.67%) Fixed Income
1 44 (91.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 44 (91.67%) Hedge funds
2 30 (62.50%) Pricing Data
3 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (91.67%) Agile
2 44 (91.67%) Asset Management
3 39 (81.25%) Investment Management
4 9 (18.75%) Greeks
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) Microservices
8 2 (4.17%) CI/CD
8 2 (4.17%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (4.17%) Customer Experience
8 2 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.17%) High Availability
8 2 (4.17%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (4.17%) Incident Management
8 2 (4.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 2 (4.17%) Observability
8 2 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (4.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 44 (91.67%) Python
2 44 (91.67%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.42%) SQL
4 2 (4.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) ForgeRock
1 2 (4.17%) Ping Identity
2 1 (2.08%) Confluent
2 1 (2.08%) MKS