Java Engineer Contracts in Belfast

Java Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Belfast is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 5.44% - 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.93% - 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £225 - £400
25th Percentile £300 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £450
75th Percentile £418 - £553
90th Percentile £470 - £588
County Antrim median daily rate £363 - £450

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 135 117 147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.35% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 72 72
10th Percentile £155 £173 £166
25th Percentile £273 £309 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
75th Percentile £530 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £650 £636
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £450 £419
% change year-on-year -8.89% +7.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 8
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.29
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +87.45% -2.79% +16.74%
75th Percentile £48.32 £16.12 £15.94
90th Percentile £78.47 - £16.87
County Antrim median hourly rate £24.18 £15.75 £14.59
% change year-on-year +53.52% +7.93% +5.06%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Belfast

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in Belfast

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in Belfast

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 job ads across the Belfast region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Front Office
3 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) Equities
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (50.00%) Apache Avro
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (50.00%) Derivative
3 4 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (50.00%) JSON
3 4 (50.00%) Spring
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (50.00%) React
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Clean Code

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Avro
2 4 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (50.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Equities
1 4 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle