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 26 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
26 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 331 277
Rank change year-on-year -19 -54 +183
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 301 190 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.75% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 142 190
10th Percentile £344 £380 £463
25th Percentile £450 £516 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £719 £800
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% -10.16% +39.13%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £653 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £607 £725
% change year-on-year -13.54% -16.24% +22.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 5 25
10th Percentile £65.00 £38.00 £66.25
25th Percentile £69.06 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £84.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +16.18%

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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -78 145 £525 -30.00% 53
North of England -12 70 £523 +67.58% 20
North West -22 35 £555 +81.97% 11
Midlands -29 30 £575 +9.52% 10
South East -52 28 £500 - 7
West Midlands -38 25 £585 +10.38% 7
Yorkshire -19 21 £500 +56.94% 5
East of England -11 18 £570 -5.00% 2
North East - 15 £640 - 4
South West -35 12 £463 -15.91% 17
East Midlands -12 5 £400 +26.98% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 301 (100.00%) Java
2 170 (56.48%) Software Engineering
3 129 (42.86%) Spring
4 126 (41.86%) CI/CD
5 120 (39.87%) Spring Boot
6 109 (36.21%) Agile
7 104 (34.55%) AWS
8 100 (33.22%) Microservices
9 97 (32.23%) Kubernetes
10 77 (25.58%) Docker
11 72 (23.92%) DevOps
12 70 (23.26%) Kafka
13 69 (22.92%) Security Cleared
14 65 (21.59%) SQL
15 62 (20.60%) SC Cleared
15 62 (20.60%) Test Automation
16 50 (16.61%) Event-Driven
17 44 (14.62%) REST
18 40 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
18 40 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
19 39 (12.96%) Azure
19 39 (12.96%) QA
20 38 (12.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 38 (12.62%) Git
20 38 (12.62%) TDD
21 37 (12.29%) JUnit
21 37 (12.29%) SDLC
22 34 (11.30%) Scrum
23 33 (10.96%) Containerisation
23 33 (10.96%) PostgreSQL

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 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.33%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.66%) Apache
4 3 (1.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (34.55%) AWS
2 39 (12.96%) Azure
3 24 (7.97%) GCP
4 23 (7.64%) GitHub
5 18 (5.98%) OpenShift
6 17 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (3.99%) Serverless
8 11 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.33%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.00%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.66%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.32%) Firewall
1 10 (3.32%) VPN
2 5 (1.66%) HTTP
3 4 (1.33%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.31%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.98%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.32%) MySQL
5 12 (3.99%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.65%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.66%) Couchbase
9 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.99%) Redis
11 4 (1.33%) Big Data
11 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.00%) Power BI
13 2 (0.66%) Flink
13 2 (0.66%) HBase
13 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 38 (12.62%) Git
2 37 (12.29%) JUnit
3 28 (9.30%) GitLab
4 25 (8.31%) Jenkins
5 20 (6.64%) Maven
6 18 (5.98%) SonarQube
7 16 (5.32%) Mockito
8 14 (4.65%) Gradle
9 9 (2.99%) JIRA
10 7 (2.33%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.33%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.99%) Selenium
12 4 (1.33%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.00%) Gatling
13 3 (1.00%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
14 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 83 (27.57%) Finance
2 50 (16.61%) Banking
3 47 (15.61%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.99%) Front Office
4 12 (3.99%) Manufacturing
5 9 (2.99%) Law
5 9 (2.99%) Retail
6 8 (2.66%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.99%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.33%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Automotive
10 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.66%) iGaming
12 1 (0.33%) French Language
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (42.86%) Spring
2 120 (39.87%) Spring Boot
3 70 (23.26%) Kafka
4 44 (14.62%) REST
5 32 (10.63%) React
6 23 (7.64%) RESTful
7 19 (6.31%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.98%) Terraform
9 17 (5.65%) Quarkus
10 14 (4.65%) OpenAPI
11 11 (3.65%) Node.js
12 10 (3.32%) Swagger
13 9 (2.99%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.99%) JPA
14 8 (2.66%) AWS CDK
14 8 (2.66%) OAuth
15 7 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
16 6 (1.99%) Hibernate
16 6 (1.99%) JSON
16 6 (1.99%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.61%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.33%) TWAP
8 4 (1.33%) VWAP
9 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.65%) Linux
2 9 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
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
1 170 (56.48%) Software Engineering
2 126 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 109 (36.21%) Agile
4 100 (33.22%) Microservices
5 72 (23.92%) DevOps
6 62 (20.60%) Test Automation
7 50 (16.61%) Event-Driven
8 40 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (12.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 38 (12.62%) TDD
10 37 (12.29%) SDLC
11 34 (11.30%) Scrum
12 33 (10.96%) Containerisation
13 31 (10.30%) AI
13 31 (10.30%) Observability
14 30 (9.97%) Unit Testing
15 28 (9.30%) Clean Code
16 27 (8.97%) Front End Development
17 26 (8.64%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 301 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (21.59%) SQL
3 32 (10.63%) Python
4 25 (8.31%) Kotlin
5 24 (7.97%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.64%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.32%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.66%) C++
9 4 (1.33%) Groovy
9 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.00%) Ada
10 3 (1.00%) C#
10 3 (1.00%) Go
11 2 (0.66%) Scala
11 2 (0.66%) Swift
12 1 (0.33%) Korn
12 1 (0.33%) Ruby
12 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 69 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 62 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.66%) Degree
5 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.96%) QA
2 9 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 6 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.66%) GDPR
4 5 (1.66%) SEPA
5 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.00%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.00%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.00%) ISO 15022
5 3 (1.00%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) PSD2
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (25.58%) 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 97 (32.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.32%) Argo
3 6 (1.99%) Kibana
3 6 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.66%) Ansible
5 3 (1.00%) Grafana
5 3 (1.00%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (6.98%) Oracle
2 15 (4.98%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.32%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.99%) Google
5 5 (1.66%) Confluent
5 5 (1.66%) IBM
5 5 (1.66%) SAP
5 5 (1.66%) Splunk
6 4 (1.33%) Databricks
6 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.00%) FIS
8 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.66%) MKS
8 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.33%) Ariba
9 1 (0.33%) Concur
9 1 (0.33%) Solace
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.33%) Veracode
9 1 (0.33%) VMware
99 Java Engineer jobs in England