Java
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 2,593 5,441 8,950
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.99% 9.10% 10.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.34% 25.95% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 4,069 6,413
10th Percentile £400 £431 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -6.30% +2.86% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 108 106
10th Percentile £40.45 £40.67 £30.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £53.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £71.25 £73.72 £65.77
90th Percentile £75.30 £75.00 £76.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +15.04% +24.86%

All Programming Languages
UK

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 -13 2,158 £575 -4.17% 1,073
London -9 1,430 £600 -7.69% 565
Work from Home -11 970 £592 +0.13% 559
UK excluding London -7 903 £506 -6.30% 603
North of England -5 256 £500 -11.46% 121
Scotland -5 213 £480 -3.71% 75
South East -17 190 £575 +9.52% 134
North West -3 145 £495 -10.00% 76
Yorkshire +6 101 £525 -4.55% 25
South West -53 88 £575 +4.55% 110
East of England +25 70 £490 -9.76% 49
Midlands -28 69 £504 -6.71% 76
West Midlands -22 47 £525 -4.55% 57
East Midlands +4 22 £489 -9.02% 19
Wales +8 11 £475 -2.56% 19
North East -24 10 £501 -12.96% 22
Northern Ireland -4 9 £500 -4.76% 24

Java
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
1 131 (5.05%) Apache
2 122 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (3.32%) Confluence
4 81 (3.12%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.58%) CMS
7 14 (0.54%) WebLogic
8 13 (0.50%) Camunda
8 13 (0.50%) SAS
9 10 (0.39%) JBoss
9 10 (0.39%) nginx
10 8 (0.31%) Alfresco
10 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.31%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.31%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.27%) Appian
11 7 (0.27%) IIS
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.039%) Sketch
6 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (0.73%) ION MarketView
2 14 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.46%) ION Anvil
4 7 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.23%) Endur
5 6 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
6 5 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
6 5 (0.19%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.12%) Global One
7 3 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.077%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.077%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.077%) RMDS
8 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.077%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 862 (33.24%) AWS
2 332 (12.80%) Azure
3 228 (8.79%) GCP
4 133 (5.13%) Serverless
5 129 (4.97%) GitHub
6 118 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 99 (3.82%) Snowflake
8 94 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 81 (3.12%) dbt
10 79 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (2.16%) OpenShift
13 50 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
14 46 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (1.74%) Power Platform
16 37 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
19 28 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
20 27 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.39%) DNS
1 36 (1.39%) Firewall
2 31 (1.20%) HTTP
2 31 (1.20%) Network Security
3 30 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 23 (0.89%) VPN
5 20 (0.77%) DHCP
5 20 (0.77%) SSL
6 19 (0.73%) Internet
7 10 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
8 9 (0.35%) SNMP
9 7 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (0.27%) iSCSI
9 7 (0.27%) NetScaler
9 7 (0.27%) SSH
10 6 (0.23%) FTP
10 6 (0.23%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.23%) SAN
11 5 (0.19%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (5.86%) Relational Database
3 130 (5.01%) SQL Server
4 119 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 119 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 118 (4.55%) MySQL
6 92 (3.55%) Data Lake
7 91 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
8 80 (3.09%) Apache Arrow
8 80 (3.09%) Dremio
9 74 (2.85%) Big Data
10 70 (2.70%) Apache Ignite
11 64 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
11 64 (2.47%) Oracle Database
12 53 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
13 51 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (1.66%) KDB
15 42 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
16 40 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
17 34 (1.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 358 (13.81%) Jenkins
2 302 (11.65%) Git
3 215 (8.29%) JIRA
4 193 (7.44%) Selenium
5 164 (6.32%) Cucumber
6 146 (5.63%) JUnit
7 93 (3.59%) Maven
8 92 (3.55%) GitLab
9 73 (2.82%) Mockito
10 65 (2.51%) Cypress.io
11 57 (2.20%) REST Assured
12 48 (1.85%) JMeter
13 44 (1.70%) Postman
14 43 (1.66%) Bitbucket
15 38 (1.47%) SonarQube
16 36 (1.39%) WebDriver
17 35 (1.35%) TestNG
18 32 (1.23%) Gradle
19 29 (1.12%) Subversion
20 27 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 619 (23.87%) Finance
2 517 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 395 (15.23%) Banking
4 246 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 224 (8.64%) Front Office
6 208 (8.02%) Public Sector
7 179 (6.90%) Investment Banking
8 50 (1.93%) Financial Institution
9 48 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (1.35%) Law
11 32 (1.23%) Retail
12 30 (1.16%) Back Office
13 25 (0.96%) Marketing
14 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.69%) Electronics
17 15 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.54%) Police
19 11 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,249 (48.17%) Developer
2 696 (26.84%) Java Developer
3 401 (15.46%) Senior
4 228 (8.79%) Software Engineer
5 209 (8.06%) Senior Developer
6 206 (7.94%) Architect
7 197 (7.60%) Java Engineer
8 182 (7.02%) Lead
9 162 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
