Java Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 367 389
Rank change year-on-year +77 +22 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 100 66 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.29% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.31% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 89
10th Percentile £400 £413 £430
25th Percentile £418 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £594 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -3.06% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 21
10th Percentile £67.50 £56.77 -
25th Percentile - £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +85.71%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.75
90th Percentile - £70.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -7.96%

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 19,457 21,470 29,426
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 94.27% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,679 14,924 20,705
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,081 1,408
10th Percentile £12.51 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.00 £14.86
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 £61.03
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +38 30 £625 +15.74% 4
South West +12 29 £475 +5.56% 23
Scotland +49 16 £435 +24.29% 11
North of England +19 13 £500 -25.93% 13
East of England +11 11 £534 -3.78% 1
North West +17 10 £525 -1.41% 11
Yorkshire +13 3 £425 -12.37% 1
Northern Ireland +2 1 £600 +4.35% 9
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) Java
2 85 (85.00%) Software Engineering
3 56 (56.00%) Agile
4 50 (50.00%) DevOps
5 46 (46.00%) Jenkins
6 45 (45.00%) CI/CD
7 38 (38.00%) JIRA
8 33 (33.00%) REST
9 32 (32.00%) C++
10 28 (28.00%) Google
11 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
11 27 (27.00%) GoogleTest
12 26 (26.00%) GitHub
12 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (25.00%) SC Cleared
13 25 (25.00%) AWS
14 24 (24.00%) Test Automation
14 24 (24.00%) HTML
14 24 (24.00%) Linux
15 23 (23.00%) CSS
15 23 (23.00%) Decision-Making
16 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
16 22 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (22.00%) Cucumber
16 22 (22.00%) Selenium
17 21 (21.00%) Python
17 21 (21.00%) Full Stack Development
18 20 (20.00%) MISRA
18 20 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 20 (20.00%) Qt

Java Engineer 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 9 (9.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.00%) GitHub
2 25 (25.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.00%) Azure
4 3 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.00%) Serverless
5 2 (2.00%) GCP
5 2 (2.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) Firewall
1 8 (8.00%) VPN
2 7 (7.00%) SNMP
2 7 (7.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (3.00%) MySQL
2 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.00%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.00%) Big Data
4 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.00%) HBase
4 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 46 (46.00%) Jenkins
2 38 (38.00%) JIRA
3 27 (27.00%) GoogleTest
4 22 (22.00%) Cucumber
4 22 (22.00%) Selenium
5 16 (16.00%) REST Assured
5 16 (16.00%) SonarQube
6 10 (10.00%) Git
7 9 (9.00%) Bitbucket
8 7 (7.00%) Eclipse
8 7 (7.00%) Robot Framework
9 6 (6.00%) GitLab
9 6 (6.00%) JUnit
10 3 (3.00%) Mockito
11 2 (2.00%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.00%) JMeter
11 2 (2.00%) Maven
12 1 (1.00%) Postman
General
1 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.00%) Law
4 9 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (9.00%) Police
5 6 (6.00%) Finance
6 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Automotive
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.00%) REST
2 24 (24.00%) HTML
3 23 (23.00%) CSS
4 20 (20.00%) Qt
5 18 (18.00%) Spring Boot
6 17 (17.00%) Java EE
7 16 (16.00%) React
8 15 (15.00%) Spring
9 9 (9.00%) AngularJS
9 9 (9.00%) JPA
10 5 (5.00%) ARM Templates
10 5 (5.00%) Kafka
11 3 (3.00%) J2EE
11 3 (3.00%) Node.js
11 3 (3.00%) RESTful
12 2 (2.00%) CSS3
12 2 (2.00%) HTML5
12 2 (2.00%) Jest
12 2 (2.00%) React Native
12 2 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (16.00%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (85.00%) Software Engineering
2 56 (56.00%) Agile
3 50 (50.00%) DevOps
4 45 (45.00%) CI/CD
5 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 23 (23.00%) Decision-Making
8 22 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (21.00%) Full Stack Development
10 19 (19.00%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (17.00%) Software Architecture
12 12 (12.00%) Microservices
12 12 (12.00%) SDLC
13 9 (9.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 8 (8.00%) Identity Management
14 8 (8.00%) Load Balancing
14 8 (8.00%) Operational Stability
14 8 (8.00%) Prototyping
14 8 (8.00%) Scrum
14 8 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 100 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (32.00%) C++
3 21 (21.00%) Python
4 16 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.00%) SQL
6 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.00%) PHP
7 4 (4.00%) Scala
8 2 (2.00%) C
9 1 (1.00%) Bash
9 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.00%) MISRA
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) WCAG
3 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Firmware
3 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Ansible
2 10 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Terraform
3 5 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (5.00%) Podman
4 1 (1.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (28.00%) Google
2 8 (8.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle