Full Stack Java Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 573 669
Rank change year-on-year +60 +96 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Java Developer 71 124 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 107 135
10th Percentile £394 £438 £450
25th Percentile £440 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £713 £693
90th Percentile £720 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £487 £486
% change year-on-year -9.60% +0.26% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Full Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Java Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +27 47 £469 -23.47% 8
London +23 37 £463 -24.49% 2
UK excluding London +43 31 £440 -9.60% 11
Work from Home +91 22 £496 -4.39% 5
Scotland +59 20 £440 -7.81% 2
North of England +20 4 £475 -34.48% 5
East of England - 4 £459 -
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
South East +12 2 - -
South West +2 1 - -
North West - 1 £550 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Full Stack 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 Full Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Java
1 71 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 39 (54.93%) Agile
3 38 (53.52%) AWS
4 28 (39.44%) React
5 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
5 26 (36.62%) Spring
6 24 (33.80%) AngularJS
7 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
8 21 (29.58%) SC Cleared
9 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
9 18 (25.35%) HTML
10 17 (23.94%) SQL
10 17 (23.94%) CSS
10 17 (23.94%) Apache
10 17 (23.94%) Spring Boot
11 15 (21.13%) Kafka
11 15 (21.13%) REST
11 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
11 15 (21.13%) TDD
12 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
13 12 (16.90%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (16.90%) Flink
13 12 (16.90%) IT Strategy
13 12 (16.90%) Technology Strategy
14 11 (15.49%) Microservices
14 11 (15.49%) Node.js
15 10 (14.08%) DevOps
15 10 (14.08%) User Experience
15 10 (14.08%) Test Automation

Full Stack 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (23.94%) Apache
2 5 (7.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) JBoss
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) WildFly
4 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (53.52%) AWS
2 12 (16.90%) Amazon Kinesis
3 8 (11.27%) Azure
4 6 (8.45%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.63%) npm
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.41%) GCP
8 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
1 3 (4.23%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) Flink
2 8 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.63%) Big Data
4 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.41%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.41%) KDB
7 1 (1.41%) Power BI
7 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.86%) Cypress.io
3 6 (8.45%) Git
4 5 (7.04%) JUnit
5 3 (4.23%) JIRA
5 3 (4.23%) Maven
5 3 (4.23%) Selenium
6 2 (2.82%) Subversion
7 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.41%) JMeter
7 1 (1.41%) Mockito
7 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.41%) Spock
7 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (14.08%) Finance
2 8 (11.27%) Banking
3 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Automotive
6 2 (2.82%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (39.44%) React
2 26 (36.62%) Spring
3 24 (33.80%) AngularJS
4 18 (25.35%) HTML
5 17 (23.94%) CSS
5 17 (23.94%) Spring Boot
6 15 (21.13%) Kafka
6 15 (21.13%) REST
7 11 (15.49%) Node.js
8 6 (8.45%) RESTful
9 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.04%) JPA
10 4 (5.63%) XML
11 3 (4.23%) .NET
11 3 (4.23%) HTML5
11 3 (4.23%) jQuery
11 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (2.82%) AWS CDK
12 2 (2.82%) CSS3
12 2 (2.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.23%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Derivative
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.41%) Equities
4 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Unix
2 2 (2.82%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 39 (54.93%) Agile
3 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
4 15 (21.13%) TDD
5 12 (16.90%) IT Strategy
5 12 (16.90%) Technology Strategy
6 11 (15.49%) Microservices
7 10 (14.08%) DevOps
7 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.08%) User Experience
8 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (12.68%) Scrum
8 9 (12.68%) SDLC
9 8 (11.27%) Code Quality
10 6 (8.45%) Computer Science
11 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (7.04%) Machine Learning
11 5 (7.04%) Operational Stability
11 5 (7.04%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
3 17 (23.94%) SQL
4 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
5 10 (14.08%) Python
6 3 (4.23%) C#
7 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) Scala
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Grafana
2 3 (4.23%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Kibana
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.45%) Oracle
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.41%) IBM
4 1 (1.41%) Splunk
4 1 (1.41%) Sybase
4 1 (1.41%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.41%) VMware