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 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 79 64
Rank change year-on-year -89 -15 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 555 1,447 2,581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 2.95% 3.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 3.12% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 1,196 2,053
10th Percentile £400 £463 £450
25th Percentile £472 £525 £524
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 £850
UK median daily rate £564 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.27% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 22
10th Percentile £35.00 £63.21 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £70.00 £53.13
Median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £64.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.75% +15.01% +3.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £77.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £79.50 £77.16
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -28.81% +16.60% +10.48%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -54 399 £650 -7.14% 67
North of England -8 68 £525 -10.64% 11
South East -32 47 £500 -4.76% 17
North West +23 37 £525 -4.55% 9
Yorkshire -8 28 £550 -10.20% 1
Midlands +22 19 £450 -21.74% 4
West Midlands +20 17 £475 -32.14% 3
South West -27 14 £375 -25.00% 13
East of England +2 8 £541 -22.71% 2
North East -4 3 £450 -37.50% 1
East Midlands +9 2 £398 -43.21% 1
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 555 (100.00%) Java
2 229 (41.26%) Agile
3 208 (37.48%) Spring
4 172 (30.99%) Spring Boot
5 166 (29.91%) Finance
6 161 (29.01%) AWS
7 142 (25.59%) Microservices
8 129 (23.24%) Security Cleared
9 120 (21.62%) SC Cleared
10 118 (21.26%) Banking
11 114 (20.54%) TDD
12 110 (19.82%) CI/CD
13 108 (19.46%) REST
14 95 (17.12%) Front Office
15 88 (15.86%) Docker
15 88 (15.86%) DevOps
16 87 (15.68%) Kafka
16 87 (15.68%) Social Skills
17 81 (14.59%) SQL
18 79 (14.23%) Software Engineering
19 78 (14.05%) Jenkins
20 77 (13.87%) Kubernetes
21 72 (12.97%) Hibernate
22 69 (12.43%) Test Automation
23 68 (12.25%) Scrum
23 68 (12.25%) Python
23 68 (12.25%) Investment Banking
24 64 (11.53%) JUnit
24 64 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
25 63 (11.35%) 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 30 (5.41%) Apache
2 13 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.34%) Confluence
3 11 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.26%) SAS
5 5 (0.90%) JBoss
5 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.72%) Mule
7 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) GemFire
9 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.62%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.54%) RMDS
3 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.18%) Endur
3 1 (0.18%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (29.01%) AWS
2 62 (11.17%) GCP
3 39 (7.03%) Azure
4 32 (5.77%) Serverless
5 27 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (3.96%) Amazon S3
7 15 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (2.34%) dbt
10 12 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.80%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.62%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.44%) GitHub
14 6 (1.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (0.54%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.26%) SSH
2 5 (0.90%) Firewall
2 5 (0.90%) VPN
3 3 (0.54%) HTTP
3 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (7.93%) Relational Database
3 40 (7.21%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.59%) KDB
5 20 (3.60%) Oracle Database
6 19 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.06%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (2.34%) Apache Arrow
9 13 (2.34%) Apache Ignite
9 13 (2.34%) Dremio
9 13 (2.34%) Flink
9 13 (2.34%) MySQL
10 10 (1.80%) Couchbase
10 10 (1.80%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 78 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 64 (11.53%) JUnit
3 62 (11.17%) Git
4 44 (7.93%) Mockito
5 40 (7.21%) JIRA
6 32 (5.77%) Cucumber
6 32 (5.77%) GitLab
7 30 (5.41%) Maven
8 16 (2.88%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.34%) Selenium
10 8 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.44%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.26%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.08%) TestNG
13 5 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.90%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.72%) EasyMock
14 4 (0.72%) Gradle
14 4 (0.72%) Log4j
14 4 (0.72%) Sourcetree
General
1 166 (29.91%) Finance
2 118 (21.26%) Banking
3 95 (17.12%) Front Office
4 87 (15.68%) Social Skills
5 68 (12.25%) Investment Banking
6 51 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (9.01%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.26%) Law
10 4 (0.72%) Automotive
10 4 (0.72%) Back Office
10 4 (0.72%) Police
10 4 (0.72%) Retail
10 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.18%) Electronics
13 1 (0.18%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.18%) Marketing
13 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (37.48%) Spring
2 172 (30.99%) Spring Boot
3 108 (19.46%) REST
4 87 (15.68%) Kafka
5 72 (12.97%) Hibernate
6 63 (11.35%) React
7 59 (10.63%) JPA
8 37 (6.67%) JAX-RS
9 36 (6.49%) HTML
10 30 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 30 (5.41%) Web Services
11 29 (5.23%) Node.js
12 27 (4.86%) RESTful
13 26 (4.68%) ActiveMQ
13 26 (4.68%) CSS
14 22 (3.96%) FIX Protocol
15 21 (3.78%) SAML
16 19 (3.42%) Restlet
17 18 (3.24%) GWT
17 18 (3.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.09%) Fixed Income
2 51 (9.19%) Derivative
3 48 (8.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.32%) Data Structures
6 23 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (3.78%) Credit Derivative
7 21 (3.78%) Equities
7 21 (3.78%) Hedge funds
8 20 (3.60%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.52%) Equity Derivative
11 13 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.80%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.44%) Market Risk
14 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
15 7 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
16 4 (0.72%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.45%) Linux
2 43 (7.75%) Unix
3 17 (3.06%) Mac OS X
4 6 (1.08%) Windows
5 3 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (41.26%) Agile
2 142 (25.59%) Microservices
3 114 (20.54%) TDD
4 110 (19.82%) CI/CD
5 88 (15.86%) DevOps
6 79 (14.23%) Software Engineering
7 69 (12.43%) Test Automation
8 68 (12.25%) Scrum
9 64 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
11 59 (10.63%) Electronic Trading
12 57 (10.27%) SDLC
13 51 (9.19%) Computer Science
13 51 (9.19%) Multithreading
14 50 (9.01%) BDD
14 50 (9.01%) Mentoring
15 46 (8.29%) Continuous Integration
15 46 (8.29%) Low Latency
16 40 (7.21%) Front End Development
17 37 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 555 (100.00%) Java
2 81 (14.59%) SQL
3 68 (12.25%) Python
4 54 (9.73%) JavaScript
5 48 (8.65%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.42%) Scala
7 17 (3.06%) Perl
8 14 (2.52%) C#
9 12 (2.16%) PHP
10 11 (1.98%) C++
11 10 (1.80%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.80%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.72%) Bash
12 4 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.72%) VBA
13 3 (0.54%) Go
14 2 (0.36%) Groovy
14 2 (0.36%) Haskell
14 2 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 129 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 120 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.47%) Degree
4 27 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.26%) PhD
8 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.98%) QA
2 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.90%) MiFID
4 4 (0.72%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.72%) WCAG
5 1 (0.18%) MISRA
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (15.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.36%) 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 77 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.41%) Terraform
3 17 (3.06%) Ansible
4 16 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.62%) Grafana
6 7 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.08%) Podman
8 3 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) Istio
9 2 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 54 (9.73%) Oracle
2 36 (6.49%) Google
3 31 (5.59%) Microsoft
4 28 (5.05%) ION Trading
5 9 (1.62%) Solace
6 7 (1.26%) IBM
6 7 (1.26%) Splunk
7 6 (1.08%) TIBCO
8 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.54%) Tradeweb
9 3 (0.54%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.36%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.36%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.36%) SAP
10 2 (0.36%) Sybase
10 2 (0.36%) WSO2
11 1 (0.18%) OpenLink