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 1 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 336 420
Rank change year-on-year -8 +84 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 256 143 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.59% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.63% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 93 92
10th Percentile £372 £382 £413
25th Percentile £420 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £838 £711
90th Percentile £700 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 8 1
10th Percentile - £51.80 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.31 £67.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £69.06 £68.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £71.50 - -
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 35,200 22,534 34,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 92.95% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,188 15,074 23,351
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 £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 836 2,308
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -55 119 £550 -8.33% 39
North of England -29 52 £494 +7.92% 17
Midlands -44 28 £469 -10.67% 3
West Midlands -32 27 £469 -10.67% 1
South West -12 26 £488 -12.56% 7
North West -21 26 £478 - 8
South East -32 25 £400 -38.46% 8
Yorkshire -42 17 £523 -0.48% 6
North East -3 10 £439 +12.50% 3
East of England -29 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 1 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.

1 256 (100.00%) Java
2 139 (54.30%) Software Engineering
3 92 (35.94%) Spring
4 83 (32.42%) Spring Boot
5 79 (30.86%) AWS
5 79 (30.86%) Kubernetes
5 79 (30.86%) Microservices
6 74 (28.91%) Agile
7 66 (25.78%) CI/CD
8 51 (19.92%) DevOps
8 51 (19.92%) Kafka
9 48 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (17.97%) Security Cleared
11 44 (17.19%) Docker
12 42 (16.41%) SC Cleared
13 41 (16.02%) TDD
14 37 (14.45%) Python
15 36 (14.06%) SQL
16 34 (13.28%) React
17 33 (12.89%) QA
17 33 (12.89%) Test Automation
18 32 (12.50%) Containerisation
19 28 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
20 27 (10.55%) Gradle
21 26 (10.16%) Git
21 26 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
21 26 (10.16%) Scrum
22 24 (9.38%) Event-Driven
22 24 (9.38%) GitLab
22 24 (9.38%) 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 (3.13%) Apache
1 8 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.56%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.17%) JBoss
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.86%) AWS
2 21 (8.20%) Azure
3 17 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (6.64%) Serverless
4 16 (6.25%) GCP
5 15 (5.86%) Amazon S3
5 15 (5.86%) GitHub
6 13 (5.08%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.17%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.17%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.78%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) HTTP
1 3 (1.17%) MQTT
2 1 (0.39%) FTP
2 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.59%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.91%) MySQL
4 9 (3.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.13%) Big Data
6 7 (2.73%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.34%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.17%) HBase
11 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.78%) Apache Arrow
11 2 (0.78%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.78%) Dremio
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (10.55%) Gradle
2 26 (10.16%) Git
3 24 (9.38%) GitLab
4 23 (8.98%) JUnit
5 22 (8.59%) Jenkins
6 17 (6.64%) IntelliJ
7 12 (4.69%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.69%) Maven
8 10 (3.91%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.13%) Selenium
10 6 (2.34%) Mockito
10 6 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.95%) JIRA
12 4 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.56%) Postman
13 3 (1.17%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.17%) JMeter
13 3 (1.17%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.78%) Gatling
15 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
General
1 58 (22.66%) Finance
2 34 (13.28%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.38%) Banking
4 15 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.47%) Front Office
6 7 (2.73%) Law
7 6 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.17%) Back Office
10 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Retail
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) French Language
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (35.94%) Spring
2 83 (32.42%) Spring Boot
3 51 (19.92%) Kafka
4 34 (13.28%) React
5 20 (7.81%) RESTful
6 19 (7.42%) Node.js
7 17 (6.64%) GraphQL
7 17 (6.64%) REST
8 16 (6.25%) Middleware
9 15 (5.86%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.69%) Swagger
11 11 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (3.91%) Hibernate
12 10 (3.91%) Quarkus
13 9 (3.52%) Redux
14 7 (2.73%) JSON
14 7 (2.73%) OpenAPI
15 6 (2.34%) AWS CDK
15 6 (2.34%) HTML
15 6 (2.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.91%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.95%) Derivative
7 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.17%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.17%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Equities
10 2 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.78%) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.20%) Linux
2 9 (3.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Solaris
3 1 (0.39%) SUSE
3 1 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.39%) VMS
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (54.30%) Software Engineering
2 79 (30.86%) Microservices
3 74 (28.91%) Agile
4 66 (25.78%) CI/CD
5 51 (19.92%) DevOps
6 48 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (16.02%) TDD
8 33 (12.89%) Test Automation
9 32 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 26 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (10.16%) Scrum
11 24 (9.38%) Event-Driven
12 20 (7.81%) Unit Testing
13 19 (7.42%) Clean Code
14 17 (6.64%) Code Quality
14 17 (6.64%) Migration
14 17 (6.64%) Software Testing
15 15 (5.86%) Front End Development
16 14 (5.47%) Observability
17 13 (5.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 256 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (14.45%) Python
3 36 (14.06%) SQL
4 24 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.86%) Kotlin
7 13 (5.08%) Go
8 11 (4.30%) Ada
9 5 (1.95%) C++
9 5 (1.95%) Scala
10 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) C#
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 46 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.30%) Degree
4 6 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.17%) OCP
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.89%) QA
2 11 (4.30%) Def Stans
2 11 (4.30%) IEC 61508
3 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (17.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.03%) Grafana
3 12 (4.69%) Terraform
4 9 (3.52%) Argo
5 5 (1.95%) Ansible
6 3 (1.17%) Puppet
7 2 (0.78%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.39%) Kibana
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (4.30%) Google
2 10 (3.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.52%) Oracle
3 9 (3.52%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.73%) Splunk
5 5 (1.95%) IBM
6 3 (1.17%) Solace
6 3 (1.17%) VMware
6 3 (1.17%) webMethods
7 2 (0.78%) Databricks
7 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.78%) New Relic
7 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) Actian
8 1 (0.39%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.39%) Netlify
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.39%) Spotify
8 1 (0.39%) Veracode
8 1 (0.39%) Virgin Media
71 Java Engineer jobs in England