Java Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 409 414
Rank change year-on-year +62 +5 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 39 47 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 58
10th Percentile £398 £483 £494
25th Percentile £493 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £661 £681 £625
90th Percentile £683 £700 £641
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 21
10th Percentile £67.75 £60.91 -
25th Percentile - £61.16 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%
75th Percentile - £66.89 £75.00
90th Percentile - £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%

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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £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 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +32 18 £624 +15.51% 9
South West +8 13 £450 -12.20% 20
North West +24 5 £600 -7.69% 4
North of England +12 5 £600 -2.04% 6
East of England +5 2 £543 - 3
Scotland +45 1 - - 6
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Java
1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 25 (64.10%) JIRA
3 22 (56.41%) Agile
4 21 (53.85%) Jenkins
5 19 (48.72%) DevOps
5 19 (48.72%) C++
6 18 (46.15%) Google
7 17 (43.59%) GoogleTest
8 14 (35.90%) Linux
8 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
9 13 (33.33%) GitHub
10 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
11 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
11 11 (28.21%) AWS
12 10 (25.64%) Qt
12 10 (25.64%) MISRA
12 10 (25.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (23.08%) HTML
13 9 (23.08%) CSS
13 9 (23.08%) Azure
13 9 (23.08%) Git
13 9 (23.08%) REST
14 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
14 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (20.51%) Prototyping
14 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
14 8 (20.51%) Validation
14 8 (20.51%) Scrum
14 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving

Java Software 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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) GitHub
2 11 (28.21%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) SNMP
1 7 (17.95%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (64.10%) JIRA
2 21 (53.85%) Jenkins
3 17 (43.59%) GoogleTest
4 9 (23.08%) Git
5 7 (17.95%) Bitbucket
5 7 (17.95%) Cucumber
5 7 (17.95%) Eclipse
5 7 (17.95%) Robot Framework
5 7 (17.95%) Selenium
6 6 (15.38%) GitLab
7 5 (12.82%) REST Assured
7 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.56%) JUnit
8 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Law
3 4 (10.26%) Police
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Automotive
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Qt
2 9 (23.08%) CSS
2 9 (23.08%) HTML
2 9 (23.08%) REST
3 6 (15.38%) Java EE
4 5 (12.82%) ARM Templates
4 5 (12.82%) Spring
5 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.26%) React
6 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.13%) Kafka
8 1 (2.56%) JPA
8 1 (2.56%) Node.js
8 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (56.41%) Agile
3 19 (48.72%) DevOps
4 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Prototyping
5 8 (20.51%) Scrum
5 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.51%) Validation
6 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) SysML
6 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (17.95%) UML
6 7 (17.95%) Verification and Validation
7 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (15.38%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (48.72%) C++
3 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.38%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) PHP
6 3 (7.69%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) MISRA
2 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Firmware
2 5 (12.82%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Google
2 7 (17.95%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft