Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 345 463
Rank change year-on-year -34 +118 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 160 151 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.52% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.56% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 112 78
10th Percentile £360 £500 £398
25th Percentile £454 £547 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £725
90th Percentile - £888 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £595
% change year-on-year -14.81% +13.45% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 2
10th Percentile £40.75 £37.68 £60.13
25th Percentile £46.50 £52.75 £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -7.27% +4.79%
75th Percentile £67.81 £68.75 £74.69
90th Percentile £87.50 £69.13 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £68.75
% change year-on-year -13.73% -7.27% +4.79%

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 28,730 26,847 34,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.95% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,314 16,727 23,863
10th Percentile £293 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,773 846 1,347
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.83 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -13 108 £625 -16.67% 28
North of England -33 21 £475 -13.64% 17
Midlands -23 16 £460 -34.29% 2
West Midlands -16 15 £460 -40.65% 2
South East -10 11 £360 -37.39% 12
North West -15 11 £400 -27.27% 11
Yorkshire -48 5 £350 -32.04% 2
North East - 5 £575 - 5
South West -17 2 £550 -2.44% 6
East Midlands -19 1 £313 -45.65%
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, 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.

1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (53.75%) AWS
3 78 (48.75%) Software Engineering
4 67 (41.88%) Agile
5 59 (36.88%) CI/CD
6 58 (36.25%) Spring
7 57 (35.63%) Microservices
8 48 (30.00%) Spring Boot
9 46 (28.75%) Kubernetes
10 44 (27.50%) Python
11 39 (24.38%) TypeScript
12 37 (23.13%) JavaScript
13 33 (20.63%) DevOps
13 33 (20.63%) Docker
14 30 (18.75%) Kafka
15 28 (17.50%) Apache
15 28 (17.50%) Investment Management
16 27 (16.88%) SQL
16 27 (16.88%) Test Automation
17 26 (16.25%) TDD
18 25 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
18 25 (15.63%) Azure
18 25 (15.63%) Data Lake
18 25 (15.63%) gRPC
18 25 (15.63%) QA
18 25 (15.63%) Snowflake
19 24 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (15.00%) Apache Arrow
19 24 (15.00%) Apache Iceberg
19 24 (15.00%) Apache Ignite

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 28 (17.50%) Apache
2 25 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.50%) JBoss
3 4 (2.50%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.63%) Luigi
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 86 (53.75%) AWS
2 25 (15.63%) Azure
2 25 (15.63%) Snowflake
3 24 (15.00%) dbt
4 13 (8.13%) GCP
5 12 (7.50%) GitHub
6 9 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.63%) OpenShift
6 9 (5.63%) Serverless
7 8 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 7 (4.38%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.88%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) AMQP
2 1 (0.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) FTP
2 1 (0.63%) SSL
2 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) Data Lake
2 24 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (15.00%) Apache Arrow
2 24 (15.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 24 (15.00%) Apache Ignite
2 24 (15.00%) Dremio
3 17 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.88%) MySQL
6 10 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (5.00%) Hadoop
8 6 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.75%) Big Data
8 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.88%) HBase
10 3 (1.88%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.25%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Git
2 16 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 16 (10.00%) GitLab
2 16 (10.00%) JUnit
3 15 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.75%) Gradle
5 10 (6.25%) IntelliJ
6 9 (5.63%) Selenium
7 7 (4.38%) JMeter
7 7 (4.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.75%) Maven
9 4 (2.50%) Eclipse
9 4 (2.50%) Postman
10 3 (1.88%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.88%) JIRA
11 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.25%) Gatling
11 2 (1.25%) Mockito
11 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.25%) TestNG
General
1 59 (36.88%) Finance
2 37 (23.13%) Banking
3 32 (20.00%) Front Office
3 32 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 29 (18.13%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Back Office
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (36.25%) Spring
2 48 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 30 (18.75%) Kafka
4 25 (15.63%) gRPC
5 24 (15.00%) NumPy
5 24 (15.00%) Pandas
5 24 (15.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 24 (15.00%) SciPy
6 16 (10.00%) RESTful
7 14 (8.75%) REST
8 13 (8.13%) React
9 11 (6.88%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.63%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.63%) HTML
10 9 (5.63%) JSON
10 9 (5.63%) Node.js
11 7 (4.38%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.75%) OAuth
13 5 (3.13%) J2EE
13 5 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (17.50%) Fixed Income
3 26 (16.25%) Derivative
3 26 (16.25%) Equities
4 24 (15.00%) Hedge funds
4 24 (15.00%) Pricing Data
5 19 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (10.63%) Cloud Native
7 8 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.50%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.25%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.63%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.88%) Linux
2 9 (5.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.25%) CentOS
3 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (48.75%) Software Engineering
2 67 (41.88%) Agile
3 59 (36.88%) CI/CD
4 57 (35.63%) Microservices
5 33 (20.63%) DevOps
6 28 (17.50%) Investment Management
7 27 (16.88%) Test Automation
8 26 (16.25%) TDD
9 24 (15.00%) Asset Management
10 21 (13.13%) Containerisation
10 21 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (10.00%) Observability
13 15 (9.38%) Event-Driven
14 13 (8.13%) API Development
14 13 (8.13%) Fintech
15 12 (7.50%) Clean Code
15 12 (7.50%) Software Testing
16 11 (6.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (27.50%) Python
3 39 (24.38%) TypeScript
4 37 (23.13%) JavaScript
5 27 (16.88%) SQL
6 11 (6.88%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.00%) C++
7 8 (5.00%) Go
8 6 (3.75%) Scala
9 3 (1.88%) C
10 2 (1.25%) Bash
10 2 (1.25%) DAML
10 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.25%) Rust
10 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) Groovy
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) Degree
4 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.88%) OCP
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.63%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (20.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (28.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.13%) Terraform
3 11 (6.88%) Grafana
4 10 (6.25%) Ansible
5 5 (3.13%) Puppet
6 4 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (5.63%) Google
2 7 (4.38%) Oracle
3 6 (3.75%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.13%) Databricks
5 4 (2.50%) VMware
5 4 (2.50%) webMethods
6 3 (1.88%) Splunk
7 2 (1.25%) IBM
7 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.25%) Solace
7 2 (1.25%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe
8 1 (0.63%) Calypso
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) Confluent
8 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.63%) Informatica
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.63%) Zoomdata
55 Java Engineer jobs in England