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 27 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 328 414
Rank change year-on-year -7 +86 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 252 137 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.61% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 92 89
10th Percentile £370 £381 £413
25th Percentile £420 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £847 £713
90th Percentile £700 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 8 2
10th Percentile - £51.80 £59.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.31 £60.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.15%
75th Percentile £69.06 £68.75 £70.94
90th Percentile £71.50 - £71.88
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 34,699 22,524 34,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.96% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,859 15,103 23,349
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,284 813 2,292
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% +4.95% -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £77.00 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.20% -24.38%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -55 116 £550 -8.33% 39
North of England -28 51 £488 +6.56% 17
Midlands -39 28 £469 -10.67% 3
West Midlands -32 27 £469 -10.67% 1
South West -9 26 £488 -12.56% 7
North West -12 26 £478 - 8
South East -27 25 £400 -38.46% 8
Yorkshire -43 16 £511 -2.62% 6
North East -3 10 £439 +12.50% 3
East of England -32 2 £500 +6.95%
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 252 (100.00%) Java
2 136 (53.97%) Software Engineering
3 89 (35.32%) Spring
4 80 (31.75%) AWS
4 80 (31.75%) Kubernetes
4 80 (31.75%) Spring Boot
5 77 (30.56%) Microservices
6 74 (29.37%) Agile
7 65 (25.79%) CI/CD
8 51 (20.24%) DevOps
9 50 (19.84%) Kafka
10 47 (18.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (17.06%) Security Cleared
12 42 (16.67%) Docker
13 41 (16.27%) TDD
14 39 (15.48%) SC Cleared
15 36 (14.29%) Python
16 34 (13.49%) QA
16 34 (13.49%) SQL
17 33 (13.10%) React
17 33 (13.10%) Test Automation
18 29 (11.51%) Containerisation
19 27 (10.71%) Gradle
19 27 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
20 26 (10.32%) Scrum
21 25 (9.92%) Git
21 25 (9.92%) GitLab
21 25 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
22 23 (9.13%) Event-Driven
22 23 (9.13%) 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 (3.17%) Apache
1 8 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.19%) JBoss
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.19%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Camunda
3 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.40%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (31.75%) AWS
2 22 (8.73%) Azure
3 17 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (6.75%) GCP
3 17 (6.75%) Serverless
4 15 (5.95%) Amazon S3
4 15 (5.95%) GitHub
5 13 (5.16%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.19%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.19%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) MQTT
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) FTP
3 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.97%) MySQL
4 9 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.17%) Big Data
6 7 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.38%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.19%) HBase
10 2 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
10 2 (0.79%) Apache Ignite
10 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.79%) Dremio
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (10.71%) Gradle
2 25 (9.92%) Git
2 25 (9.92%) GitLab
3 23 (9.13%) JUnit
4 22 (8.73%) Jenkins
5 17 (6.75%) IntelliJ
6 12 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.76%) Maven
7 10 (3.97%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.17%) Selenium
9 6 (2.38%) Mockito
9 6 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.98%) JIRA
11 4 (1.59%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.59%) JMeter
11 4 (1.59%) Postman
12 3 (1.19%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.19%) Gatling
12 3 (1.19%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.40%) JBehave
General
1 56 (22.22%) Finance
2 34 (13.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.73%) Banking
4 14 (5.56%) Front Office
4 14 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.78%) Law
6 6 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Back Office
9 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) French Language
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (35.32%) Spring
2 80 (31.75%) Spring Boot
3 50 (19.84%) Kafka
4 33 (13.10%) React
5 20 (7.94%) RESTful
6 19 (7.54%) Node.js
7 18 (7.14%) REST
8 17 (6.75%) GraphQL
8 17 (6.75%) Middleware
9 15 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.76%) Swagger
11 11 (4.37%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (3.97%) Hibernate
12 10 (3.97%) Quarkus
13 9 (3.57%) Redux
14 7 (2.78%) JSON
14 7 (2.78%) OpenAPI
14 7 (2.78%) Playwright
15 6 (2.38%) AWS CDK
15 6 (2.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.97%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.98%) Derivative
6 5 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.19%) Pricing Data
9 2 (0.79%) Equities
9 2 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Exotic Derivative
10 1 (0.40%) NHS
10 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.54%) Linux
2 9 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) SUSE
3 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (53.97%) Software Engineering
2 77 (30.56%) Microservices
3 74 (29.37%) Agile
4 65 (25.79%) CI/CD
5 51 (20.24%) DevOps
6 47 (18.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (16.27%) TDD
8 33 (13.10%) Test Automation
9 29 (11.51%) Containerisation
10 26 (10.32%) Scrum
11 25 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.13%) Event-Driven
13 20 (7.94%) Unit Testing
14 19 (7.54%) Clean Code
15 17 (6.75%) Migration
15 17 (6.75%) Software Testing
16 16 (6.35%) Code Quality
17 15 (5.95%) Front End Development
18 14 (5.56%) Observability
19 13 (5.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 252 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (14.29%) Python
3 34 (13.49%) SQL
4 23 (9.13%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.95%) Kotlin
7 13 (5.16%) Go
8 11 (4.37%) Ada
9 5 (1.98%) C++
9 5 (1.98%) Scala
10 3 (1.19%) C#
10 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.40%) Rust
12 1 (0.40%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 43 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.97%) Degree
4 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.19%) OCP
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.49%) QA
2 11 (4.37%) Def Stans
2 11 (4.37%) IEC 61508
3 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 80 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.14%) Grafana
3 12 (4.76%) Terraform
4 9 (3.57%) Argo
5 5 (1.98%) Ansible
6 3 (1.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.40%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (4.37%) Google
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.17%) Oracle
3 8 (3.17%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.78%) Splunk
5 4 (1.59%) IBM
6 3 (1.19%) Solace
6 3 (1.19%) webMethods
7 2 (0.79%) Databricks
7 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.79%) New Relic
7 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.40%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Calypso
8 1 (0.40%) Netlify
8 1 (0.40%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Spotify
8 1 (0.40%) Teradata
71 Java Engineer jobs in England