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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 30 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 945 1,384 2,214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.55% 6.09% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.22% 21.76% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 965 1,471
10th Percentile £373 £403 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 83 89
10th Percentile £45.88 £48.20 £41.77
25th Percentile £57.19 £54.38 £49.28
Median hourly rate £67.26 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +2.36% +12.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.65 £75.00 £77.06
UK median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +3.15% +10.92%

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 4,918 6,361 8,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.68% 27.99% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,453 6,194
10th Percentile £319 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.40%
75th Percentile £582 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 322 325
10th Percentile £37.54 £26.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.34 £78.00 £67.44
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 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
North of England 0 276 £507 -11.83% 133
South East +1 217 £575 +9.52% 124
Scotland -9 180 £453 -6.84% 83
North West +2 145 £495 -13.91% 98
Yorkshire +9 120 £536 -10.63% 23
South West -31 114 £550 +1.85% 137
East of England +11 73 £485 -8.49% 45
Midlands -17 66 £495 -8.33% 91
West Midlands -27 43 £525 -4.55% 65
East Midlands -1 23 £453 -22.98% 25
Northern Ireland +2 17 £588 -6.00% 37
North East -18 11 £501 -11.42% 12
Wales +15 8 £500 -2.44% 12
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 41 (4.34%) Apache Spark
2 36 (3.81%) Confluence
3 20 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.90%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) Alfresco
5 7 (0.74%) Appian
5 7 (0.74%) Camunda
6 6 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.42%) JBoss
7 4 (0.42%) Mule
7 4 (0.42%) SAS
7 4 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.32%) IIS
8 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.32%) nginx
8 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) InVision
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.21%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.32%) Maximo
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 327 (34.60%) AWS
2 156 (16.51%) Azure
3 69 (7.30%) GCP
4 67 (7.09%) Serverless
5 57 (6.03%) Amazon S3
6 56 (5.93%) GitHub
7 41 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (2.96%) OpenShift
9 27 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (2.12%) Snowflake
13 17 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (1.69%) Power Platform
15 14 (1.48%) SaaS
16 12 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (1.16%) Apigee
18 10 (1.06%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.75%) Firewall
2 16 (1.69%) VPN
3 13 (1.38%) DNS
4 11 (1.16%) HTTP
4 11 (1.16%) Network Security
5 10 (1.06%) DHCP
5 10 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.95%) SNMP
6 9 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
7 6 (0.63%) AMQP
7 6 (0.63%) SSL
8 5 (0.53%) FTP
9 3 (0.32%) BGP
9 3 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (0.32%) IOS XR
9 3 (0.32%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.32%) SAN
9 3 (0.32%) WAN
9 3 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.98%) Relational Database
3 53 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 42 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.39%) MySQL
6 30 (3.17%) Big Data
7 29 (3.07%) SQL Server
8 25 (2.65%) Oracle Database
9 22 (2.33%) Hadoop
10 20 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.38%) Power BI
16 9 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.95%) DB2
Development Applications
1 168 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 121 (12.80%) JIRA
3 120 (12.70%) Git
4 89 (9.42%) Selenium
5 67 (7.09%) Cucumber
6 64 (6.77%) JUnit
7 39 (4.13%) Maven
8 34 (3.60%) GitLab
9 28 (2.96%) REST Assured
10 26 (2.75%) Mockito
10 26 (2.75%) SonarQube
11 25 (2.65%) GoogleTest
12 24 (2.54%) JMeter
13 21 (2.22%) Cypress.io
14 18 (1.90%) Bitbucket
15 16 (1.69%) Eclipse
16 13 (1.38%) Android Studio
17 12 (1.27%) Postman
18 9 (0.95%) WebDriver
19 8 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 177 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 108 (11.43%) Finance
3 98 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 58 (6.14%) Banking
6 25 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.54%) Law
8 15 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.48%) Police
10 13 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.95%) Back Office
15 7 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.63%) Automotive
16 6 (0.63%) Marketing
16 6 (0.63%) Retail
17 4 (0.42%) Electronics
17 4 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 418 (44.23%) Developer
2 256 (27.09%) Java Developer
3 100 (10.58%) Senior
4 99 (10.48%) Software Engineer
5 98 (10.37%) Architect
