Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 322 376
Rank change year-on-year -2 +54 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 279 159 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.71% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 100 119
10th Percentile £356 £400 £420
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £681 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% +13.54% -
75th Percentile £600 £875 £788
90th Percentile £679 - £888
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.25% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 8 9
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.75 £67.25
25th Percentile £53.13 £60.31 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - £70.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 37,244 22,538 34,519
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.63% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,300 15,012 22,927
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,527 898 2,426
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.20 £12.96
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -12.01% -20.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.07 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.36% -19.25% -20.00%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London -25 136 £550 -26.67% 37
North of England -32 56 £500 -4.76% 12
South East -32 29 £469 -27.88% 15
South West -16 28 £488 -6.02% 5
North West -19 27 £525 - 10
Midlands -47 25 £469 -10.67% 2
West Midlands -38 24 £469 -10.67% 1
Yorkshire -43 17 £523 -18.04% 1
North East -5 13 £425 +8.97% 1
East of England -41 3 £535 -10.83%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 279 (100.00%) Java
2 141 (50.54%) Software Engineering
3 101 (36.20%) Spring
4 91 (32.62%) Spring Boot
5 86 (30.82%) Kubernetes
6 76 (27.24%) Microservices
7 75 (26.88%) AWS
8 73 (26.16%) Agile
9 66 (23.66%) CI/CD
10 57 (20.43%) Docker
10 57 (20.43%) Security Cleared
11 53 (19.00%) Kafka
12 52 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 51 (18.28%) SC Cleared
14 47 (16.85%) DevOps
15 41 (14.70%) TDD
16 40 (14.34%) SQL
17 36 (12.90%) React
18 35 (12.54%) Python
19 34 (12.19%) QA
19 34 (12.19%) Test Automation
20 33 (11.83%) Containerisation
21 31 (11.11%) Event-Driven
22 28 (10.04%) Gradle
22 28 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
23 27 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
24 25 (8.96%) Scrum
24 25 (8.96%) Unit Testing
25 24 (8.60%) Azure
26 23 (8.24%) Git

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.87%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.43%) Apache
3 3 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.72%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Camunda
5 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (26.88%) AWS
2 24 (8.60%) Azure
3 19 (6.81%) Serverless
4 18 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (5.73%) GCP
6 15 (5.38%) Amazon S3
6 15 (5.38%) GitHub
6 15 (5.38%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.08%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.72%) Azure API Management
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) HTTP
2 3 (1.08%) MQTT
3 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.17%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.87%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.51%) Big Data
5 7 (2.51%) MySQL
5 7 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.72%) HBase
9 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.72%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.36%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.36%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (10.04%) Gradle
2 23 (8.24%) Git
3 21 (7.53%) GitLab
3 21 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.45%) JUnit
5 15 (5.38%) IntelliJ
6 14 (5.02%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.66%) Maven
8 8 (2.87%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.15%) Selenium
10 5 (1.79%) JIRA
10 5 (1.79%) Mockito
11 4 (1.43%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.43%) Postman
12 3 (1.08%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.72%) Gatling
13 2 (0.72%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.72%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
General
1 56 (20.07%) Finance
2 27 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (8.96%) Banking
4 19 (6.81%) Front Office
5 14 (5.02%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.23%) Law
7 5 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.08%) Back Office
8 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.08%) Retail
9 2 (0.72%) Automotive
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.36%) French Language
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Military
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (36.20%) Spring
2 91 (32.62%) Spring Boot
3 53 (19.00%) Kafka
4 36 (12.90%) React
5 21 (7.53%) RESTful
6 20 (7.17%) REST
7 18 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 18 (6.45%) GraphQL
8 17 (6.09%) Node.js
9 16 (5.73%) Middleware
10 14 (5.02%) Quarkus
11 13 (4.66%) Swagger
12 12 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (3.23%) Redux
14 8 (2.87%) OpenAPI
15 7 (2.51%) Hibernate
16 6 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (2.15%) JSON
17 5 (1.79%) OAuth
17 5 (1.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.87%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) TWAP
7 4 (1.43%) VWAP
8 3 (1.08%) Derivative
8 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.45%) Linux
2 6 (2.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Solaris
3 1 (0.36%) SUSE
3 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.36%) VMS
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (50.54%) Software Engineering
2 76 (27.24%) Microservices
3 73 (26.16%) Agile
4 66 (23.66%) CI/CD
5 52 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (16.85%) DevOps
7 41 (14.70%) TDD
8 34 (12.19%) Test Automation
9 33 (11.83%) Containerisation
10 31 (11.11%) Event-Driven
11 27 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (8.96%) Scrum
12 25 (8.96%) Unit Testing
13 22 (7.89%) Clean Code
14 19 (6.81%) Code Quality
14 19 (6.81%) Front End Development
15 18 (6.45%) Software Testing
16 17 (6.09%) SDLC
17 15 (5.38%) High Availability
17 15 (5.38%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 279 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (14.34%) SQL
3 35 (12.54%) Python
4 20 (7.17%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.73%) Kotlin
6 14 (5.02%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.66%) Go
8 11 (3.94%) Ada
9 5 (1.79%) C++
10 4 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.43%) Scala
11 3 (1.08%) C#
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Rust
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.36%) Solidity
12 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.23%) Degree
4 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.72%) OCP
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.19%) QA
2 11 (3.94%) Def Stans
2 11 (3.94%) IEC 61508
3 5 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.43%) GDPR
4 4 (1.43%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (20.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (30.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.38%) Grafana
3 12 (4.30%) Argo
4 10 (3.58%) Terraform
5 5 (1.79%) Ansible
6 3 (1.08%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (4.30%) Red Hat
2 11 (3.94%) Google
2 11 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.23%) Oracle
4 6 (2.15%) Splunk
5 5 (1.79%) IBM
6 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.08%) Solace
7 2 (0.72%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.72%) Confluent
7 2 (0.72%) Databricks
7 2 (0.72%) MKS
7 2 (0.72%) New Relic
7 2 (0.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.36%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe
8 1 (0.36%) Teradata
8 1 (0.36%) VMware
8 1 (0.36%) webMethods
61 Java Engineer jobs in England