Senior Java Engineer Contracts

Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 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 512 630 671
Rank change year-on-year +118 +41 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 64 54 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.095% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.10% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 43 156
10th Percentile £450 £463 £538
25th Percentile £483 £534 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £850 £737 £713
90th Percentile - £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -2.91% -15.38% +36.84%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Engineer in the UK

Senior Java Engineer
Top 10 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 Engineer 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 +131 61 £650 +0.97% 36
Work from Home +148 47 £750 +20.00% 24
London +111 44 £800 +23.08% 21
UK excluding London +66 18 £534 -2.91% 17
South East +19 7 £650 +18.18% 1
East of England +14 7 £534 -0.19% 2
North of England +28 3 £425 -34.62% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 1
Scotland +35 1 - -
North West +19 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (68.75%) Software Engineering
3 32 (50.00%) AWS
4 31 (48.44%) Agile
5 29 (45.31%) Finance
6 25 (39.06%) TypeScript
7 24 (37.50%) Equities
7 24 (37.50%) Investment Banking
7 24 (37.50%) Banking
8 23 (35.94%) Python
8 23 (35.94%) Hedge funds
9 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
10 20 (31.25%) Apache
10 20 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (31.25%) Front Office
10 20 (31.25%) Asset Management
10 20 (31.25%) Derivative
10 20 (31.25%) Fixed Income
10 20 (31.25%) SciPy
10 20 (31.25%) NumPy
10 20 (31.25%) Protocol Buffers
10 20 (31.25%) Pandas
10 20 (31.25%) Investment Management
10 20 (31.25%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (31.25%) Dremio
10 20 (31.25%) dbt
10 20 (31.25%) Data Lake
10 20 (31.25%) gRPC
10 20 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
10 20 (31.25%) Amazon Athena

Senior Java Engineer 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 20 (31.25%) Apache
1 20 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) dbt
3 19 (29.69%) Snowflake
4 9 (14.06%) Azure
5 5 (7.81%) GCP
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Run
6 4 (6.25%) Datadog
6 4 (6.25%) GitHub
6 4 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (6.25%) Miro
7 2 (3.13%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
1 6 (9.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (31.25%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (31.25%) Apache Ignite
1 20 (31.25%) Data Lake
1 20 (31.25%) Dremio
2 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) HBase
6 1 (1.56%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.94%) Selenium
3 6 (9.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (9.38%) JIRA
4 5 (7.81%) GitLab
4 5 (7.81%) REST Assured
4 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.13%) Gradle
5 2 (3.13%) JMeter
5 2 (3.13%) JUnit
5 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) Ant
6 1 (1.56%) Git
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Postman
General
1 29 (45.31%) Finance
2 24 (37.50%) Banking
2 24 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 20 (31.25%) Front Office
4 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Retail
6 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.25%) Law
7 4 (6.25%) Police
8 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.56%) Automotive
9 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.25%) gRPC
1 20 (31.25%) NumPy
1 20 (31.25%) Pandas
1 20 (31.25%) Protocol Buffers
1 20 (31.25%) SciPy
2 17 (26.56%) REST
3 13 (20.31%) Spring
3 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
4 10 (15.63%) Java EE
4 10 (15.63%) React
5 7 (10.94%) GraphQL
6 6 (9.38%) CSS
6 6 (9.38%) HTML
7 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
7 5 (7.81%) Kafka
7 5 (7.81%) SOAP
8 4 (6.25%) Spring WebFlux
9 2 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (3.13%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Equities
2 23 (35.94%) Hedge funds
3 20 (31.25%) Derivative
3 20 (31.25%) Fixed Income
3 20 (31.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (15.63%) Pricing Data
5 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.13%) IoT
7 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 31 (48.44%) Agile
3 20 (31.25%) Asset Management
3 20 (31.25%) Investment Management
4 19 (29.69%) DevOps
5 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (25.00%) Microservices
7 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
8 12 (18.75%) TDD
9 11 (17.19%) API Development
9 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
10 10 (15.63%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (14.06%) Containerisation
11 9 (14.06%) Greeks
12 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (9.38%) Identity Management
13 6 (9.38%) Load Balancing
14 5 (7.81%) Configuration Management
14 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (39.06%) TypeScript
3 23 (35.94%) Python
4 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.25%) C++
6 3 (4.69%) Scala
6 3 (4.69%) SQL
7 2 (3.13%) PHP
8 1 (1.56%) C
8 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
8 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.13%) WCAG
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
1 7 (10.94%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
2 5 (7.81%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (7.81%) Podman
3 4 (6.25%) Grafana
3 4 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) New Relic
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle