Java Contracts in England

Java
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 1,949 2,480 3,823
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.60% 6.68% 8.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.54% 21.74% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 1,855 2,928
10th Percentile £358 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% - -
75th Percentile £700 £750 £738
90th Percentile £834 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.95% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 94
10th Percentile £33.91 £45.88 £46.70
25th Percentile £47.19 £57.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +1.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.74
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.55 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +3.56%

All Programming Languages
England

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,648 11,405 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 30.72% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,975 8,150 11,755
10th Percentile £354 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 484 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.37 £75.88 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in England.

Hourly rate trend for Java in England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
London -4 1,234 £600 -4.00% 4,143
North of England +2 245 £455 -10.26% 1,004
Midlands +49 171 £420 -16.00% 570
North West +7 163 £422 -14.75% 603
South East -2 144 £475 -19.49% 1,119
West Midlands +41 88 £500 -9.09% 351
East Midlands +31 82 £362 -20.11% 210
Yorkshire -30 55 £520 -5.50% 315
South West -16 52 £600 +10.60% 491
East of England +3 47 £489 -1.80% 463
North East +11 28 £455 +7.06% 87
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 117 (6.00%) Apache
2 99 (5.08%) Confluence
3 98 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
4 90 (4.62%) Apache Spark
5 31 (1.59%) JBoss
6 29 (1.49%) Tomcat
7 21 (1.08%) WebLogic
8 15 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
8 15 (0.77%) WebSphere
9 14 (0.72%) NetWeaver
10 13 (0.67%) Camunda
11 10 (0.51%) CMS
11 10 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.51%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.46%) Mule
13 8 (0.41%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.41%) CICS
13 8 (0.41%) GemFire
13 8 (0.41%) MQSeries
13 8 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (0.87%) Maya
2 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.56%) NUKE
4 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
7 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.10%) Trello
9 1 (0.051%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 17 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
2 15 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.62%) Endur
4 10 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.36%) SAP CRM
6 6 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.21%) Shopify
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.10%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.10%) Misys Midas
9 2 (0.10%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.10%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 753 (38.64%) AWS
2 356 (18.27%) Azure
3 190 (9.75%) GCP
4 127 (6.52%) Serverless
5 96 (4.93%) GitHub
6 94 (4.82%) dbt
7 91 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
8 85 (4.36%) OpenShift
9 81 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (3.95%) Amazon S3
11 71 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (3.23%) Snowflake
13 48 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
14 39 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
19 27 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.41%) HTTP
2 27 (1.39%) Firewall
3 20 (1.03%) DNS
4 19 (0.97%) VPN
5 18 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 18 (0.92%) Wireshark
6 17 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.82%) LAN
8 15 (0.77%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.77%) WAN
9 14 (0.72%) ATM
9 14 (0.72%) Frame Relay
9 14 (0.72%) GPRS
9 14 (0.72%) GSM
9 14 (0.72%) LTE
9 14 (0.72%) MPLS
9 14 (0.72%) SAN
9 14 (0.72%) SDH
9 14 (0.72%) UMTS
10 11 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 137 (7.03%) MongoDB
4 103 (5.28%) NoSQL
5 86 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
6 81 (4.16%) MySQL
7 80 (4.10%) Apache Iceberg
7 80 (4.10%) Dremio
8 76 (3.90%) Apache Arrow
9 72 (3.69%) Big Data
10 67 (3.44%) SQL Server
11 58 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
12 50 (2.57%) Data Lake
13 49 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
14 45 (2.31%) DynamoDB
15 41 (2.10%) Oracle Database
16 40 (2.05%) DB2
17 39 (2.00%) Redis
18 38 (1.95%) Hadoop
19 33 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 379 (19.45%) Jenkins
2 315 (16.16%) Git
3 215 (11.03%) JIRA
4 192 (9.85%) JUnit
5 156 (8.00%) GitLab
6 146 (7.49%) Selenium
7 131 (6.72%) Maven
8 114 (5.85%) Cucumber
9 94 (4.82%) Gradle
10 82 (4.21%) SonarQube
11 74 (3.80%) Mockito
12 53 (2.72%) REST Assured
13 47 (2.41%) Postman
14 46 (2.36%) Bitbucket
15 45 (2.31%) IntelliJ
16 41 (2.10%) Cypress.io
17 40 (2.05%) JMeter
18 38 (1.95%) Liquibase
19 36 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
19 36 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 557 (28.58%) Finance
2 526 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 373 (19.14%) Banking
4 324 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (10.21%) Investment Banking
6 183 (9.39%) Public Sector
7 169 (8.67%) Front Office
8 56 (2.87%) Telecoms
9 36 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 32 (1.64%) Military
10 32 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.54%) Marketing
13 27 (1.39%) Automotive
14 23 (1.18%) Electronics
14 23 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (0.97%) Games
16 18 (0.92%) Retail
17 17 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 14 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 858 (44.02%) Developer
2 494 (25.35%) Java Developer
3 313 (16.06%) Senior
4 211 (10.83%) Software Engineer
5 189 (9.70%) Architect
6 184 (9.44%) Java Engineer
7 159 (8.16%) Lead
8 154 (7.90%) Senior Developer
9 119 (6.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 110 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
11 109 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 95 (4.87%) AWS Developer
13 92 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 75 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
14 75 (3.85%) Test Engineer
15 70 (3.59%) Data Engineer
15 70 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (3.54%) Lead Developer
17 63 (3.23%) AWS Software Engineer
18 60 (3.08%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (20.78%) Spring
2 322 (16.52%) Spring Boot
3 310 (15.91%) Kafka
4 275 (14.11%) React
5 231 (11.85%) REST
6 184 (9.44%) AngularJS
7 159 (8.16%) RESTful
8 158 (8.11%) HTML
9 142 (7.29%) Node.js
10 128 (6.57%) .NET
11 123 (6.31%) CSS
12 118 (6.05%) Web Services
13 106 (5.44%) SOAP
14 91 (4.67%) Hibernate
15 73 (3.75%) XML
16 69 (3.54%) NumPy
16 69 (3.54%) Pandas
17 65 (3.34%) OAuth
18 63 (3.23%) SciPy
19 61 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 115 (5.90%) Equities
3 96 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (4.82%) Derivative
5 90 (4.62%) Fixed Income
6 85 (4.36%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.85%) Hedge funds
8 50 (2.57%) Data Structures
8 50 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (2.51%) Product Ownership
10 47 (2.41%) Algorithms
11 42 (2.15%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.85%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
13 33 (1.69%) Mobile App
14 32 (1.64%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.64%) Virtual Team
15 28 (1.44%) Pricing Data
16 25 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 277 (14.21%) Linux
2 111 (5.70%) Unix
3 92 (4.72%) Windows
4 40 (2.05%) Android
5 29 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.31%) AIX
9 6 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.26%) VMS
11 4 (0.21%) Solaris
12 2 (0.10%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.10%) zOS
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (40.58%) Agile
2 622 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 501 (25.71%) DevOps
4 492 (25.24%) Microservices
5 425 (21.81%) Software Engineering
6 396 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (16.68%) Test Automation
8 301 (15.44%) TDD
9 225 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 219 (11.24%) Scrum
11 204 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
12 176 (9.03%) Computer Science
13 172 (8.83%) Continuous Integration
14 170 (8.72%) SDLC
15 143 (7.34%) Mentoring
16 127 (6.52%) Migration
17 123 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
18 121 (6.21%) Design Patterns
19 118 (6.05%) Event-Driven
20 112 (5.75%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 676 (34.68%) Python
2 508 (26.06%) SQL
3 422 (21.65%) JavaScript
4 243 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 176 (9.03%) C#
6 160 (8.21%) C++
7 83 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 80 (4.10%) Kotlin
9 73 (3.75%) Go
10 65 (3.34%) PowerShell
11 64 (3.28%) Scala
12 62 (3.18%) Bash
13 59 (3.03%) C
14 52 (2.67%) PL/SQL
15 46 (2.36%) Perl
16 35 (1.80%) Ruby
17 33 (1.69%) PHP
18 29 (1.49%) Groovy
19 23 (1.18%) Rust
20 18 (0.92%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 390 (20.01%) Security Cleared
2 315 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 207 (10.62%) Degree
4 101 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.54%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 20 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 18 (0.92%) ISEB
13 17 (0.87%) CCNP
14 15 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
15 13 (0.67%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.67%) PhD
16 10 (0.51%) CISSP
17 9 (0.46%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (7.80%) QA
2 33 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 29 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.49%) GDPR
4 18 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 13 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.51%) NIST
8 9 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.46%) WCAG
9 8 (0.41%) SLA
10 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.36%) SEPA
11 3 (0.15%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.15%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.10%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.10%) NCSC
12 2 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 390 (20.01%) Docker
2 32 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.46%) Postfix
6 8 (0.41%) GridGain
7 5 (0.26%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.21%) OpenAM
8 4 (0.21%) OpenDJ
8 4 (0.21%) OpenIDM
8 4 (0.21%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.15%) iptables
9 3 (0.15%) Lustre
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) vSphere
11 1 (0.051%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 380 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 186 (9.54%) Terraform
3 101 (5.18%) Ansible
4 73 (3.75%) Grafana
5 55 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.54%) Puppet
7 23 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.13%) Kibana
8 22 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.72%) Podman
10 12 (0.62%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 11 (0.56%) Control-M
12 10 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.46%) Istio
14 8 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.31%) CloudHub
15 6 (0.31%) Perfmon
16 3 (0.15%) logstash
16 3 (0.15%) Packer
16 3 (0.15%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 210 (10.77%) Oracle
2 161 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 63 (3.23%) SAP
4 54 (2.77%) Google
5 49 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.31%) IBM
7 41 (2.10%) Splunk
8 36 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 32 (1.64%) Sybase
10 27 (1.39%) Virgin Media
11 24 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 23 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 23 (1.18%) Salesforce
13 22 (1.13%) Databricks
14 21 (1.08%) Cisco
15 20 (1.03%) ForgeRock
16 19 (0.97%) Adobe
16 19 (0.97%) Ping Identity
16 19 (0.97%) VMware