Senior Java Developer Contracts in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 409 356
Rank change year-on-year -24 -53 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 118 243 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.51% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.54% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 206 446
10th Percentile £501 £513 £514
25th Percentile £622 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £648
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +8.11% +7.92%
75th Percentile £863 £800 £756
90th Percentile £888 £900 £848
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £638
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.80% +10.87%
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 median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,083 45,136 67,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,425 32,131 48,554
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,578 1,311 1,787
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.57
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London -1 101 £775 +5.08% 34
North of England +22 7 £516 -13.96% 8
North West +13 5 £581 +1.09% 8
South East +6 5 £675 +19.47% 7
Midlands +26 3 £398 - 2
West Midlands +17 2 - -
Yorkshire +8 2 £400 -36.00%
East of England +7 2 £600 +9.69%
East Midlands - 1 £398 - 2
Senior Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 51 (43.22%) Agile
3 49 (41.53%) Finance
4 42 (35.59%) TDD
5 40 (33.90%) Microservices
6 34 (28.81%) DevOps
6 34 (28.81%) CI/CD
7 31 (26.27%) Spring Boot
8 30 (25.42%) Linux
9 29 (24.58%) Mockito
10 28 (23.73%) Test Automation
10 28 (23.73%) AWS
11 26 (22.03%) Docker
12 25 (21.19%) Spring
12 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
13 24 (20.34%) Electronic Trading
13 24 (20.34%) Front Office
13 24 (20.34%) Jenkins
13 24 (20.34%) Kubernetes
14 23 (19.49%) BDD
15 22 (18.64%) Kafka
16 21 (17.80%) SDLC
16 21 (17.80%) Unix
17 20 (16.95%) Banking
17 20 (16.95%) Low Latency
18 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
18 19 (16.10%) Security Cleared
19 18 (15.25%) ActiveMQ
19 18 (15.25%) MongoDB
20 17 (14.41%) SC Cleared

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.24%) SAS
2 4 (3.39%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Confluence
3 3 (2.54%) WildFly
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) GemFire
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) RMDS
2 2 (1.69%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.73%) AWS
2 16 (13.56%) GCP
3 9 (7.63%) Azure
4 8 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (6.78%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.93%) Serverless
6 4 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.85%) dbt
8 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) MongoDB
2 15 (12.71%) KDB
3 7 (5.93%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle Database
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.69%) MySQL
7 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Ignite
8 1 (0.85%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.85%) Dremio
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Redis
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (24.58%) Mockito
2 24 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 17 (14.41%) JUnit
4 16 (13.56%) GitLab
5 15 (12.71%) Cucumber
6 10 (8.47%) JIRA
7 8 (6.78%) Git
8 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.39%) Sourcetree
9 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.54%) Selenium
9 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.85%) Maven
10 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (41.53%) Finance
2 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.34%) Front Office
4 20 (16.95%) Banking
5 17 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Law
8 3 (2.54%) Police
9 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.27%) Spring Boot
2 25 (21.19%) Spring
3 22 (18.64%) Kafka
4 18 (15.25%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (12.71%) JAX-RS
6 9 (7.63%) React
7 8 (6.78%) HTML
8 7 (5.93%) .NET
8 7 (5.93%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.08%) J2EE
9 6 (5.08%) Node.js
9 6 (5.08%) REST
9 6 (5.08%) RESTful
10 5 (4.24%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (4.24%) Middleware
10 5 (4.24%) Rendezvous
11 4 (3.39%) CSS
12 3 (2.54%) Java EE
12 3 (2.54%) Web Services
12 3 (2.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.56%) Credit Derivative
1 16 (13.56%) Fixed Income
2 15 (12.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (10.17%) Derivative
4 10 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (6.78%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.93%) Algorithms
8 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (4.24%) Equities
8 5 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
8 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.39%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.39%) Market Risk
9 4 (3.39%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.69%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.42%) Linux
2 21 (17.80%) Unix
3 14 (11.86%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.22%) Agile
2 42 (35.59%) TDD
3 40 (33.90%) Microservices
4 34 (28.81%) CI/CD
4 34 (28.81%) DevOps
5 28 (23.73%) Test Automation
6 24 (20.34%) Electronic Trading
7 23 (19.49%) BDD
8 21 (17.80%) SDLC
9 20 (16.95%) Low Latency
10 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.41%) OO
12 15 (12.71%) Computer Science
12 15 (12.71%) Pair Programming
12 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.86%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.86%) Web Development
14 13 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (11.02%) E-Commerce
14 13 (11.02%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (9.32%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.47%) Python
4 8 (6.78%) Scala
4 8 (6.78%) SQL
5 4 (3.39%) C#
5 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.54%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.85%) C
7 1 (0.85%) C++
7 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) Ruby
7 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) VB
7 1 (0.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 19 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.71%) Degree
4 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) OCP
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (22.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) GridGain
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (3.39%) Ansible
3 4 (3.39%) Terraform
4 3 (2.54%) Podman
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 14 (11.86%) Oracle
2 12 (10.17%) ION Trading
3 9 (7.63%) Google
4 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.78%) Solace
5 5 (4.24%) TIBCO
6 4 (3.39%) IBM
7 2 (1.69%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media
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