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 8 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 323 285
Rank change year-on-year -22 -38 +179
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 307 199 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.79% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 148 191
10th Percentile £360 £394 £450
25th Percentile £450 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +27.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £671 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £530 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -15.20% -10.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 5 26
10th Percentile £63.20 £38.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - £80.00 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £84.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +9.38%

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 42,356 25,309 30,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.68% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,686 16,403 20,377
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,156 1,311 1,814
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +0.58%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -79 155 £540 -28.00% 234
North of England -27 61 £523 +64.00% 20
South East -40 31 £513 - 14
North West -24 28 £560 - 14
Midlands -29 27 £477 -9.24% 20
West Midlands -33 24 £483 -8.87% 15
South West -28 20 £563 +4.65% 19
Yorkshire -22 19 £500 +56.94% 3
North East - 15 £640 - 3
East of England -8 14 £510 -15.00% 6
East Midlands -9 3 £400 +26.98% 5
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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
2 170 (55.37%) Software Engineering
3 118 (38.44%) Spring
4 112 (36.48%) CI/CD
5 110 (35.83%) Spring Boot
6 104 (33.88%) Agile
7 92 (29.97%) AWS
8 90 (29.32%) Kubernetes
9 89 (28.99%) Microservices
10 76 (24.76%) Security Cleared
11 73 (23.78%) Docker
12 72 (23.45%) Kafka
13 68 (22.15%) SC Cleared
14 67 (21.82%) DevOps
15 57 (18.57%) SQL
16 54 (17.59%) Test Automation
17 41 (13.36%) Azure
17 41 (13.36%) Full-Stack Development
18 40 (13.03%) Event-Driven
18 40 (13.03%) REST
19 38 (12.38%) QA
20 36 (11.73%) Containerisation
20 36 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
20 36 (11.73%) React
21 35 (11.40%) Git
21 35 (11.40%) TDD
22 34 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
23 33 (10.75%) Python
24 32 (10.42%) JUnit
25 31 (10.10%) Event-Driven Architecture

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 7 (2.28%) WebLogic
2 6 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.98%) Apache
3 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.65%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (29.97%) AWS
2 41 (13.36%) Azure
3 25 (8.14%) GCP
4 20 (6.51%) GitHub
5 18 (5.86%) OpenShift
6 17 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.26%) Serverless
8 9 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.98%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.61%) Firewall
1 8 (2.61%) VPN
2 4 (1.30%) HTTP
2 4 (1.30%) Internet
3 3 (0.98%) MQTT
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.54%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.21%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.58%) MySQL
5 11 (3.58%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.95%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.63%) Redis
10 4 (1.30%) Big Data
10 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.98%) Power BI
12 2 (0.65%) HBase
12 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.33%) Bigtable
13 1 (0.33%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (11.40%) Git
2 32 (10.42%) JUnit
3 25 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.17%) GitLab
5 17 (5.54%) SonarQube
6 14 (4.56%) Maven
7 13 (4.23%) Gradle
7 13 (4.23%) Mockito
8 9 (2.93%) JIRA
9 7 (2.28%) Liquibase
10 6 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.95%) Selenium
11 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.30%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.98%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.65%) Appium
14 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.65%) Flyway
14 2 (0.65%) Gatling
General
1 83 (27.04%) Finance
2 50 (16.29%) Banking
3 35 (11.40%) Social Skills
4 16 (5.21%) Front Office
5 13 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.26%) Law
6 10 (3.26%) Retail
7 9 (2.93%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.28%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.30%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.98%) Automotive
11 3 (0.98%) Back Office
11 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (38.44%) Spring
2 110 (35.83%) Spring Boot
3 72 (23.45%) Kafka
4 40 (13.03%) REST
5 36 (11.73%) React
6 21 (6.84%) RESTful
7 20 (6.51%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.54%) Quarkus
9 15 (4.89%) Node.js
10 12 (3.91%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.26%) Middleware
12 9 (2.93%) OpenAPI
13 8 (2.61%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.61%) Swagger
14 7 (2.28%) AWS CDK
15 6 (1.95%) JPA
15 6 (1.95%) JSON
15 6 (1.95%) OAuth
15 6 (1.95%) Redux
15 6 (1.95%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 45 (14.66%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.28%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.30%) TWAP
8 4 (1.30%) VWAP
9 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.51%) Linux
2 10 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Android
3 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
4 1 (0.33%) SUSE
4 1 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (55.37%) Software Engineering
2 112 (36.48%) CI/CD
3 104 (33.88%) Agile
4 89 (28.99%) Microservices
5 67 (21.82%) DevOps
6 54 (17.59%) Test Automation
7 41 (13.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (13.03%) Event-Driven
9 36 (11.73%) Containerisation
9 36 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.40%) TDD
11 31 (10.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 31 (10.10%) SDLC
12 30 (9.77%) Scrum
13 29 (9.45%) Unit Testing
14 27 (8.79%) AI
15 25 (8.14%) Clean Code
15 25 (8.14%) Front End Development
15 25 (8.14%) Observability
16 23 (7.49%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 307 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (18.57%) SQL
3 33 (10.75%) Python
4 25 (8.14%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.49%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.84%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.28%) Ada
8 7 (2.28%) Go
9 6 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.30%) C++
10 4 (1.30%) Groovy
11 2 (0.65%) C#
11 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) Scala
11 2 (0.65%) Swift
12 1 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.61%) Degree
5 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.38%) QA
2 9 (2.93%) ISO 20022
3 7 (2.28%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.28%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.63%) GDPR
5 5 (1.63%) SEPA
6 3 (0.98%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (23.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (29.32%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.21%) Argo
3 15 (4.89%) Terraform
4 4 (1.30%) Ansible
4 4 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.98%) Grafana
5 3 (0.98%) HAProxy
5 3 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (6.51%) Oracle
2 15 (4.89%) Red Hat
3 14 (4.56%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.91%) Google
5 6 (1.95%) Splunk
6 5 (1.63%) Confluent
6 5 (1.63%) IBM
7 4 (1.30%) SAP
8 3 (0.98%) FIS
8 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.65%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.65%) Databricks
9 2 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.65%) MKS
9 2 (0.65%) Solace
10 1 (0.33%) Ariba
10 1 (0.33%) Concur
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.33%) Spotify
10 1 (0.33%) VMware
306 Java Engineer jobs in England