Java Developer Contracts

Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 86 67
Rank change year-on-year -59 -19 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 704 1,549 3,048
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 2.74% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 2.90% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 1,281 2,379
10th Percentile £400 £450 £438
25th Percentile £454 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £738
90th Percentile £875 £863 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 29
10th Percentile £35.00 £61.49 £46.20
25th Percentile £40.00 £70.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +9.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.60 £76.50 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £61.63
% change year-on-year -22.41% +17.65% +7.64%

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 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -76 562 £600 -11.11% 139
London -45 409 £675 -3.57% 79
Work from Home -32 274 £600 -3.23% 92
UK excluding London -26 247 £485 -7.62% 84
Scotland +40 85 £438 -12.24% 18
North of England -13 63 £525 -8.70% 17
South East -36 46 £500 -1.96% 16
North West +21 33 £525 -4.55% 16
Yorkshire -9 27 £550 -8.33%
Midlands +24 18 £450 -20.00% 9
South West -29 18 £388 -24.02% 16
West Midlands +13 16 £450 -23.40% 7
Northern Ireland +5 9 £650 - 7
East of England -1 9 £541 -22.71% 1
North East -3 3 £450 -37.50% 1
East Midlands +2 2 £398 -43.21% 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 704 (100.00%) Java
2 298 (42.33%) Spring
3 293 (41.62%) Agile
4 248 (35.23%) Spring Boot
5 223 (31.68%) AWS
6 205 (29.12%) Microservices
7 202 (28.69%) Finance
8 150 (21.31%) REST
9 147 (20.88%) Security Cleared
10 141 (20.03%) TDD
10 141 (20.03%) CI/CD
11 139 (19.74%) Banking
12 132 (18.75%) SC Cleared
13 126 (17.90%) SQL
14 119 (16.90%) Kafka
15 118 (16.76%) Software Engineering
16 114 (16.19%) DevOps
17 111 (15.77%) Docker
18 103 (14.63%) Social Skills
19 98 (13.92%) Front Office
20 95 (13.49%) Kubernetes
21 94 (13.35%) Jenkins
21 94 (13.35%) Test Automation
22 85 (12.07%) React
22 85 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
23 84 (11.93%) SDLC
23 84 (11.93%) GCP
23 84 (11.93%) Scrum
24 83 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
25 82 (11.65%) JUnit

