Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 363 458
Rank change year-on-year -21 +95 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 160 125 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.50% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 86 67
10th Percentile £354 £444 £396
25th Percentile £419 £519 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £850 £738
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.00% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 2
10th Percentile £46.70 £37.40 £60.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -9.09% +4.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.88 £74.69
90th Percentile £80.50 £68.75 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year -12.00% -9.09% +4.79%

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 29,011 24,784 34,120
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 92.98% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,502 15,314 23,126
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 757 1,685
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -13.21% +15.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.32
% change year-on-year -15.38% -19.39% +18.58%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -26 93 £590 -5.60% 35
North of England -23 29 £478 -9.05% 16
North West -9 18 £438 - 6
Midlands -26 15 £450 -34.55% 10
South East -5 14 £370 -35.65% 28
West Midlands -22 14 £460 -33.09% 7
South West -16 7 £425 -24.61% 23
North East - 6 £575 - 5
Yorkshire -44 5 £350 -33.33% 6
East Midlands - 1 £313 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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.

1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 78 (48.75%) Software Engineering
3 73 (45.63%) AWS
4 71 (44.38%) Spring
5 65 (40.63%) Microservices
6 61 (38.13%) CI/CD
6 61 (38.13%) Kubernetes
7 60 (37.50%) Agile
8 59 (36.88%) Spring Boot
9 35 (21.88%) DevOps
9 35 (21.88%) Docker
10 30 (18.75%) Kafka
10 30 (18.75%) TDD
11 28 (17.50%) Containerisation
12 27 (16.88%) SQL
13 26 (16.25%) Python
14 24 (15.00%) Azure
14 24 (15.00%) GitLab
14 24 (15.00%) QA
14 24 (15.00%) Test Automation
15 23 (14.38%) JavaScript
16 22 (13.75%) Security Cleared
17 21 (13.13%) Event-Driven
17 21 (13.13%) Gradle
17 21 (13.13%) SC Cleared
17 21 (13.13%) TypeScript
18 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (11.88%) MongoDB
19 19 (11.88%) 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 18 (11.25%) Apache
2 15 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.50%) JBoss
3 4 (2.50%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (45.63%) AWS
2 24 (15.00%) Azure
3 15 (9.38%) Snowflake
4 14 (8.75%) dbt
5 13 (8.13%) GCP
6 11 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (6.88%) GitHub
7 10 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (6.25%) Serverless
8 9 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (4.38%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Broadband
1 1 (0.63%) FTP
1 1 (0.63%) SSL
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.88%) MongoDB
1 19 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.38%) Data Lake
3 14 (8.75%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (8.75%) Apache Arrow
3 14 (8.75%) Apache Iceberg
3 14 (8.75%) Apache Ignite
3 14 (8.75%) Dremio
4 12 (7.50%) MySQL
5 11 (6.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (5.63%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.75%) Big Data
8 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.88%) HBase
10 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (15.00%) GitLab
2 21 (13.13%) Gradle
3 18 (11.25%) JUnit
4 16 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 16 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 16 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 14 (8.75%) Git
6 10 (6.25%) Selenium
7 7 (4.38%) JMeter
7 7 (4.38%) Maven
7 7 (4.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.50%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.50%) Postman
9 3 (1.88%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.25%) Gatling
10 2 (1.25%) JIRA
10 2 (1.25%) Mockito
10 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.25%) TestNG
11 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 43 (26.88%) Finance
2 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.63%) Banking
4 18 (11.25%) Front Office
5 16 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Military
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (44.38%) Spring
2 59 (36.88%) Spring Boot
3 30 (18.75%) Kafka
4 19 (11.88%) RESTful
5 15 (9.38%) gRPC
6 14 (8.75%) NumPy
6 14 (8.75%) Pandas
6 14 (8.75%) Protocol Buffers
6 14 (8.75%) SciPy
7 13 (8.13%) Hibernate
8 11 (6.88%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (6.88%) REST
9 9 (5.63%) HTML
9 9 (5.63%) Swagger
10 8 (5.00%) JSON
10 8 (5.00%) Middleware
10 8 (5.00%) React
11 7 (4.38%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.75%) HTML5
12 6 (3.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.13%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (10.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (10.00%) Derivative
5 15 (9.38%) Equities
6 14 (8.75%) Fixed Income
6 14 (8.75%) Hedge funds
6 14 (8.75%) Pricing Data
7 8 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.63%) Over-the-Top Content
12 1 (0.63%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Linux
1 10 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (48.75%) Software Engineering
2 65 (40.63%) Microservices
3 61 (38.13%) CI/CD
4 60 (37.50%) Agile
5 35 (21.88%) DevOps
6 30 (18.75%) TDD
7 28 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 24 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 21 (13.13%) Event-Driven
10 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (10.63%) Clean Code
11 17 (10.63%) Software Testing
12 16 (10.00%) Observability
13 15 (9.38%) API Development
14 14 (8.75%) Asset Management
14 14 (8.75%) Fintech
14 14 (8.75%) Investment Management
15 13 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (7.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (16.88%) SQL
3 26 (16.25%) Python
4 23 (14.38%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.13%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.00%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.38%) Scala
8 5 (3.13%) C++
9 4 (2.50%) Ada
9 4 (2.50%) Go
10 2 (1.25%) Bash
10 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.25%) Rust
10 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) Groovy
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.88%) OCP
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.00%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.50%) Def Stans
2 4 (2.50%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (38.13%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.38%) Grafana
3 10 (6.25%) Terraform
4 9 (5.63%) Ansible
5 5 (3.13%) Puppet
6 4 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (5.63%) Google
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.13%) Oracle
3 4 (2.50%) Databricks
3 4 (2.50%) Splunk
3 4 (2.50%) VMware
3 4 (2.50%) webMethods
4 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.25%) IBM
5 2 (1.25%) New Relic
5 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.25%) Solace
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe
6 1 (0.63%) Calypso
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco
6 1 (0.63%) Confluent
6 1 (0.63%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.63%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.63%) Zoomdata
111 Java Engineer jobs in England