Java Engineer Contracts in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 307 471
Rank change year-on-year -2 +164 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 191 271 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.73% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.78% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 186 136
10th Percentile £396 £450 £414
25th Percentile £500 £513 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -
75th Percentile £825 £850 £718
90th Percentile £875 £888 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 13
10th Percentile £39.50 £66.75 £43.76
25th Percentile £53.75 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £65.75
90th Percentile £74.00 - £70.30
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +0.77%

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 24,278 34,696 45,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.91% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,841 22,709 31,930
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 2,561 1,374
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 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 +10 149 £750 -3.23% 305
South East +20 10 £650 +4.00% 105
North of England +2 10 £458 -14.88% 75
North West 0 8 - - 44
Midlands +12 7 £525 -8.70% 22
East of England +18 6 £600 +12.36% 24
South West +9 6 £525 +23.53% 36
West Midlands +15 5 £525 -25.00% 15
East Midlands +4 2 £315 -41.40% 7
Yorkshire +2 1 £525 +23.53% 22
North East - 1 £390 - 9
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 122 (63.87%) Software Engineering
3 110 (57.59%) AWS
4 104 (54.45%) Finance
5 95 (49.74%) Agile
6 71 (37.17%) TypeScript
7 69 (36.13%) Python
8 63 (32.98%) JavaScript
8 63 (32.98%) Front Office
9 60 (31.41%) Fixed Income
9 60 (31.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 59 (30.89%) Banking
11 56 (29.32%) Equities
12 55 (28.80%) Asset Management
12 55 (28.80%) Apache Airflow
12 55 (28.80%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (28.80%) Dremio
12 55 (28.80%) dbt
12 55 (28.80%) Apache Arrow
12 55 (28.80%) Apache Iceberg
13 48 (25.13%) Investment Banking
14 47 (24.61%) SciPy
14 47 (24.61%) NumPy
14 47 (24.61%) Pandas
15 46 (24.08%) Investment Management
16 45 (23.56%) Apache
17 43 (22.51%) Derivative
17 43 (22.51%) Hedge funds
17 43 (22.51%) Snowflake
18 42 (21.99%) Spring

Java Engineer 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 55 (28.80%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (23.56%) Apache
3 9 (4.71%) Confluence
4 6 (3.14%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.57%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 110 (57.59%) AWS
2 55 (28.80%) dbt
3 43 (22.51%) Snowflake
4 29 (15.18%) GCP
5 27 (14.14%) Azure
6 10 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.66%) GitHub
8 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.62%) Dagster
9 5 (2.62%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.62%) Serverless
10 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.09%) SaaS
11 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.57%) Datadog
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Network Security
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) Multicast
3 1 (0.52%) AMQP
3 1 (0.52%) SSH
3 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.80%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (28.80%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (28.80%) Apache Iceberg
1 55 (28.80%) Dremio
2 37 (19.37%) Data Lake
3 35 (18.32%) Apache Ignite
4 23 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (7.33%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.76%) Big Data
7 6 (3.14%) MySQL
8 4 (2.09%) HPCC
9 3 (1.57%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.52%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.52%) KDB
11 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (16.75%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.14%) GitLab
3 19 (9.95%) JIRA
4 16 (8.38%) Gradle
5 15 (7.85%) JUnit
6 14 (7.33%) Cucumber
7 13 (6.81%) REST Assured
8 11 (5.76%) Git
8 11 (5.76%) Mockito
8 11 (5.76%) Selenium
9 10 (5.24%) Liquibase
9 10 (5.24%) Maven
10 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.09%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.05%) Postman
13 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.52%) Gatling
13 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.52%) XCUITest
General
1 104 (54.45%) Finance
2 63 (32.98%) Front Office
3 59 (30.89%) Banking
4 48 (25.13%) Investment Banking
5 25 (13.09%) Social Skills
6 14 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.76%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.24%) Electronics
9 10 (5.24%) Manufacturing
9 10 (5.24%) Marketing
10 5 (2.62%) Law
11 4 (2.09%) Police
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.52%) Back Office
13 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (24.61%) NumPy
1 47 (24.61%) Pandas
1 47 (24.61%) SciPy
2 42 (21.99%) Spring
3 35 (18.32%) gRPC
3 35 (18.32%) Protocol Buffers
3 35 (18.32%) React
4 32 (16.75%) Spring Boot
5 28 (14.66%) REST
6 24 (12.57%) Node.js
7 23 (12.04%) Kafka
8 21 (10.99%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.90%) PySpark
10 13 (6.81%) Swagger
11 12 (6.28%) Vue
12 11 (5.76%) OpenAPI
13 10 (5.24%) Java EE
14 8 (4.19%) GraphQL
15 5 (2.62%) Jest
15 5 (2.62%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 60 (31.41%) Fixed Income
1 60 (31.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 56 (29.32%) Equities
3 43 (22.51%) Derivative
3 43 (22.51%) Hedge funds
4 30 (15.71%) Pricing Data
5 7 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.66%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.28%) Linux
2 9 (4.71%) Unix
3 5 (2.62%) Windows
4 4 (2.09%) Android
5 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (63.87%) Software Engineering
2 95 (49.74%) Agile
3 55 (28.80%) Asset Management
4 46 (24.08%) Investment Management
5 39 (20.42%) DevOps
5 39 (20.42%) Microservices
6 36 (18.85%) CI/CD
7 30 (15.71%) TDD
8 25 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (13.09%) Test Automation
9 24 (12.57%) Fintech
10 21 (10.99%) Containerisation
11 18 (9.42%) Migration
11 18 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.90%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (8.38%) Order Management
14 13 (6.81%) Risk Management
15 12 (6.28%) Performance Attribution
15 12 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (37.17%) TypeScript
3 69 (36.13%) Python
4 63 (32.98%) JavaScript
5 32 (16.75%) SQL
6 13 (6.81%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.71%) C++
8 6 (3.14%) C
9 4 (2.09%) Ada
9 4 (2.09%) Go
10 3 (1.57%) PHP
10 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.57%) Ruby
11 2 (1.05%) DAML
11 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.38%) Degree
4 11 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.09%) PhD
7 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) QA
2 3 (1.57%) Def Stans
2 3 (1.57%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) SEPA
3 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (14.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.81%) Terraform
3 9 (4.71%) Ansible
4 6 (3.14%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (3.14%) Grafana
5 5 (2.62%) Podman
6 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.05%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (5.24%) SAP
2 8 (4.19%) Oracle
3 7 (3.66%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.09%) Google
5 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.57%) Splunk
6 2 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.05%) Databricks
6 2 (1.05%) IBM
6 2 (1.05%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.52%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.52%) Informatica
7 1 (0.52%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.52%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.52%) WSO2
7 1 (0.52%) YouTube