Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 142 137
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 254 414 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 1.76% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.87% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 311 431
10th Percentile £359 £438 £413
25th Percentile £400 £464 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +3.81% +14.13%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £58.45 £46.10
25th Percentile £37.50 £70.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +6.19%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £65.52
90th Percentile £66.95 - £76.30
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.75 £64.13
% change year-on-year -28.81% +15.01% +13.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +34 97 £456 -8.48% 17
North of England -10 68 £525 -10.64% 11
South East -25 47 £500 -4.76% 12
North West +15 37 £525 -4.55% 8
Yorkshire -8 28 £550 -10.20% 2
Midlands +31 19 £450 -21.74% 6
West Midlands +24 17 £475 -32.14% 5
South West -33 12 £375 -26.47% 11
East of England -4 8 £541 -22.71% 2
Northern Ireland +3 4 £450 -8.16% 6
North East -7 3 £450 -37.50% 1
East Midlands +11 2 £398 -43.21% 1
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 254 (100.00%) Java
2 150 (59.06%) Spring
3 121 (47.64%) Agile
4 120 (47.24%) Spring Boot
5 98 (38.58%) AWS
5 98 (38.58%) Microservices
6 82 (32.28%) REST
7 63 (24.80%) Kafka
8 58 (22.83%) CI/CD
9 57 (22.44%) Software Engineering
10 54 (21.26%) TDD
11 52 (20.47%) Docker
12 50 (19.69%) Jenkins
13 47 (18.50%) SQL
14 46 (18.11%) Security Cleared
15 44 (17.32%) Scrum
15 44 (17.32%) Social Skills
15 44 (17.32%) Kubernetes
16 43 (16.93%) SC Cleared
16 43 (16.93%) Git
17 42 (16.54%) DevOps
18 40 (15.75%) JUnit
18 40 (15.75%) React
19 36 (14.17%) Finance
20 34 (13.39%) Hibernate
20 34 (13.39%) JavaScript
21 33 (12.99%) Scala
22 32 (12.60%) RESTful
22 32 (12.60%) Relational Database
22 32 (12.60%) JIRA

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (5.51%) Confluence
2 9 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.36%) Apache
4 4 (1.57%) JBoss
4 4 (1.57%) Mule
4 4 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) WildFly
6 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.58%) AWS
2 27 (10.63%) Azure
2 27 (10.63%) GCP
3 14 (5.51%) Serverless
4 13 (5.12%) Amazon S3
5 10 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.76%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.97%) GitHub
10 4 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.79%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.79%) npm
11 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) Firewall
1 4 (1.57%) HTTP
1 4 (1.57%) VPN
2 3 (1.18%) 5G
2 3 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.18%) NetScaler
2 3 (1.18%) SSL
2 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.39%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.60%) Relational Database
2 30 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.94%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.15%) Couchbase
5 7 (2.76%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.97%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.18%) DB2
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.79%) Big Data
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.39%) GIS
11 1 (0.39%) MySQL
11 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (19.69%) Jenkins
2 43 (16.93%) Git
3 40 (15.75%) JUnit
4 32 (12.60%) JIRA
5 22 (8.66%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.91%) GitLab
7 12 (4.72%) Maven
8 11 (4.33%) Postman
9 7 (2.76%) Mockito
10 6 (2.36%) IntelliJ
10 6 (2.36%) Selenium
11 5 (1.97%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.97%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.57%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.57%) Log4j
12 4 (1.57%) Subversion
13 3 (1.18%) JMeter
14 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 44 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.17%) Finance
3 32 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.87%) Banking
5 12 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.15%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.97%) Law
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.57%) Police
9 3 (1.18%) Automotive
9 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (59.06%) Spring
2 120 (47.24%) Spring Boot
3 82 (32.28%) REST
4 63 (24.80%) Kafka
5 40 (15.75%) React
6 34 (13.39%) Hibernate
7 32 (12.60%) RESTful
8 27 (10.63%) JPA
9 21 (8.27%) AngularJS
10 19 (7.48%) HTML
11 18 (7.09%) Node.js
12 16 (6.30%) CSS
12 16 (6.30%) Web Services
13 14 (5.51%) Apache Camel
13 14 (5.51%) J2EE
13 14 (5.51%) Spring Security
14 13 (5.12%) SAML
15 12 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (3.54%) GWT
16 9 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (8.27%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.94%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.57%) Insider Threat
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.39%) iSeries
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.39%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.06%) Linux
2 19 (7.48%) Unix
3 2 (0.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) AIX
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (47.64%) Agile
2 98 (38.58%) Microservices
3 58 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 57 (22.44%) Software Engineering
5 54 (21.26%) TDD
6 44 (17.32%) Scrum
7 42 (16.54%) DevOps
8 32 (12.60%) Full Stack Development
9 30 (11.81%) Test Automation
10 28 (11.02%) Unit Testing
11 27 (10.63%) SDLC
12 26 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (9.45%) End-to-End Testing
15 23 (9.06%) Front End Development
15 23 (9.06%) Mentoring
16 18 (7.09%) High Availability
17 15 (5.91%) Design Patterns
18 14 (5.51%) Coaching
19 13 (5.12%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 254 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (18.50%) SQL
3 34 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 33 (12.99%) Scala
5 26 (10.24%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.09%) Python
7 12 (4.72%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.94%) PHP
9 7 (2.76%) Perl
10 6 (2.36%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.57%) Bash
12 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) Go
13 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.12%) Degree
3 13 (5.12%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.18%) WCAG
3 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.39%) MISRA
3 1 (0.39%) NCSC
3 1 (0.39%) QA
3 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (20.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) NFS
2 1 (0.39%) zsh
Systems Management
1 44 (17.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.94%) Terraform
3 9 (3.54%) Grafana
3 9 (3.54%) Kibana
3 9 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.15%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.15%) Zipkin
5 7 (2.76%) Ansible
6 4 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.30%) Oracle
3 14 (5.51%) Google
4 5 (1.97%) Splunk
5 3 (1.18%) F5
5 3 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.39%) Databricks
7 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.39%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.39%) Sybase
7 1 (0.39%) VMware