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 18 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
18 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 314 301
Rank change year-on-year -20 -13 +174
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 306 192 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.71% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.77% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 140 193
10th Percentile £350 £399 £450
25th Percentile £425 £514 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £710
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +5.63% +18.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £671 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £528 £648 £638
% change year-on-year -18.60% +1.65% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 26
10th Percentile £64.70 £39.50 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.28%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile £76.10 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% -1.79% +7.28%

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 41,608 25,011 33,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.87% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,417 16,274 22,046
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,980 1,235 2,309
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.37 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -54 159 £535 -28.67% 51
North of England -29 59 £523 +33.97% 8
South East -33 33 £500 -23.08% 17
South West -18 26 £505 -6.05% 5
North West -35 24 £550 - 6
Yorkshire - 19 £500 - 2
Midlands -43 18 £477 -9.24% 4
North East -17 17 £533 +36.54%
West Midlands -48 16 £483 -8.87% 3
East of England -12 13 £538 -10.42%
East Midlands -12 2 £400 +26.98% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 306 (100.00%) Java
2 167 (54.58%) Software Engineering
3 113 (36.93%) Spring
4 103 (33.66%) Spring Boot
5 96 (31.37%) Agile
6 95 (31.05%) CI/CD
7 90 (29.41%) AWS
8 84 (27.45%) Microservices
9 83 (27.12%) Kubernetes
10 72 (23.53%) Security Cleared
11 71 (23.20%) Kafka
12 69 (22.55%) Docker
13 64 (20.92%) SC Cleared
14 60 (19.61%) DevOps
15 51 (16.67%) SQL
16 50 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
17 48 (15.69%) Test Automation
18 41 (13.40%) React
19 39 (12.75%) TDD
20 38 (12.42%) Event-Driven
21 36 (11.76%) Azure
22 35 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
22 35 (11.44%) QA
23 33 (10.78%) Python
23 33 (10.78%) REST
24 31 (10.13%) Containerisation
24 31 (10.13%) Git
24 31 (10.13%) JUnit
24 31 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
25 30 (9.80%) Scrum

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 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.98%) Apache
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (0.98%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.65%) Confluence
3 2 (0.65%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (29.41%) AWS
2 36 (11.76%) Azure
3 25 (8.17%) GCP
4 21 (6.86%) GitHub
4 21 (6.86%) OpenShift
5 17 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (3.92%) Serverless
7 11 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.61%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.31%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.98%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.65%) dbt
12 2 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.29%) Firewall
1 7 (2.29%) VPN
2 6 (1.96%) HTTP
3 4 (1.31%) Internet
4 3 (0.98%) MQTT
5 1 (0.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.58%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.25%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.27%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.27%) MySQL
7 8 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.96%) Big Data
9 6 (1.96%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.31%) Redis
10 4 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.98%) Power BI
12 2 (0.65%) HBase
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (10.13%) Git
1 31 (10.13%) JUnit
2 27 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 16 (5.23%) Gradle
5 12 (3.92%) GitLab
5 12 (3.92%) Maven
6 10 (3.27%) JIRA
6 10 (3.27%) Mockito
7 7 (2.29%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.96%) Selenium
9 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.31%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.98%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.65%) Appium
11 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.65%) Gatling
11 2 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 84 (27.45%) Finance
2 48 (15.69%) Banking
3 29 (9.48%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.21%) Front Office
5 13 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.27%) Law
7 9 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.94%) Retail
8 6 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.98%) Automotive
10 3 (0.98%) Back Office
10 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.98%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) French Language
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (36.93%) Spring
2 103 (33.66%) Spring Boot
3 71 (23.20%) Kafka
4 41 (13.40%) React
5 33 (10.78%) REST
6 22 (7.19%) AngularJS
7 18 (5.88%) Node.js
7 18 (5.88%) Quarkus
7 18 (5.88%) RESTful
8 16 (5.23%) GraphQL
9 12 (3.92%) Middleware
10 9 (2.94%) Hibernate
11 8 (2.61%) OpenAPI
11 8 (2.61%) Redux
11 8 (2.61%) Swagger
12 7 (2.29%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.96%) JPA
14 5 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (1.63%) OAuth
14 5 (1.63%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.99%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.61%) Fixed Income
3 8 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.31%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.31%) TWAP
6 4 (1.31%) VWAP
7 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.86%) Linux
2 8 (2.61%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Android
3 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
4 1 (0.33%) SUSE
4 1 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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
1 167 (54.58%) Software Engineering
2 96 (31.37%) Agile
3 95 (31.05%) CI/CD
4 84 (27.45%) Microservices
5 60 (19.61%) DevOps
6 50 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 48 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 39 (12.75%) TDD
9 38 (12.42%) Event-Driven
10 35 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (10.13%) Containerisation
12 30 (9.80%) Scrum
13 28 (9.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 28 (9.15%) Unit Testing
14 27 (8.82%) SDLC
15 23 (7.52%) AI
15 23 (7.52%) Front End Development
16 22 (7.19%) Clean Code
16 22 (7.19%) Code Quality
17 21 (6.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 306 (100.00%) Java
2 51 (16.67%) SQL
3 33 (10.78%) Python
4 29 (9.48%) TypeScript
5 21 (6.86%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.21%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.27%) Go
8 7 (2.29%) Ada
9 6 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.31%) C#
10 4 (1.31%) Groovy
11 3 (0.98%) C++
12 2 (0.65%) Scala
12 2 (0.65%) Swift
13 1 (0.33%) Korn
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
13 1 (0.33%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 72 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.61%) Degree
4 6 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.44%) QA
2 8 (2.61%) ISO 20022
3 7 (2.29%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.29%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.63%) GDPR
5 5 (1.63%) SEPA
6 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 69 (22.55%) 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 83 (27.12%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.23%) Argo
3 14 (4.58%) Terraform
4 4 (1.31%) Ansible
5 3 (0.98%) Grafana
5 3 (0.98%) HAProxy
5 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (5.88%) Oracle
2 16 (5.23%) Red Hat
3 12 (3.92%) Google
3 12 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.96%) Splunk
5 5 (1.63%) IBM
6 4 (1.31%) SAP
7 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.65%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.65%) Confluent
8 2 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.65%) MKS
8 2 (0.65%) Solace
9 1 (0.33%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.33%) Ariba
9 1 (0.33%) Concur
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.33%) Teradata
9 1 (0.33%) Veracode
9 1 (0.33%) VMware
71 Java Engineer jobs in England