Senior Java Engineer Contracts

Senior Java Engineer
UK

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in the UK is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 651 681
Rank change year-on-year +146 +30 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 79 46 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.083% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.088% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 38 142
10th Percentile £450 £463 £538
25th Percentile £500 £504 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -0.96% +18.18%
75th Percentile £850 £722 £722
90th Percentile - £763 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £588 £650
% change year-on-year -9.11% -9.62% +36.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 9 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 12 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 +127 77 £775 +21.57% 29
Work from Home +159 60 £800 +28.00% 25
London +113 60 £800 +23.08% 18
UK excluding London +40 17 £534 -9.11% 14
South East +21 7 £650 +18.18% 1
East of England +9 7 £534 -0.19%
North of England +19 3 £425 -34.62% 4
Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 1
North West +15 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 79 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (72.15%) Software Engineering
3 47 (59.49%) AWS
4 43 (54.43%) Finance
5 41 (51.90%) Agile
6 36 (45.57%) Hedge funds
7 35 (44.30%) TypeScript
8 34 (43.04%) Banking
8 34 (43.04%) Equities
8 34 (43.04%) Investment Banking
9 33 (41.77%) Python
10 31 (39.24%) JavaScript
11 30 (37.97%) Apache
11 30 (37.97%) Front Office
11 30 (37.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 30 (37.97%) Derivative
11 30 (37.97%) Asset Management
11 30 (37.97%) Fixed Income
11 30 (37.97%) Protocol Buffers
11 30 (37.97%) Pandas
11 30 (37.97%) SciPy
11 30 (37.97%) NumPy
11 30 (37.97%) Investment Management
11 30 (37.97%) Apache Arrow
11 30 (37.97%) dbt
11 30 (37.97%) Data Lake
11 30 (37.97%) gRPC
11 30 (37.97%) Apache Airflow
11 30 (37.97%) Amazon Athena
11 30 (37.97%) Apache Ignite

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 30 (37.97%) Apache
1 30 (37.97%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) AWS
2 30 (37.97%) dbt
3 29 (36.71%) Snowflake
4 11 (13.92%) Azure
5 7 (8.86%) GCP
6 5 (6.33%) Datadog
6 5 (6.33%) GitHub
7 4 (5.06%) Cloud Run
7 4 (5.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.06%) Miro
8 2 (2.53%) AWS IoT
9 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Firewall
1 6 (7.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.97%) Amazon Athena
1 30 (37.97%) Apache Arrow
1 30 (37.97%) Apache Ignite
1 30 (37.97%) Data Lake
1 30 (37.97%) Dremio
2 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.27%) Big Data
6 1 (1.27%) DB2
6 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.27%) HBase
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
1 7 (8.86%) Selenium
2 6 (7.59%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.33%) GitLab
3 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.33%) REST Assured
3 5 (6.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.06%) Gradle
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.53%) JMeter
5 2 (2.53%) JUnit
5 2 (2.53%) Maven
5 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.27%) Ant
6 1 (1.27%) Mockito
General
1 43 (54.43%) Finance
2 34 (43.04%) Banking
2 34 (43.04%) Investment Banking
3 30 (37.97%) Front Office
4 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
5 10 (12.66%) Retail
6 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Law
7 4 (5.06%) Police
8 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Automotive
9 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.97%) gRPC
1 30 (37.97%) NumPy
1 30 (37.97%) Pandas
1 30 (37.97%) Protocol Buffers
1 30 (37.97%) SciPy
2 18 (22.78%) REST
3 13 (16.46%) React
3 13 (16.46%) Spring Boot
4 12 (15.19%) Spring
5 10 (12.66%) Java EE
6 8 (10.13%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.86%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.59%) CSS
8 6 (7.59%) HTML
8 6 (7.59%) Kafka
9 5 (6.33%) ARM Templates
9 5 (6.33%) SOAP
10 4 (5.06%) Spring WebFlux
11 3 (3.80%) RESTful
12 2 (2.53%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 36 (45.57%) Hedge funds
2 34 (43.04%) Equities
3 30 (37.97%) Derivative
3 30 (37.97%) Fixed Income
3 30 (37.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (20.25%) Pricing Data
5 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.06%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.53%) IoT
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (72.15%) Software Engineering
2 41 (51.90%) Agile
3 30 (37.97%) Asset Management
3 30 (37.97%) Investment Management
4 20 (25.32%) DevOps
5 18 (22.78%) Microservices
6 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
8 13 (16.46%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (16.46%) Greeks
9 12 (15.19%) TDD
10 11 (13.92%) API Development
10 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (7.59%) BDD
13 6 (7.59%) Identity Management
13 6 (7.59%) Load Balancing
13 6 (7.59%) Matrix Organization
14 5 (6.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (44.30%) TypeScript
3 33 (41.77%) Python
4 31 (39.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.86%) C++
6 3 (3.80%) Scala
7 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.53%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) SQL
8 1 (1.27%) C
8 1 (1.27%) Ruby
8 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.80%) Degree
3 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.53%) WCAG
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 12 (15.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.86%) Terraform
3 5 (6.33%) Ansible
3 5 (6.33%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (6.33%) Podman
4 4 (5.06%) Grafana
4 4 (5.06%) Kibana
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.33%) New Relic
2 1 (1.27%) Confluent
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft