Senior Java Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer - Java
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer - Java daily rate for remote or hybrid work 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 274 397 569
Rank change year-on-year +123 +172 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Software Engineer 48 2 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.011% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.011% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 2 19
10th Percentile £613 £570 £500
25th Percentile £750 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £725
90th Percentile - £730 £867
UK median daily rate £800 £625 £681
% change year-on-year +28.00% -8.26% +13.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Java Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Java Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Java Software Engineer.

Senior Java Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Senior Java Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option 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 44 (91.67%) Asset Management
3 44 (91.67%) Investment Banking
3 44 (91.67%) Fixed Income
3 44 (91.67%) Equities
3 44 (91.67%) Agile
3 44 (91.67%) Derivative
3 44 (91.67%) Hedge funds
3 44 (91.67%) Front Office
3 44 (91.67%) Finance
3 44 (91.67%) JavaScript
3 44 (91.67%) Python
3 44 (91.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (91.67%) AWS
3 44 (91.67%) TypeScript
4 39 (81.25%) Data Lake
4 39 (81.25%) gRPC
4 39 (81.25%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (81.25%) Amazon Athena
4 39 (81.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 39 (81.25%) Pandas
4 39 (81.25%) SciPy
4 39 (81.25%) NumPy
4 39 (81.25%) Investment Management
4 39 (81.25%) Apache
4 39 (81.25%) Apache Arrow
4 39 (81.25%) dbt
4 39 (81.25%) Snowflake

Senior Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
Cloud Services
1 44 (91.67%) 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 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
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 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 46 (95.83%) Banking
2 44 (91.67%) Finance
2 44 (91.67%) Front Office
2 44 (91.67%) Investment Banking
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%) Kafka
3 2 (4.17%) Quarkus
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%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
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 4 (8.33%) 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%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.17%) High Availability
8 2 (4.17%) Identity Access 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) ForgeRock
1 2 (4.17%) Ping Identity