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 14 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 357 303
Rank change year-on-year -4 -54 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 309 167 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.59% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.65% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 135 164
10th Percentile £360 £363 £463
25th Percentile £425 £514 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -21.88% +34.45%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £660 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £715
% change year-on-year -12.50% -16.08% +19.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 27
10th Percentile - £40.25 £64.75
25th Percentile £70.00 £44.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76.75 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%

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 43,082 25,631 29,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 91.12% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,349 16,509 18,162
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,775 1,440 1,248
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.23% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.84% -39.05% -8.30%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -93 144 £513 -31.67% 252
North of England -9 74 £500 -13.04% 70
Midlands -6 54 £555 +5.71% 16
West Midlands -4 48 £565 +7.11% 12
North West -7 48 £554 +81.48% 48
South East -47 20 £500 +38.89% 18
East of England -11 18 £600 - 10
Yorkshire -20 16 £470 +47.52% 12
North East -35 10 £640 +11.30% 10
East Midlands -14 6 £400 +26.98% 4
South West -31 6 £484 -12.05% 29
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 309 (100.00%) Java
2 159 (51.46%) Software Engineering
3 147 (47.57%) Spring
4 139 (44.98%) CI/CD
5 135 (43.69%) Spring Boot
6 122 (39.48%) Agile
7 118 (38.19%) AWS
8 107 (34.63%) Microservices
9 106 (34.30%) Kubernetes
10 74 (23.95%) Test Automation
11 73 (23.62%) DevOps
12 71 (22.98%) Docker
12 71 (22.98%) Kafka
13 69 (22.33%) SQL
14 66 (21.36%) Security Cleared
15 64 (20.71%) REST
16 60 (19.42%) SC Cleared
17 57 (18.45%) Event-Driven
18 47 (15.21%) AI
18 47 (15.21%) Git
19 46 (14.89%) TDD
20 45 (14.56%) Azure
21 43 (13.92%) GitLab
22 42 (13.59%) JUnit
22 42 (13.59%) QA
23 41 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
24 40 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
25 39 (12.62%) Observability
26 38 (12.30%) Scrum
27 37 (11.97%) Clean Code

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 (2.59%) Apache
2 7 (2.27%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.97%) Confluence
6 2 (0.65%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (38.19%) AWS
2 45 (14.56%) Azure
3 27 (8.74%) GCP
4 20 (6.47%) GitHub
5 16 (5.18%) Serverless
6 15 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.21%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.29%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.56%) Firewall
1 11 (3.56%) VPN
2 5 (1.62%) HTTP
3 4 (1.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.41%) Relational Database
3 22 (7.12%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.50%) MySQL
5 15 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.59%) Couchbase
8 6 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.94%) Power BI
8 6 (1.94%) Redis
9 4 (1.29%) Flink
10 3 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.97%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.97%) Pentaho
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) HBase
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.21%) Git
2 43 (13.92%) GitLab
3 42 (13.59%) JUnit
4 29 (9.39%) Maven
5 21 (6.80%) Mockito
6 16 (5.18%) Gradle
6 16 (5.18%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.88%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.59%) JIRA
9 8 (2.59%) Selenium
10 6 (1.94%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.62%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.29%) Gatling
12 4 (1.29%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.97%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.97%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.65%) Appium
14 2 (0.65%) Flyway
General
1 81 (26.21%) Finance
2 66 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 56 (18.12%) Banking
4 13 (4.21%) Manufacturing
5 12 (3.88%) Retail
6 9 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.59%) Front Office
8 5 (1.62%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.29%) iGaming
9 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.29%) Law
9 4 (1.29%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Automotive
11 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Military
12 1 (0.32%) Back Office
12 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (47.57%) Spring
2 135 (43.69%) Spring Boot
3 71 (22.98%) Kafka
4 64 (20.71%) REST
5 29 (9.39%) React
6 26 (8.41%) RESTful
7 19 (6.15%) OpenAPI
8 18 (5.83%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.83%) JPA
9 17 (5.50%) Terraform
10 14 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (3.56%) GraphQL
11 11 (3.56%) JSON
12 10 (3.24%) Swagger
13 9 (2.91%) Hibernate
13 9 (2.91%) OAuth
13 9 (2.91%) Quarkus
14 8 (2.59%) Node.js
14 8 (2.59%) Spring MVC
15 7 (2.27%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (22.01%) Cloud Native
2 61 (19.74%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (3.24%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.29%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.97%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.83%) Linux
2 12 (3.88%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Android
3 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (51.46%) Software Engineering
2 139 (44.98%) CI/CD
3 122 (39.48%) Agile
4 107 (34.63%) Microservices
5 74 (23.95%) Test Automation
6 73 (23.62%) DevOps
7 57 (18.45%) Event-Driven
8 47 (15.21%) AI
9 46 (14.89%) TDD
10 41 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 39 (12.62%) Observability
13 38 (12.30%) Scrum
14 37 (11.97%) Clean Code
14 37 (11.97%) SDLC
15 35 (11.33%) Containerisation
15 35 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 32 (10.36%) Front End Development
17 28 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (9.06%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 309 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (22.33%) SQL
3 33 (10.68%) Python
4 32 (10.36%) JavaScript
5 31 (10.03%) Kotlin
6 26 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.83%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.29%) C#
8 4 (1.29%) Groovy
8 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.97%) Bash
9 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.97%) Ruby
9 3 (0.97%) Scala
10 2 (0.65%) C++
10 2 (0.65%) Solidity
10 2 (0.65%) Swift
11 1 (0.32%) Go
11 1 (0.32%) Korn
11 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.56%) Degree
5 8 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.59%) QA
2 8 (2.59%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.29%) SEPA
5 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.97%) GDPR
5 3 (0.97%) ISO 15022
5 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.97%) SLA
5 3 (0.97%) WCAG
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (22.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 106 (34.30%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.88%) Argo
2 12 (3.88%) Kibana
3 8 (2.59%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.94%) Grafana
5 3 (0.97%) Ansible
6 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.32%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 31 (10.03%) Oracle
2 9 (2.91%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.27%) SAP
5 6 (1.94%) Databricks
5 6 (1.94%) Splunk
6 5 (1.62%) Google
7 4 (1.29%) Confluent
7 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.97%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.97%) FIS
8 3 (0.97%) IBM
9 2 (0.65%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.32%) Ariba
10 1 (0.32%) Concur
10 1 (0.32%) MKS
424 Java Engineer jobs in England