Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £539, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 356 432
Rank change year-on-year +8 +76 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 240 126 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.55% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 87 80
10th Percentile £360 £386 £411
25th Percentile £414 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% - -
75th Percentile £635 £825 £711
90th Percentile £800 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 9 2
10th Percentile - £37.95 £59.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £57.50 £60.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +0.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.94
90th Percentile £74.50 - £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.70%

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 33,839 23,023 35,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.06% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,337 15,200 23,523
10th Percentile £310 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 778 2,274
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.20 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £32.81 £32.90
% change year-on-year +8.84% -0.26% -22.60%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -36 116 £550 -8.33% 34
North of England -24 42 £523 +14.21% 18
Midlands -30 28 £469 -10.67% 5
West Midlands -35 27 £469 -10.67% 1
North West -16 25 £476 - 5
South East -24 25 £370 -43.08% 11
South West -16 23 £488 -12.56% 5
North East -2 10 £575 +47.44% 4
Yorkshire -54 8 £523 -0.48% 9
East of England -28 2 £500 +11.11% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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.

1 240 (100.00%) Java
2 124 (51.67%) Software Engineering
3 93 (38.75%) Spring
4 82 (34.17%) Spring Boot
5 80 (33.33%) AWS
5 80 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 78 (32.50%) Microservices
7 73 (30.42%) Agile
8 67 (27.92%) CI/CD
9 49 (20.42%) Kafka
10 48 (20.00%) DevOps
11 44 (18.33%) Docker
12 43 (17.92%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (17.92%) TDD
13 38 (15.83%) Security Cleared
14 36 (15.00%) SQL
15 35 (14.58%) Python
16 34 (14.17%) SC Cleared
17 32 (13.33%) Containerisation
18 31 (12.92%) QA
18 31 (12.92%) React
18 31 (12.92%) Test Automation
19 28 (11.67%) Gradle
20 27 (11.25%) Git
20 27 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
21 26 (10.83%) GitLab
22 24 (10.00%) JUnit
22 24 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
23 23 (9.58%) Event-Driven
23 23 (9.58%) MongoDB

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 10 (4.17%) Apache
2 7 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.67%) JBoss
3 4 (1.67%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.42%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (33.33%) AWS
2 22 (9.17%) Azure
3 16 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 16 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (6.67%) GCP
3 16 (6.67%) Serverless
4 13 (5.42%) GitHub
5 12 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.58%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.92%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.25%) MQTT
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) FTP
3 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.58%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (3.75%) MySQL
5 7 (2.92%) Big Data
5 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.25%) Apache Arrow
8 3 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.25%) Dremio
8 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.25%) HBase
8 3 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.67%) Gradle
2 27 (11.25%) Git
3 26 (10.83%) GitLab
4 24 (10.00%) JUnit
5 21 (8.75%) Jenkins
6 18 (7.50%) IntelliJ
7 15 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.17%) Maven
9 9 (3.75%) Selenium
10 6 (2.50%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.08%) JMeter
11 5 (2.08%) Mockito
12 4 (1.67%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.67%) JIRA
12 4 (1.67%) Postman
13 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.83%) Gatling
14 2 (0.83%) Liquibase
15 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
General
1 57 (23.75%) Finance
2 33 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.75%) Banking
4 18 (7.50%) Front Office
5 14 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.92%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Law
9 3 (1.25%) Back Office
10 2 (0.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (38.75%) Spring
2 82 (34.17%) Spring Boot
3 49 (20.42%) Kafka
4 31 (12.92%) React
5 20 (8.33%) RESTful
6 19 (7.92%) Node.js
7 18 (7.50%) REST
8 17 (7.08%) GraphQL
9 15 (6.25%) Middleware
10 12 (5.00%) Hibernate
11 11 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (4.58%) Swagger
12 10 (4.17%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.75%) Redux
14 8 (3.33%) JSON
15 7 (2.92%) HTML
16 6 (2.50%) AWS CDK
16 6 (2.50%) OpenAPI
16 6 (2.50%) Playwright
17 5 (2.08%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.58%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.92%) Derivative
6 7 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.67%) Equities
8 4 (1.67%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.25%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.83%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.42%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.92%) Linux
2 10 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) SUSE
3 1 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (51.67%) Software Engineering
2 78 (32.50%) Microservices
3 73 (30.42%) Agile
4 67 (27.92%) CI/CD
5 48 (20.00%) DevOps
6 43 (17.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (17.92%) TDD
7 32 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 31 (12.92%) Test Automation
9 27 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (9.58%) Event-Driven
11 21 (8.75%) Scrum
12 19 (7.92%) Clean Code
12 19 (7.92%) Software Testing
13 18 (7.50%) Mentoring
14 16 (6.67%) BDD
14 16 (6.67%) Code Quality
14 16 (6.67%) Migration
14 16 (6.67%) Observability
14 16 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 240 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (15.00%) SQL
3 35 (14.58%) Python
4 23 (9.58%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.50%) Kotlin
6 17 (7.08%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.42%) Go
8 9 (3.75%) Ada
9 5 (2.08%) Scala
10 4 (1.67%) C++
10 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.25%) C#
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) Rust
13 1 (0.42%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 38 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.33%) Degree
4 6 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.25%) OCP
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.92%) QA
2 9 (3.75%) Def Stans
2 9 (3.75%) IEC 61508
3 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (18.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 80 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.08%) Grafana
3 11 (4.58%) Terraform
4 5 (2.08%) Ansible
4 5 (2.08%) Argo
5 4 (1.67%) Puppet
6 3 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (3.75%) Google
2 8 (3.33%) Oracle
3 7 (2.92%) Splunk
4 6 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.67%) Databricks
6 4 (1.67%) webMethods
7 3 (1.25%) IBM
7 3 (1.25%) Solace
7 3 (1.25%) VMware
8 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.83%) New Relic
8 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.42%) Actian
9 1 (0.42%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.42%) Netlify
9 1 (0.42%) Spotify
9 1 (0.42%) Teradata
9 1 (0.42%) Virgin Media
66 Java Engineer jobs in England