10 127 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 92 (3.55%) Data Engineer
12 91 (3.51%) Software Developer
13 86 (3.32%) Java Software Engineer
14 85 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
15 84 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
16 76 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (2.70%) Analyst
18 67 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
19 65 (2.51%) Java Architect
20 62 (2.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (20.86%) Spring
2 456 (17.59%) Spring Boot
3 356 (13.73%) REST
4 298 (11.49%) React
5 263 (10.14%) Kafka
6 228 (8.79%) HTML
7 177 (6.83%) CSS
8 168 (6.48%) Node.js
9 166 (6.40%) RESTful
9 166 (6.40%) Web Services
10 152 (5.86%) AngularJS
11 126 (4.86%) .NET
12 115 (4.44%) XML
13 111 (4.28%) Hibernate
14 102 (3.93%) JPA
14 102 (3.93%) SOAP
15 87 (3.36%) NumPy
15 87 (3.36%) Pandas
16 84 (3.24%) gRPC
16 84 (3.24%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 166 (6.40%) Fixed Income
2 139 (5.36%) Derivative
3 135 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 101 (3.90%) Equities
5 98 (3.78%) Hedge funds
6 92 (3.55%) Algorithms
7 70 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 56 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 56 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 52 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
11 51 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 48 (1.85%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.58%) Cloud Native
14 38 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
16 28 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 280 (10.80%) Linux
2 179 (6.90%) Unix
3 96 (3.70%) Windows
4 67 (2.58%) Android
5 28 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.89%) Mac OS X
7 20 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 19 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.19%) zOS
10 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.077%) CentOS
12 2 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.039%) AIX
13 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (35.71%) Agile
2 548 (21.13%) CI/CD
3 537 (20.71%) Software Engineering
4 514 (19.82%) DevOps
5 476 (18.36%) Microservices
6 418 (16.12%) Test Automation
7 356 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (10.61%) Full Stack Development
9 255 (9.83%) Scrum
10 250 (9.64%) TDD
11 234 (9.02%) SDLC
12 212 (8.18%) Computer Science
13 172 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
14 161 (6.21%) BDD
15 146 (5.63%) Analytics
15 146 (5.63%) Unit Testing
16 145 (5.59%) OO
17 132 (5.09%) Mentoring
18 129 (4.97%) Migration
19 128 (4.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 784 (30.24%) Python
2 566 (21.83%) SQL
3 546 (21.06%) JavaScript
4 293 (11.30%) C#
5 264 (10.18%) TypeScript
6 162 (6.25%) C++
7 147 (5.67%) Scala
8 113 (4.36%) Kotlin
9 95 (3.66%) Go
9 95 (3.66%) Shell Script
10 86 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 77 (2.97%) C
11 77 (2.97%) Perl
12 56 (2.16%) Ruby
13 54 (2.08%) PHP
14 50 (1.93%) Bash
15 40 (1.54%) PL/SQL
16 37 (1.43%) Groovy
17 29 (1.12%) Rust
18 18 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 521 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 393 (15.16%) SC Cleared
3 229 (8.83%) Degree
4 125 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 121 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 45 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.62%) PhD
8 14 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.39%) CISSP
11 8 (0.31%) ISEB
12 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.19%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.15%) SANS
15 3 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.12%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (5.55%) QA
2 63 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 17 (0.66%) GDPR
6 16 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 16 (0.62%) SLA
7 13 (0.50%) NIST
8 12 (0.46%) MiFID
9 11 (0.42%) WCAG
10 7 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.27%) GxP
11 6 (0.23%) GRC
11 6 (0.23%) MISRA
12 5 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 2 (0.077%) Basel III
14 2 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.077%) NCSC
System Software
1 363 (14.00%) Docker
2 70 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.77%) IAG
4 41 (1.58%) ACF2
4 41 (1.58%) RACF
5 20 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (0.39%) Firmware
7 10 (0.39%) HDFS
8 9 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.31%) NFS
9 8 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
12 4 (0.15%) GPFS
12 4 (0.15%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.12%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.077%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.077%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 380 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 204 (7.87%) Terraform
3 120 (4.63%) Ansible
4 102 (3.93%) Grafana
5 72 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.04%) Kibana
8 24 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.69%) Puppet
11 15 (0.58%) Podman
12 12 (0.46%) Consul
13 11 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (0.39%) SCCM
15 9 (0.35%) BladeLogic
15 9 (0.35%) Istio
15 9 (0.35%) Opsgenie
15 9 (0.35%) Packer
15 9 (0.35%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 268 (10.34%) Oracle
2 148 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 115 (4.44%) Google
4 67 (2.58%) IBM
5 66 (2.55%) SAP
6 55 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.70%) Sybase
8 40 (1.54%) ION Trading
8 40 (1.54%) Splunk
9 39 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.20%) Adobe
10 31 (1.20%) Databricks
10 31 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 22 (0.85%) Informatica
12 21 (0.81%) VMware
13 18 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 18 (0.69%) New Relic
14 17 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 15 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.50%) BeyondTrust