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 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 456 348
Rank change year-on-year +88 -108 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 177 208 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.42% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.44% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 165 447
10th Percentile £426 £429 £453
25th Percentile £500 £480 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £700
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 11 18 20
10th Percentile £67.50 £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 - £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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +79 103 £710 +9.23% 68
South East +43 30 £648 +19.91% 20
South West +9 16 £450 -1.10% 19
North of England +26 14 £513 -16.33% 10
North West +34 12 £538 -17.31% 8
East of England +25 11 £534 -5.07% 3
Yorkshire +19 2 £425 -17.87% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Java
2 116 (65.54%) Software Engineering
3 78 (44.07%) Agile
4 57 (32.20%) AWS
5 52 (29.38%) DevOps
5 52 (29.38%) Python
6 50 (28.25%) Finance
7 44 (24.86%) JavaScript
7 44 (24.86%) CI/CD
8 43 (24.29%) REST
9 42 (23.73%) Jenkins
10 41 (23.16%) TypeScript
10 41 (23.16%) Social Skills
11 39 (22.03%) Banking
12 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (19.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (18.64%) Test Automation
15 32 (18.08%) Front Office
15 32 (18.08%) Investment Banking
16 31 (17.51%) Security Cleared
17 30 (16.95%) Azure
18 29 (16.38%) SC Cleared
18 29 (16.38%) Selenium
19 28 (15.82%) Spring
19 28 (15.82%) Equities
19 28 (15.82%) Microservices
20 27 (15.25%) Apache
20 27 (15.25%) Spring Boot
21 26 (14.69%) JIRA
21 26 (14.69%) Asset Management

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 27 (15.25%) Apache
2 25 (14.12%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.52%) Confluence
4 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 57 (32.20%) AWS
2 30 (16.95%) Azure
3 25 (14.12%) dbt
4 23 (12.99%) GCP
4 23 (12.99%) Snowflake
5 22 (12.43%) GitHub
6 6 (3.39%) Cloud Run
7 5 (2.82%) Datadog
8 4 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.26%) Miro
8 4 (2.26%) Serverless
9 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.13%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.13%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (1.13%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.56%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) Firewall
1 8 (4.52%) VPN
2 7 (3.95%) SNMP
2 7 (3.95%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.12%) Amazon Athena
1 25 (14.12%) Apache Arrow
1 25 (14.12%) Apache Ignite
1 25 (14.12%) Dremio
2 23 (12.99%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.95%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.69%) MySQL
8 2 (1.13%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.13%) KDB
8 2 (1.13%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Big Data
9 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.56%) HBase
9 1 (0.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 42 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 29 (16.38%) Selenium
3 26 (14.69%) JIRA
4 22 (12.43%) Cucumber
5 16 (9.04%) Git
5 16 (9.04%) GoogleTest
5 16 (9.04%) REST Assured
5 16 (9.04%) SonarQube
6 9 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.08%) Maven
7 7 (3.95%) Eclipse
7 7 (3.95%) GitLab
7 7 (3.95%) Robot Framework
8 6 (3.39%) Gradle
9 5 (2.82%) JUnit
10 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.13%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.13%) JMeter
General
1 50 (28.25%) Finance
2 41 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 39 (22.03%) Banking
4 32 (18.08%) Front Office
4 32 (18.08%) Investment Banking
5 21 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.60%) Law
7 13 (7.34%) Retail
8 9 (5.08%) Police
9 4 (2.26%) Aviation
10 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.13%) Automotive
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.29%) REST
2 28 (15.82%) Spring
3 27 (15.25%) Spring Boot
4 25 (14.12%) gRPC
4 25 (14.12%) NumPy
4 25 (14.12%) Pandas
4 25 (14.12%) Protocol Buffers
4 25 (14.12%) SciPy
5 24 (13.56%) React
6 22 (12.43%) Java EE
7 21 (11.86%) CSS
8 17 (9.60%) HTML
9 13 (7.34%) Kafka
10 9 (5.08%) Qt
11 8 (4.52%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.52%) Node.js
12 7 (3.95%) RESTful
13 6 (3.39%) .NET
14 5 (2.82%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (15.82%) Equities
3 26 (14.69%) Hedge funds
4 25 (14.12%) Fixed Income
5 24 (13.56%) Derivative
6 8 (4.52%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.95%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.39%) Pricing Data
9 5 (2.82%) Reference Data
10 4 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.26%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.56%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.56%) Machine to Machine
12 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.56%) Linux
2 8 (4.52%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) Android
5 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (65.54%) Software Engineering
2 78 (44.07%) Agile
3 52 (29.38%) DevOps
4 44 (24.86%) CI/CD
5 36 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (18.64%) Test Automation
7 28 (15.82%) Microservices
8 26 (14.69%) Asset Management
9 24 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (12.43%) Investment Management
11 19 (10.73%) TDD
11 19 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (10.17%) Decision-Making
13 17 (9.60%) Software Architecture
14 16 (9.04%) Full Stack Development
15 12 (6.78%) API Development
16 11 (6.21%) Containerisation
17 10 (5.65%) BDD
17 10 (5.65%) Computer Science
17 10 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 177 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (29.38%) Python
3 44 (24.86%) JavaScript
4 41 (23.16%) TypeScript
5 23 (12.99%) C++
6 21 (11.86%) SQL
7 8 (4.52%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.82%) C#
8 5 (2.82%) Scala
8 5 (2.82%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.26%) PHP
9 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.69%) Bash
10 3 (1.69%) Groovy
11 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.13%) Ruby
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) Degree
4 9 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) MISRA
1 9 (5.08%) QA
2 8 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.47%) Docker
2 7 (3.95%) Firmware
3 3 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) iptables
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Ansible
2 15 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.21%) Terraform
4 9 (5.08%) Grafana
5 8 (4.52%) Podman
6 6 (3.39%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.26%) Kibana
9 3 (1.69%) Consul
10 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (11.86%) Google
2 8 (4.52%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.39%) Splunk
4 5 (2.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.82%) New Relic
5 4 (2.26%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.69%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.13%) Confluent
7 2 (1.13%) Databricks
7 2 (1.13%) Solace
7 2 (1.13%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.56%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle