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 30 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 316 304
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 +170
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 315 184 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.72% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.78% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 131 179
10th Percentile £375 £390 £446
25th Percentile £425 £486 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £670 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -10.41% -2.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 7 25
10th Percentile £61.25 £39.50 £66.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile - £69.38 -
90th Percentile £76.30 £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +6.87%

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 40,429 23,502 34,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,779 15,373 22,543
10th Percentile £325 £293 £298
25th Percentile £419 £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 £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,896 1,093 2,589
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.74
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -64 163 £545 -27.33% 33
North of England -24 62 £523 +14.21% 8
South East -42 34 £500 -23.08% 16
South West -3 32 £484 -7.86% 3
North West -27 27 £540 - 4
North East -17 18 £478 +22.44%
Yorkshire -35 18 £511 -2.62% 4
Midlands -51 16 £542 +3.14%
West Midlands -46 14 £600 +14.29%
East of England -23 9 £505 -15.83% 5
East Midlands -16 2 £400 +26.98%
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 315 (100.00%) Java
2 169 (53.65%) Software Engineering
3 122 (38.73%) Spring
4 111 (35.24%) Spring Boot
5 97 (30.79%) Agile
6 96 (30.48%) AWS
7 93 (29.52%) CI/CD
8 92 (29.21%) Microservices
9 88 (27.94%) Kubernetes
10 75 (23.81%) Kafka
11 71 (22.54%) Docker
11 71 (22.54%) Security Cleared
12 63 (20.00%) SC Cleared
13 60 (19.05%) DevOps
14 53 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (15.56%) SQL
16 47 (14.92%) Test Automation
17 43 (13.65%) React
17 43 (13.65%) TDD
18 41 (13.02%) Event-Driven
19 37 (11.75%) QA
20 35 (11.11%) Containerisation
21 34 (10.79%) Python
22 33 (10.48%) Azure
23 32 (10.16%) JUnit
24 31 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
25 30 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
26 29 (9.21%) REST
26 29 (9.21%) TypeScript
26 29 (9.21%) Unit Testing

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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.95%) Apache
2 3 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.63%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.32%) Camunda
4 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.32%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (30.48%) AWS
2 33 (10.48%) Azure
3 21 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 20 (6.35%) GCP
5 19 (6.03%) GitHub
6 15 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (4.76%) Serverless
7 14 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.49%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.27%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.95%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.95%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) HTTP
2 4 (1.27%) Firewall
2 4 (1.27%) Internet
2 4 (1.27%) VPN
3 3 (0.95%) MQTT
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.44%) MySQL
2 14 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.81%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.90%) Big Data
7 6 (1.90%) Couchbase
7 6 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.95%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.95%) Power BI
10 2 (0.63%) HBase
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.63%) Redis
10 2 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (10.16%) JUnit
2 28 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 27 (8.57%) Git
4 19 (6.03%) Gradle
5 18 (5.71%) SonarQube
6 14 (4.44%) GitLab
7 12 (3.81%) Maven
8 10 (3.17%) Mockito
9 8 (2.54%) JIRA
10 7 (2.22%) Liquibase
10 7 (2.22%) Selenium
11 6 (1.90%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.59%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.95%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.63%) Appium
14 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.63%) Flyway
14 2 (0.63%) Gatling
14 2 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
General
1 75 (23.81%) Finance
2 42 (13.33%) Banking
3 29 (9.21%) Social Skills
4 19 (6.03%) Front Office
5 16 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.49%) Law
7 9 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.86%) Retail
8 6 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.95%) Automotive
11 3 (0.95%) Back Office
11 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.95%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.32%) French Language
13 1 (0.32%) Legal
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (38.73%) Spring
2 111 (35.24%) Spring Boot
3 75 (23.81%) Kafka
4 43 (13.65%) React
5 29 (9.21%) REST
6 22 (6.98%) AngularJS
7 21 (6.67%) RESTful
8 18 (5.71%) Node.js
8 18 (5.71%) Quarkus
9 17 (5.40%) GraphQL
9 17 (5.40%) Middleware
10 11 (3.49%) Hibernate
10 11 (3.49%) OpenAPI
10 11 (3.49%) Swagger
11 9 (2.86%) Redux
12 7 (2.22%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.90%) CSS
13 6 (1.90%) JPA
13 6 (1.90%) Micronaut
13 6 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 41 (13.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.54%) Fixed Income
4 6 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.27%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.27%) TWAP
6 4 (1.27%) VWAP
7 3 (0.95%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.63%) Exotic Derivative
8 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.35%) Linux
2 9 (2.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Android
3 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.32%) Solaris
4 1 (0.32%) SUSE
4 1 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (53.65%) Software Engineering
2 97 (30.79%) Agile
3 93 (29.52%) CI/CD
4 92 (29.21%) Microservices
5 60 (19.05%) DevOps
6 53 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (14.92%) Test Automation
8 43 (13.65%) TDD
9 41 (13.02%) Event-Driven
10 35 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 30 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (9.21%) Unit Testing
13 28 (8.89%) Scrum
14 27 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 27 (8.57%) SDLC
15 25 (7.94%) Clean Code
16 24 (7.62%) Front End Development
17 22 (6.98%) Migration
18 21 (6.67%) AI
18 21 (6.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 315 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (15.56%) SQL
3 34 (10.79%) Python
4 29 (9.21%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.40%) Kotlin
7 11 (3.49%) Ada
7 11 (3.49%) Go
8 6 (1.90%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.27%) Groovy
9 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.95%) C#
10 3 (0.95%) C++
10 3 (0.95%) Scala
11 2 (0.63%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) Korn
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.32%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 71 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 63 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.54%) Degree
4 5 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.75%) QA
2 11 (3.49%) Def Stans
2 11 (3.49%) IEC 61508
3 8 (2.54%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.59%) GDPR
5 5 (1.59%) SEPA
6 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.63%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 71 (22.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (27.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.08%) Argo
3 14 (4.44%) Terraform
4 5 (1.59%) Grafana
5 4 (1.27%) Ansible
6 3 (0.95%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.63%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (5.08%) Oracle
1 16 (5.08%) Red Hat
2 12 (3.81%) Google
2 12 (3.81%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.90%) Splunk
4 5 (1.59%) IBM
5 4 (1.27%) SAP
6 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.63%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.63%) Confluent
7 2 (0.63%) MKS
7 2 (0.63%) Solace
8 1 (0.32%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.32%) Ariba
8 1 (0.32%) Concur
8 1 (0.32%) Netlify
8 1 (0.32%) Spotify
8 1 (0.32%) Teradata
8 1 (0.32%) VMware
56 Java Engineer jobs in England