Java Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 912 1,531 2,160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.44% 6.51% 7.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.01% 22.45% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 1,078 1,432
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +2.86% +12.66%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £601
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 88 78
10th Percentile £40.40 £48.26 £30.23
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.69 £47.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% +32.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.30% +4.40% +31.58%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -6 259 £510 -11.30% 127
Scotland -4 201 £475 -4.71% 89
South East -17 196 £575 +9.00% 120
North West +2 145 £500 -9.09% 82
Yorkshire +3 104 £525 -8.70% 33
South West -38 98 £550 - 127
Midlands -14 72 £504 -8.41% 78
East of England +17 71 £496 -7.93% 52
West Midlands -23 46 £525 -4.55% 53
East Midlands +9 26 £478 -13.05% 25
Wales +12 11 £475 -2.56% 11
Northern Ireland -2 10 £550 - 35
North East -24 10 £501 -12.96% 14
Java
UK

Java
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 42 (4.61%) Confluence
2 34 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.52%) Apache
4 21 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.77%) Alfresco
5 7 (0.77%) Appian
5 7 (0.77%) Camunda
5 7 (0.77%) SAS
6 6 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) CMS
7 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) Mule
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.33%) Maximo
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 319 (34.98%) AWS
2 123 (13.49%) Azure
3 56 (6.14%) Serverless
4 52 (5.70%) GCP
5 49 (5.37%) Amazon S3
6 41 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (4.28%) GitHub
8 27 (2.96%) OpenShift
9 26 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 19 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (1.75%) Power Platform
14 14 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.54%) SaaS
15 11 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (1.10%) Apigee
17 9 (0.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.30%) Firewall
2 16 (1.75%) VPN
3 15 (1.64%) HTTP
3 15 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.43%) DNS
5 11 (1.21%) Network Security
6 10 (1.10%) DHCP
6 10 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
6 10 (1.10%) SSL
7 9 (0.99%) SNMP
8 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (0.66%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (0.66%) iSCSI
8 6 (0.66%) SAN
9 5 (0.55%) AMQP
9 5 (0.55%) FTP
10 4 (0.44%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.33%) 5G
11 3 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.33%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.79%) Relational Database
2 64 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.15%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.07%) MySQL
7 25 (2.74%) Oracle Database
8 21 (2.30%) Big Data
9 18 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (1.75%) DB2
11 16 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.43%) Hadoop
13 13 (1.43%) Power BI
14 11 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.88%) Couchbase
16 8 (0.88%) GIS
Development Applications
1 167 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 125 (13.71%) JIRA
3 115 (12.61%) Git
4 79 (8.66%) Selenium
5 70 (7.68%) Cucumber
6 65 (7.13%) JUnit
7 39 (4.28%) GitLab
8 33 (3.62%) Maven
9 30 (3.29%) REST Assured
10 27 (2.96%) Mockito
11 26 (2.85%) SonarQube
12 22 (2.41%) Bitbucket
13 21 (2.30%) Cypress.io
14 20 (2.19%) JMeter
15 19 (2.08%) GoogleTest
15 19 (2.08%) Postman
16 17 (1.86%) Eclipse
17 15 (1.64%) Android Studio
18 10 (1.10%) Gradle
19 9 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 186 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.40%) Finance
3 94 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.36%) Banking
6 24 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (2.63%) Law
7 14 (1.54%) Police
8 13 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 9 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 9 (0.99%) Back Office
10 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.66%) Automotive
12 6 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.66%) Retail
13 4 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 419 (45.94%) Developer
2 260 (28.51%) Java Developer
3 105 (11.51%) Senior
4 88 (9.65%) Software Engineer
5 87 (9.54%) Java Engineer
6 84 (9.21%) Architect
7 59 (6.47%) Full Stack Developer
8 46 (5.04%) Senior Developer
9 43 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (4.61%) Lead
11 39 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
12 38 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 37 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.95%) Full Stack Engineer
15 34 (3.73%) Data Engineer
