Java Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 83 76
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 275 674 1,424
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.82% 2.69% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.82% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 538 1,092
10th Percentile £406 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £838 £771 £688
90th Percentile £888 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 21
10th Percentile £39.80 £70.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £47.00 £71.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 - £65.54
90th Percentile £78.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.75 £64.13
% change year-on-year -28.81% +15.01% +13.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Developer.

Java Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Java Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Developer.

Java Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Java Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 275 (100.00%) Java
2 98 (35.64%) AWS
3 92 (33.45%) Agile
3 92 (33.45%) Spring Boot
4 87 (31.64%) Spring
5 75 (27.27%) Finance
6 67 (24.36%) Banking
7 59 (21.45%) CI/CD
7 59 (21.45%) Front Office
8 56 (20.36%) Microservices
9 55 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 49 (17.82%) SQL
11 48 (17.45%) Investment Banking
11 48 (17.45%) Security Cleared
12 46 (16.73%) SC Cleared
13 43 (15.64%) REST
14 42 (15.27%) GCP
14 42 (15.27%) SDLC
15 39 (14.18%) DevOps
16 37 (13.45%) JavaScript
17 35 (12.73%) TDD
17 35 (12.73%) Jenkins
18 32 (11.64%) Kafka
18 32 (11.64%) Fixed Income
19 30 (10.91%) Oracle
19 30 (10.91%) Derivative
19 30 (10.91%) Docker
20 29 (10.55%) Python
21 28 (10.18%) Hibernate
21 28 (10.18%) Full Stack Development

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (8.00%) Apache
2 13 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.73%) Confluence
5 2 (0.73%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) GemFire
6 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.36%) Mule
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 98 (35.64%) AWS
2 42 (15.27%) GCP
3 22 (8.00%) Azure
4 13 (4.73%) dbt
5 10 (3.64%) Serverless
5 10 (3.64%) Snowflake
6 9 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.18%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.09%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.09%) GitHub
12 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.73%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.73%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.73%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Firewall
1 3 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.91%) Oracle Database
2 13 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (4.73%) Apache Arrow
2 13 (4.73%) Apache Ignite
2 13 (4.73%) Dremio
3 10 (3.64%) Data Lake
3 10 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.27%) MySQL
4 9 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.82%) Flink
8 5 (1.82%) KDB
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.73%) Big Data
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 35 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.36%) JUnit
3 21 (7.64%) Cucumber
4 20 (7.27%) Mockito
5 19 (6.91%) GitLab
6 17 (6.18%) Maven
7 8 (2.91%) Git
7 8 (2.91%) JIRA
7 8 (2.91%) Selenium
8 5 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.09%) Subversion
10 2 (0.73%) JMeter
10 2 (0.73%) Protractor
11 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.36%) Log4j
11 1 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 75 (27.27%) Finance
2 67 (24.36%) Banking
3 59 (21.45%) Front Office
4 48 (17.45%) Investment Banking
5 25 (9.09%) Social Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.45%) Automotive
8 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.09%) Law
9 3 (1.09%) Police
10 2 (0.73%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (33.45%) Spring Boot
2 87 (31.64%) Spring
3 43 (15.64%) REST
4 32 (11.64%) Kafka
5 28 (10.18%) Hibernate
6 27 (9.82%) JPA
7 21 (7.64%) React
8 16 (5.82%) HTML
9 14 (5.09%) SAML
10 13 (4.73%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.73%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (4.73%) gRPC
10 13 (4.73%) Node.js
10 13 (4.73%) NumPy
10 13 (4.73%) Pandas
10 13 (4.73%) Protocol Buffers
10 13 (4.73%) SciPy
10 13 (4.73%) Spring Security
11 12 (4.36%) CSS
11 12 (4.36%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.64%) Fixed Income
2 30 (10.91%) Derivative
3 18 (6.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (6.18%) Equities
5 16 (5.82%) Credit Derivative
5 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.09%) Hedge funds
7 13 (4.73%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (4.00%) Management Information System
9 9 (3.27%) Data Structures
9 9 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.73%) Insider Threat
15 1 (0.36%) Educational Technology
15 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.00%) Linux
1 11 (4.00%) Unix
2 3 (1.09%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.45%) Agile
2 59 (21.45%) CI/CD
3 56 (20.36%) Microservices
4 55 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 42 (15.27%) SDLC
6 39 (14.18%) DevOps
7 35 (12.73%) TDD
8 28 (10.18%) Full Stack Development
9 26 (9.45%) Electronic Trading
10 22 (8.00%) Test Automation
11 19 (6.91%) Scrum
12 17 (6.18%) Multithreading
12 17 (6.18%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (5.82%) Computer Science
13 16 (5.82%) Low Latency
14 14 (5.09%) Algorithmic Trading
15 13 (4.73%) Asset Management
15 13 (4.73%) BDD
15 13 (4.73%) RAD
16 12 (4.36%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 275 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (17.82%) SQL
3 37 (13.45%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.55%) Python
5 21 (7.64%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.18%) Scala
7 10 (3.64%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.55%) C#
8 7 (2.55%) PHP
8 7 (2.55%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.73%) Bash
10 2 (0.73%) C++
10 2 (0.73%) Perl
10 2 (0.73%) Ruby
10 2 (0.73%) VBA
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) Go
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.09%) Degree
4 10 (3.64%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.55%) PhD
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.45%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (1.45%) MiFID
3 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.36%) QA
4 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (10.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) GridGain
3 1 (0.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.00%) Terraform
3 9 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.55%) Ansible
5 6 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (2.18%) Grafana
6 3 (1.09%) Kibana
6 3 (1.09%) Podman
6 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.09%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Istio
7 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (10.91%) Oracle
2 19 (6.91%) Google
3 8 (2.91%) IBM
4 7 (2.55%) ION Trading
4 7 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.45%) Solace
5 4 (1.45%) Splunk
6 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.73%) SAP
7 1 (0.36%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.36%) Databricks
7 1 (0.36%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.36%) Wallstreet Suite