Senior Java Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Java Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 462 464
Rank change year-on-year +110 +2 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 49 33 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.13% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.14% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 133
10th Percentile £450 £463 £538
25th Percentile £500 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £850 £763 £713
90th Percentile - £774 £761
England median daily rate £663 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +1.92% - +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,262 24,406 36,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 17,762 27,009
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 282 435
10th Percentile £16.02 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +15.32%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.23 £82.48 £66.30
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in London

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 London region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (67.35%) Finance
2 33 (67.35%) Software Engineering
3 28 (57.14%) AWS
4 27 (55.10%) Hedge funds
4 27 (55.10%) Agile
4 27 (55.10%) Banking
4 27 (55.10%) Equities
4 27 (55.10%) Investment Banking
5 25 (51.02%) Python
6 24 (48.98%) JavaScript
7 23 (46.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (46.94%) Apache
7 23 (46.94%) Front Office
7 23 (46.94%) Fixed Income
7 23 (46.94%) Derivative
7 23 (46.94%) Asset Management
7 23 (46.94%) Investment Management
7 23 (46.94%) SciPy
7 23 (46.94%) NumPy
7 23 (46.94%) Protocol Buffers
7 23 (46.94%) TypeScript
7 23 (46.94%) Pandas
7 23 (46.94%) Data Lake
7 23 (46.94%) gRPC
7 23 (46.94%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (46.94%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (46.94%) Apache Arrow
7 23 (46.94%) Apache Ignite
7 23 (46.94%) Dremio

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (46.94%) Apache
1 23 (46.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) AWS
2 23 (46.94%) dbt
3 22 (44.90%) Snowflake
4 5 (10.20%) GCP
5 4 (8.16%) Cloud Run
5 4 (8.16%) Datadog
5 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 4 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (8.16%) Miro
6 3 (6.12%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) Amazon Athena
1 23 (46.94%) Apache Arrow
1 23 (46.94%) Apache Ignite
1 23 (46.94%) Data Lake
1 23 (46.94%) Dremio
2 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.16%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Gradle
2 2 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.04%) Ant
3 1 (2.04%) JUnit
3 1 (2.04%) Maven
General
1 33 (67.35%) Finance
2 27 (55.10%) Banking
2 27 (55.10%) Investment Banking
3 23 (46.94%) Front Office
4 9 (18.37%) Retail
5 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) gRPC
1 23 (46.94%) NumPy
1 23 (46.94%) Pandas
1 23 (46.94%) Protocol Buffers
1 23 (46.94%) SciPy
2 12 (24.49%) REST
2 12 (24.49%) Spring
3 11 (22.45%) Spring Boot
4 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 5 (10.20%) Java EE
5 5 (10.20%) SOAP
6 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.16%) React
6 4 (8.16%) Spring WebFlux
7 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.08%) RESTful
7 2 (4.08%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Spring Security
7 2 (4.08%) Struts
8 1 (2.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (55.10%) Equities
1 27 (55.10%) Hedge funds
2 23 (46.94%) Derivative
2 23 (46.94%) Fixed Income
2 23 (46.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (24.49%) Pricing Data
4 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.16%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Software Engineering
2 27 (55.10%) Agile
3 23 (46.94%) Asset Management
3 23 (46.94%) Investment Management
4 12 (24.49%) Microservices
5 10 (20.41%) API Development
5 10 (20.41%) Greeks
5 10 (20.41%) TDD
6 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.20%) BDD
7 5 (10.20%) DevOps
7 5 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.16%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (8.16%) Data Development
8 4 (8.16%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 4 (8.16%) Matrix Organization
8 4 (8.16%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (51.02%) Python
3 24 (48.98%) JavaScript
4 23 (46.94%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.20%) C++
6 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.08%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
7 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Grafana
1 4 (8.16%) Kibana
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) New Relic
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft