Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £524, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 331 283
Rank change year-on-year -22 -48 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 303 190 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.68% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.75% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 140 190
10th Percentile £343 £398 £475
25th Percentile £442 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £675 £800
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% -15.63% +39.13%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £651 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +27.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 25
10th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £66.25
25th Percentile - £49.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £76.00 £85.63 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +27.27%

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 42,748 25,384 30,473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.33% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,582 16,362 19,224
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,383 1,348 1,536
10th Percentile £14.94 £13.62 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -80 147 £525 -30.00% 160
North of England -8 72 £500 +60.36% 43
North West -26 36 £540 +77.05% 24
Midlands -27 34 £575 +9.52% 18
West Midlands -20 28 £585 +10.38% 12
South East -48 26 £500 - 12
Yorkshire -24 22 £488 +53.01% 16
East of England -15 18 £570 -5.00% 2
North East - 14 £640 - 3
South West -34 11 £484 -12.05% 26
East Midlands -13 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 10 September 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.

1 303 (100.00%) Java
2 171 (56.44%) Software Engineering
3 131 (43.23%) Spring
4 126 (41.58%) CI/CD
5 122 (40.26%) Spring Boot
6 105 (34.65%) Agile
7 102 (33.66%) AWS
8 99 (32.67%) Microservices
9 95 (31.35%) Kubernetes
10 73 (24.09%) Docker
11 70 (23.10%) DevOps
11 70 (23.10%) Security Cleared
12 68 (22.44%) Kafka
13 66 (21.78%) Test Automation
14 64 (21.12%) SC Cleared
15 62 (20.46%) SQL
16 53 (17.49%) Event-Driven
17 47 (15.51%) REST
18 43 (14.19%) TDD
19 42 (13.86%) SDLC
20 41 (13.53%) QA
21 40 (13.20%) Azure
22 39 (12.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
23 38 (12.54%) Full-Stack Development
24 37 (12.21%) Git
24 37 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
25 36 (11.88%) JUnit
26 34 (11.22%) AI
26 34 (11.22%) Scrum
27 33 (10.89%) Containerisation

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 (2.31%) WebLogic
2 6 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.99%) Apache
3 3 (0.99%) Confluence
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (33.66%) AWS
2 40 (13.20%) Azure
3 25 (8.25%) GCP
4 21 (6.93%) GitHub
5 18 (5.94%) OpenShift
6 15 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.62%) Serverless
8 13 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (1.32%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.99%) Kong
14 3 (0.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.30%) Firewall
1 10 (3.30%) VPN
2 5 (1.65%) HTTP
3 4 (1.32%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.26%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.94%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.29%) MySQL
5 10 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.97%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.64%) Couchbase
8 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.98%) Redis
10 4 (1.32%) Big Data
11 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.99%) Power BI
12 2 (0.66%) Flink
12 2 (0.66%) HBase
12 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (12.21%) Git
2 36 (11.88%) JUnit
3 27 (8.91%) GitLab
4 22 (7.26%) Jenkins
5 20 (6.60%) Maven
6 18 (5.94%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.95%) Mockito
8 13 (4.29%) Gradle
9 9 (2.97%) JIRA
10 7 (2.31%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.98%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.98%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.98%) Selenium
12 5 (1.65%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.99%) Gatling
13 3 (0.99%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.99%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
General
1 77 (25.41%) Finance
2 53 (17.49%) Banking
2 53 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 12 (3.96%) Front Office
3 12 (3.96%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.30%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.97%) Law
5 9 (2.97%) Retail
6 7 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.99%) Automotive
9 3 (0.99%) iGaming
9 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (43.23%) Spring
2 122 (40.26%) Spring Boot
3 68 (22.44%) Kafka
4 47 (15.51%) REST
5 28 (9.24%) React
6 23 (7.59%) AngularJS
6 23 (7.59%) RESTful
7 17 (5.61%) Quarkus
7 17 (5.61%) Terraform
8 15 (4.95%) OpenAPI
9 11 (3.63%) Swagger
10 10 (3.30%) JPA
11 8 (2.64%) Node.js
12 7 (2.31%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.31%) JSON
12 7 (2.31%) OAuth
12 7 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.31%) Spring MVC
13 6 (1.98%) Middleware
14 5 (1.65%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 49 (16.17%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.31%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.31%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.32%) TWAP
9 4 (1.32%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.28%) Linux
2 9 (2.97%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
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
1 171 (56.44%) Software Engineering
2 126 (41.58%) CI/CD
3 105 (34.65%) Agile
4 99 (32.67%) Microservices
5 70 (23.10%) DevOps
6 66 (21.78%) Test Automation
7 53 (17.49%) Event-Driven
8 43 (14.19%) TDD
9 42 (13.86%) SDLC
10 39 (12.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 38 (12.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (11.22%) AI
13 34 (11.22%) Scrum
14 33 (10.89%) Containerisation
14 33 (10.89%) Observability
15 30 (9.90%) Unit Testing
16 28 (9.24%) Front End Development
17 26 (8.58%) Clean Code
18 24 (7.92%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 303 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (20.46%) SQL
3 30 (9.90%) Python
4 26 (8.58%) Kotlin
5 24 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.26%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.29%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.65%) C++
9 4 (1.32%) C#
9 4 (1.32%) Groovy
9 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.99%) Ada
10 3 (0.99%) Bash
10 3 (0.99%) Ruby
11 2 (0.66%) Scala
11 2 (0.66%) Swift
12 1 (0.33%) Go
12 1 (0.33%) Korn
12 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 70 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.31%) Degree
5 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.53%) QA
2 9 (2.97%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.65%) SEPA
4 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.99%) GDPR
4 3 (0.99%) IEC 61508
4 3 (0.99%) ISO 15022
4 3 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) PSD2
5 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (24.09%) 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 95 (31.35%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.61%) Argo
3 6 (1.98%) Kibana
3 6 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.65%) Ansible
5 3 (0.99%) Grafana
5 3 (0.99%) HAProxy
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 23 (7.59%) Oracle
2 15 (4.95%) Red Hat
3 11 (3.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.64%) Google
5 5 (1.65%) Confluent
5 5 (1.65%) IBM
5 5 (1.65%) Splunk
6 4 (1.32%) Databricks
6 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.32%) SAP
7 3 (0.99%) FIS
8 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.66%) MKS
8 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.33%) Ariba
9 1 (0.33%) Concur
9 1 (0.33%) Solace
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.33%) VMware
266 Java Engineer jobs in England