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 7 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 325 370
Rank change year-on-year +2 +45 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 286 155 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.64% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.69% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 99 124
10th Percentile £356 £423 £427
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £875 £850
90th Percentile £677 - £888
UK median daily rate £537 £631 £575
% change year-on-year -14.93% +9.78% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 8 11
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.75 £67.50
25th Percentile £53.44 £60.31 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +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 37,569 22,569 34,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 92.59% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,407 15,021 22,841
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 913 2,442
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £31.35 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.94% -14.12% -17.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.86
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +50.66% -20.55% -18.89%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -28 141 £550 -26.67% 44
North of England -7 61 £523 -0.48% 12
North West -15 30 £525 - 8
South West -16 28 £488 -6.02% 4
South East -27 28 £469 -27.88% 32
Midlands -54 23 £469 -10.67% 3
West Midlands -41 22 £469 -10.67% 1
Yorkshire -37 17 £523 -18.04% 2
North East -2 15 £478 +22.44% 2
East of England -36 3 £535 -10.83% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 286 (100.00%) Java
2 145 (50.70%) Software Engineering
3 108 (37.76%) Spring
4 99 (34.62%) Spring Boot
5 90 (31.47%) Kubernetes
6 78 (27.27%) Microservices
7 77 (26.92%) AWS
8 75 (26.22%) Agile
9 69 (24.13%) CI/CD
10 62 (21.68%) Security Cleared
11 58 (20.28%) Docker
12 56 (19.58%) Kafka
12 56 (19.58%) SC Cleared
13 53 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 49 (17.13%) DevOps
15 42 (14.69%) SQL
16 41 (14.34%) TDD
17 38 (13.29%) React
18 36 (12.59%) Python
19 35 (12.24%) Test Automation
20 34 (11.89%) Containerisation
21 32 (11.19%) QA
22 31 (10.84%) Event-Driven
23 30 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
24 28 (9.79%) Gradle
25 26 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
26 25 (8.74%) Azure
26 25 (8.74%) Unit Testing
27 24 (8.39%) Scrum
28 23 (8.04%) TypeScript

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 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.05%) Apache
2 3 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.92%) AWS
2 25 (8.74%) Azure
3 18 (6.29%) Serverless
4 17 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (5.59%) GCP
5 16 (5.59%) GitHub
6 15 (5.24%) OpenShift
7 14 (4.90%) Amazon S3
8 12 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (1.05%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (0.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 2 (0.70%) AWS CodePipeline
14 2 (0.70%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) HTTP
2 3 (1.05%) MQTT
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.64%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.15%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.45%) Big Data
5 7 (2.45%) MySQL
5 7 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.70%) HBase
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.70%) Redis
11 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.35%) Bigtable
11 1 (0.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (9.79%) Gradle
2 22 (7.69%) GitLab
3 21 (7.34%) Git
3 21 (7.34%) Jenkins
4 19 (6.64%) JUnit
5 15 (5.24%) IntelliJ
6 14 (4.90%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.20%) Maven
8 7 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.45%) Mockito
9 6 (2.10%) JIRA
10 5 (1.75%) Selenium
11 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.40%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.70%) Gatling
13 2 (0.70%) Postman
13 2 (0.70%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.70%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
General
1 58 (20.28%) Finance
2 27 (9.44%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.09%) Banking
4 20 (6.99%) Front Office
5 18 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.15%) Law
7 6 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.10%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.05%) Back Office
9 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.05%) Retail
10 2 (0.70%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.35%) French Language
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (37.76%) Spring
2 99 (34.62%) Spring Boot
3 56 (19.58%) Kafka
4 38 (13.29%) React
5 21 (7.34%) RESTful
6 20 (6.99%) REST
7 18 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 18 (6.29%) GraphQL
8 17 (5.94%) Middleware
8 17 (5.94%) Node.js
9 14 (4.90%) Quarkus
9 14 (4.90%) Swagger
10 12 (4.20%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (3.15%) OpenAPI
11 9 (3.15%) Redux
12 7 (2.45%) AWS CDK
13 6 (2.10%) FIX Protocol
13 6 (2.10%) Hibernate
13 6 (2.10%) Playwright
14 5 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.80%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.40%) TWAP
7 4 (1.40%) VWAP
8 3 (1.05%) Derivative
8 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.70%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.70%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.64%) Linux
2 6 (2.10%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Solaris
3 1 (0.35%) SUSE
3 1 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.35%) VMS
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (50.70%) Software Engineering
2 78 (27.27%) Microservices
3 75 (26.22%) Agile
4 69 (24.13%) CI/CD
5 53 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (17.13%) DevOps
7 41 (14.34%) TDD
8 35 (12.24%) Test Automation
9 34 (11.89%) Containerisation
10 31 (10.84%) Event-Driven
11 26 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (8.74%) Unit Testing
13 24 (8.39%) Scrum
14 21 (7.34%) Clean Code
14 21 (7.34%) Code Quality
15 19 (6.64%) Front End Development
16 18 (6.29%) SDLC
17 17 (5.94%) High Availability
17 17 (5.94%) Software Testing
18 16 (5.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 286 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (14.69%) SQL
3 36 (12.59%) Python
4 23 (8.04%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.94%) Kotlin
6 13 (4.55%) Go
7 11 (3.85%) Ada
8 5 (1.75%) C++
9 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.05%) C#
10 3 (1.05%) Scala
11 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) Korn
12 1 (0.35%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) Solidity
12 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.15%) Degree
4 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) OCP
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.19%) QA
2 11 (3.85%) Def Stans
2 11 (3.85%) IEC 61508
3 6 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.75%) GDPR
4 5 (1.75%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.05%) SEPA
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 58 (20.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (31.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.24%) Grafana
3 12 (4.20%) Argo
3 12 (4.20%) Terraform
4 5 (1.75%) Ansible
5 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (4.20%) Red Hat
2 11 (3.85%) Google
2 11 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.15%) Oracle
4 6 (2.10%) Splunk
5 5 (1.75%) IBM
6 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.05%) SAP
6 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.05%) Solace
7 2 (0.70%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.70%) Confluent
7 2 (0.70%) Databricks
7 2 (0.70%) MKS
7 2 (0.70%) New Relic
8 1 (0.35%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe
8 1 (0.35%) Netlify
8 1 (0.35%) Teradata
8 1 (0.35%) VMware
85 Java Engineer jobs in England