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 37 (5.26%) Apache
2 21 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.56%) Confluence
4 15 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.99%) JBoss
5 7 (0.99%) SAS
6 5 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.57%) Mule
7 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) WildFly
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) GemFire
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.43%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.14%) Endur
3 1 (0.14%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 223 (31.68%) AWS
2 84 (11.93%) GCP
3 71 (10.09%) Azure
4 34 (4.83%) Serverless
5 31 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (3.98%) Amazon S3
7 21 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (2.56%) GitHub
9 17 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (2.27%) OpenShift
11 15 (2.13%) dbt
12 14 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (1.99%) Snowflake
13 12 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (0.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 4 (0.57%) Cloud Run
17 4 (0.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.28%) SSH
2 7 (0.99%) Firewall
2 7 (0.99%) VPN
3 3 (0.43%) HTTP
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.14%) FTP
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (8.24%) Relational Database
3 39 (5.54%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.97%) KDB
5 26 (3.69%) Oracle Database
6 24 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (2.27%) SQL Server
9 15 (2.13%) Apache Arrow
9 15 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
9 15 (2.13%) Dremio
9 15 (2.13%) MySQL
10 13 (1.85%) Flink
11 12 (1.70%) Couchbase
11 12 (1.70%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (13.35%) Jenkins
2 82 (11.65%) JUnit
3 74 (10.51%) Git
4 59 (8.38%) JIRA
5 47 (6.68%) Mockito
6 45 (6.39%) Maven
7 42 (5.97%) Cucumber
8 29 (4.12%) GitLab
9 16 (2.27%) Selenium
10 15 (2.13%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.14%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.85%) Gradle
13 6 (0.85%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.85%) Postman
13 6 (0.85%) TestNG
14 5 (0.71%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.57%) CircleCI
General
1 202 (28.69%) Finance
2 139 (19.74%) Banking
3 103 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 98 (13.92%) Front Office
5 77 (10.94%) Investment Banking
6 58 (8.24%) Public Sector
7 55 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.14%) Law
11 6 (0.85%) Automotive
12 5 (0.71%) Retail
12 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.57%) Back Office
13 4 (0.57%) Police
14 2 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Marketing
15 1 (0.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (42.33%) Spring
2 248 (35.23%) Spring Boot
3 150 (21.31%) REST
4 119 (16.90%) Kafka
5 85 (12.07%) React
6 76 (10.80%) Hibernate
7 65 (9.23%) JPA
8 54 (7.67%) HTML
9 46 (6.53%) AngularJS
9 46 (6.53%) RESTful
10 45 (6.39%) CSS
11 42 (5.97%) JAX-RS
12 36 (5.11%) Web Services
13 32 (4.55%) Node.js
14 26 (3.69%) ActiveMQ
14 26 (3.69%) SAML
15 25 (3.55%) XML
16 23 (3.27%) FIX Protocol
16 23 (3.27%) Restlet
17 22 (3.13%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.66%) Fixed Income
2 57 (8.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (7.53%) Derivative
4 45 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (6.11%) Data Structures
6 30 (4.26%) Algorithms
7 27 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.27%) Equities
10 22 (3.13%) Hedge funds
11 21 (2.98%) Credit Derivative
12 18 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (2.27%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.99%) Equity Derivative
14 14 (1.99%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (1.42%) Cloud Native
17 9 (1.28%) Onboarding
18 7 (0.99%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 78 (11.08%) Linux
2 59 (8.38%) Unix
3 18 (2.56%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.28%) Windows
5 3 (0.43%) zOS
6 1 (0.14%) AIX
6 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (41.62%) Agile
2 205 (29.12%) Microservices
3 141 (20.03%) CI/CD
3 141 (20.03%) TDD
4 118 (16.76%) Software Engineering
5 114 (16.19%) DevOps
6 94 (13.35%) Test Automation
7 85 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
8 84 (11.93%) Scrum
8 84 (11.93%) SDLC
9 83 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (9.38%) Electronic Trading
11 62 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
12 61 (8.66%) Multithreading
13 60 (8.52%) Computer Science
14 55 (7.81%) BDD
14 55 (7.81%) Mentoring
15 54 (7.67%) Low Latency
15 54 (7.67%) Unit Testing
16 40 (5.68%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 704 (100.00%) Java
2 126 (17.90%) SQL
3 80 (11.36%) Python
4 79 (11.22%) JavaScript
5 59 (8.38%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.11%) Scala
7 26 (3.69%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.70%) Perl
9 15 (2.13%) C#
10 14 (1.99%) C++
11 13 (1.85%) PHP
12 11 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.71%) Bash
13 5 (0.71%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.57%) VBA
15 3 (0.43%) Go
16 2 (0.28%) Groovy
16 2 (0.28%) Haskell
16 2 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 147 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 132 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.38%) Degree
4 34 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.99%) PhD
8 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.85%) QA
2 10 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.71%) MiFID
4 4 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.57%) WCAG
5 3 (0.43%) MISRA
6 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (15.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.14%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.14%) GridGain
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) zsh
Systems Management
1 95 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.84%) Terraform
3 19 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (2.56%) Grafana
5 16 (2.27%) Ansible
6 10 (1.42%) Kibana
7 9 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.14%) Zipkin
9 7 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.85%) Podman
11 3 (0.43%) Istio
12 2 (0.28%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.28%) Packer
13 1 (0.14%) Argo
13 1 (0.14%) Control-M
13 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 66 (9.38%) Oracle
2 45 (6.39%) Google
3 35 (4.97%) Microsoft
4 31 (4.40%) ION Trading
5 10 (1.42%) Solace
5 10 (1.42%) Splunk
6 8 (1.14%) IBM
6 8 (1.14%) TIBCO
7 5 (0.71%) SAP
8 4 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.57%) Tradeweb
9 3 (0.43%) Databricks
9 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.43%) Sybase
9 3 (0.43%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.28%) Adobe
10 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.28%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft