Java Contracts in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 2,190 4,455 7,240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.94% 8.92% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.15% 25.39% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,665 3,376 5,248
10th Percentile £400 £439 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.04% +11.63%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £713
90th Percentile £850 £848 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 98 97
10th Percentile £41.26 £40.67 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.56 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.25 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +2.76% +15.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.95 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.25 £60.50
% change year-on-year -2.30% +7.85% +27.37%

All Programming Languages
England

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,867 17,545 26,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.47% 35.12% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 12,808 19,321
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +2.33% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 422 450
10th Percentile £35.65 £26.08 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.11 £49.36 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +19.76% +15.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £70.14
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in England

Java
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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 -8 1,453 £600 -7.69% 731
North of England -7 256 £500 -11.46% 138
South East -13 193 £575 +9.52% 152
North West +1 145 £495 -10.00% 90
Yorkshire 0 101 £525 -6.67% 32
South West -40 96 £569 +3.41% 118
East of England +27 70 £495 -8.16% 61
Midlands -16 69 £500 -8.26% 78
West Midlands -24 46 £525 -4.55% 54
East Midlands +6 23 £453 -17.73% 24
North East -25 10 £501 -12.96% 18
Java
UK

Java
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
1 126 (5.75%) Apache
2 115 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 70 (3.20%) Confluence
5 15 (0.68%) Camunda
6 14 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.50%) nginx
9 10 (0.46%) CMS
10 9 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.37%) Alfresco
11 8 (0.37%) JBoss
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.32%) Appian
12 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.32%) SAS
13 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.18%) IIS
14 4 (0.18%) Mule
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.046%) Sketch
6 1 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (0.87%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.55%) ION Anvil
3 9 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.37%) Endur
5 7 (0.32%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
6 6 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
7 5 (0.23%) Shopify
7 5 (0.23%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.14%) Global One
9 3 (0.14%) Maximo
9 3 (0.14%) RMDS
9 3 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.091%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.091%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.046%) SAP CX
11 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 699 (31.92%) AWS
2 278 (12.69%) Azure
3 210 (9.59%) GCP
4 112 (5.11%) Serverless
5 108 (4.93%) GitHub
6 97 (4.43%) Snowflake
7 89 (4.06%) dbt
8 83 (3.79%) Amazon S3
9 77 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
11 56 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (1.69%) Power Platform
14 35 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (1.46%) OpenShift
16 31 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
17 28 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
18 27 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 23 (1.05%) SaaS
20 19 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.51%) Firewall
2 30 (1.37%) DNS
3 24 (1.10%) Network Security
4 22 (1.00%) VPN
5 20 (0.91%) HTTP
5 20 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.82%) DHCP
7 15 (0.68%) Internet
8 11 (0.50%) SSL
9 10 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
10 9 (0.41%) SNMP
11 6 (0.27%) AMQP
11 6 (0.27%) FTP
11 6 (0.27%) SSH
12 5 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.18%) BGP
13 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.18%) VoIP
13 4 (0.18%) WAN
14 3 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.84%) Relational Database
3 111 (5.07%) SQL Server
4 107 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 104 (4.75%) MongoDB
6 102 (4.66%) Data Lake
7 98 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
8 88 (4.02%) Apache Arrow
8 88 (4.02%) Dremio
8 88 (4.02%) MySQL
9 76 (3.47%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (3.15%) Big Data
11 61 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (2.05%) KDB
13 43 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
14 42 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
15 40 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
16 38 (1.74%) Oracle Database
17 29 (1.32%) Hadoop
18 26 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 286 (13.06%) Jenkins
2 244 (11.14%) Git
3 184 (8.40%) JIRA
4 175 (7.99%) Selenium
5 136 (6.21%) Cucumber
6 121 (5.53%) JUnit
7 77 (3.52%) Maven
8 76 (3.47%) GitLab
9 69 (3.15%) Mockito
10 53 (2.42%) REST Assured
11 52 (2.37%) Cypress.io
12 44 (2.01%) JMeter
13 41 (1.87%) Bitbucket
14 33 (1.51%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.46%) Postman
15 32 (1.46%) TestNG
16 27 (1.23%) WebDriver
17 26 (1.19%) Gradle
18 24 (1.10%) TeamCity
19 22 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 571 (26.07%) Finance
2 410 (18.72%) Social Skills
3 369 (16.85%) Banking
4 228 (10.41%) Front Office
5 226 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
6 175 (7.99%) Investment Banking
7 145 (6.62%) Public Sector
8 32 (1.46%) Retail
9 31 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 31 (1.42%) Law
10 27 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.05%) Marketing
12 21 (0.96%) Back Office
13 17 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 16 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.64%) Police
