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 8 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 348 304
Rank change year-on-year +7 -44 +154
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 305 174 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.62% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 139 165
10th Percentile £346 £363 £463
25th Percentile £425 £518 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -21.88% +33.33%
75th Percentile £606 £825 £850
90th Percentile £666 £850 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 27
10th Percentile - £39.50 £64.75
25th Percentile £70.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +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 42,578 25,492 30,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,092 16,398 18,391
10th Percentile £325 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
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% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,683 1,411 1,311
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.63
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.82% -4.49%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -79 146 £525 -30.00% 306
North of England 0 71 £500 -13.04% 72
Midlands -10 48 £590 +12.38% 19
North West -3 46 £550 +80.33% 49
West Midlands -8 42 £593 +12.32% 13
South East -48 20 £500 +44.93% 19
East of England -18 19 £600 - 6
Yorkshire -22 15 £470 +47.52% 12
North East -32 10 £640 +11.30% 11
South West -34 7 £484 -12.05% 41
East Midlands -9 6 £400 +26.98% 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 305 (100.00%) Java
2 159 (52.13%) Software Engineering
3 150 (49.18%) Spring
4 138 (45.25%) CI/CD
5 137 (44.92%) Spring Boot
6 118 (38.69%) Agile
7 116 (38.03%) AWS
8 105 (34.43%) Microservices
9 102 (33.44%) Kubernetes
10 72 (23.61%) Kafka
11 71 (23.28%) Docker
11 71 (23.28%) Test Automation
12 69 (22.62%) SQL
13 68 (22.30%) DevOps
14 64 (20.98%) Security Cleared
15 63 (20.66%) REST
16 58 (19.02%) Event-Driven
17 57 (18.69%) SC Cleared
18 46 (15.08%) AI
18 46 (15.08%) Git
19 45 (14.75%) Azure
19 45 (14.75%) TDD
20 43 (14.10%) JUnit
21 42 (13.77%) QA
22 41 (13.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
23 40 (13.11%) GitLab
24 39 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
25 38 (12.46%) Observability
25 38 (12.46%) Scrum
25 38 (12.46%) SDLC

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 (2.30%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.64%) Apache
2 5 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.66%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.33%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (38.03%) AWS
2 45 (14.75%) Azure
3 28 (9.18%) GCP
4 21 (6.89%) GitHub
5 16 (5.25%) Serverless
6 15 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 9 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (1.64%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.31%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.31%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.61%) Firewall
1 11 (3.61%) VPN
2 5 (1.64%) HTTP
3 4 (1.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.52%) Relational Database
3 21 (6.89%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.59%) MySQL
5 12 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.95%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.95%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.62%) Couchbase
8 7 (2.30%) Redis
9 6 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.31%) Flink
11 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.98%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.98%) Power BI
12 2 (0.66%) Big Data
12 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.66%) HBase
12 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (15.08%) Git
2 43 (14.10%) JUnit
3 40 (13.11%) GitLab
4 29 (9.51%) Maven
5 21 (6.89%) Mockito
6 16 (5.25%) Jenkins
7 14 (4.59%) Gradle
8 13 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.28%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.62%) JIRA
10 8 (2.62%) Selenium
11 6 (1.97%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.64%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.31%) Gatling
13 4 (1.31%) Liquibase
14 3 (0.98%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
15 2 (0.66%) Appium
15 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
General
1 80 (26.23%) Finance
2 64 (20.98%) Social Skills
3 56 (18.36%) Banking
4 13 (4.26%) Manufacturing
5 12 (3.93%) Retail
6 10 (3.28%) Front Office
7 9 (2.95%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.31%) iGaming
10 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.31%) Law
10 4 (1.31%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.98%) Automotive
11 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (49.18%) Spring
2 137 (44.92%) Spring Boot
3 72 (23.61%) Kafka
4 63 (20.66%) REST
5 27 (8.85%) React
6 24 (7.87%) RESTful
7 19 (6.23%) OpenAPI
8 18 (5.90%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.90%) JPA
9 17 (5.57%) Terraform
10 12 (3.93%) JSON
11 11 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.28%) Swagger
13 9 (2.95%) Hibernate
13 9 (2.95%) OAuth
13 9 (2.95%) Quarkus
14 8 (2.62%) GraphQL
14 8 (2.62%) Node.js
14 8 (2.62%) Spring MVC
15 7 (2.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.64%) Cloud Native
2 59 (19.34%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.95%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.31%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.98%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.90%) Linux
2 12 (3.93%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (52.13%) Software Engineering
2 138 (45.25%) CI/CD
3 118 (38.69%) Agile
4 105 (34.43%) Microservices
5 71 (23.28%) Test Automation
6 68 (22.30%) DevOps
7 58 (19.02%) Event-Driven
8 46 (15.08%) AI
9 45 (14.75%) TDD
10 41 (13.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 39 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (12.46%) Observability
12 38 (12.46%) Scrum
12 38 (12.46%) SDLC
13 35 (11.48%) Clean Code
14 33 (10.82%) Containerisation
14 33 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (9.84%) Front End Development
16 28 (9.18%) Unit Testing
17 26 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 305 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (22.62%) SQL
3 33 (10.82%) Python
4 30 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.18%) Kotlin
6 23 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.90%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.31%) C#
8 4 (1.31%) Groovy
8 4 (1.31%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.98%) Bash
9 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.98%) Ruby
10 2 (0.66%) C++
10 2 (0.66%) Solidity
10 2 (0.66%) Swift
11 1 (0.33%) Go
11 1 (0.33%) Korn
11 1 (0.33%) Rust
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.95%) Degree
5 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.77%) QA
2 8 (2.62%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.31%) SEPA
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) ISO 15022
4 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.98%) SLA
4 3 (0.98%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (23.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 102 (33.44%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.93%) Argo
2 12 (3.93%) Kibana
3 5 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.31%) Ansible
5 3 (0.98%) Grafana
6 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 28 (9.18%) Oracle
2 9 (2.95%) Red Hat
3 8 (2.62%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.97%) Databricks
4 6 (1.97%) Google
4 6 (1.97%) Splunk
5 5 (1.64%) Confluent
6 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.31%) SAP
7 3 (0.98%) FIS
7 3 (0.98%) IBM
8 2 (0.66%) MKS
8 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.33%) Ariba
9 1 (0.33%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.33%) Concur
497 Java Engineer jobs in England