Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £586, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 323 463
Rank change year-on-year -66 +140 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 165 193 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.62% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.67% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 136 92
10th Percentile £361 £475 £401
25th Percentile £448 £536 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £738 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% +22.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £727
90th Percentile - £888 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 3
10th Percentile £41.75 £45.70 £55.75
25th Percentile £44.00 £66.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -4.73%
75th Percentile £87.50 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £75.25
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -4.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,257 28,735 37,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.01% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,480 17,554 25,817
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 1,077 1,437
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.22 £15.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +60.48%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -23 127 £625 -21.88% 111
North of England -30 14 £488 -11.36% 23
Midlands -19 13 £430 -32.55% 7
West Midlands -18 11 £440 -43.23% 4
South East +4 7 £370 -26.00% 26
North West -21 5 £353 -35.91% 13
Yorkshire -33 5 £350 -32.04% 7
North East - 4 £575 - 3
East Midlands -14 2 £314 -41.63% 3
South West -15 2 £550 -2.44% 12
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, 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.

1 165 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (61.82%) AWS
3 92 (55.76%) Software Engineering
4 80 (48.48%) Agile
5 62 (37.58%) Python
6 59 (35.76%) TypeScript
7 54 (32.73%) JavaScript
8 52 (31.52%) Spring
9 51 (30.91%) Microservices
10 50 (30.30%) CI/CD
11 42 (25.45%) Investment Management
12 39 (23.64%) Apache Airflow
13 38 (23.03%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (23.03%) Apache
13 38 (23.03%) Apache Arrow
13 38 (23.03%) Apache Iceberg
13 38 (23.03%) Asset Management
13 38 (23.03%) dbt
13 38 (23.03%) Dremio
13 38 (23.03%) NumPy
13 38 (23.03%) Pandas
13 38 (23.03%) SciPy
14 37 (22.42%) Data Lake
15 35 (21.21%) gRPC
15 35 (21.21%) Snowflake
16 34 (20.61%) Apache Ignite
16 34 (20.61%) Protocol Buffers
17 32 (19.39%) Spring Boot
18 29 (17.58%) Docker
19 28 (16.97%) Kubernetes

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 39 (23.64%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (23.03%) Apache
3 5 (3.03%) JBoss
4 4 (2.42%) Confluence
4 4 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 102 (61.82%) AWS
2 38 (23.03%) dbt
3 35 (21.21%) Snowflake
4 27 (16.36%) Azure
5 17 (10.30%) GCP
6 15 (9.09%) GitHub
7 9 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.64%) Serverless
11 5 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.82%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.82%) Datadog
12 3 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) AMQP
2 1 (0.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) FTP
2 1 (0.61%) SSL
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (23.03%) Amazon Athena
1 38 (23.03%) Apache Arrow
1 38 (23.03%) Apache Iceberg
1 38 (23.03%) Dremio
2 37 (22.42%) Data Lake
3 34 (20.61%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (9.70%) MySQL
6 12 (7.27%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (4.85%) Big Data
8 8 (4.85%) Hadoop
9 7 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.64%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.03%) HPCC
11 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.82%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.82%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (12.73%) Git
2 17 (10.30%) JUnit
3 16 (9.70%) Cucumber
4 14 (8.48%) Jenkins
5 13 (7.88%) GitLab
6 11 (6.67%) Gradle
7 10 (6.06%) Maven
8 8 (4.85%) Selenium
9 7 (4.24%) JMeter
10 6 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (3.03%) IntelliJ
11 5 (3.03%) Postman
12 4 (2.42%) Eclipse
12 4 (2.42%) JIRA
13 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.82%) Gatling
14 2 (1.21%) REST Assured
14 2 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 2 (1.21%) XCUITest
General
1 78 (47.27%) Finance
2 47 (28.48%) Banking
3 45 (27.27%) Front Office
4 39 (23.64%) Investment Banking
5 29 (17.58%) Social Skills
6 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Back Office
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (31.52%) Spring
2 38 (23.03%) NumPy
2 38 (23.03%) Pandas
2 38 (23.03%) SciPy
3 35 (21.21%) gRPC
4 34 (20.61%) Protocol Buffers
5 32 (19.39%) Spring Boot
6 27 (16.36%) Kafka
7 23 (13.94%) React
8 20 (12.12%) REST
9 17 (10.30%) AngularJS
10 16 (9.70%) Node.js
11 13 (7.88%) HTML
12 12 (7.27%) Hibernate
13 11 (6.67%) JSON
13 11 (6.67%) RESTful
14 10 (6.06%) GraphQL
14 10 (6.06%) XML
15 6 (3.64%) J2EE
15 6 (3.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.45%) Fixed Income
1 42 (25.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (24.24%) Equities
3 36 (21.82%) Derivative
4 34 (20.61%) Hedge funds
4 34 (20.61%) Pricing Data
5 20 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (9.70%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.45%) Onboarding
8 7 (4.24%) Mobile App
9 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.42%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.82%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.27%) Unix
2 11 (6.67%) Linux
3 6 (3.64%) Windows
4 2 (1.21%) CentOS
4 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (55.76%) Software Engineering
2 80 (48.48%) Agile
3 51 (30.91%) Microservices
4 50 (30.30%) CI/CD
5 42 (25.45%) Investment Management
6 38 (23.03%) Asset Management
7 26 (15.76%) DevOps
7 26 (15.76%) Test Automation
8 23 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (13.33%) TDD
10 20 (12.12%) Fintech
11 19 (11.52%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.70%) Observability
13 14 (8.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (6.67%) API Development
14 11 (6.67%) Code Quality
15 10 (6.06%) Mentoring
15 10 (6.06%) Scrum
16 9 (5.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 165 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (37.58%) Python
3 59 (35.76%) TypeScript
4 54 (32.73%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.55%) SQL
6 11 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 9 (5.45%) C++
8 7 (4.24%) C
9 6 (3.64%) Go
9 6 (3.64%) Scala
10 4 (2.42%) Ruby
11 3 (1.82%) DAML
11 3 (1.82%) PHP
12 2 (1.21%) Bash
12 2 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.21%) Rust
12 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.61%) Ada
13 1 (0.61%) C#
13 1 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.85%) Degree
4 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) OCP
6 2 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.15%) QA
2 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.21%) WCAG
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (17.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.06%) Terraform
3 9 (5.45%) Ansible
4 5 (3.03%) Grafana
4 5 (3.03%) Puppet
5 4 (2.42%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.61%) Argo
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 9 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.85%) Google
3 7 (4.24%) Oracle
4 4 (2.42%) Databricks
4 4 (2.42%) VMware
4 4 (2.42%) webMethods
5 2 (1.21%) IBM
5 2 (1.21%) Splunk
5 2 (1.21%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.61%) Calypso
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco
6 1 (0.61%) Informatica
6 1 (0.61%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.61%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.61%) Solace
6 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.61%) Zoomdata
168 Java Engineer jobs in England