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 24 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 323 388
Rank change year-on-year -6 +65 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 271 162 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.66% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.71% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 101 117
10th Percentile £375 £400 £424
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £875 £788
90th Percentile £679 - £888
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 8 5
10th Percentile - £50.75 £66.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.31 £67.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £69.38 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - £71.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.87%

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 36,696 22,801 34,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.69% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,998 15,199 22,979
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 888 2,404
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.14% -9.26% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £29.23 £35.50
% change year-on-year +45.40% -17.66% -21.11%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -52 130 £550 -26.67% 48
North of England -26 53 £500 -4.76% 11
South West -17 28 £488 -6.02% 5
Midlands -33 27 £465 -11.52%
West Midlands -34 26 £465 -11.52%
South East -40 26 £488 -25.00% 16
North West -20 25 £501 - 10
Yorkshire -36 18 £523 -18.04%
North East -5 11 £425 +8.97% 1
East of England -36 3 £535 -10.83%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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.

1 271 (100.00%) Java
2 140 (51.66%) Software Engineering
3 100 (36.90%) Spring
4 89 (32.84%) Spring Boot
5 83 (30.63%) Kubernetes
6 79 (29.15%) Microservices
7 75 (27.68%) AWS
8 71 (26.20%) Agile
9 67 (24.72%) CI/CD
10 56 (20.66%) Docker
10 56 (20.66%) Security Cleared
11 52 (19.19%) Kafka
12 51 (18.82%) DevOps
13 50 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 50 (18.45%) SC Cleared
14 42 (15.50%) TDD
15 39 (14.39%) SQL
16 36 (13.28%) Python
17 35 (12.92%) React
18 33 (12.18%) Containerisation
19 31 (11.44%) QA
20 30 (11.07%) Test Automation
21 29 (10.70%) Event-Driven
21 29 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
21 29 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
22 28 (10.33%) Gradle
23 25 (9.23%) Git
24 24 (8.86%) Scrum
25 23 (8.49%) Azure
26 22 (8.12%) GitLab

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 (2.95%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.21%) Apache
3 4 (1.48%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.11%) JBoss
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.74%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (27.68%) AWS
2 23 (8.49%) Azure
3 19 (7.01%) Serverless
4 18 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (5.90%) Amazon S3
5 16 (5.90%) GCP
5 16 (5.90%) GitHub
6 13 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (4.06%) OpenShift
8 9 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.11%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.11%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) HTTP
2 3 (1.11%) MQTT
3 1 (0.37%) FTP
3 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.12%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.95%) Big Data
3 8 (2.95%) DynamoDB
3 8 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.58%) MySQL
5 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.11%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.11%) HBase
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.74%) Redis
9 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (10.33%) Gradle
2 25 (9.23%) Git
3 22 (8.12%) GitLab
4 21 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.75%) JUnit
5 18 (6.64%) IntelliJ
6 13 (4.80%) Maven
7 11 (4.06%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.32%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.58%) Selenium
10 5 (1.85%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.85%) JIRA
10 5 (1.85%) Mockito
11 4 (1.48%) Postman
11 4 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.11%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.11%) Gatling
12 3 (1.11%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.74%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (19.56%) Finance
2 29 (10.70%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.12%) Banking
4 17 (6.27%) Front Office
5 14 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.95%) Law
7 5 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Back Office
9 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Automotive
10 2 (0.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) French Language
11 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (36.90%) Spring
2 89 (32.84%) Spring Boot
3 52 (19.19%) Kafka
4 35 (12.92%) React
5 21 (7.75%) RESTful
6 20 (7.38%) REST
7 18 (6.64%) GraphQL
8 17 (6.27%) Node.js
9 16 (5.90%) Middleware
10 15 (5.54%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.80%) Swagger
12 12 (4.43%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (4.06%) Quarkus
14 9 (3.32%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.32%) Redux
15 8 (2.95%) JSON
15 8 (2.95%) OpenAPI
16 6 (2.21%) XML
17 5 (1.85%) HTML
17 5 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.95%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.11%) Derivative
9 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.11%) TWAP
9 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.11%) VWAP
10 2 (0.74%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.64%) Linux
2 8 (2.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Solaris
3 1 (0.37%) SUSE
3 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.37%) VMS
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (51.66%) Software Engineering
2 79 (29.15%) Microservices
3 71 (26.20%) Agile
4 67 (24.72%) CI/CD
5 51 (18.82%) DevOps
6 50 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 42 (15.50%) TDD
8 33 (12.18%) Containerisation
9 30 (11.07%) Test Automation
10 29 (10.70%) Event-Driven
10 29 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (8.86%) Scrum
12 21 (7.75%) Unit Testing
13 20 (7.38%) Clean Code
14 19 (7.01%) Code Quality
15 18 (6.64%) Software Testing
16 16 (5.90%) Migration
17 15 (5.54%) Front End Development
17 15 (5.54%) SDLC
18 14 (5.17%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 271 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (14.39%) SQL
3 36 (13.28%) Python
4 21 (7.75%) TypeScript
5 16 (5.90%) Kotlin
6 14 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.80%) Go
8 11 (4.06%) Ada
9 6 (2.21%) Scala
10 5 (1.85%) C++
11 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) C#
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) Solidity
13 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.32%) Degree
4 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.11%) OCP
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.44%) QA
2 11 (4.06%) Def Stans
2 11 (4.06%) IEC 61508
3 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (20.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.90%) Grafana
3 12 (4.43%) Terraform
4 9 (3.32%) Argo
5 5 (1.85%) Ansible
6 3 (1.11%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (4.06%) Google
1 11 (4.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.32%) Oracle
2 9 (3.32%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.21%) Splunk
4 5 (1.85%) IBM
5 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.11%) Solace
5 3 (1.11%) webMethods
6 2 (0.74%) Checkmarx
6 2 (0.74%) Confluent
6 2 (0.74%) Databricks
6 2 (0.74%) MKS
6 2 (0.74%) New Relic
7 1 (0.37%) Actian
7 1 (0.37%) Netlify
7 1 (0.37%) Sonatype
7 1 (0.37%) Spotify
7 1 (0.37%) Veracode
69 Java Engineer jobs in England