6 95 (10.05%) Java Engineer
7 66 (6.98%) Full Stack Developer
8 54 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (4.87%) Java Software Engineer
10 44 (4.66%) Lead
11 38 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 36 (3.81%) Full Stack Engineer
14 32 (3.39%) Tester
15 31 (3.28%) Data Engineer
16 30 (3.17%) Senior Java Developer
17 27 (2.86%) Java Architect
18 26 (2.75%) Full Stack Java Developer
19 24 (2.54%) Analyst
19 24 (2.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (26.77%) Spring
2 215 (22.75%) Spring Boot
3 165 (17.46%) REST
4 145 (15.34%) React
5 108 (11.43%) Kafka
6 98 (10.37%) HTML
7 92 (9.74%) RESTful
8 78 (8.25%) CSS
9 69 (7.30%) AngularJS
10 49 (5.19%) Node.js
11 47 (4.97%) Web Services
12 40 (4.23%) JPA
13 38 (4.02%) Java EE
14 37 (3.92%) .NET
15 33 (3.49%) Hibernate
16 32 (3.39%) JSON
17 31 (3.28%) XML
18 27 (2.86%) J2EE
19 26 (2.75%) OAuth
20 25 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 28 (2.96%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 24 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.95%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.85%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.74%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.74%) DataPower
12 7 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.06%) Linux
2 52 (5.50%) Unix
3 45 (4.76%) Windows
4 37 (3.92%) Android
5 14 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.74%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) AIX
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (40.11%) Agile
2 250 (26.46%) DevOps
3 226 (23.92%) Software Engineering
4 223 (23.60%) CI/CD
5 192 (20.32%) Microservices
6 179 (18.94%) Test Automation
7 137 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (13.44%) Scrum
9 120 (12.70%) Full Stack Development
10 108 (11.43%) TDD
11 95 (10.05%) SDLC
12 85 (8.99%) Unit Testing
13 74 (7.83%) Containerisation
14 70 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
15 69 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (7.30%) OO
16 67 (7.09%) Computer Science
17 59 (6.24%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (5.93%) Data Modelling
19 53 (5.61%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 252 (26.67%) Python
2 181 (19.15%) JavaScript
3 160 (16.93%) SQL
4 89 (9.42%) TypeScript
5 76 (8.04%) C++
6 68 (7.20%) Scala
7 65 (6.88%) C#
8 64 (6.77%) C
9 42 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 31 (3.28%) PHP
11 25 (2.65%) Go
11 25 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 19 (2.01%) Perl
13 18 (1.90%) Bash
13 18 (1.90%) Groovy
14 15 (1.59%) Ruby
15 14 (1.48%) PowerShell
16 11 (1.16%) R
17 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 230 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 131 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 104 (11.01%) DV Cleared
4 59 (6.24%) Degree
5 38 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.32%) PhD
10 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.21%) CISSP
10 2 (0.21%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.21%) ISEB
10 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CEH
11 1 (0.11%) CISM
11 1 (0.11%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.71%) QA
2 38 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.01%) MISRA
4 15 (1.59%) GDPR
5 13 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.95%) NIST
6 9 (0.95%) WCAG
7 6 (0.63%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (0.63%) GxP
8 5 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 151 (15.98%) Docker
2 17 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.85%) Firmware
4 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.74%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.32%) HDFS
7 3 (0.32%) NFS
7 3 (0.32%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.32%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.21%) GPFS
8 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.11%) ACF2
9 1 (0.11%) IAG
9 1 (0.11%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 147 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 96 (10.16%) Terraform
3 62 (6.56%) Ansible
4 39 (4.13%) Grafana
5 25 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
7 18 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.27%) Podman
9 11 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.06%) Kibana
10 10 (1.06%) SCCM
11 8 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.85%) Zipkin
12 3 (0.32%) Nagios
12 3 (0.32%) Puppet
13 2 (0.21%) Istio
13 2 (0.21%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 1 (0.11%) Anchore
14 1 (0.11%) Argo
14 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 75 (7.94%) Google
2 64 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 60 (6.35%) Oracle
4 24 (2.54%) IBM
5 18 (1.90%) SAP
6 15 (1.59%) VMware
7 14 (1.48%) Databricks
8 12 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.06%) Informatica
10 9 (0.95%) Pega
11 8 (0.85%) Splunk
12 7 (0.74%) TSYS
12 7 (0.74%) Veeam
13 6 (0.63%) Adobe
13 6 (0.63%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.63%) Talend
14 5 (0.53%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.42%) Cisco
15 4 (0.42%) Sybase
15 4 (0.42%) Workday