Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Java Engineer
England > East of England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 75 97
Rank change year-on-year -37 +22 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 3 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.72% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £506 £449 £456
25th Percentile £515 £485 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £534
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +12.36% -5.07%
75th Percentile £560 £650 £551
90th Percentile £572 - £600
England median daily rate £525 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 2,053 836 1,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 88.28% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 441 764
10th Percentile £198 £200 £205
25th Percentile £350 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £573
90th Percentile £675 £675 £652
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 167 595
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £30.43 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +16.28% +20.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Essex -13 2 £535 +10.31% 4
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Checkmarx
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Checkmarx
1 2 (66.67%) Google