Senior Java Developer Contracts in London

Senior Java Developer
England > London

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in London is £775 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 292 294 244
Rank change year-on-year +2 -50 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 101 208 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.81% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.85% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 180 378
10th Percentile £512 £525 £531
25th Percentile £666 £623 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £738 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +9.26% +12.50%
75th Percentile £863 £811 £775
90th Percentile £900 £925 £850
England median daily rate £750 £700 £645
% change year-on-year +7.14% +8.53% +7.50%

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 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in London

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region 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
Central London +14 9 £700 +3.70% 1
West London +22 1 £475 -24.00%
South London +7 1 £500 -31.03% 1
Senior Java Developer
England

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

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 across the London region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (44.55%) Agile
3 43 (42.57%) Finance
4 34 (33.66%) TDD
5 31 (30.69%) Microservices
6 29 (28.71%) CI/CD
7 28 (27.72%) Mockito
8 27 (26.73%) DevOps
8 27 (26.73%) Linux
9 26 (25.74%) Spring Boot
10 24 (23.76%) Front Office
10 24 (23.76%) Electronic Trading
11 23 (22.77%) Test Automation
12 22 (21.78%) AWS
13 21 (20.79%) SDLC
14 20 (19.80%) Docker
15 19 (18.81%) Jenkins
15 19 (18.81%) Kubernetes
15 19 (18.81%) BDD
15 19 (18.81%) Spring
16 18 (17.82%) Unix
16 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
17 17 (16.83%) Low Latency
17 17 (16.83%) Banking
17 17 (16.83%) ActiveMQ
18 16 (15.84%) Credit Derivative
18 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
18 16 (15.84%) JUnit
18 16 (15.84%) Fixed Income
18 16 (15.84%) GCP

Senior Java Developer 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 5 (4.95%) SAS
2 4 (3.96%) Apache
3 3 (2.97%) Confluence
3 3 (2.97%) WildFly
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) GemFire
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) RMDS
2 2 (1.98%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.78%) AWS
2 16 (15.84%) GCP
3 8 (7.92%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (7.92%) Amazon S3
4 6 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.94%) Serverless
5 5 (4.95%) Azure
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.99%) dbt
7 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) MongoDB
2 15 (14.85%) KDB
3 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.95%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.96%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.98%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.98%) MySQL
6 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.99%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.99%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.99%) Dremio
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (27.72%) Mockito
2 19 (18.81%) Jenkins
3 16 (15.84%) JUnit
4 12 (11.88%) Cucumber
4 12 (11.88%) GitLab
5 8 (7.92%) Git
6 7 (6.93%) JIRA
7 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.96%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.99%) Maven
General
1 43 (42.57%) Finance
2 24 (23.76%) Front Office
3 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.83%) Banking
5 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.74%) Spring Boot
2 19 (18.81%) Spring
3 17 (16.83%) ActiveMQ
4 16 (15.84%) Kafka
5 14 (13.86%) JAX-RS
6 7 (6.93%) .NET
7 6 (5.94%) HTML
7 6 (5.94%) J2EE
7 6 (5.94%) RESTful
8 5 (4.95%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (4.95%) Middleware
8 5 (4.95%) React
8 5 (4.95%) Rendezvous
9 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.96%) Node.js
10 3 (2.97%) CSS
10 3 (2.97%) HTML5
10 3 (2.97%) REST
10 3 (2.97%) Restlet
10 3 (2.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Credit Derivative
1 16 (15.84%) Fixed Income
2 15 (14.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (9.90%) Derivative
4 6 (5.94%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.95%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.95%) Equities
5 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.96%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.96%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.98%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.73%) Linux
2 18 (17.82%) Unix
3 13 (12.87%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.55%) Agile
2 34 (33.66%) TDD
3 31 (30.69%) Microservices
4 29 (28.71%) CI/CD
5 27 (26.73%) DevOps
6 24 (23.76%) Electronic Trading
7 23 (22.77%) Test Automation
8 21 (20.79%) SDLC
9 19 (18.81%) BDD
10 17 (16.83%) Low Latency
11 14 (13.86%) OO
12 13 (12.87%) Computer Science
12 13 (12.87%) Pair Programming
12 13 (12.87%) Web Development
13 12 (11.88%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (10.89%) E-Commerce
14 11 (10.89%) Multithreading
14 11 (10.89%) Responsive Web Design
14 11 (10.89%) Software Engineering
14 11 (10.89%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (9.90%) Python
3 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.92%) SQL
5 6 (5.94%) Scala
6 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.97%) C#
7 3 (2.97%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.99%) C
8 1 (0.99%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.99%) Ruby
8 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.99%) VB
8 1 (0.99%) VC++
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) Degree
4 7 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) OCP
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (19.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) GridGain
2 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (1.98%) Grafana
3 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.99%) Ansible
4 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (13.86%) Oracle
2 12 (11.88%) ION Trading
3 9 (8.91%) Google
4 8 (7.92%) Solace
5 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.95%) TIBCO
7 4 (3.96%) IBM
8 2 (1.98%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.99%) Virgin Media