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 £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 152 148
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 257 375 572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.65% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.75% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 288 423
10th Percentile £359 £415 £413
25th Percentile £400 £459 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £563 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -13.46% +7.44% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 16
10th Percentile £35.00 £57.44 £46.13
25th Percentile £40.00 £68.38 £51.88
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £72.60 - £76.13
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £64.13
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.96% +10.56%

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
Scotland +39 87 £438 -12.24% 13
North of England -5 66 £525 -12.50% 21
South East -28 49 £500 - 12
North West +26 36 £525 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -5 27 £550 -15.38%
South West -32 20 £400 -20.00% 16
Midlands +9 18 £450 -18.18% 9
West Midlands +6 16 £450 -21.74% 5
Northern Ireland +7 9 £650 - 2
East of England -8 9 £541 -22.71% 1
North East -1 3 £450 -29.13%
East Midlands -2 2 £398 -43.21% 4
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 257 (100.00%) Java
2 158 (61.48%) Spring
3 121 (47.08%) Spring Boot
4 120 (46.69%) Agile
5 98 (38.13%) AWS
6 94 (36.58%) Microservices
7 75 (29.18%) REST
8 60 (23.35%) Software Engineering
9 59 (22.96%) Kafka
10 57 (22.18%) CI/CD
11 55 (21.40%) TDD
12 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
13 49 (19.07%) DevOps
14 48 (18.68%) Docker
15 46 (17.90%) Kubernetes
16 45 (17.51%) Jenkins
17 44 (17.12%) SC Cleared
17 44 (17.12%) Scrum
18 43 (16.73%) React
19 42 (16.34%) SQL
20 39 (15.18%) Finance
21 36 (14.01%) Git
21 36 (14.01%) Full Stack Development
22 35 (13.62%) Azure
22 35 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
22 35 (13.62%) JavaScript
23 34 (13.23%) JUnit
23 34 (13.23%) Public Sector
24 33 (12.84%) Hibernate
24 33 (12.84%) Test Automation

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 10 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.72%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) Apache
4 4 (1.56%) JBoss
4 4 (1.56%) Mule
5 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.78%) WildFly
7 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.13%) AWS
2 35 (13.62%) Azure
3 27 (10.51%) GCP
4 14 (5.45%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.06%) Serverless
6 12 (4.67%) GitHub
7 11 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.11%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.17%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.17%) npm
14 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.39%) SAP Fieldglass
15 1 (0.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) Firewall
1 4 (1.56%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.06%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.50%) Couchbase
4 8 (3.11%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.72%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.56%) Big Data
7 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) DB2
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.78%) Redis
10 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.39%) Impala
10 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (17.51%) Jenkins
2 36 (14.01%) Git
3 34 (13.23%) JUnit
4 29 (11.28%) JIRA
5 20 (7.78%) Maven
6 17 (6.61%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.67%) GitLab
8 9 (3.50%) Selenium
9 8 (3.11%) Mockito
10 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.95%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.56%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.56%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.56%) Log4j
11 4 (1.56%) Postman
11 4 (1.56%) Subversion
12 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.17%) JMeter
13 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 39 (15.18%) Finance
2 34 (13.23%) Public Sector
3 32 (12.45%) Social Skills
4 17 (6.61%) Banking
5 12 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.95%) Law
8 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.56%) Police
9 3 (1.17%) Automotive
9 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.17%) Retail
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (61.48%) Spring
2 121 (47.08%) Spring Boot
3 75 (29.18%) REST
4 59 (22.96%) Kafka
5 43 (16.73%) React
6 33 (12.84%) Hibernate
7 27 (10.51%) JPA
7 27 (10.51%) RESTful
8 24 (9.34%) AngularJS
9 21 (8.17%) HTML
10 16 (6.23%) CSS
11 14 (5.45%) Spring Security
11 14 (5.45%) Web Services
12 13 (5.06%) SAML
13 12 (4.67%) Java EE
13 12 (4.67%) Node.js
14 11 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
16 9 (3.50%) JAX-RS
16 9 (3.50%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (8.95%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.28%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.56%) Insider Threat
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Derivative
8 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.39%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.56%) Linux
2 19 (7.39%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) AIX
4 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (46.69%) Agile
2 94 (36.58%) Microservices
3 60 (23.35%) Software Engineering
4 57 (22.18%) CI/CD
5 55 (21.40%) TDD
6 49 (19.07%) DevOps
7 44 (17.12%) Scrum
8 36 (14.01%) Full Stack Development
9 33 (12.84%) Test Automation
10 29 (11.28%) SDLC
11 28 (10.89%) Unit Testing
12 25 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (9.34%) Mentoring
13 24 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (8.95%) Front End Development
15 18 (7.00%) High Availability
16 17 (6.61%) Design Patterns
16 17 (6.61%) End-to-End Testing
17 16 (6.23%) OO
18 13 (5.06%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 257 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (16.34%) SQL
3 35 (13.62%) JavaScript
4 31 (12.06%) Scala
5 26 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.84%) Python
7 12 (4.67%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.89%) PHP
9 4 (1.56%) C++
9 4 (1.56%) Perl
10 2 (0.78%) C
10 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) Bash
11 1 (0.39%) C#
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.06%) Degree
5 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.17%) MISRA
2 3 (1.17%) WCAG
3 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.39%) NCSC
3 1 (0.39%) QA
3 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (18.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) zsh
Systems Management
1 46 (17.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.50%) Grafana
2 9 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (3.11%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.11%) Zipkin
4 7 (2.72%) Ansible
4 7 (2.72%) Kibana
5 6 (2.33%) Terraform
6 4 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.56%) Podman
7 1 (0.39%) Control-M
7 1 (0.39%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 21 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.23%) Google
3 12 (4.67%) Oracle
4 5 (1.95%) Splunk
5 3 (1.17%) IBM
6 2 (0.78%) 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%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.39%) Sybase
7 1 (0.39%) VMware
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