Core Java Developer Contracts

Core Java Developer
UK

The median Core Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £838 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 683 784
Rank change year-on-year +109 +101 -131
Contract jobs requiring a Core Java Developer 8 20 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.035% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.037% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 48
10th Percentile £636 £700 £575
25th Percentile £775 £738 £838
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £1,000 £945
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +5.82% +51.93%
75th Percentile £850 £1,500 £950
90th Percentile £865 - £985
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £486
% change year-on-year - +33.68% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Core Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Core Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Core Java Developer.

Daily rate trend for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Core Java Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Core Java Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Core Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +85 8 £838 -16.25%
London +84 8 £838 -16.25%
Work from Home +123 6 £850 +30.77%

Core Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Core 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 featuring Core Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) Spring
2 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (50.00%) Credit Derivative
3 4 (50.00%) JPA
3 4 (50.00%) MySQL
3 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (37.50%) Front Office
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Banking
4 3 (37.50%) Derivative
4 3 (37.50%) Ansible
5 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Ext JS
5 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (12.50%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (12.50%) Code Quality

Core Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) JPA
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Ext JS
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Credit Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (37.50%) Derivative
3 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle