Java Developer Contracts in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 81 64
Rank change year-on-year -78 -17 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 556 1,390 2,593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.53% 2.90% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 3.06% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 1,163 2,076
10th Percentile £400 £463 £450
25th Percentile £473 £525 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £744
90th Percentile £888 £863 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 21
10th Percentile £35.00 £63.21 £50.00
25th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +0.40%
75th Percentile £69.06 £75.00 £77.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £79.50 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +9.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London -52 407 £675 -3.57% 73
North of England -17 60 £525 -8.70% 16
South East -35 46 £500 -4.31% 16
North West +20 30 £525 -4.55% 15
Yorkshire -8 27 £550 -10.20%
Midlands +12 18 £450 -20.00% 9
West Midlands +11 16 £450 -23.40% 7
South West -33 16 £375 -25.00% 15
East of England +1 9 £541 -22.71% 2
North East -7 3 £450 -34.31% 1
East Midlands +4 2 £398 -43.21% 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 556 (100.00%) Java
2 228 (41.01%) Agile
3 209 (37.59%) Spring
4 175 (31.47%) Finance
5 170 (30.58%) Spring Boot
6 152 (27.34%) AWS
7 135 (24.28%) Microservices
8 123 (22.12%) Banking
8 123 (22.12%) Security Cleared
9 118 (21.22%) TDD
10 116 (20.86%) SC Cleared
11 106 (19.06%) CI/CD
11 106 (19.06%) REST
12 98 (17.63%) Front Office
13 90 (16.19%) DevOps
14 88 (15.83%) Kafka
15 86 (15.47%) Docker
15 86 (15.47%) Software Engineering
15 86 (15.47%) Social Skills
16 84 (15.11%) SQL
17 78 (14.03%) Kubernetes
18 76 (13.67%) Jenkins
19 75 (13.49%) Test Automation
20 71 (12.77%) Python
20 71 (12.77%) Investment Banking
21 70 (12.59%) Hibernate
22 69 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
23 66 (11.87%) React
24 65 (11.69%) GCP
25 64 (11.51%) Scrum

Java Developer 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 32 (5.76%) Apache
2 15 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.98%) Confluence
5 7 (1.26%) SAS
6 5 (0.90%) JBoss
7 4 (0.72%) Mule
7 4 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.36%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) CICS
10 1 (0.18%) GemFire
10 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.98%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.54%) RMDS
3 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.18%) Endur
3 1 (0.18%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (27.34%) AWS
2 65 (11.69%) GCP
3 44 (7.91%) Azure
4 29 (5.22%) Serverless
5 25 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (3.42%) Amazon S3
7 15 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (2.70%) dbt
8 13 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (1.98%) GitHub
11 10 (1.80%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (0.54%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.26%) SSH
2 5 (0.90%) Firewall
2 5 (0.90%) VPN
3 3 (0.54%) HTTP
3 3 (0.54%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (8.27%) Relational Database
3 36 (6.47%) MongoDB
4 34 (6.12%) KDB
5 20 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.60%) Oracle Database
6 17 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (2.70%) Apache Arrow
8 15 (2.70%) Apache Ignite
8 15 (2.70%) Dremio
9 13 (2.34%) Flink
9 13 (2.34%) MySQL
10 12 (2.16%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.98%) Couchbase
12 9 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 76 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 63 (11.33%) JUnit
3 62 (11.15%) Git
4 43 (7.73%) Mockito
5 40 (7.19%) JIRA
6 31 (5.58%) Cucumber
7 28 (5.04%) Maven
8 27 (4.86%) GitLab
9 15 (2.70%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.34%) Selenium
11 8 (1.44%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.44%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.08%) TestNG
13 5 (0.90%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.72%) EasyMock
14 4 (0.72%) Gradle
14 4 (0.72%) Log4j
14 4 (0.72%) Sourcetree
15 3 (0.54%) JMeter
General
1 175 (31.47%) Finance
2 123 (22.12%) Banking
3 98 (17.63%) Front Office
4 86 (15.47%) Social Skills
5 71 (12.77%) Investment Banking
6 49 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
7 46 (8.27%) Public Sector
8 11 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.26%) Law
10 5 (0.90%) Retail
11 4 (0.72%) Automotive
11 4 (0.72%) Back Office
11 4 (0.72%) Police
11 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.18%) Electronics
14 1 (0.18%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.18%) Marketing
14 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (37.59%) Spring
2 170 (30.58%) Spring Boot
3 106 (19.06%) REST
4 88 (15.83%) Kafka
5 70 (12.59%) Hibernate
6 66 (11.87%) React
7 57 (10.25%) JPA
8 39 (7.01%) HTML
9 37 (6.65%) JAX-RS
10 30 (5.40%) AngularJS
11 29 (5.22%) Web Services
12 28 (5.04%) CSS
13 25 (4.50%) ActiveMQ
14 22 (3.96%) FIX Protocol
14 22 (3.96%) RESTful
15 21 (3.78%) Node.js
15 21 (3.78%) SAML
16 19 (3.42%) Restlet
17 18 (3.24%) GWT
18 17 (3.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.61%) Fixed Income
2 56 (10.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 52 (9.35%) Derivative
4 34 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.68%) Data Structures
6 24 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (4.14%) Equities
7 23 (4.14%) Hedge funds
8 22 (3.96%) Algorithms
9 21 (3.78%) Credit Derivative
10 15 (2.70%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (2.52%) Equity Derivative
12 10 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.80%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.44%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.72%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.97%) Linux
2 44 (7.91%) Unix
3 17 (3.06%) Mac OS X
4 7 (1.26%) Windows
5 3 (0.54%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (41.01%) Agile
2 135 (24.28%) Microservices
3 118 (21.22%) TDD
4 106 (19.06%) CI/CD
5 90 (16.19%) DevOps
6 86 (15.47%) Software Engineering
7 75 (13.49%) Test Automation
8 69 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (11.51%) Electronic Trading
9 64 (11.51%) Scrum
10 60 (10.79%) Full Stack Development
11 58 (10.43%) SDLC
12 55 (9.89%) Computer Science
13 54 (9.71%) Multithreading
14 52 (9.35%) Mentoring
15 49 (8.81%) BDD
15 49 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
15 49 (8.81%) Low Latency
16 41 (7.37%) Unit Testing
17 39 (7.01%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 556 (100.00%) Java
2 84 (15.11%) SQL
3 71 (12.77%) Python
4 58 (10.43%) JavaScript
5 50 (8.99%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.42%) Scala
7 17 (3.06%) Perl
8 15 (2.70%) C#
9 14 (2.52%) C++
10 13 (2.34%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.16%) PHP
12 10 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.72%) Bash
13 4 (0.72%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.72%) VBA
14 3 (0.54%) Go
15 2 (0.36%) Groovy
15 2 (0.36%) Haskell
15 2 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 123 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.86%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.99%) Degree
4 30 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.06%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.26%) PhD
8 3 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.98%) QA
2 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.90%) MiFID
4 4 (0.72%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.72%) WCAG
5 3 (0.54%) MISRA
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (15.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 78 (14.03%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.50%) Terraform
3 16 (2.88%) Ansible
3 16 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.44%) Grafana
5 7 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (1.08%) Podman
7 3 (0.54%) Kibana
8 2 (0.36%) Istio
8 2 (0.36%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (9.89%) Oracle
2 38 (6.83%) Google
3 31 (5.58%) ION Trading
4 29 (5.22%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.62%) Solace
6 7 (1.26%) Splunk
6 7 (1.26%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.08%) IBM
8 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.72%) Tradeweb
9 3 (0.54%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.36%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.36%) Databricks
10 2 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.36%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.36%) SAP
10 2 (0.36%) Sybase
10 2 (0.36%) WSO2