Java Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Java Engineer
England > East of England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £534 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 103 116 142
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 11 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.58% 0.30% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.33% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £456 £470 -
25th Percentile £485 £501 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £555 £493
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% +12.58% -17.83%
75th Percentile £551 £603 -
90th Percentile £600 £654 -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £56.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,688 1,835 2,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 91.80% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 1,110 1,381
10th Percentile £206 £195 £163
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 597 288 360
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £39.03 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +151.77% -11.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.08 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the East of England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the East of England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the East of England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer 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 9 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
Essex +10 10 £534 -3.78%
Suffolk - 1 £600 -
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 9 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 job ads across the East of England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) React
3 9 (81.82%) Agile
4 8 (72.73%) HTML
4 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
4 8 (72.73%) DevOps
4 8 (72.73%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 8 (72.73%) Load Balancing
4 8 (72.73%) CSS
4 8 (72.73%) VPN
4 8 (72.73%) Firewall
4 8 (72.73%) Identity Management
4 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
6 1 (9.09%) zsh
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
6 1 (9.09%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
6 1 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) React
2 8 (72.73%) CSS
2 8 (72.73%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 8 (72.73%) Full Stack Development
3 8 (72.73%) Identity Management
3 8 (72.73%) Load Balancing
3 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
5 1 (9.09%) B2B
5 1 (9.09%) B2C
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
5 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google