Java Engineer Contracts in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 435 351
Rank change year-on-year +59 -84 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 169 217 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.43% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.45% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 174 446
10th Percentile £420 £438 £459
25th Percentile £500 £490 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £723 £703
90th Percentile £888 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 20
10th Percentile £67.25 £54.92 -
25th Percentile - £60.99 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%
75th Percentile - £69.16 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £71.71 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 29 April 2024. 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 +62 98 £710 +9.23% 57
South East +39 30 £648 +19.91% 16
North of England +21 14 £513 -12.77% 11
South West -6 13 £500 +5.26% 19
North West +31 12 £538 -17.31% 8
East of England +22 12 £534 -5.07% 3
Yorkshire +22 2 £425 -17.87% 2
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 169 (100.00%) Java
2 108 (63.91%) Software Engineering
3 74 (43.79%) Agile
4 53 (31.36%) AWS
5 49 (28.99%) Python
6 48 (28.40%) DevOps
7 47 (27.81%) Finance
8 42 (24.85%) CI/CD
9 41 (24.26%) JavaScript
10 40 (23.67%) REST
10 40 (23.67%) Social Skills
11 39 (23.08%) Jenkins
12 37 (21.89%) TypeScript
13 36 (21.30%) Banking
13 36 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (19.53%) Test Automation
14 33 (19.53%) Security Cleared
15 30 (17.75%) SC Cleared
15 30 (17.75%) Front Office
15 30 (17.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 29 (17.16%) Investment Banking
17 28 (16.57%) Selenium
17 28 (16.57%) Azure
18 25 (14.79%) Microservices
18 25 (14.79%) Spring
18 25 (14.79%) Apache
19 24 (14.20%) JIRA
19 24 (14.20%) Asset Management
19 24 (14.20%) Equities
20 23 (13.61%) Pandas

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (14.79%) Apache
2 23 (13.61%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.73%) Confluence
4 4 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.36%) AWS
2 28 (16.57%) Azure
3 23 (13.61%) dbt
4 22 (13.02%) GCP
5 20 (11.83%) GitHub
5 20 (11.83%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.96%) Cloud Run
6 5 (2.96%) Datadog
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.37%) Serverless
8 3 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.78%) Miro
8 3 (1.78%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.18%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.18%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (1.18%) Google Data Studio
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.73%) Firewall
1 8 (4.73%) VPN
2 7 (4.14%) SNMP
2 7 (4.14%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.59%) DNS
3 1 (0.59%) Internet
3 1 (0.59%) MQTT
3 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.61%) Amazon Athena
1 23 (13.61%) Apache Arrow
1 23 (13.61%) Apache Ignite
1 23 (13.61%) Dremio
2 20 (11.83%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (3.55%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.78%) MySQL
7 2 (1.18%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.18%) KDB
7 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.59%) Big Data
8 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.59%) HBase
Development Applications
1 39 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 28 (16.57%) Selenium
3 24 (14.20%) JIRA
4 21 (12.43%) Cucumber
5 16 (9.47%) Git
5 16 (9.47%) REST Assured
5 16 (9.47%) SonarQube
6 14 (8.28%) GoogleTest
7 9 (5.33%) Bitbucket
8 8 (4.73%) Maven
9 7 (4.14%) Eclipse
9 7 (4.14%) GitLab
9 7 (4.14%) Robot Framework
10 5 (2.96%) Gradle
11 4 (2.37%) JUnit
12 3 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.78%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.18%) Gatling
13 2 (1.18%) HP UFT
General
1 47 (27.81%) Finance
2 40 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 36 (21.30%) Banking
4 30 (17.75%) Front Office
5 29 (17.16%) Investment Banking
6 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (10.06%) Law
8 12 (7.10%) Retail
9 9 (5.33%) Police
10 4 (2.37%) Aviation
11 2 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.18%) Automotive
11 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.67%) REST
2 25 (14.79%) Spring
3 23 (13.61%) gRPC
3 23 (13.61%) NumPy
3 23 (13.61%) Pandas
3 23 (13.61%) Protocol Buffers
3 23 (13.61%) SciPy
3 23 (13.61%) Spring Boot
4 22 (13.02%) React
5 21 (12.43%) Java EE
6 20 (11.83%) CSS
7 17 (10.06%) HTML
8 13 (7.69%) Kafka
9 8 (4.73%) Node.js
9 8 (4.73%) RESTful
10 7 (4.14%) GraphQL
10 7 (4.14%) Qt
11 5 (2.96%) .NET
11 5 (2.96%) ARM Templates
12 4 (2.37%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (14.20%) Equities
3 22 (13.02%) Fixed Income
3 22 (13.02%) Hedge funds
4 21 (12.43%) Derivative
5 7 (4.14%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.14%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.37%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.37%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.37%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.02%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Windows
3 4 (2.37%) Unix
4 3 (1.78%) Android
5 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (63.91%) Software Engineering
2 74 (43.79%) Agile
3 48 (28.40%) DevOps
4 42 (24.85%) CI/CD
5 36 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (19.53%) Test Automation
7 25 (14.79%) Microservices
8 24 (14.20%) Asset Management
9 23 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (11.24%) Investment Management
10 19 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (10.65%) Decision-Making
12 17 (10.06%) Software Architecture
13 16 (9.47%) Full Stack Development
13 16 (9.47%) TDD
14 11 (6.51%) API Development
14 11 (6.51%) Containerisation
15 10 (5.92%) Computer Science
15 10 (5.92%) ETL
15 10 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 169 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (28.99%) Python
3 41 (24.26%) JavaScript
4 37 (21.89%) TypeScript
5 20 (11.83%) C++
5 20 (11.83%) SQL
6 7 (4.14%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.96%) Scala
8 4 (2.37%) C#
8 4 (2.37%) PHP
8 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.37%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.78%) Bash
9 3 (1.78%) Groovy
10 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.18%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) Degree
4 9 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.14%) MISRA
3 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.88%) Docker
2 7 (4.14%) Firmware
3 3 (1.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.59%) iptables
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) zsh
Systems Management
1 17 (10.06%) Ansible
2 14 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.51%) Terraform
4 9 (5.33%) Grafana
5 8 (4.73%) Podman
6 6 (3.55%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (2.96%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.37%) Kibana
9 3 (1.78%) Consul
10 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) Google
2 8 (4.73%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.55%) Splunk
4 5 (2.96%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.96%) New Relic
5 4 (2.37%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.78%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.18%) Confluent
7 2 (1.18%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) Solace
7 2 (1.18%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.59%) Informatica
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle