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 25 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 317 373
Rank change year-on-year -7 +56 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 271 161 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.71% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 100 119
10th Percentile £373 £400 £420
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £875 £769
90th Percentile £679 - £888
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 8 5
10th Percentile - £50.75 £66.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.31 £67.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £69.38 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - £71.50
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 36,815 22,791 34,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.69% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,071 15,196 22,978
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,480 893 2,410
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £12.91
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.74 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -47 130 £550 -26.67% 46
North of England -28 53 £500 -4.76% 11
South West -26 28 £488 -6.02% 5
South East -48 27 £469 -27.88% 17
Midlands -35 26 £469 -10.67% 2
North West -22 25 £501 - 9
West Midlands -35 25 £469 -10.67% 1
Yorkshire -44 18 £523 -18.04% 1
North East -8 11 £425 +8.97% 1
East of England -42 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 25 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.

1 271 (100.00%) Java
2 138 (50.92%) Software Engineering
3 99 (36.53%) Spring
4 89 (32.84%) Spring Boot
5 83 (30.63%) Kubernetes
6 78 (28.78%) Microservices
7 75 (27.68%) AWS
8 70 (25.83%) Agile
9 66 (24.35%) CI/CD
10 56 (20.66%) Security Cleared
11 55 (20.30%) Docker
12 53 (19.56%) Kafka
13 50 (18.45%) DevOps
13 50 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 50 (18.45%) SC Cleared
14 42 (15.50%) TDD
15 39 (14.39%) SQL
16 35 (12.92%) Python
17 34 (12.55%) React
18 33 (12.18%) Containerisation
19 32 (11.81%) Test Automation
20 31 (11.44%) QA
21 30 (11.07%) Event-Driven
22 29 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
23 28 (10.33%) Gradle
23 28 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
24 25 (9.23%) Git
25 24 (8.86%) Azure
26 23 (8.49%) Scrum
27 22 (8.12%) 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 (2.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.85%) Apache
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.11%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.74%) JBoss
4 2 (0.74%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (27.68%) AWS
2 24 (8.86%) Azure
3 19 (7.01%) Serverless
4 18 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (5.90%) Amazon S3
5 16 (5.90%) GCP
5 16 (5.90%) GitHub
6 13 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (4.43%) OpenShift
8 9 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.11%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.11%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.74%) Azure API Management
13 2 (0.74%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) HTTP
2 3 (1.11%) MQTT
3 1 (0.37%) FTP
3 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.95%) Big Data
3 8 (2.95%) DynamoDB
3 8 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.58%) MySQL
5 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.11%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.11%) HBase
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.74%) Redis
9 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.37%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (10.33%) Gradle
2 25 (9.23%) Git
3 22 (8.12%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.75%) GitLab
5 20 (7.38%) JUnit
6 17 (6.27%) IntelliJ
7 13 (4.80%) Maven
8 11 (4.06%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.32%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.58%) Selenium
11 5 (1.85%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.85%) JIRA
11 5 (1.85%) Mockito
12 4 (1.48%) Postman
12 4 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.11%) Gatling
13 3 (1.11%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.74%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.74%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.74%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (19.56%) Finance
2 28 (10.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.12%) Banking
4 17 (6.27%) Front Office
5 14 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.95%) Law
7 5 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Back Office
9 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Automotive
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) French Language
11 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (36.53%) Spring
2 89 (32.84%) Spring Boot
3 53 (19.56%) Kafka
4 34 (12.55%) React
5 21 (7.75%) RESTful
6 19 (7.01%) REST
7 18 (6.64%) GraphQL
8 16 (5.90%) Middleware
8 16 (5.90%) Node.js
9 15 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.80%) Swagger
11 12 (4.43%) OpenTelemetry
12 11 (4.06%) Quarkus
13 9 (3.32%) Redux
14 8 (2.95%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.95%) OpenAPI
15 7 (2.58%) JSON
16 5 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
16 5 (1.85%) OAuth
16 5 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.95%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.11%) Derivative
9 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.11%) TWAP
9 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.11%) VWAP
10 2 (0.74%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.64%) Linux
2 7 (2.58%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Solaris
3 1 (0.37%) SUSE
3 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.37%) VMS
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (50.92%) Software Engineering
2 78 (28.78%) Microservices
3 70 (25.83%) Agile
4 66 (24.35%) CI/CD
5 50 (18.45%) DevOps
5 50 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (15.50%) TDD
7 33 (12.18%) Containerisation
8 32 (11.81%) Test Automation
9 30 (11.07%) Event-Driven
10 28 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (8.49%) Scrum
12 22 (8.12%) Unit Testing
13 20 (7.38%) Clean Code
14 19 (7.01%) Code Quality
15 18 (6.64%) Software Testing
16 17 (6.27%) Migration
17 15 (5.54%) BDD
17 15 (5.54%) Front End Development
17 15 (5.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 271 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (14.39%) SQL
3 35 (12.92%) Python
4 20 (7.38%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.90%) Kotlin
6 13 (4.80%) Go
6 13 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.06%) Ada
8 5 (1.85%) C++
8 5 (1.85%) Scala
9 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.11%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) Groovy
11 1 (0.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.37%) Rust
11 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.37%) Solidity
11 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.32%) Degree
4 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.11%) OCP
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.44%) QA
2 11 (4.06%) Def Stans
2 11 (4.06%) IEC 61508
3 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (20.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.90%) Grafana
3 11 (4.06%) Terraform
4 9 (3.32%) Argo
5 5 (1.85%) Ansible
6 3 (1.11%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.74%) Puppet
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (4.06%) Google
1 11 (4.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.32%) Oracle
2 9 (3.32%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.21%) Splunk
4 5 (1.85%) IBM
5 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.11%) Solace
6 2 (0.74%) Checkmarx
6 2 (0.74%) Confluent
6 2 (0.74%) Databricks
6 2 (0.74%) MKS
6 2 (0.74%) New Relic
6 2 (0.74%) webMethods
7 1 (0.37%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.37%) Netlify
7 1 (0.37%) Spotify
7 1 (0.37%) Teradata
7 1 (0.37%) VMware
69 Java Engineer jobs in England