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 14 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 318 322
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 311 173 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.70% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 121 159
10th Percentile £382 £380 £425
25th Percentile £431 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.85% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £670 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -10.33% -2.42% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 7 23
10th Percentile £52.50 £53.00 £68.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.63 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £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 39,506 22,778 34,836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.36% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,359 14,973 22,731
10th Percentile £325 £293 £286
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,786 999 2,664
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.58% -11.30%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.30 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.46% -26.67% -16.67%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -53 161 £550 -26.67% 23
North of England -14 61 £523 +14.21% 6
South East -40 33 £500 -23.08% 10
South West +2 32 £484 -6.75% 5
North West -20 28 £540 - 3
North East -17 17 £478 +22.44% 1
Yorkshire -34 17 £523 -0.48% 2
Midlands -47 16 £542 +3.14% 4
West Midlands -44 14 £600 +14.29% 4
East of England -26 8 £505 -15.83% 1
East Midlands -23 2 £400 +26.98%
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 311 (100.00%) Java
2 166 (53.38%) Software Engineering
3 118 (37.94%) Spring
4 108 (34.73%) Spring Boot
5 94 (30.23%) Agile
6 91 (29.26%) AWS
7 89 (28.62%) Kubernetes
8 88 (28.30%) Microservices
9 84 (27.01%) CI/CD
10 74 (23.79%) Kafka
11 69 (22.19%) Security Cleared
12 68 (21.86%) Docker
13 60 (19.29%) SC Cleared
14 57 (18.33%) DevOps
15 53 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
16 48 (15.43%) SQL
17 45 (14.47%) TDD
18 43 (13.83%) React
19 41 (13.18%) Test Automation
20 36 (11.58%) Event-Driven
21 35 (11.25%) Containerisation
21 35 (11.25%) Python
21 35 (11.25%) QA
22 31 (9.97%) Azure
22 31 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
23 30 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
24 29 (9.32%) TypeScript
25 28 (9.00%) JUnit
25 28 (9.00%) Scrum
26 27 (8.68%) 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 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.96%) Apache
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.64%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (29.26%) AWS
2 31 (9.97%) Azure
3 20 (6.43%) GCP
3 20 (6.43%) OpenShift
4 18 (5.79%) GitHub
5 15 (4.82%) Serverless
6 14 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (3.54%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.96%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.96%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.93%) HTTP
2 4 (1.29%) Firewall
2 4 (1.29%) VPN
3 3 (0.96%) Internet
3 3 (0.96%) 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 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.82%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.18%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.86%) MySQL
5 11 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (3.22%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.25%) Big Data
7 7 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.61%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.96%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.96%) Power BI
11 2 (0.64%) HBase
11 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.64%) Redis
11 2 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (9.00%) JUnit
2 27 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.36%) Git
4 24 (7.72%) Gradle
5 17 (5.47%) GitLab
5 17 (5.47%) SonarQube
6 12 (3.86%) Maven
7 10 (3.22%) IntelliJ
7 10 (3.22%) Mockito
8 8 (2.57%) JIRA
9 7 (2.25%) Liquibase
9 7 (2.25%) Selenium
10 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.96%) XCUITest
12 2 (0.64%) Appium
12 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.64%) Flyway
12 2 (0.64%) Gatling
12 2 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (22.83%) Finance
2 41 (13.18%) Banking
3 27 (8.68%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.11%) Front Office
5 15 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.54%) Law
7 9 (2.89%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.57%) Retail
9 6 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.96%) Automotive
12 3 (0.96%) Back Office
12 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.32%) French Language
14 1 (0.32%) Legal
14 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (37.94%) Spring
2 108 (34.73%) Spring Boot
3 74 (23.79%) Kafka
4 43 (13.83%) React
5 27 (8.68%) REST
6 22 (7.07%) AngularJS
7 19 (6.11%) RESTful
8 18 (5.79%) GraphQL
8 18 (5.79%) Middleware
8 18 (5.79%) Node.js
9 17 (5.47%) Quarkus
10 12 (3.86%) OpenAPI
10 12 (3.86%) Swagger
11 11 (3.54%) Hibernate
12 9 (2.89%) Redux
13 7 (2.25%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.25%) Micronaut
13 7 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (1.93%) CSS
14 6 (1.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.57%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.93%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.29%) TWAP
7 4 (1.29%) VWAP
8 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.64%) Derivative
9 2 (0.64%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.75%) Linux
2 10 (3.22%) Unix
3 2 (0.64%) Android
3 2 (0.64%) 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%) VMS
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
1 166 (53.38%) Software Engineering
2 94 (30.23%) Agile
3 88 (28.30%) Microservices
4 84 (27.01%) CI/CD
5 57 (18.33%) DevOps
6 53 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (14.47%) TDD
8 41 (13.18%) Test Automation
9 36 (11.58%) Event-Driven
10 35 (11.25%) Containerisation
11 30 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (9.00%) Scrum
13 25 (8.04%) SDLC
14 24 (7.72%) Clean Code
14 24 (7.72%) Unit Testing
15 23 (7.40%) Migration
16 22 (7.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (7.07%) Front End Development
17 21 (6.75%) AI
17 21 (6.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 311 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (15.43%) SQL
3 35 (11.25%) Python
4 29 (9.32%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.79%) Kotlin
7 11 (3.54%) Ada
7 11 (3.54%) Go
8 6 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.96%) C#
10 3 (0.96%) C++
10 3 (0.96%) Groovy
10 3 (0.96%) Scala
11 2 (0.64%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) Korn
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.32%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 69 (22.19%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.57%) Degree
4 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.25%) QA
2 11 (3.54%) Def Stans
2 11 (3.54%) IEC 61508
3 8 (2.57%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.61%) GDPR
5 5 (1.61%) SEPA
6 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.64%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (21.86%) 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 89 (28.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.82%) Argo
3 13 (4.18%) Terraform
4 9 (2.89%) Grafana
5 5 (1.61%) Ansible
6 3 (0.96%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.64%) 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 (5.14%) Oracle
2 15 (4.82%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.18%) Google
4 9 (2.89%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.93%) Splunk
6 5 (1.61%) IBM
7 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.29%) SAP
8 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.64%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.64%) Confluent
9 2 (0.64%) MKS
9 2 (0.64%) New Relic
9 2 (0.64%) Solace
10 1 (0.32%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.32%) Adobe
10 1 (0.32%) Ariba
10 1 (0.32%) Netlify
10 1 (0.32%) Teradata
10 1 (0.32%) VMware
41 Java Engineer jobs in England