OpenJDK Contracts

Oracle OpenJDK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OpenJDK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenJDK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 691 846
Rank change year-on-year +107 +155 -163
Contract jobs citing OpenJDK 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% 0.015% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £596 -
25th Percentile - £601 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £623 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +24.50% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £656 £510
90th Percentile - £667 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenJDK is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,851 13,495 23,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.67% 23.23% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,143 9,831 17,461
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 153 234
10th Percentile £21.15 £31.60 £22.15
25th Percentile £42.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

OpenJDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenJDK in the UK

OpenJDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenJDK in the UK

OpenJDK
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenJDK within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

OpenJDK
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) STL
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware