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 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 83 67
Rank change year-on-year -61 -16 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 710 1,687 3,089
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.86% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 3.02% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 1,364 2,395
10th Percentile £393 £456 £438
25th Percentile £450 £520 £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 £829
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -11.03% +4.48% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £61.49 £46.25
25th Percentile £37.50 £70.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £73.75 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.81% +16.60% +11.95%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £76.13
90th Percentile £66.95 £76.50 £77.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +6.19%

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

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 6 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 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Top 17 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 6 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 -83 559 £600 -11.11% 126
London -50 406 £650 -7.14% 70
Work from Home -31 278 £600 -4.00% 59
UK excluding London -17 257 £488 -11.03% 75
Scotland +30 97 £450 -11.42% 17
North of England -14 69 £525 -12.50% 15
South East -27 49 £500 -4.76% 18
North West +26 38 £525 -4.55% 11
Yorkshire -6 28 £544 -9.38% 3
Midlands +27 19 £450 -21.74% 7
West Midlands +22 17 £475 -32.14% 6
South West -27 10 £375 -28.57% 11
East of England -2 8 £541 -22.71% 2
Northern Ireland +5 5 £450 -8.16% 4
North East -6 3 £450 -37.50% 1
East Midlands +6 2 £398 -43.21% 1
Wales +10 1 £450 -10.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 710 (100.00%) Java
2 297 (41.83%) Agile
2 297 (41.83%) Spring
3 256 (36.06%) Spring Boot
4 229 (32.25%) AWS
5 211 (29.72%) Microservices
6 186 (26.20%) Finance
7 164 (23.10%) REST
8 152 (21.41%) Security Cleared
9 150 (21.13%) CI/CD
10 141 (19.86%) SC Cleared
11 135 (19.01%) Banking
12 133 (18.73%) SQL
13 129 (18.17%) TDD
14 119 (16.76%) Kafka
15 117 (16.48%) Docker
16 115 (16.20%) Social Skills
17 112 (15.77%) Jenkins
18 110 (15.49%) DevOps
18 110 (15.49%) Software Engineering
19 93 (13.10%) Front Office
20 90 (12.68%) Kubernetes
21 89 (12.54%) JUnit
22 87 (12.25%) Git
22 87 (12.25%) Full Stack Development
23 85 (11.97%) Test Automation
23 85 (11.97%) Scrum
24 82 (11.55%) Hibernate
25 80 (11.27%) Python
26 79 (11.13%) React

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 36 (5.07%) Apache
2 27 (3.80%) Confluence
3 19 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.13%) JBoss
5 8 (1.13%) SAS
6 7 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.56%) Mule
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) WildFly
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) GemFire
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.27%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.28%) 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
1 229 (32.25%) AWS
2 72 (10.14%) GCP
3 53 (7.46%) Azure
4 39 (5.49%) Serverless
5 33 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 19 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (2.39%) OpenShift
10 16 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (1.83%) dbt
12 12 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.27%) GitHub
14 6 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.56%) Cloud Run
16 3 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.13%) HTTP
2 7 (0.99%) Firewall
2 7 (0.99%) VPN
3 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (0.70%) NetScaler
4 5 (0.70%) SSH
4 5 (0.70%) SSL
5 3 (0.42%) 5G
5 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.14%) FTP
6 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (8.17%) Relational Database
3 43 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 31 (4.37%) KDB
5 26 (3.66%) Oracle Database
6 24 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.39%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.25%) MySQL
9 15 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.83%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (1.83%) Dremio
10 13 (1.83%) Flink
11 11 (1.55%) Couchbase
11 11 (1.55%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.99%) Redis
14 6 (0.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 112 (15.77%) Jenkins
2 89 (12.54%) JUnit
3 87 (12.25%) Git
4 57 (8.03%) JIRA
5 48 (6.76%) Cucumber
6 46 (6.48%) Mockito
7 38 (5.35%) Maven
8 33 (4.65%) GitLab
9 16 (2.25%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.97%) Selenium
11 13 (1.83%) Postman
12 8 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.13%) IntelliJ
12 8 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.13%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.99%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.85%) TestNG
15 5 (0.70%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.56%) CircleCI
16 4 (0.56%) Sourcetree
General
1 186 (26.20%) Finance
2 135 (19.01%) Banking
3 115 (16.20%) Social Skills
4 93 (13.10%) Front Office
5 71 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 65 (9.15%) Public Sector
7 52 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.13%) Law
11 6 (0.85%) Automotive
12 5 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.56%) Back Office
13 4 (0.56%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
14 2 (0.28%) Electronics
14 2 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (41.83%) Spring
2 256 (36.06%) Spring Boot
3 164 (23.10%) REST
4 119 (16.76%) Kafka
5 82 (11.55%) Hibernate
6 79 (11.13%) React
7 68 (9.58%) JPA
8 50 (7.04%) RESTful
9 49 (6.90%) HTML
10 46 (6.48%) AngularJS
11 41 (5.77%) CSS
12 40 (5.63%) JAX-RS
12 40 (5.63%) Node.js
13 33 (4.65%) Web Services
14 26 (3.66%) ActiveMQ
14 26 (3.66%) Spring Security
15 25 (3.52%) J2EE
16 24 (3.38%) SAML
17 23 (3.24%) FIX Protocol
18 22 (3.10%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.17%) Fixed Income
2 51 (7.18%) Derivative
3 45 (6.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (4.65%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (3.38%) Algorithms
8 22 (3.10%) Hedge funds
9 21 (2.96%) Credit Derivative
9 21 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (2.82%) Equities
11 19 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (2.11%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
14 14 (1.97%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.27%) Cloud Native
17 8 (1.13%) Market Risk
18 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 74 (10.42%) Linux
2 58 (8.17%) Unix
3 17 (2.39%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.27%) Windows
5 3 (0.42%) zOS
6 1 (0.14%) AIX
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (41.83%) Agile
2 211 (29.72%) Microservices
3 150 (21.13%) CI/CD
4 129 (18.17%) TDD
5 110 (15.49%) DevOps
5 110 (15.49%) Software Engineering
6 87 (12.25%) Full Stack Development
7 85 (11.97%) Scrum
7 85 (11.97%) Test Automation
8 79 (11.13%) SDLC
9 78 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (8.59%) Continuous Integration
11 60 (8.45%) Electronic Trading
12 56 (7.89%) Multithreading
13 55 (7.75%) Computer Science
14 53 (7.46%) Mentoring
15 50 (7.04%) Low Latency
16 49 (6.90%) BDD
17 44 (6.20%) Front End Development
17 44 (6.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 710 (100.00%) Java
2 133 (18.73%) SQL
3 80 (11.27%) Python
4 77 (10.85%) JavaScript
5 57 (8.03%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.06%) Scala
7 24 (3.38%) Perl
8 22 (3.10%) Kotlin
9 16 (2.25%) C#
10 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.83%) PHP
12 10 (1.41%) C++
13 9 (1.27%) Bash
14 6 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.70%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.56%) VBA
17 3 (0.42%) Go
18 2 (0.28%) Groovy
18 2 (0.28%) Haskell
18 2 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (21.41%) Security Cleared
2 141 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.03%) Degree
4 32 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.99%) PhD
8 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.69%) QA
2 11 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.70%) MiFID
4 4 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.56%) WCAG
5 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (16.48%) 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%) NFS
3 1 (0.14%) zsh
Systems Management
1 90 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.65%) Terraform
3 19 (2.68%) Ansible
4 18 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (2.25%) Grafana
6 12 (1.69%) Kibana
7 7 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.85%) Podman
8 6 (0.85%) Zipkin
9 3 (0.42%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (9.72%) Oracle
2 40 (5.63%) Google
3 32 (4.51%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.80%) ION Trading
5 9 (1.27%) IBM
5 9 (1.27%) Solace
6 7 (0.99%) Splunk
7 6 (0.85%) TIBCO
8 5 (0.70%) F5
9 4 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.56%) SAP
9 4 (0.56%) Sybase
10 3 (0.42%) Databricks
10 3 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.42%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.28%) MarketAxess
11 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.28%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.28%) WSO2