Senior Java Developer Contracts

Senior Java Developer
UK

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 408 380
Rank change year-on-year -39 -28 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 133 293 595
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.51% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.54% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 238 481
10th Percentile £513 £510 £506
25th Percentile £619 £586 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +14.29% +6.52%
75th Percentile £859 £788 £744
90th Percentile £888 £891 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £583 £545
% change year-on-year -3.52% +6.97% +6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
75th Percentile £69.63 - £57.50
90th Percentile £77.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England -15 110 £750 +7.14% 43
London -9 90 £800 +10.34% 26
Work from Home +69 65 £750 +20.00% 23
UK excluding London +36 36 £563 -3.52% 20
Scotland +33 16 £435 -30.40% 2
North of England +22 10 £625 +4.17% 4
North West +26 8 £625 - 3
South East +3 5 £675 +16.38% 7
Midlands +29 3 £398 - 1
West Midlands +27 2 - - 1
East of England +11 2 £600 +9.69%
Yorkshire +5 2 £400 -30.43%
East Midlands - 1 £398 -

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Senior Java Developer 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 featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (46.62%) Agile
3 54 (40.60%) Microservices
4 50 (37.59%) Finance
5 49 (36.84%) Spring Boot
6 45 (33.83%) Spring
7 42 (31.58%) TDD
8 36 (27.07%) AWS
9 35 (26.32%) DevOps
10 34 (25.56%) CI/CD
11 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
12 29 (21.80%) Jenkins
13 28 (21.05%) Test Automation
13 28 (21.05%) Mockito
13 28 (21.05%) Linux
14 27 (20.30%) Kafka
15 24 (18.05%) Docker
16 23 (17.29%) SDLC
16 23 (17.29%) JUnit
16 23 (17.29%) Front Office
16 23 (17.29%) Electronic Trading
17 21 (15.79%) BDD
17 21 (15.79%) MongoDB
18 20 (15.04%) Software Engineering
18 20 (15.04%) SQL
19 19 (14.29%) Unix
19 19 (14.29%) Degree
19 19 (14.29%) Banking
19 19 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
19 19 (14.29%) Cucumber

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (4.51%) Apache
3 5 (3.76%) SAS
4 2 (1.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.75%) GemFire
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) RMDS
2 2 (1.50%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.07%) AWS
2 16 (12.03%) GCP
3 9 (6.77%) Azure
4 8 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (6.02%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.26%) Serverless
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.75%) dbt
8 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.53%) KDB
3 7 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.50%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.50%) MySQL
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.75%) Dremio
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (21.80%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.05%) Mockito
3 23 (17.29%) JUnit
4 19 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 17 (12.78%) GitLab
6 14 (10.53%) JIRA
7 13 (9.77%) Git
8 5 (3.76%) Maven
9 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.01%) Postman
9 4 (3.01%) Sourcetree
10 3 (2.26%) IntelliJ
10 3 (2.26%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.26%) Selenium
10 3 (2.26%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.50%) Subversion
General
1 50 (37.59%) Finance
2 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.29%) Front Office
4 19 (14.29%) Banking
5 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Law
7 3 (2.26%) Police
7 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.84%) Spring Boot
2 45 (33.83%) Spring
3 27 (20.30%) Kafka
4 18 (13.53%) REST
5 17 (12.78%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (12.78%) RESTful
6 15 (11.28%) JAX-RS
7 12 (9.02%) React
8 11 (8.27%) Node.js
9 8 (6.02%) HTML
10 7 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.26%) J2EE
11 6 (4.51%) Apache Camel
11 6 (4.51%) Web Services
12 5 (3.76%) CSS
12 5 (3.76%) XML
13 4 (3.01%) .NET
13 4 (3.01%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (3.01%) Middleware
13 4 (3.01%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Credit Derivative
1 16 (12.03%) Fixed Income
2 13 (9.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (9.02%) Derivative
4 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.77%) Data Structures
6 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
6 8 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.26%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.51%) Equities
9 5 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.76%) Public Cloud
10 4 (3.01%) Credit Risk
10 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
10 4 (3.01%) Market Risk
11 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.05%) Linux
2 19 (14.29%) Unix
3 13 (9.77%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (46.62%) Agile
2 54 (40.60%) Microservices
3 42 (31.58%) TDD
4 35 (26.32%) DevOps
5 34 (25.56%) CI/CD
6 28 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 23 (17.29%) Electronic Trading
7 23 (17.29%) SDLC
8 21 (15.79%) BDD
9 20 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 19 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (14.29%) Low Latency
11 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.03%) Computer Science
12 16 (12.03%) OO
13 15 (11.28%) Containerisation
14 14 (10.53%) Pair Programming
14 14 (10.53%) Web Development
15 13 (9.77%) Multithreading
16 12 (9.02%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (15.04%) SQL
3 10 (7.52%) Python
4 8 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.51%) Scala
6 5 (3.76%) C#
7 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.75%) Ruby
8 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.29%) Degree
2 16 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (18.05%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 18 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.51%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (3.76%) Terraform
4 3 (2.26%) Ansible
4 3 (2.26%) Kibana
4 3 (2.26%) Podman
4 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 15 (11.28%) Oracle
2 12 (9.02%) ION Trading
3 8 (6.02%) Google
3 8 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.26%) Solace
5 6 (4.51%) IBM
6 4 (3.01%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.50%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.75%) Virgin Media
53 Senior Java Developer jobs Nationwide