16 12 (0.55%) Electronics
17 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.37%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,002 (45.75%) Developer
2 553 (25.25%) Java Developer
3 357 (16.30%) Senior
4 217 (9.91%) Software Engineer
5 185 (8.45%) Architect
6 177 (8.08%) Java Engineer
6 177 (8.08%) Senior Developer
7 166 (7.58%) Lead
8 126 (5.75%) Full Stack Developer
9 106 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 87 (3.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 84 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
12 82 (3.74%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.47%) Software Developer
14 72 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
15 66 (3.01%) Java Architect
16 65 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
17 62 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
18 61 (2.79%) Analyst
19 60 (2.74%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (18.81%) Spring
2 348 (15.89%) Spring Boot
3 273 (12.47%) REST
4 252 (11.51%) React
5 212 (9.68%) Kafka
6 167 (7.63%) HTML
7 133 (6.07%) RESTful
8 130 (5.94%) CSS
9 129 (5.89%) Node.js
9 129 (5.89%) Web Services
10 115 (5.25%) .NET
11 109 (4.98%) AngularJS
12 96 (4.38%) Hibernate
13 93 (4.25%) gRPC
14 92 (4.20%) NumPy
14 92 (4.20%) Pandas
14 92 (4.20%) Protocol Buffers
15 88 (4.02%) SciPy
16 87 (3.97%) XML
17 84 (3.84%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.90%) Fixed Income
2 149 (6.80%) Derivative
3 147 (6.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 113 (5.16%) Hedge funds
5 110 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
6 109 (4.98%) Equities
7 84 (3.84%) Algorithms
8 60 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 60 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 41 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 40 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
12 39 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
13 33 (1.51%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
15 27 (1.23%) Cloud Native
16 22 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 227 (10.37%) Linux
2 147 (6.71%) Unix
3 84 (3.84%) Windows
4 67 (3.06%) Android
5 24 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.05%) Mac OS X
7 22 (1.00%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 2 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.046%) CentOS
11 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (35.89%) Agile
2 482 (22.01%) Software Engineering
3 443 (20.23%) DevOps
4 437 (19.95%) CI/CD
5 376 (17.17%) Microservices
6 366 (16.71%) Test Automation
7 309 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (10.55%) TDD
9 219 (10.00%) Scrum
10 214 (9.77%) Full Stack Development
11 196 (8.95%) SDLC
12 176 (8.04%) Computer Science
13 151 (6.89%) BDD
13 151 (6.89%) Continuous Integration
14 131 (5.98%) Unit Testing
15 124 (5.66%) OO
16 120 (5.48%) Analytics
17 114 (5.21%) Design Patterns
18 113 (5.16%) Containerisation
19 112 (5.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 688 (31.42%) Python
2 449 (20.50%) JavaScript
3 441 (20.14%) SQL
4 276 (12.60%) C#
5 217 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 156 (7.12%) C++
7 108 (4.93%) Scala
8 101 (4.61%) Kotlin
9 98 (4.47%) Go
10 79 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 79 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 75 (3.42%) C
12 57 (2.60%) Perl
13 50 (2.28%) Ruby
14 47 (2.15%) PHP
15 35 (1.60%) Groovy
16 34 (1.55%) Bash
17 32 (1.46%) PL/SQL
18 29 (1.32%) Rust
19 18 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 460 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 346 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 201 (9.18%) Degree
4 112 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 105 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.68%) PhD
8 14 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.37%) CISSP
10 8 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.27%) ISEB
12 4 (0.18%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.14%) CCNP
14 2 (0.091%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.091%) IBM Certification
14 2 (0.091%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.091%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (5.89%) QA
2 62 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.73%) SLA
6 15 (0.68%) GDPR
7 11 (0.50%) MiFID
8 10 (0.46%) WCAG
9 9 (0.41%) MISRA
9 9 (0.41%) NIST
10 7 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.32%) GxP
11 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.091%) Basel III
13 2 (0.091%) IFRS
13 2 (0.091%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 1 (0.046%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 289 (13.20%) Docker
2 56 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.19%) IAG
4 25 (1.14%) ACF2
4 25 (1.14%) RACF
5 20 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.46%) Firmware
9 9 (0.41%) HDFS
10 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.18%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.14%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.091%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.091%) vSphere
15 1 (0.046%) Apache Flume
15 1 (0.046%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 326 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 174 (7.95%) Terraform
3 115 (5.25%) Ansible
4 79 (3.61%) Grafana
5 65 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
8 19 (0.87%) Kibana
9 18 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.78%) Podman
11 14 (0.64%) Puppet
12 11 (0.50%) Consul
13 10 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.46%) Opsgenie
13 10 (0.46%) SCCM
14 9 (0.41%) BladeLogic
15 8 (0.37%) Packer
15 8 (0.37%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
17 6 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 194 (8.86%) Oracle
2 128 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 107 (4.89%) Google
4 53 (2.42%) IBM
5 45 (2.05%) SAP
6 42 (1.92%) ION Trading
7 41 (1.87%) Splunk
8 37 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 27 (1.23%) Adobe
12 25 (1.14%) Sybase
13 22 (1.00%) Informatica
14 20 (0.91%) VMware
15 19 (0.87%) New Relic
16 17 (0.78%) Atlassian
16 17 (0.78%) Databricks
17 12 (0.55%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.55%) Talend
17 12 (0.55%) Virgin Media