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 24 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 319 292
Rank change year-on-year -21 -27 +184
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 305 192 272
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.70% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.76% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 141 190
10th Percentile £360 £400 £450
25th Percentile £436 £515 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £719
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +4.35% +21.82%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £671 £875 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% -5.77% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 6 26
10th Percentile £64.10 £38.75 £66.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £48.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 41,600 25,116 32,526
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 91.78% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,351 16,327 21,449
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,993 1,255 2,125
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.71 £13.64
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.56 £26.50 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +71.91% -38.24% -2.72%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.55 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +73.17% -38.57% -6.42%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -81 152 £540 -28.00% 105
North of England -8 65 £523 +33.97% 14
South East -41 32 £513 - 16
North West -21 30 £555 - 8
South West -23 23 £505 -6.05% 4
Midlands -37 22 £470 -10.48% 19
West Midlands -46 20 £470 -11.32% 16
Yorkshire - 20 £500 - 1
North East -20 16 £640 +64.10% 5
East of England -12 13 £538 -10.42% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £400 +26.98% 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 305 (100.00%) Java
2 167 (54.75%) Software Engineering
3 115 (37.70%) Spring
4 108 (35.41%) Spring Boot
5 102 (33.44%) Agile
6 101 (33.11%) CI/CD
7 92 (30.16%) AWS
8 90 (29.51%) Kubernetes
9 87 (28.52%) Microservices
10 76 (24.92%) Security Cleared
11 74 (24.26%) Docker
11 74 (24.26%) Kafka
12 67 (21.97%) SC Cleared
13 65 (21.31%) DevOps
14 57 (18.69%) SQL
15 50 (16.39%) Test Automation
16 49 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
17 42 (13.77%) React
18 40 (13.11%) Event-Driven
19 39 (12.79%) Containerisation
20 37 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
21 36 (11.80%) Azure
21 36 (11.80%) QA
21 36 (11.80%) TDD
22 34 (11.15%) Git
22 34 (11.15%) REST
23 33 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
24 32 (10.49%) Python
25 31 (10.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
26 30 (9.84%) JUnit

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%) Apache Spark
1 7 (2.30%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.98%) Apache
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (30.16%) AWS
2 36 (11.80%) Azure
3 25 (8.20%) GCP
4 20 (6.56%) OpenShift
5 19 (6.23%) GitHub
6 16 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.59%) Serverless
8 13 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.31%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.98%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.30%) Firewall
1 7 (2.30%) VPN
2 4 (1.31%) HTTP
2 4 (1.31%) Internet
3 3 (0.98%) MQTT
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.23%) Relational Database
3 15 (4.92%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.26%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.61%) MySQL
7 8 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.97%) Big Data
9 6 (1.97%) 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 (0.66%) HBase
12 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (11.15%) Git
2 30 (9.84%) JUnit
3 26 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.90%) SonarQube
5 15 (4.92%) GitLab
5 15 (4.92%) Gradle
5 15 (4.92%) Maven
6 11 (3.61%) Mockito
7 8 (2.62%) JIRA
8 7 (2.30%) Liquibase
9 6 (1.97%) Selenium
10 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.31%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.98%) XCUITest
12 2 (0.66%) Appium
12 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.66%) Flyway
12 2 (0.66%) Gatling
12 2 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
General
1 85 (27.87%) Finance
2 47 (15.41%) Banking
3 28 (9.18%) Social Skills
4 18 (5.90%) Front Office
5 13 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.28%) Law
6 10 (3.28%) Retail
7 9 (2.95%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.95%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Automotive
9 3 (0.98%) Back Office
9 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.98%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (37.70%) Spring
2 108 (35.41%) Spring Boot
3 74 (24.26%) Kafka
4 42 (13.77%) React
5 34 (11.15%) REST
6 21 (6.89%) AngularJS
7 20 (6.56%) RESTful
8 18 (5.90%) Node.js
8 18 (5.90%) Quarkus
9 15 (4.92%) GraphQL
10 11 (3.61%) Middleware
11 8 (2.62%) Hibernate
11 8 (2.62%) OpenAPI
11 8 (2.62%) Redux
11 8 (2.62%) Swagger
12 7 (2.30%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.97%) Spring MVC
14 5 (1.64%) JPA
14 5 (1.64%) JSON
14 5 (1.64%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 45 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.62%) Fixed Income
3 8 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.31%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.31%) TWAP
6 4 (1.31%) VWAP
7 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.21%) Linux
2 10 (3.28%) 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%) 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 (54.75%) Software Engineering
2 102 (33.44%) Agile
3 101 (33.11%) CI/CD
4 87 (28.52%) Microservices
5 65 (21.31%) DevOps
6 50 (16.39%) Test Automation
7 49 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (13.11%) Event-Driven
9 39 (12.79%) Containerisation
10 37 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (11.80%) TDD
12 31 (10.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 29 (9.51%) Scrum
14 28 (9.18%) SDLC
14 28 (9.18%) Unit Testing
15 24 (7.87%) Code Quality
15 24 (7.87%) Front End Development
16 23 (7.54%) AI
16 23 (7.54%) Clean Code
16 23 (7.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 305 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (18.69%) SQL
3 32 (10.49%) Python
4 28 (9.18%) TypeScript
5 23 (7.54%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.56%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.95%) Go
7 9 (2.95%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.30%) Ada
9 6 (1.97%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.31%) Groovy
11 3 (0.98%) C#
11 3 (0.98%) C++
12 2 (0.66%) Scala
12 2 (0.66%) Swift
13 1 (0.33%) Korn
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 76 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.62%) Degree
4 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.80%) QA
2 9 (2.95%) ISO 20022
3 7 (2.30%) Def Stans
3 7 (2.30%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.64%) GDPR
5 5 (1.64%) SEPA
6 3 (0.98%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 74 (24.26%) 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 90 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.25%) Argo
2 16 (5.25%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) Ansible
4 3 (0.98%) Grafana
4 3 (0.98%) HAProxy
4 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.66%) Kibana
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 22 (7.21%) Oracle
2 16 (5.25%) Red Hat
3 12 (3.93%) Google
4 11 (3.61%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.97%) Splunk
6 5 (1.64%) IBM
7 4 (1.31%) SAP
8 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.66%) Confluent
9 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.66%) MKS
9 2 (0.66%) Solace
10 1 (0.33%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.33%) Ariba
10 1 (0.33%) Netlify
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.33%) Spotify
10 1 (0.33%) Teradata
10 1 (0.33%) VMware
149 Java Engineer jobs in England