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 23 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 307 310
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +161
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 317 176 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.76% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 124 169
10th Percentile £378 £383 £430
25th Percentile £425 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.85% +5.05%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £670 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -10.41% -2.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 7 24
10th Percentile £60.38 £39.50 £66.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 -
90th Percentile £76.10 £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +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 40,014 23,037 34,822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.23% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,629 15,128 22,693
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £416 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,831 1,043 2,688
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.63% -10.17%
75th Percentile £67.60 £58.72 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.39
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.99% -27.00% -14.77%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -47 164 £545 -27.33% 29
North of England -21 63 £523 +14.21% 9
South East -36 34 £500 -23.08% 13
South West -6 32 £484 -7.86% 3
North West -20 29 £540 - 5
North East -18 18 £478 +22.44%
Yorkshire -36 17 £523 -0.48% 4
Midlands -42 16 £542 +3.14%
West Midlands -48 14 £600 +14.29%
East of England -24 9 £505 -15.83% 2
East Midlands -17 2 £400 +26.98%
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 317 (100.00%) Java
2 170 (53.63%) Software Engineering
3 122 (38.49%) Spring
4 112 (35.33%) Spring Boot
5 98 (30.91%) Agile
6 96 (30.28%) AWS
7 91 (28.71%) CI/CD
7 91 (28.71%) Kubernetes
7 91 (28.71%) Microservices
8 77 (24.29%) Kafka
9 71 (22.40%) Docker
10 70 (22.08%) Security Cleared
11 62 (19.56%) SC Cleared
12 60 (18.93%) DevOps
13 53 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
14 50 (15.77%) SQL
15 45 (14.20%) TDD
15 45 (14.20%) Test Automation
16 44 (13.88%) React
17 41 (12.93%) Event-Driven
18 37 (11.67%) QA
19 35 (11.04%) Containerisation
19 35 (11.04%) Python
20 33 (10.41%) Azure
21 31 (9.78%) JUnit
21 31 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
22 29 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
22 29 (9.15%) REST
22 29 (9.15%) TypeScript
23 28 (8.83%) Jenkins

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 (2.52%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.95%) Apache
2 3 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.63%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.32%) Camunda
4 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.32%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.63%) Shopify
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (30.28%) AWS
2 33 (10.41%) Azure
3 21 (6.62%) GCP
3 21 (6.62%) OpenShift
4 19 (5.99%) GitHub
5 15 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (4.73%) Serverless
6 14 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.47%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.26%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.95%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.95%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) HTTP
2 4 (1.26%) Firewall
2 4 (1.26%) Internet
2 4 (1.26%) VPN
3 3 (0.95%) MQTT
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.42%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.42%) MySQL
2 14 (4.42%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (3.15%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.21%) Big Data
7 6 (1.89%) Couchbase
7 6 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.95%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.95%) Power BI
10 2 (0.63%) HBase
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.63%) Redis
10 2 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (9.78%) JUnit
2 28 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.20%) Git
4 22 (6.94%) Gradle
5 18 (5.68%) SonarQube
6 16 (5.05%) GitLab
7 12 (3.79%) Maven
8 10 (3.15%) Mockito
9 8 (2.52%) IntelliJ
9 8 (2.52%) JIRA
10 7 (2.21%) Liquibase
10 7 (2.21%) Selenium
11 5 (1.58%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.95%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.63%) Appium
13 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.63%) Gatling
13 2 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
13 2 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 75 (23.66%) Finance
2 42 (13.25%) Banking
3 29 (9.15%) Social Skills
4 19 (5.99%) Front Office
5 16 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.47%) Law
7 9 (2.84%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.84%) Retail
8 6 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.95%) Automotive
11 3 (0.95%) Back Office
11 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.95%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.32%) French Language
13 1 (0.32%) Legal
13 1 (0.32%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (38.49%) Spring
2 112 (35.33%) Spring Boot
3 77 (24.29%) Kafka
4 44 (13.88%) React
5 29 (9.15%) REST
6 22 (6.94%) AngularJS
7 20 (6.31%) RESTful
8 18 (5.68%) GraphQL
8 18 (5.68%) Middleware
8 18 (5.68%) Node.js
8 18 (5.68%) Quarkus
9 12 (3.79%) OpenAPI
9 12 (3.79%) Swagger
10 11 (3.47%) Hibernate
11 9 (2.84%) Redux
12 7 (2.21%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.21%) Micronaut
13 6 (1.89%) JPA
13 6 (1.89%) Playwright
13 6 (1.89%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 40 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.52%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.26%) TWAP
7 4 (1.26%) VWAP
8 3 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.62%) Linux
2 10 (3.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Android
3 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Solaris
4 1 (0.32%) SUSE
4 1 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (53.63%) Software Engineering
2 98 (30.91%) Agile
3 91 (28.71%) CI/CD
3 91 (28.71%) Microservices
4 60 (18.93%) DevOps
5 53 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (14.20%) TDD
6 45 (14.20%) Test Automation
7 41 (12.93%) Event-Driven
8 35 (11.04%) Containerisation
9 29 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (8.83%) Scrum
11 27 (8.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 27 (8.52%) Unit Testing
12 26 (8.20%) SDLC
13 25 (7.89%) Clean Code
14 24 (7.57%) Front End Development
15 23 (7.26%) Migration
16 22 (6.94%) Observability
17 21 (6.62%) AI
Programming Languages
1 317 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (15.77%) SQL
3 35 (11.04%) Python
4 29 (9.15%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.99%) Kotlin
7 11 (3.47%) Ada
7 11 (3.47%) Go
8 6 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.26%) Groovy
9 4 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.95%) C#
10 3 (0.95%) C++
10 3 (0.95%) Scala
11 2 (0.63%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) Korn
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.32%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 70 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 62 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.52%) Degree
4 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.67%) QA
2 11 (3.47%) Def Stans
2 11 (3.47%) IEC 61508
3 8 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.58%) GDPR
5 5 (1.58%) SEPA
6 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.63%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (22.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.05%) Argo
3 14 (4.42%) Terraform
4 7 (2.21%) Grafana
5 4 (1.26%) Ansible
6 3 (0.95%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.63%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (5.05%) Oracle
1 16 (5.05%) Red Hat
2 13 (4.10%) Google
3 11 (3.47%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.89%) Splunk
5 5 (1.58%) IBM
6 4 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.26%) SAP
7 3 (0.95%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.63%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.63%) Confluent
8 2 (0.63%) MKS
8 2 (0.63%) New Relic
8 2 (0.63%) Solace
9 1 (0.32%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.32%) Actian
9 1 (0.32%) Ariba
9 1 (0.32%) Concur
9 1 (0.32%) Teradata
9 1 (0.32%) VMware
48 Java Engineer jobs in England