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 11 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 346 306
Rank change year-on-year -6 -40 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 307 168 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.60% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.66% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 137 164
10th Percentile £350 £363 £463
25th Percentile £425 £516 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -21.88% +34.45%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £660 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £720
% change year-on-year -12.50% -16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 27
10th Percentile - £40.25 £64.75
25th Percentile £70.00 £44.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%

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 42,569 25,573 30,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 91.11% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,022 16,463 18,384
10th Percentile £325 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,727 1,438 1,284
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.94 £50.94 £67.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -39.40% -7.78%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -76 145 £500 -33.33% 267
North of England -15 71 £500 -13.04% 78
Midlands 0 53 £565 +7.62% 18
West Midlands -8 47 £575 +9.00% 13
North West -8 46 £550 +80.33% 56
South East -50 20 £500 +38.89% 23
East of England -10 18 £600 - 8
Yorkshire -16 15 £470 +47.52% 12
North East -33 10 £640 +11.30% 10
East Midlands -6 6 £400 +26.98% 5
South West -25 6 £484 -12.05% 32
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 156 (50.81%) Software Engineering
3 147 (47.88%) Spring
4 138 (44.95%) CI/CD
5 135 (43.97%) Spring Boot
6 121 (39.41%) Agile
7 117 (38.11%) AWS
8 107 (34.85%) Microservices
9 105 (34.20%) Kubernetes
10 73 (23.78%) DevOps
10 73 (23.78%) Test Automation
11 71 (23.13%) Docker
11 71 (23.13%) Kafka
12 68 (22.15%) SQL
13 66 (21.50%) Security Cleared
14 63 (20.52%) REST
15 60 (19.54%) SC Cleared
16 57 (18.57%) Event-Driven
17 46 (14.98%) AI
17 46 (14.98%) Git
18 45 (14.66%) Azure
18 45 (14.66%) TDD
19 43 (14.01%) GitLab
20 42 (13.68%) JUnit
20 42 (13.68%) QA
21 41 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
22 40 (13.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
23 38 (12.38%) Observability
23 38 (12.38%) Scrum
24 37 (12.05%) Clean Code

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 (2.61%) Apache
2 7 (2.28%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.98%) Confluence
6 2 (0.65%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.11%) AWS
2 45 (14.66%) Azure
3 27 (8.79%) GCP
4 20 (6.51%) GitHub
5 16 (5.21%) Serverless
6 15 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.23%) OpenShift
8 9 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (1.95%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (1.63%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.30%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.58%) Firewall
1 11 (3.58%) VPN
2 5 (1.63%) HTTP
3 4 (1.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 21 (6.84%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.54%) MySQL
5 15 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.93%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.61%) Couchbase
8 6 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.95%) Power BI
8 6 (1.95%) Redis
9 4 (1.30%) Flink
10 3 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.98%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.98%) Pentaho
11 2 (0.65%) HBase
11 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (14.98%) Git
2 43 (14.01%) GitLab
3 42 (13.68%) JUnit
4 29 (9.45%) Maven
5 21 (6.84%) Mockito
6 16 (5.21%) Gradle
6 16 (5.21%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.91%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.26%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.61%) JIRA
9 8 (2.61%) Selenium
10 6 (1.95%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.63%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.30%) Gatling
12 4 (1.30%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.98%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
14 2 (0.65%) XCUITest
General
1 81 (26.38%) Finance
2 64 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 56 (18.24%) Banking
4 13 (4.23%) Manufacturing
5 12 (3.91%) Retail
6 9 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Front Office
8 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.30%) iGaming
9 4 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.30%) Law
9 4 (1.30%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Automotive
11 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (47.88%) Spring
2 135 (43.97%) Spring Boot
3 71 (23.13%) Kafka
4 63 (20.52%) REST
5 27 (8.79%) React
6 26 (8.47%) RESTful
7 19 (6.19%) OpenAPI
8 18 (5.86%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.86%) JPA
9 17 (5.54%) Terraform
10 14 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (3.58%) JSON
12 10 (3.26%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.26%) Swagger
13 9 (2.93%) Hibernate
13 9 (2.93%) OAuth
13 9 (2.93%) Quarkus
14 8 (2.61%) Node.js
14 8 (2.61%) Spring MVC
15 7 (2.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 61 (19.87%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.93%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.30%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.98%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.86%) Linux
2 12 (3.91%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Android
3 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (50.81%) Software Engineering
2 138 (44.95%) CI/CD
3 121 (39.41%) Agile
4 107 (34.85%) Microservices
5 73 (23.78%) DevOps
5 73 (23.78%) Test Automation
6 57 (18.57%) Event-Driven
7 46 (14.98%) AI
8 45 (14.66%) TDD
9 41 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (13.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 38 (12.38%) Observability
11 38 (12.38%) Scrum
12 37 (12.05%) Clean Code
12 37 (12.05%) SDLC
13 35 (11.40%) Containerisation
14 33 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (9.77%) Front End Development
16 28 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (9.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (22.15%) SQL
3 33 (10.75%) Python
4 30 (9.77%) JavaScript
4 30 (9.77%) Kotlin
5 23 (7.49%) TypeScript
6 18 (5.86%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.30%) C#
7 4 (1.30%) Groovy
7 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.98%) Bash
8 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.98%) Ruby
8 3 (0.98%) Scala
9 2 (0.65%) C++
9 2 (0.65%) Solidity
9 2 (0.65%) Swift
10 1 (0.33%) Go
10 1 (0.33%) Korn
10 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.58%) Degree
5 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.68%) QA
2 8 (2.61%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.30%) SEPA
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) ISO 15022
4 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.98%) SLA
4 3 (0.98%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (23.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 105 (34.20%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.91%) Argo
2 12 (3.91%) Kibana
3 8 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.95%) Grafana
5 3 (0.98%) Ansible
6 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 31 (10.10%) Oracle
2 9 (2.93%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.61%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.28%) SAP
5 6 (1.95%) Databricks
5 6 (1.95%) Splunk
6 5 (1.63%) Google
7 4 (1.30%) Confluent
7 4 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.98%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.98%) FIS
8 3 (0.98%) IBM
9 2 (0.65%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.33%) Ariba
10 1 (0.33%) Concur
10 1 (0.33%) MKS
459 Java Engineer jobs in England