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 5 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 344 307
Rank change year-on-year -18 -37 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 298 176 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.69% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 141 165
10th Percentile £336 £363 £463
25th Percentile £425 £520 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -21.88% +35.59%
75th Percentile £606 £825 £850
90th Percentile £660 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 27
10th Percentile - £39.50 £64.75
25th Percentile £70.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +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 42,458 25,439 30,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 91.08% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,019 16,376 18,496
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
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 3,652 1,417 1,343
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.79 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.48 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%
75th Percentile £67.89 £52.16 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.94% -40.82% -4.49%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -83 144 £525 -30.00% 315
North of England -15 66 £500 -13.04% 80
Midlands -3 48 £590 +12.38% 22
West Midlands -12 42 £593 +12.32% 16
North West -8 41 £540 +77.05% 55
South East -43 20 £500 +44.93% 23
East of England -7 19 £600 - 4
Yorkshire -22 15 £470 +47.52% 11
North East -31 10 £640 +11.30% 14
South West -33 7 £484 -12.05% 48
East Midlands -7 6 £400 +26.98% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 298 (100.00%) Java
2 157 (52.68%) Software Engineering
3 144 (48.32%) Spring
4 132 (44.30%) CI/CD
5 131 (43.96%) Spring Boot
6 112 (37.58%) AWS
7 111 (37.25%) Agile
8 99 (33.22%) Microservices
9 97 (32.55%) Kubernetes
10 71 (23.83%) Docker
11 68 (22.82%) DevOps
11 68 (22.82%) Kafka
11 68 (22.82%) Test Automation
12 65 (21.81%) SQL
13 64 (21.48%) Security Cleared
14 58 (19.46%) REST
15 57 (19.13%) SC Cleared
16 56 (18.79%) Event-Driven
17 45 (15.10%) Git
18 44 (14.77%) AI
18 44 (14.77%) TDD
19 43 (14.43%) Azure
20 42 (14.09%) JUnit
20 42 (14.09%) QA
21 40 (13.42%) GitLab
22 39 (13.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
23 37 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
23 37 (12.42%) Scrum
23 37 (12.42%) SDLC
24 33 (11.07%) 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 7 (2.35%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.68%) Apache
2 5 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.67%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (37.58%) AWS
2 43 (14.43%) Azure
3 25 (8.39%) GCP
4 20 (6.71%) GitHub
5 16 (5.37%) Serverless
6 15 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.03%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.34%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.34%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.01%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.69%) Firewall
1 11 (3.69%) VPN
2 5 (1.68%) HTTP
3 4 (1.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (7.72%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.71%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.03%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.03%) MySQL
5 9 (3.02%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.68%) Couchbase
7 7 (2.35%) Redis
7 7 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.34%) Flink
10 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.01%) Power BI
11 2 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.67%) HBase
11 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 45 (15.10%) Git
2 42 (14.09%) JUnit
3 40 (13.42%) GitLab
4 29 (9.73%) Maven
5 20 (6.71%) Mockito
6 15 (5.03%) Jenkins
7 14 (4.70%) Gradle
8 13 (4.36%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.36%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.68%) JIRA
10 8 (2.68%) Selenium
11 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.68%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.34%) Gatling
13 4 (1.34%) Liquibase
14 3 (1.01%) Cypress.io
15 2 (0.67%) Appium
15 2 (0.67%) Flyway
15 2 (0.67%) IntelliJ
15 2 (0.67%) XCUITest
General
1 80 (26.85%) Finance
2 62 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.46%) Banking
4 13 (4.36%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.03%) Retail
6 11 (3.69%) Front Office
7 9 (3.02%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.34%) iGaming
10 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.34%) Law
10 4 (1.34%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Automotive
11 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (48.32%) Spring
2 131 (43.96%) Spring Boot
3 68 (22.82%) Kafka
4 58 (19.46%) REST
5 25 (8.39%) React
6 24 (8.05%) RESTful
7 19 (6.38%) OpenAPI
8 17 (5.70%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.70%) JPA
9 16 (5.37%) Terraform
10 12 (4.03%) JSON
11 11 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.36%) Swagger
13 9 (3.02%) OAuth
13 9 (3.02%) Quarkus
14 8 (2.68%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.68%) Node.js
14 8 (2.68%) Spring MVC
15 6 (2.01%) GraphQL
16 5 (1.68%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 65 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 56 (18.79%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.02%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.34%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.01%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.04%) Linux
2 12 (4.03%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) Android
3 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (52.68%) Software Engineering
2 132 (44.30%) CI/CD
3 111 (37.25%) Agile
4 99 (33.22%) Microservices
5 68 (22.82%) DevOps
5 68 (22.82%) Test Automation
6 56 (18.79%) Event-Driven
7 44 (14.77%) AI
7 44 (14.77%) TDD
8 39 (13.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 37 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (12.42%) Scrum
9 37 (12.42%) SDLC
10 33 (11.07%) Clean Code
10 33 (11.07%) Observability
11 31 (10.40%) Containerisation
11 31 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (10.07%) Front End Development
13 28 (9.40%) Unit Testing
14 25 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 298 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (21.81%) SQL
3 33 (11.07%) Python
4 29 (9.73%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.40%) Kotlin
6 23 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.04%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.34%) C#
8 4 (1.34%) Groovy
8 4 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.01%) Bash
9 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.01%) Ruby
10 2 (0.67%) C++
10 2 (0.67%) Solidity
10 2 (0.67%) Swift
11 1 (0.34%) Go
11 1 (0.34%) Korn
11 1 (0.34%) Rust
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.68%) Degree
5 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.09%) QA
2 8 (2.68%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) SEPA
4 3 (1.01%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) ISO 15022
4 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.01%) SLA
4 3 (1.01%) WCAG
5 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (23.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 97 (32.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.03%) Argo
2 12 (4.03%) Kibana
3 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 27 (9.06%) Oracle
2 9 (3.02%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.68%) Confluent
4 5 (1.68%) Databricks
4 5 (1.68%) Google
4 5 (1.68%) Splunk
5 4 (1.34%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.34%) SAP
6 3 (1.01%) FIS
6 3 (1.01%) IBM
7 2 (0.67%) MKS
7 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Ariba
8 1 (0.34%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.34%) Concur
535 Java Engineer jobs in England