16 29 (3.18%) Java Architect
17 25 (2.74%) Java Solutions Architect
18 24 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
18 24 (2.63%) Test Engineer
19 23 (2.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (26.64%) Spring
2 195 (21.38%) Spring Boot
3 166 (18.20%) REST
4 141 (15.46%) React
5 105 (11.51%) Kafka
6 98 (10.75%) RESTful
7 90 (9.87%) HTML
8 76 (8.33%) CSS
9 71 (7.79%) AngularJS
10 59 (6.47%) Node.js
11 51 (5.59%) Web Services
12 40 (4.39%) JPA
13 35 (3.84%) Hibernate
13 35 (3.84%) JSON
14 33 (3.62%) .NET
15 31 (3.40%) Java EE
16 27 (2.96%) OAuth
16 27 (2.96%) XML
17 23 (2.52%) J2EE
18 22 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
1 47 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 30 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 29 (3.18%) Public Cloud
4 24 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 22 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (1.86%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 9 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.77%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.55%) DataPower
14 5 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.73%) Linux
2 57 (6.25%) Unix
3 44 (4.82%) Windows
4 39 (4.28%) Android
5 16 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.66%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (39.36%) Agile
2 208 (22.81%) DevOps
3 206 (22.59%) Software Engineering
4 202 (22.15%) CI/CD
5 191 (20.94%) Microservices
6 158 (17.32%) Test Automation
7 141 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (13.93%) Scrum
9 117 (12.83%) Full Stack Development
10 103 (11.29%) TDD
11 91 (9.98%) SDLC
12 79 (8.66%) Unit Testing
13 69 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
14 65 (7.13%) OO
15 64 (7.02%) Computer Science
16 63 (6.91%) Infrastructure as Code
17 55 (6.03%) Containerisation
17 55 (6.03%) Mentoring
18 53 (5.81%) BDD
19 50 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 224 (24.56%) Python
2 178 (19.52%) JavaScript
3 169 (18.53%) SQL
4 90 (9.87%) TypeScript
5 75 (8.22%) Scala
6 62 (6.80%) C#
7 55 (6.03%) C++
8 48 (5.26%) C
9 44 (4.82%) Kotlin
10 31 (3.40%) PHP
11 29 (3.18%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.85%) Go
13 23 (2.52%) Perl
14 21 (2.30%) Bash
15 20 (2.19%) Groovy
16 16 (1.75%) PowerShell
16 16 (1.75%) Ruby
17 14 (1.54%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.99%) R
19 4 (0.44%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 215 (23.57%) Security Cleared
2 126 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.43%) DV Cleared
4 57 (6.25%) Degree
5 39 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.33%) PhD
10 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.22%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.22%) ISEB
10 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.11%) CEH
11 1 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.59%) QA
2 42 (4.61%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
4 11 (1.21%) MISRA
5 10 (1.10%) WCAG
6 9 (0.99%) GDPR
7 8 (0.88%) NIST
8 6 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (0.66%) GxP
9 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.33%) SLA
11 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (15.79%) Docker
2 14 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.99%) Firmware
5 8 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.66%) NFS
8 5 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.55%) HDFS
8 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.44%) GPFS
10 3 (0.33%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.33%) OpenIDM
10 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.11%) ACF2
12 1 (0.11%) IAG
12 1 (0.11%) RACF
12 1 (0.11%) vSphere
12 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 137 (15.02%) Kubernetes
2 78 (8.55%) Terraform
3 59 (6.47%) Ansible
4 39 (4.28%) Grafana
5 24 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
7 16 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.32%) Kibana
8 12 (1.32%) Podman
9 11 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.10%) SCCM
11 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.88%) Zipkin
12 4 (0.44%) Puppet
12 4 (0.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
13 3 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.33%) Istio
13 3 (0.33%) Nagios
14 1 (0.11%) Argo
14 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 62 (6.80%) Oracle
2 55 (6.03%) Google
3 50 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.74%) IBM
5 15 (1.64%) Informatica
6 14 (1.54%) Databricks
6 14 (1.54%) VMware
7 13 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.43%) SAP
8 12 (1.32%) Pega
9 11 (1.21%) Talend
10 10 (1.10%) Splunk
11 7 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.77%) Veeam
12 6 (0.66%) Adobe
12 6 (0.66%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.66%) F5
13 5 (0.55%) Confluent
13 5 (0.55%) Sybase
13 5 (0.55%) TSYS