Java Developer Contracts in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 80 65
Rank change year-on-year -81 -15 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 546 1,517 2,588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 3.01% 3.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 3.18% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 1,248 2,058
10th Percentile £400 £464 £450
25th Percentile £469 £531 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £744
90th Percentile £888 £863 £838
UK median daily rate £575 £669 £600
% change year-on-year -14.05% +11.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 21
10th Percentile £35.00 £63.21 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £70.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.75% +22.92% -2.83%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £75.25
90th Percentile £69.63 £79.50 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +6.19%

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 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in England

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 Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 -52 396 £650 -7.14% 79
North of England +2 71 £525 -8.70% 15
South East -26 46 £500 -4.76% 19
North West +24 40 £525 -4.55% 9
Yorkshire +13 28 £544 -5.43% 5
Midlands +23 20 £475 -17.39% 6
West Midlands +33 17 £475 -32.14% 5
East of England -2 8 £541 -22.71% 4
South West -38 8 £338 -35.71% 7
East Midlands +6 3 £511 -20.58% 1
North East -5 3 £450 -28.00% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 546 (100.00%) Java
2 228 (41.76%) Agile
3 197 (36.08%) Spring
4 169 (30.95%) Spring Boot
5 163 (29.85%) AWS
6 159 (29.12%) Finance
7 150 (27.47%) Microservices
8 127 (23.26%) Security Cleared
9 122 (22.34%) Banking
10 119 (21.79%) SC Cleared
11 110 (20.15%) CI/CD
12 101 (18.50%) REST
13 98 (17.95%) TDD
14 94 (17.22%) DevOps
15 92 (16.85%) Docker
16 90 (16.48%) Kafka
16 90 (16.48%) Front Office
16 90 (16.48%) Social Skills
17 80 (14.65%) Jenkins
17 80 (14.65%) Kubernetes
18 79 (14.47%) SQL
19 77 (14.10%) Software Engineering
20 74 (13.55%) Scrum
21 72 (13.19%) Investment Banking
22 71 (13.00%) Hibernate
23 68 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
24 66 (12.09%) JUnit
25 63 (11.54%) Git
26 62 (11.36%) Python
27 61 (11.17%) React

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 29 (5.31%) Apache
2 13 (2.38%) Confluence
3 12 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.28%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.92%) SAS
6 4 (0.73%) JBoss
6 4 (0.73%) Mule
6 4 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) GemFire
8 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.18%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.18%) RMDS
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 163 (29.85%) AWS
2 52 (9.52%) GCP
3 36 (6.59%) Azure
4 32 (5.86%) Serverless
5 25 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (4.03%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (2.20%) dbt
11 8 (1.47%) GitHub
11 8 (1.47%) OpenShift
11 8 (1.47%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (0.73%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.92%) Firewall
1 5 (0.92%) SSH
1 5 (0.92%) VPN
2 3 (0.55%) HTTP
2 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.18%) FTP
3 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.06%) Relational Database
3 43 (7.88%) MongoDB
4 26 (4.76%) KDB
5 22 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.66%) Oracle Database
7 18 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 15 (2.75%) MySQL
9 13 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (2.38%) Flink
10 12 (2.20%) Apache Arrow
10 12 (2.20%) Apache Ignite
10 12 (2.20%) Dremio
11 9 (1.65%) Couchbase
11 9 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (14.65%) Jenkins
2 66 (12.09%) JUnit
3 63 (11.54%) Git
4 43 (7.88%) Mockito
5 37 (6.78%) JIRA
6 32 (5.86%) Cucumber
6 32 (5.86%) GitLab
7 23 (4.21%) Maven
8 15 (2.75%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.38%) Selenium
10 8 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.47%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.28%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.10%) TestNG
13 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.92%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.73%) EasyMock
14 4 (0.73%) Log4j
14 4 (0.73%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.55%) Hamcrest
General
1 159 (29.12%) Finance
2 122 (22.34%) Banking
3 90 (16.48%) Front Office
3 90 (16.48%) Social Skills
4 72 (13.19%) Investment Banking
5 52 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 50 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.47%) Law
9 4 (0.73%) Automotive
9 4 (0.73%) Back Office
9 4 (0.73%) Police
9 4 (0.73%) Retail
9 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.37%) Electronics
10 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.18%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.18%) Marketing
11 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (36.08%) Spring
2 169 (30.95%) Spring Boot
3 101 (18.50%) REST
4 90 (16.48%) Kafka
5 71 (13.00%) Hibernate
6 61 (11.17%) React
7 58 (10.62%) JPA
8 36 (6.59%) HTML
9 32 (5.86%) Web Services
10 31 (5.68%) JAX-RS
10 31 (5.68%) RESTful
11 30 (5.49%) Node.js
12 29 (5.31%) AngularJS
13 27 (4.95%) ActiveMQ
13 27 (4.95%) CSS
14 23 (4.21%) FIX Protocol
15 17 (3.11%) SAML
16 15 (2.75%) J2EE
16 15 (2.75%) JSON
16 15 (2.75%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.07%) Fixed Income
2 47 (8.61%) Derivative
3 41 (7.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.03%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.85%) Credit Derivative
8 20 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (3.66%) Hedge funds
9 18 (3.30%) Equities
10 17 (3.11%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
11 14 (2.56%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.83%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.47%) Market Risk
16 7 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
17 6 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.71%) Linux
2 42 (7.69%) Unix
3 17 (3.11%) Mac OS X
4 8 (1.47%) Windows
5 3 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (41.76%) Agile
2 150 (27.47%) Microservices
3 110 (20.15%) CI/CD
4 98 (17.95%) TDD
5 94 (17.22%) DevOps
6 77 (14.10%) Software Engineering
7 74 (13.55%) Scrum
8 68 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (11.17%) Full Stack Development
10 59 (10.81%) SDLC
11 58 (10.62%) Test Automation
12 56 (10.26%) Electronic Trading
13 48 (8.79%) BDD
13 48 (8.79%) Computer Science
14 47 (8.61%) Mentoring
14 47 (8.61%) Multithreading
15 43 (7.88%) Continuous Integration
16 41 (7.51%) Front End Development
16 41 (7.51%) Low Latency
17 35 (6.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 546 (100.00%) Java
2 79 (14.47%) SQL
3 62 (11.36%) Python
4 57 (10.44%) JavaScript
5 47 (8.61%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.30%) Perl
6 18 (3.30%) Scala
7 15 (2.75%) C#
8 12 (2.20%) PHP
9 11 (2.01%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.65%) C++
12 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.73%) Bash
13 4 (0.73%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.73%) VBA
14 2 (0.37%) Go
14 2 (0.37%) Groovy
14 2 (0.37%) Haskell
14 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 127 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 119 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.42%) Degree
4 27 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.93%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.28%) PhD
8 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.20%) QA
2 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.92%) MiFID
4 4 (0.73%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.73%) WCAG
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (16.85%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 80 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.86%) Terraform
3 19 (3.48%) Ansible
4 12 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.47%) Grafana
6 7 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.92%) Podman
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Kibana
8 2 (0.37%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 54 (9.89%) Oracle
2 30 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.13%) Google
4 22 (4.03%) ION Trading
5 8 (1.47%) Solace
6 7 (1.28%) IBM
7 5 (0.92%) Splunk
7 5 (0.92%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.55%) Sybase
8 3 (0.55%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.37%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.37%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.37%) SAP
9 2 (0.37%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.37%) WSO2
10 1 (0.18%) Databricks