Java Solutions Architect Contracts

Java Solution Architect
UK

The median Java Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 711 843
Rank change year-on-year +151 +132 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Java Solutions Architect 40 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.008% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.009% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 3 14
10th Percentile £703 £448 £558
25th Percentile £713 £483 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £540 £613
Median % change year-on-year +34.26% -11.84% -10.91%
75th Percentile £888 - £719
90th Percentile - - £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 - £565
% change year-on-year - - -9.60%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Java Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Solutions Architect in the UK

Java Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Solutions Architect in the UK

Java Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Solutions Architect in the UK

Java Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Solutions Architect in the UK

Java Solutions Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +155 40 £725 +34.26% 2
UK excluding London - 25 £725 - 1
South East - 24 £725 -
London +123 15 £825 +52.78% 1
Work from Home +140 14 £825 +52.78% 1
North West - 1 £700 -
North of England - 1 £700 -

Java Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Java Solutions Architect 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 23 (57.50%) Product Ownership
4 23 (57.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 23 (57.50%) GAP Analysis
5 19 (47.50%) DV Cleared
6 11 (27.50%) AWS
6 11 (27.50%) Finance
6 11 (27.50%) Agile
6 11 (27.50%) Python
6 11 (27.50%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (25.00%) gRPC
7 10 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (25.00%) GCP
7 10 (25.00%) Pandas
7 10 (25.00%) Dremio
7 10 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
7 10 (25.00%) dbt
7 10 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
7 10 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (25.00%) Banking
7 10 (25.00%) Asset Management
7 10 (25.00%) Front Office
7 10 (25.00%) Apache
7 10 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 10 (25.00%) TypeScript

Java Solutions Architect 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 11 (27.50%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) dbt
2 10 (25.00%) GCP
3 9 (22.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 10 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
1 10 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
1 10 (25.00%) Dremio
2 9 (22.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
General
1 24 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 10 (25.00%) Front Office
3 10 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) gRPC
1 10 (25.00%) NumPy
1 10 (25.00%) Pandas
1 10 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 10 (25.00%) SciPy
2 2 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) EJB
3 1 (2.50%) J2EE
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) Rendezvous
3 1 (2.50%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Product Ownership
2 10 (25.00%) Derivative
2 10 (25.00%) Equities
2 10 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 10 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (25.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (57.50%) GAP Analysis
2 23 (57.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 11 (27.50%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (22.50%) Line Management
6 8 (20.00%) Investment Management
7 5 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) DevOps
7 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (7.50%) Logistics
8 3 (7.50%) Scrum
9 2 (5.00%) B2B
9 2 (5.00%) B2C
9 2 (5.00%) Data Governance
9 2 (5.00%) Project Delivery
10 1 (2.50%) CI/CD
10 1 (2.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Ruby
5 1 (2.50%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (47.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 1 (2.50%) TIBCO