Java Architect Contracts in England

Java Architect
UK > England

The median Java Architect daily rate in England is £575, 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 456 477 623
Rank change year-on-year +21 +146 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 29 65 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 54 20
10th Percentile £500 £563 £515
25th Percentile £519 £657 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £620
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +16.94% +5.53%
75th Percentile £608 £738 £756
90th Percentile £615 £888 £899
UK median daily rate £575 £725 £620
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.94% +3.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +20 17 £575 -20.69% 10
North of England +28 10 £550 -21.43% 3
North West +24 8 £575 -17.86% 2
South East +20 2 £575 -20.69% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £537 - 1
Midlands - 2 £537 - 2
Java Architect
UK

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Architect 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 England region featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (65.52%) Microservices
3 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
4 12 (41.38%) Docker
5 10 (34.48%) Event-Driven
6 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
7 8 (27.59%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) Serverless
7 8 (27.59%) Spring
7 8 (27.59%) Azure
7 8 (27.59%) AWS
7 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
8 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
8 7 (24.14%) Oracle
8 7 (24.14%) Virgin Media
8 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
9 6 (20.69%) GCP
9 6 (20.69%) RESTful
9 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
10 5 (17.24%) .NET
10 5 (17.24%) Agile
10 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
10 5 (17.24%) Finance
10 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
10 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
10 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
10 5 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
11 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (13.79%) Kafka

Java Architect Skill Set
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 2 (6.90%) Camunda
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Sitefinity
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
1 8 (27.59%) Serverless
2 6 (20.69%) GCP
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) IBM Watson
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Terragrunt
3 1 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Mockito
3 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Spring
2 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (20.69%) RESTful
4 5 (17.24%) .NET
5 4 (13.79%) Kafka
6 3 (10.34%) Web Services
7 2 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.90%) Express.js
7 2 (6.90%) Keycloak
7 2 (6.90%) Node.js
7 2 (6.90%) OpenJDK
7 2 (6.90%) SOAP
8 1 (3.45%) J2EE
8 1 (3.45%) React
8 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (3.45%) Spring MVC
8 1 (3.45%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) DTCC
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Microservices
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Event-Driven
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.24%) Agile
6 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
6 5 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.90%) Contingency Planning
8 2 (6.90%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (6.90%) Design Patterns
8 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps
8 2 (6.90%) Event-Driven Programming
8 2 (6.90%) Roadmaps
8 2 (6.90%) SDLC
8 2 (6.90%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
1 7 (24.14%) Virgin Media
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) IBM