Java Engineer Contracts in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 372 443
Rank change year-on-year +46 +71 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 159 172 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.50% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 121 172
10th Percentile £400 £425 £438
25th Percentile £513 £500 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% - -
75th Percentile £875 £788 £718
90th Percentile - £888 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 18
10th Percentile £50.75 £67.25 £54.92
25th Percentile £60.31 - £60.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £69.16
90th Percentile - £70.50 £71.71
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +49 111 £750 +5.63% 94
South West +45 13 £519 +15.28% 6
North of England +17 12 £525 +2.44% 36
South East +27 11 £650 +0.39% 45
North West +13 8 - - 23
East of England +24 6 £600 +12.36% 8
Yorkshire +9 3 £638 +50.00% 7
Midlands - 3 £525 - 18
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 15
North East - 1 £390 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 99 (62.26%) Software Engineering
3 81 (50.94%) AWS
4 75 (47.17%) Finance
5 71 (44.65%) Agile
6 47 (29.56%) Banking
6 47 (29.56%) Python
7 42 (26.42%) CI/CD
7 42 (26.42%) Front Office
7 42 (26.42%) Security Cleared
8 40 (25.16%) TypeScript
8 40 (25.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 39 (24.53%) Equities
9 39 (24.53%) DevOps
9 39 (24.53%) Kubernetes
9 39 (24.53%) SC Cleared
10 38 (23.90%) Microservices
10 38 (23.90%) Fixed Income
10 38 (23.90%) Spring
10 38 (23.90%) JavaScript
11 37 (23.27%) Asset Management
11 37 (23.27%) Apache Iceberg
11 37 (23.27%) Apache Airflow
11 37 (23.27%) Amazon Athena
11 37 (23.27%) Apache Arrow
11 37 (23.27%) Dremio
11 37 (23.27%) dbt
12 36 (22.64%) Docker
13 35 (22.01%) Spring Boot
14 34 (21.38%) Investment Banking

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (23.27%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (21.38%) Apache
3 10 (6.29%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.29%) Confluence
4 3 (1.89%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.26%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.63%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.63%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 81 (50.94%) AWS
2 37 (23.27%) dbt
3 32 (20.13%) Snowflake
4 28 (17.61%) GCP
5 23 (14.47%) Azure
6 14 (8.81%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (6.92%) Dagster
9 6 (3.77%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.52%) Datadog
10 4 (2.52%) Slack
11 3 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.89%) Serverless
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.26%) GitHub
12 2 (1.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Network Security
2 3 (1.89%) HTTP
3 2 (1.26%) Firewall
3 2 (1.26%) Multicast
4 1 (0.63%) SSH
4 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.27%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (23.27%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (23.27%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (23.27%) Dremio
2 23 (14.47%) Apache Ignite
2 23 (14.47%) Data Lake
3 22 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.55%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.03%) Big Data
6 6 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.52%) MySQL
8 3 (1.89%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.63%) Impala
10 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (20.13%) Jenkins
2 24 (15.09%) GitLab
3 21 (13.21%) JIRA
4 18 (11.32%) JUnit
5 17 (10.69%) Cucumber
6 12 (7.55%) Gradle
6 12 (7.55%) Mockito
6 12 (7.55%) REST Assured
7 11 (6.92%) Selenium
8 10 (6.29%) Liquibase
9 9 (5.66%) Git
10 7 (4.40%) Maven
11 5 (3.14%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.52%) Jasmine
13 3 (1.89%) Cypress.io
14 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
15 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
15 1 (0.63%) Subversion
15 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 75 (47.17%) Finance
2 47 (29.56%) Banking
3 42 (26.42%) Front Office
4 34 (21.38%) Investment Banking
5 21 (13.21%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.92%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.92%) Telecoms
8 10 (6.29%) Electronics
8 10 (6.29%) Manufacturing
8 10 (6.29%) Marketing
9 8 (5.03%) Retail
10 5 (3.14%) Law
11 4 (2.52%) Police
12 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.63%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (23.90%) Spring
2 35 (22.01%) Spring Boot
3 29 (18.24%) NumPy
3 29 (18.24%) Pandas
3 29 (18.24%) SciPy
4 23 (14.47%) gRPC
4 23 (14.47%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (13.84%) Kafka
6 21 (13.21%) PySpark
6 21 (13.21%) React
7 20 (12.58%) REST
8 17 (10.69%) Swagger
9 14 (8.81%) OpenAPI
10 11 (6.92%) Java EE
10 11 (6.92%) Node.js
11 9 (5.66%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.66%) Middleware
12 8 (5.03%) RESTful
13 6 (3.77%) Vue
14 5 (3.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 39 (24.53%) Equities
3 38 (23.90%) Fixed Income
4 32 (20.13%) Derivative
5 31 (19.50%) Hedge funds
6 12 (7.55%) Pricing Data
7 6 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.52%) Algorithms
9 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Linux
2 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.52%) Android
4 3 (1.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (62.26%) Software Engineering
2 71 (44.65%) Agile
3 42 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 39 (24.53%) DevOps
5 38 (23.90%) Microservices
6 37 (23.27%) Asset Management
7 30 (18.87%) TDD
8 28 (17.61%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (15.72%) Test Automation
10 24 (15.09%) Containerisation
10 24 (15.09%) Migration
11 18 (11.32%) Investment Management
12 16 (10.06%) Fintech
13 15 (9.43%) Computer Science
13 15 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (8.81%) Software Architecture
15 11 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (6.29%) Digital Marketing
16 10 (6.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (29.56%) Python
3 40 (25.16%) TypeScript
4 38 (23.90%) JavaScript
5 33 (20.75%) SQL
6 9 (5.66%) Ada
7 7 (4.40%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.77%) C++
9 5 (3.14%) Bash
9 5 (3.14%) Scala
10 4 (2.52%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.89%) C
11 3 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.63%) DAML
12 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) Degree
4 10 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.14%) PhD
6 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) Def Stans
1 9 (5.66%) IEC 61508
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (22.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.43%) Terraform
3 8 (5.03%) Ansible
4 6 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (3.14%) Grafana
5 5 (3.14%) Podman
5 5 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.26%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (6.29%) SAP
2 7 (4.40%) Oracle
3 3 (1.89%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.89%) Google
3 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.89%) Splunk
4 2 (1.26%) Confluent
5 1 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.63%) Databricks
5 1 (0.63%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.63%) Informatica
5 1 (0.63%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.63%) MKS
5 1 (0.63%) New Relic
5 1 (0.63%) WSO2