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 17 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 325 290
Rank change year-on-year -26 -35 +169
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 295 193 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.76% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 144 188
10th Percentile £309 £386 £463
25th Percentile £450 £519 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -3.23% +34.78%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £660 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £713
% change year-on-year -16.00% -12.28% +20.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 5 25
10th Percentile £63.20 £38.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 -
90th Percentile £76.00 £84.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +9.38%

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 42,264 25,460 30,800
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.59% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,561 16,436 20,203
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £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 3,196 1,351 1,763
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.15
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.87%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -76 150 £540 -28.00% 120
North of England -17 62 £523 +64.00% 29
North West -16 30 £555 - 17
South East -41 30 £500 - 11
South West -24 21 £563 +2.27% 18
Midlands -34 19 £469 -10.67% 15
Yorkshire -18 18 £500 +56.94% 7
West Midlands -42 15 £470 -11.42% 9
North East - 15 £640 - 5
East of England -12 14 £510 -15.00% 7
East Midlands -14 4 £400 +26.98% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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.

1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 166 (56.27%) Software Engineering
3 114 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 114 (38.64%) Spring
4 108 (36.61%) Spring Boot
5 101 (34.24%) Agile
6 96 (32.54%) AWS
7 93 (31.53%) Microservices
8 88 (29.83%) Kubernetes
9 74 (25.08%) Docker
10 73 (24.75%) Kafka
10 73 (24.75%) Security Cleared
11 68 (23.05%) DevOps
12 66 (22.37%) SC Cleared
13 60 (20.34%) SQL
14 54 (18.31%) Test Automation
15 45 (15.25%) Event-Driven
16 44 (14.92%) Azure
17 42 (14.24%) Full-Stack Development
18 41 (13.90%) REST
19 36 (12.20%) Containerisation
19 36 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
20 35 (11.86%) Git
20 35 (11.86%) TDD
21 34 (11.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
21 34 (11.53%) QA
22 33 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
22 33 (11.19%) Python
22 33 (11.19%) SDLC
23 31 (10.51%) 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 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.37%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.69%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (32.54%) AWS
2 44 (14.92%) Azure
3 23 (7.80%) GCP
4 21 (7.12%) GitHub
5 18 (6.10%) OpenShift
6 17 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.39%) Serverless
8 9 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.36%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.02%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.02%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.68%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.71%) Firewall
1 8 (2.71%) VPN
2 4 (1.36%) HTTP
2 4 (1.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.10%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.10%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.07%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.73%) MySQL
5 10 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.37%) Couchbase
6 7 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.69%) Redis
9 4 (1.36%) Big Data
9 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.02%) Power BI
11 2 (0.68%) Flink
11 2 (0.68%) HBase
11 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (11.86%) Git
2 31 (10.51%) JUnit
3 25 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.46%) GitLab
5 17 (5.76%) SonarQube
6 15 (5.08%) Maven
7 14 (4.75%) Gradle
8 13 (4.41%) Mockito
9 8 (2.71%) JIRA
10 7 (2.37%) Liquibase
11 6 (2.03%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.69%) Selenium
13 4 (1.36%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.36%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.02%) XCUITest
15 2 (0.68%) Appium
15 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.68%) Flyway
15 2 (0.68%) Gatling
General
1 85 (28.81%) Finance
2 50 (16.95%) Banking
3 36 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 15 (5.08%) Front Office
5 11 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.39%) Law
7 9 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.05%) Retail
8 7 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.36%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Automotive
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (38.64%) Spring
2 108 (36.61%) Spring Boot
3 73 (24.75%) Kafka
4 41 (13.90%) REST
5 31 (10.51%) React
6 21 (7.12%) RESTful
7 20 (6.78%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.76%) Quarkus
9 13 (4.41%) Node.js
10 10 (3.39%) GraphQL
10 10 (3.39%) Middleware
11 9 (3.05%) OpenAPI
12 8 (2.71%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.71%) Swagger
13 6 (2.03%) Hibernate
13 6 (2.03%) JPA
13 6 (2.03%) JSON
13 6 (2.03%) OAuth
13 6 (2.03%) Spring MVC
14 5 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 45 (15.25%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.36%) TWAP
8 4 (1.36%) VWAP
9 3 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.44%) Linux
2 10 (3.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) Android
3 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Solaris
4 1 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (56.27%) Software Engineering
2 114 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 101 (34.24%) Agile
4 93 (31.53%) Microservices
5 68 (23.05%) DevOps
6 54 (18.31%) Test Automation
7 45 (15.25%) Event-Driven
8 42 (14.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (12.20%) Containerisation
9 36 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.86%) TDD
11 34 (11.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 33 (11.19%) SDLC
13 30 (10.17%) Unit Testing
14 29 (9.83%) AI
15 28 (9.49%) Scrum
16 25 (8.47%) Clean Code
16 25 (8.47%) Observability
17 23 (7.80%) Code Quality
18 22 (7.46%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (20.34%) SQL
3 33 (11.19%) Python
4 24 (8.14%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.44%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.37%) Ada
9 5 (1.69%) C++
9 5 (1.69%) Go
10 4 (1.36%) Groovy
10 4 (1.36%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.02%) C#
11 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.68%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) Swift
13 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 73 (24.75%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.05%) Degree
5 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.53%) QA
2 9 (3.05%) ISO 20022
3 7 (2.37%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.37%) IEC 61508
4 6 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.69%) GDPR
5 5 (1.69%) SEPA
6 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.02%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 74 (25.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.34%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (29.83%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.76%) Terraform
3 16 (5.42%) Argo
4 4 (1.36%) Ansible
4 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.02%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (7.12%) Oracle
2 15 (5.08%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.41%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.39%) Google
5 5 (1.69%) Confluent
5 5 (1.69%) IBM
5 5 (1.69%) SAP
5 5 (1.69%) Splunk
6 4 (1.36%) Databricks
7 3 (1.02%) FIS
8 2 (0.68%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.68%) MKS
8 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) Solace
9 1 (0.34%) Ariba
9 1 (0.34%) Concur
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.34%) Veracode
9 1 (0.34%) VMware
191 Java Engineer jobs in England