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 13 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
13 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 324 403
Rank change year-on-year -11 +79 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 261 157 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.69% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 100 99
10th Percentile £362 £399 £420
25th Percentile £420 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £600 £828 £750
90th Percentile £693 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £542 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.75% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 7 1
10th Percentile - £59.75 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £63.13 £67.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £66.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.89% -5.36% +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 36,264 22,599 34,610
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.70% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,792 15,123 23,074
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £411
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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% -0.98% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,409 853 2,358
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £41.26 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.97% -10.00% -21.40%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -46 124 £550 -19.27% 44
North of England -31 50 £500 +9.29% 5
Midlands -39 28 £469 -10.67% 2
South West -15 27 £488 -12.56% 7
West Midlands -41 27 £469 -10.67% 1
South East -34 25 £450 -30.77% 14
North West -21 24 £478 - 2
Yorkshire -45 18 £523 -0.48%
North East -8 9 £439 +12.50% 3
East of England -41 3 £535 -1.38%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 261 (100.00%) Java
2 135 (51.72%) Software Engineering
3 97 (37.16%) Spring
4 88 (33.72%) Spring Boot
5 80 (30.65%) Kubernetes
6 79 (30.27%) Microservices
7 75 (28.74%) AWS
8 69 (26.44%) Agile
9 67 (25.67%) CI/CD
10 51 (19.54%) Kafka
10 51 (19.54%) Security Cleared
11 50 (19.16%) DevOps
11 50 (19.16%) Docker
12 49 (18.77%) Full-Stack Development
13 46 (17.62%) SC Cleared
14 41 (15.71%) TDD
15 37 (14.18%) SQL
16 35 (13.41%) Python
16 35 (13.41%) React
17 31 (11.88%) Containerisation
18 30 (11.49%) QA
18 30 (11.49%) Test Automation
19 28 (10.73%) Gradle
19 28 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
20 27 (10.34%) Event-Driven
21 26 (9.96%) Git
22 25 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
23 24 (9.20%) Scrum
24 23 (8.81%) GitLab
24 23 (8.81%) JUnit

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 (3.07%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.30%) Apache
3 4 (1.53%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.15%) JBoss
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (28.74%) AWS
2 21 (8.05%) Azure
3 17 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (6.51%) GCP
3 17 (6.51%) Serverless
4 15 (5.75%) Amazon S3
4 15 (5.75%) GitHub
5 12 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (4.21%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.53%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.53%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.77%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) HTTP
1 3 (1.15%) MQTT
2 1 (0.38%) FTP
2 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.07%) Big Data
3 8 (3.07%) MySQL
4 7 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (2.68%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.53%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.15%) HBase
9 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (10.73%) Gradle
2 26 (9.96%) Git
3 23 (8.81%) GitLab
3 23 (8.81%) JUnit
4 20 (7.66%) Jenkins
5 18 (6.90%) IntelliJ
6 13 (4.98%) Maven
7 10 (3.83%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.83%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.07%) Selenium
9 6 (2.30%) Mockito
10 5 (1.92%) JIRA
10 5 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.53%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.53%) Postman
12 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.15%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.77%) Gatling
13 2 (0.77%) JMeter
14 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
General
1 54 (20.69%) Finance
2 31 (11.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.43%) Banking
4 16 (6.13%) Front Office
5 14 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.68%) Law
7 4 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.15%) Back Office
8 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) French Language
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Legal
10 1 (0.38%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (37.16%) Spring
2 88 (33.72%) Spring Boot
3 51 (19.54%) Kafka
4 35 (13.41%) React
5 20 (7.66%) RESTful
6 18 (6.90%) Node.js
7 17 (6.51%) GraphQL
7 17 (6.51%) REST
8 16 (6.13%) Middleware
9 15 (5.75%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.98%) Swagger
11 12 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (3.83%) Quarkus
13 9 (3.45%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.45%) Redux
14 8 (3.07%) JSON
14 8 (3.07%) OpenAPI
15 6 (2.30%) AWS CDK
15 6 (2.30%) HTML
16 5 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.07%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.15%) Derivative
9 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.77%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.77%) TWAP
10 2 (0.77%) VWAP
11 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.66%) Linux
2 9 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Solaris
3 1 (0.38%) SUSE
3 1 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.38%) VMS
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (51.72%) Software Engineering
2 79 (30.27%) Microservices
3 69 (26.44%) Agile
4 67 (25.67%) CI/CD
5 50 (19.16%) DevOps
6 49 (18.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (15.71%) TDD
8 31 (11.88%) Containerisation
9 30 (11.49%) Test Automation
10 27 (10.34%) Event-Driven
11 25 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.20%) Scrum
13 19 (7.28%) Unit Testing
14 18 (6.90%) Clean Code
14 18 (6.90%) Code Quality
14 18 (6.90%) Software Testing
15 17 (6.51%) Migration
16 14 (5.36%) Front End Development
16 14 (5.36%) High Availability
17 13 (4.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 261 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (14.18%) SQL
3 35 (13.41%) Python
4 21 (8.05%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.75%) Kotlin
6 14 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.98%) Go
8 11 (4.21%) Ada
9 5 (1.92%) C++
9 5 (1.92%) Scala
10 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.77%) C#
11 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 51 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.21%) Degree
4 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.15%) OCP
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.49%) QA
2 11 (4.21%) Def Stans
2 11 (4.21%) IEC 61508
3 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.77%) GDPR
5 2 (0.77%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.38%) SEPA
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (19.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (30.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.51%) Grafana
3 12 (4.60%) Terraform
4 8 (3.07%) Argo
5 5 (1.92%) Ansible
6 3 (1.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (4.60%) Google
2 10 (3.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.45%) Oracle
4 8 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.30%) Splunk
6 5 (1.92%) IBM
7 3 (1.15%) Solace
7 3 (1.15%) webMethods
8 2 (0.77%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.77%) Databricks
8 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.77%) New Relic
8 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.77%) VMware
9 1 (0.38%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.38%) Adobe
9 1 (0.38%) Calypso
9 1 (0.38%) MKS
9 1 (0.38%) SAP
9 1 (0.38%) Teradata
62 Java Engineer jobs in England