Java Technical Architect Contracts

Java Technical Architect
UK

The median Java Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 695 853
Rank change year-on-year +131 +158 -194
Contract jobs requiring a Java Technical Architect 15 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.008% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.009% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 7
10th Percentile £613 £523 £525
25th Percentile £631 £528 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £576 £588
Median % change year-on-year +21.48% -1.91% +11.90%
75th Percentile £738 £661 £606
90th Percentile £771 £729 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £615 £588
% change year-on-year +13.82% +4.68% +17.50%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Java Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Technical Architect in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Technical Architect in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Technical Architect over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Technical Architect in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Technical Architect in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Technical Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +124 15 £700 +21.48% 2
London - 10 £725 - 2
Work from Home +124 4 £700 - 2
UK excluding London +69 4 £700 +13.82%
South East +27 4 £700 +21.48%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Java Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 6 (40.00%) Microservices
3 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 5 (33.33%) Terraform
4 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Docker
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
5 4 (26.67%) REST
6 3 (20.00%) JIRA
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (20.00%) Ansible
6 3 (20.00%) GitLab
6 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (20.00%) DB2
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Spring
6 3 (20.00%) Java EE
6 3 (20.00%) Selenium
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared

Java Technical 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 2 (13.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
2 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Front Office
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (26.67%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (20.00%) Java EE
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Microservices
2 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
6 1 (6.67%) Data Governance
6 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media