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 4 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 323 283
Rank change year-on-year -18 -40 +169
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 303 191 263
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.70% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.77% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 140 191
10th Percentile £345 £398 £475
25th Percentile £425 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £800
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -15.63% +39.13%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £650 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £601 £738
% change year-on-year -12.65% -18.51% +23.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 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 42,168 24,883 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.42% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,332 16,051 19,383
10th Percentile £325 £281 £304
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% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,270 1,335 1,579
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.52 £14.28
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.23
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -96 146 £525 -30.00% 268
North of England -14 71 £500 +60.36% 60
North West -18 36 £550 +80.33% 35
Midlands -23 32 £595 +13.33% 25
South East -53 27 £500 - 17
West Midlands -26 26 £595 +12.26% 15
Yorkshire -22 21 £494 +54.97% 21
East of England -5 18 £570 -5.00% 4
North East - 14 £640 - 4
South West -36 12 £463 -15.91% 43
East Midlands -17 6 £400 +26.98% 10
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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
2 170 (56.11%) Software Engineering
3 129 (42.57%) Spring
4 124 (40.92%) CI/CD
5 121 (39.93%) Spring Boot
6 107 (35.31%) Agile
7 102 (33.66%) AWS
8 99 (32.67%) Microservices
9 94 (31.02%) Kubernetes
10 72 (23.76%) Docker
11 70 (23.10%) DevOps
12 68 (22.44%) Kafka
12 68 (22.44%) Security Cleared
13 65 (21.45%) Test Automation
14 62 (20.46%) SC Cleared
14 62 (20.46%) SQL
15 53 (17.49%) Event-Driven
16 46 (15.18%) REST
17 41 (13.53%) SDLC
17 41 (13.53%) TDD
18 40 (13.20%) Azure
18 40 (13.20%) QA
19 39 (12.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 39 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
20 37 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
21 36 (11.88%) Git
21 36 (11.88%) JUnit
22 35 (11.55%) Scrum
23 33 (10.89%) AI
23 33 (10.89%) Observability

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%) Apache Spark
1 7 (2.31%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.32%) 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 24 (7.92%) GCP
4 21 (6.93%) GitHub
5 18 (5.94%) OpenShift
6 15 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.29%) Serverless
8 12 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.32%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.99%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.66%) Kong
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 31 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.26%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.29%) MySQL
5 9 (2.97%) DynamoDB
5 9 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.64%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.64%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.98%) Redis
9 5 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
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%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (11.88%) Git
1 36 (11.88%) JUnit
2 26 (8.58%) GitLab
3 21 (6.93%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.60%) Maven
5 18 (5.94%) SonarQube
6 15 (4.95%) Mockito
7 13 (4.29%) Gradle
8 9 (2.97%) JIRA
9 7 (2.31%) Liquibase
10 6 (1.98%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.98%) Selenium
11 4 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.99%) Gatling
12 3 (0.99%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.99%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
13 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (25.74%) Finance
2 51 (16.83%) Banking
3 50 (16.50%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.96%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.30%) Front Office
6 9 (2.97%) Law
6 9 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.97%) Retail
7 7 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.32%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.99%) Automotive
10 3 (0.99%) iGaming
10 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (42.57%) Spring
2 121 (39.93%) Spring Boot
3 68 (22.44%) Kafka
4 46 (15.18%) REST
5 29 (9.57%) React
6 23 (7.59%) RESTful
7 22 (7.26%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.61%) Quarkus
8 17 (5.61%) Terraform
9 15 (4.95%) OpenAPI
10 11 (3.63%) Swagger
11 10 (3.30%) JPA
12 8 (2.64%) Node.js
13 7 (2.31%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.31%) JSON
13 7 (2.31%) OAuth
13 7 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.31%) Spring MVC
14 6 (1.98%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 48 (15.84%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.97%) 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%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
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
10 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
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
1 170 (56.11%) Software Engineering
2 124 (40.92%) CI/CD
3 107 (35.31%) Agile
4 99 (32.67%) Microservices
5 70 (23.10%) DevOps
6 65 (21.45%) Test Automation
7 53 (17.49%) Event-Driven
8 41 (13.53%) SDLC
8 41 (13.53%) TDD
9 39 (12.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 39 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (11.55%) Scrum
12 33 (10.89%) AI
12 33 (10.89%) Observability
13 32 (10.56%) Containerisation
14 30 (9.90%) Unit Testing
15 28 (9.24%) Front End Development
16 26 (8.58%) Clean Code
17 24 (7.92%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 303 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (20.46%) SQL
3 31 (10.23%) Python
4 25 (8.25%) Kotlin
5 23 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.93%) 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 68 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 62 (20.46%) 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 40 (13.20%) QA
2 9 (2.97%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.65%) SEPA
4 4 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.99%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.99%) GDPR
5 3 (0.99%) IEC 61508
5 3 (0.99%) ISO 15022
5 3 (0.99%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) PSD2
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (23.76%) 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 94 (31.02%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.28%) 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 21 (6.93%) 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%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.33%) Veracode
9 1 (0.33%) VMware
418 Java Engineer jobs in England