Junior Java Developer Contracts

Junior Java Developer
UK

The median Junior Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 703 852
Rank change year-on-year +130 +149 -180
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Java Developer 9 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.015% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.016% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile £353 £363 -
25th Percentile - £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.12% - -
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £425 -
% change year-on-year -11.76% - -

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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Junior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Java Developer in the UK

Junior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Java Developer in the UK

Junior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Java Developer in the UK

Junior Java Developer
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 Junior Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +126 8 £375 -31.82% 6
London +102 4 £375 -31.82% 2
UK excluding London +58 4 £375 -11.76% 5
North of England - 4 £375 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £375 -
North West - 2 £375 - 2
Work from Home +122 1 £375 -0.07% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Junior 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 Junior Java Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Spring Boot
2 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
3 7 (77.78%) REST
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Spring
3 7 (77.78%) Hibernate
3 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
3 7 (77.78%) JPA
4 6 (66.67%) Git
4 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (66.67%) JUnit
4 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 6 (66.67%) Microservices
4 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 6 (66.67%) High Availability
4 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (66.67%) Docker
4 6 (66.67%) Front End Development
4 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 6 (66.67%) React
4 6 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Python

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) JUnit
General
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Spring Boot
2 7 (77.78%) Hibernate
2 7 (77.78%) JPA
2 7 (77.78%) REST
2 7 (77.78%) Spring
3 6 (66.67%) React
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 6 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 6 (66.67%) High Availability
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes