Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 370 465
Rank change year-on-year -25 +95 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 153 124 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.49% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 87 71
10th Percentile £355 £448 £405
25th Percentile £430 £525 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £850 £725
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 2
10th Percentile £43.15 £37.40 £60.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -9.09% +4.79%
75th Percentile £60.31 £66.88 £74.69
90th Percentile £87.50 £68.75 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year -12.00% -9.09% +4.79%

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 28,793 25,364 33,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 92.85% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,431 15,701 23,038
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,738 796 1,465
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -21.35% +28.74%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.11 £74.93 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -26.97% +36.92%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -10 96 £600 -11.11% 53
North of England -28 26 £475 -7.77% 55
North West -11 16 £400 - 26
Midlands -21 16 £460 -45.88% 35
West Midlands -25 15 £460 -45.88% 18
South East -11 12 £365 -36.52% 52
Yorkshire -44 5 £350 -32.04% 22
North East - 5 £575 - 8
South West -20 1 £550 -2.44% 24
East Midlands - 1 £313 - 15
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 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.

1 153 (100.00%) Java
2 75 (49.02%) AWS
3 72 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 62 (40.52%) Agile
5 61 (39.87%) Spring
6 57 (37.25%) CI/CD
6 57 (37.25%) Microservices
7 55 (35.95%) Kubernetes
8 52 (33.99%) Spring Boot
9 34 (22.22%) Docker
9 34 (22.22%) Python
10 33 (21.57%) DevOps
11 30 (19.61%) JavaScript
12 29 (18.95%) TDD
13 28 (18.30%) Azure
13 28 (18.30%) Kafka
13 28 (18.30%) TypeScript
14 25 (16.34%) SQL
14 25 (16.34%) Test Automation
15 24 (15.69%) Apache
16 23 (15.03%) Containerisation
16 23 (15.03%) QA
17 21 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
17 21 (13.73%) Data Lake
17 21 (13.73%) GitLab
17 21 (13.73%) gRPC
17 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (13.73%) Security Cleared
17 21 (13.73%) Snowflake
18 20 (13.07%) Amazon Athena

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 24 (15.69%) Apache
2 21 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.61%) JBoss
3 4 (2.61%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Luigi
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (49.02%) AWS
2 28 (18.30%) Azure
3 21 (13.73%) Snowflake
4 20 (13.07%) dbt
5 14 (9.15%) GCP
6 12 (7.84%) GitHub
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.23%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.23%) Serverless
9 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) AMQP
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) FTP
1 1 (0.65%) SSL
1 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.73%) Data Lake
2 20 (13.07%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (13.07%) Apache Arrow
2 20 (13.07%) Apache Iceberg
2 20 (13.07%) Apache Ignite
2 20 (13.07%) Dremio
3 17 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (6.54%) MySQL
5 8 (5.23%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.92%) Big Data
6 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.96%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.96%) HBase
9 2 (1.31%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) GitLab
2 19 (12.42%) Gradle
3 16 (10.46%) Git
3 16 (10.46%) JUnit
4 15 (9.80%) Cucumber
4 15 (9.80%) IntelliJ
4 15 (9.80%) Jenkins
5 9 (5.88%) Selenium
6 7 (4.58%) JMeter
6 7 (4.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (3.27%) Maven
8 4 (2.61%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.61%) Postman
9 3 (1.96%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.31%) Gatling
10 2 (1.31%) JIRA
10 2 (1.31%) Mockito
10 2 (1.31%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.31%) TestNG
General
1 48 (31.37%) Finance
2 32 (20.92%) Banking
2 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.69%) Front Office
3 24 (15.69%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.65%) Back Office
6 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (39.87%) Spring
2 52 (33.99%) Spring Boot
3 28 (18.30%) Kafka
4 21 (13.73%) gRPC
5 20 (13.07%) NumPy
5 20 (13.07%) Pandas
5 20 (13.07%) Protocol Buffers
5 20 (13.07%) SciPy
6 16 (10.46%) RESTful
7 14 (9.15%) REST
8 11 (7.19%) Hibernate
9 10 (6.54%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.88%) HTML
10 9 (5.88%) JSON
10 9 (5.88%) React
11 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.58%) Swagger
13 6 (3.92%) OAuth
14 5 (3.27%) HTML5
14 5 (3.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (14.38%) Derivative
3 21 (13.73%) Equities
4 20 (13.07%) Fixed Income
4 20 (13.07%) Hedge funds
4 20 (13.07%) Pricing Data
5 17 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 17 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.23%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.65%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.19%) Linux
2 10 (6.54%) Unix
3 2 (1.31%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.06%) Software Engineering
2 62 (40.52%) Agile
3 57 (37.25%) CI/CD
3 57 (37.25%) Microservices
4 33 (21.57%) DevOps
5 29 (18.95%) TDD
6 25 (16.34%) Test Automation
7 23 (15.03%) Containerisation
8 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.07%) Asset Management
9 20 (13.07%) Investment Management
10 17 (11.11%) Event-Driven
10 17 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (11.11%) Observability
11 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (8.50%) API Development
12 13 (8.50%) Fintech
13 12 (7.84%) Clean Code
13 12 (7.84%) Mentoring
13 12 (7.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (22.22%) Python
3 30 (19.61%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.30%) TypeScript
5 25 (16.34%) SQL
6 15 (9.80%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.92%) Scala
8 5 (3.27%) C++
9 4 (2.61%) Go
10 2 (1.31%) Bash
10 2 (1.31%) C
10 2 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.31%) Rust
10 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.65%) C#
11 1 (0.65%) DAML
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.92%) Degree
4 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.96%) OCP
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.03%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (35.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.80%) Grafana
3 12 (7.84%) Terraform
4 10 (6.54%) Ansible
5 5 (3.27%) Puppet
6 4 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.31%) Argo
8 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (5.88%) Google
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.92%) Oracle
3 5 (3.27%) Databricks
4 4 (2.61%) VMware
4 4 (2.61%) webMethods
5 3 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.96%) Splunk
6 2 (1.31%) IBM
6 2 (1.31%) New Relic
6 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.31%) Solace
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) Calypso
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) Informatica
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.65%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.65%) Zoomdata
235 Java Engineer jobs in England