Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 361 329
Rank change year-on-year +123 -32 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 110 105 326
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.42% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.44% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 79 258
10th Percentile £448 £460 £438
25th Percentile £500 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £583
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +9.35% +11.05%
75th Percentile £850 £744 £703
90th Percentile £888 £788 £729
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -28.16% -23.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%

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 14,071 23,886 42,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.33% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,442 16,861 30,355
10th Percentile £325 £361 £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 572 544 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.66 £13.38
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.81 £57.44
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 110 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 55 (50.00%) Agile
4 51 (46.36%) AWS
5 47 (42.73%) Finance
6 41 (37.27%) TypeScript
7 38 (34.55%) Python
8 37 (33.64%) Banking
9 36 (32.73%) JavaScript
10 33 (30.00%) Front Office
11 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
12 31 (28.18%) Hedge funds
13 30 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
13 30 (27.27%) Apache
14 29 (26.36%) Fixed Income
14 29 (26.36%) Investment Banking
14 29 (26.36%) Asset Management
14 29 (26.36%) gRPC
14 29 (26.36%) Pandas
14 29 (26.36%) SciPy
14 29 (26.36%) NumPy
14 29 (26.36%) Protocol Buffers
14 29 (26.36%) Dremio
14 29 (26.36%) Apache Ignite
14 29 (26.36%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (26.36%) dbt
14 29 (26.36%) Apache Arrow
15 28 (25.45%) Derivative
15 28 (25.45%) Equities
15 28 (25.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Java Engineer 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 30 (27.27%) Apache
1 30 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) nginx
2 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.36%) AWS
2 29 (26.36%) dbt
3 27 (24.55%) Snowflake
4 17 (15.45%) GCP
5 16 (14.55%) Azure
6 7 (6.36%) GitHub
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.82%) AWS IoT
8 2 (1.82%) Datadog
8 2 (1.82%) Miro
8 2 (1.82%) Serverless
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.91%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) Firewall
1 7 (6.36%) VPN
2 1 (0.91%) MQTT
2 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.36%) Amazon Athena
1 29 (26.36%) Apache Arrow
1 29 (26.36%) Apache Ignite
1 29 (26.36%) Dremio
2 26 (23.64%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.73%) MySQL
5 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.91%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.91%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.00%) Selenium
3 10 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 9 (8.18%) Git
4 9 (8.18%) SonarQube
5 8 (7.27%) JIRA
6 7 (6.36%) Maven
7 6 (5.45%) GitLab
8 5 (4.55%) JUnit
8 5 (4.55%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.73%) Mockito
11 2 (1.82%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.82%) JMeter
12 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.91%) IntelliJ
General
1 47 (42.73%) Finance
2 37 (33.64%) Banking
3 33 (30.00%) Front Office
4 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
5 29 (26.36%) Investment Banking
6 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Law
7 4 (3.64%) Police
8 3 (2.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.91%) Aviation
10 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.36%) gRPC
1 29 (26.36%) NumPy
1 29 (26.36%) Pandas
1 29 (26.36%) Protocol Buffers
1 29 (26.36%) SciPy
2 22 (20.00%) REST
3 18 (16.36%) Spring Boot
4 16 (14.55%) React
4 16 (14.55%) Spring
5 11 (10.00%) Kafka
6 9 (8.18%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.18%) HTML
7 8 (7.27%) CSS
7 8 (7.27%) Java EE
8 6 (5.45%) RESTful
9 5 (4.55%) ARM Templates
9 5 (4.55%) Web Services
10 4 (3.64%) JSON
10 4 (3.64%) JWT
10 4 (3.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.18%) Hedge funds
2 29 (26.36%) Fixed Income
3 28 (25.45%) Derivative
3 28 (25.45%) Equities
3 28 (25.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (7.27%) Pricing Data
5 7 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.82%) IoT
8 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.91%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.18%) Linux
2 2 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Android
3 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 55 (50.00%) Agile
3 29 (26.36%) Asset Management
4 25 (22.73%) Investment Management
5 24 (21.82%) CI/CD
6 23 (20.91%) DevOps
6 23 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.36%) Microservices
8 16 (14.55%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.73%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (10.91%) TDD
11 10 (9.09%) Line Management
12 9 (8.18%) Containerisation
13 8 (7.27%) Greeks
14 7 (6.36%) Analytics
14 7 (6.36%) API Development
14 7 (6.36%) Computer Science
14 7 (6.36%) ETL
14 7 (6.36%) Identity Management
14 7 (6.36%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 110 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (37.27%) TypeScript
3 38 (34.55%) Python
4 36 (32.73%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.91%) SQL
6 6 (5.45%) C++
7 5 (4.55%) PHP
7 5 (4.55%) Scala
8 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.82%) Bash
9 2 (1.82%) Ruby
10 1 (0.91%) C
10 1 (0.91%) Go
10 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (16.36%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) iptables
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) zsh
Systems Management
1 15 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.18%) Terraform
3 7 (6.36%) Grafana
4 6 (5.45%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (4.55%) Ansible
5 5 (4.55%) Podman
5 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.64%) Consul
7 2 (1.82%) Kibana
7 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.64%) Google
2 4 (3.64%) ION Trading
2 4 (3.64%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.82%) Databricks
3 2 (1.82%) New Relic
4 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.91%) Confluent
4 1 (0.91%) Informatica
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle