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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 415 383
Rank change year-on-year -25 -32 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 139 280 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.50% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.53% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 229 475
10th Percentile £466 £500 £506
25th Percentile £575 £569 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +9.80% +10.87%
75th Percentile £853 £800 £750
90th Percentile £886 £900 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £580 £545
% change year-on-year -9.48% +6.42% +9.00%
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
% change year-on-year - - -23.32%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -18 118 £750 +7.14% 55
London +2 101 £775 +5.08% 35
Work from Home +69 68 £750 +20.00% 24
UK excluding London +28 30 £525 -9.48% 19
Scotland +35 13 £435 -30.40%
North of England +24 7 £516 -13.96% 7
North West +19 5 £581 +1.09% 7
South East +2 5 £675 +19.47% 7
Midlands +27 3 £398 - 2
West Midlands +16 2 - -
Yorkshire +14 2 £400 -36.00%
East of England +9 2 £600 +9.69%
East Midlands - 1 £398 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (46.76%) Agile
3 51 (36.69%) Finance
3 51 (36.69%) Microservices
4 48 (34.53%) Spring Boot
5 45 (32.37%) TDD
6 41 (29.50%) Spring
7 37 (26.62%) AWS
8 36 (25.90%) DevOps
9 35 (25.18%) CI/CD
10 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
11 30 (21.58%) Test Automation
11 30 (21.58%) Linux
12 29 (20.86%) Mockito
13 28 (20.14%) Docker
14 27 (19.42%) Jenkins
15 26 (18.71%) Kafka
16 24 (17.27%) Electronic Trading
16 24 (17.27%) Kubernetes
16 24 (17.27%) SDLC
16 24 (17.27%) Front Office
17 23 (16.55%) BDD
18 22 (15.83%) Banking
19 21 (15.11%) Unix
19 21 (15.11%) JUnit
20 20 (14.39%) Software Engineering
20 20 (14.39%) Degree
20 20 (14.39%) Security Cleared
20 20 (14.39%) Low Latency
20 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving

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 5 (3.60%) Apache
1 5 (3.60%) Confluence
1 5 (3.60%) SAS
2 3 (2.16%) WildFly
3 2 (1.44%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) GemFire
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) RMDS
2 2 (1.44%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.62%) AWS
2 18 (12.95%) GCP
3 10 (7.19%) Azure
4 8 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (5.76%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.04%) Serverless
6 4 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.72%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.72%) dbt
8 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.72%) GitHub
8 1 (0.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.95%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.79%) KDB
3 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.04%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.44%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.44%) MySQL
7 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Ignite
8 1 (0.72%) Dremio
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.72%) Redis
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (20.86%) Mockito
2 27 (19.42%) Jenkins
3 21 (15.11%) JUnit
4 17 (12.23%) Cucumber
5 16 (11.51%) GitLab
6 12 (8.63%) Git
6 12 (8.63%) JIRA
7 5 (3.60%) Maven
8 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.88%) Sourcetree
9 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.16%) Selenium
9 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.44%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.44%) Postman
10 2 (1.44%) Subversion
11 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (36.69%) Finance
2 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.27%) Front Office
4 22 (15.83%) Banking
5 19 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.16%) Law
7 3 (2.16%) Police
7 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (34.53%) Spring Boot
2 41 (29.50%) Spring
3 26 (18.71%) Kafka
4 18 (12.95%) ActiveMQ
5 16 (11.51%) JAX-RS
6 14 (10.07%) REST
6 14 (10.07%) RESTful
7 12 (8.63%) React
8 10 (7.19%) HTML
9 8 (5.76%) J2EE
9 8 (5.76%) Node.js
10 7 (5.04%) .NET
10 7 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.32%) CSS
11 6 (4.32%) Web Services
12 5 (3.60%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.60%) Middleware
12 5 (3.60%) Rendezvous
12 5 (3.60%) XML
13 4 (2.88%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.51%) Credit Derivative
1 16 (11.51%) Fixed Income
2 15 (10.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (8.63%) Derivative
4 11 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.76%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.04%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.60%) Equities
8 5 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.60%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.88%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.88%) Market Risk
10 3 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.58%) Linux
2 21 (15.11%) Unix
3 14 (10.07%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (46.76%) Agile
2 51 (36.69%) Microservices
3 45 (32.37%) TDD
4 36 (25.90%) DevOps
5 35 (25.18%) CI/CD
6 30 (21.58%) Test Automation
7 24 (17.27%) Electronic Trading
7 24 (17.27%) SDLC
8 23 (16.55%) BDD
9 20 (14.39%) Low Latency
9 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.39%) Software Engineering
10 17 (12.23%) Computer Science
10 17 (12.23%) OO
11 16 (11.51%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (10.79%) Containerisation
12 15 (10.79%) Pair Programming
12 15 (10.79%) Web Development
13 14 (10.07%) Multithreading
14 13 (9.35%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (12.95%) SQL
3 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.63%) Python
5 8 (5.76%) Scala
6 5 (3.60%) C#
7 4 (2.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.16%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) Ruby
10 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.72%) VB
10 1 (0.72%) VC++
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Degree
1 20 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.72%) OCP
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 28 (20.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) GridGain
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.32%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (2.88%) Ansible
3 4 (2.88%) Terraform
4 3 (2.16%) Podman
4 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.44%) Grafana
5 2 (1.44%) Kibana
5 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.72%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 18 (12.95%) Oracle
2 12 (8.63%) ION Trading
3 10 (7.19%) Google
4 8 (5.76%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.76%) Solace
5 6 (4.32%) IBM
6 5 (3.60%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.44%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.72%) Virgin Media
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