Java Engineer Contracts in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 364 448
Rank change year-on-year +52 +84 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 161 175 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.51% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 123 167
10th Percentile £401 £426 £437
25th Percentile £513 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -
75th Percentile £875 £850 £700
90th Percentile - £888 £788
UK median daily rate £613 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +6.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 18
10th Percentile £50.75 £67.25 £54.92
25th Percentile £60.31 - £60.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £69.16
90th Percentile - £70.50 £71.71
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,563 34,396 47,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.72% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,024 22,838 33,731
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 2,437 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.45 £36.34 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -18.83% +98.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.66 £76.85
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

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 3 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 2025. 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 +54 113 £750 +5.63% 94
South West +29 13 £519 +15.28% 7
North of England +9 12 £525 +2.44% 37
South East +17 11 £650 +0.39% 47
North West +6 8 - - 21
East of England +32 6 £600 +12.36% 7
Yorkshire +9 3 £638 +50.00% 10
Midlands - 3 £525 - 17
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 14
North East - 1 £390 - 6
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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.

1 161 (100.00%) Java
2 100 (62.11%) Software Engineering
3 83 (51.55%) AWS
4 76 (47.20%) Finance
5 73 (45.34%) Agile
6 50 (31.06%) Python
7 48 (29.81%) Banking
8 44 (27.33%) Front Office
9 42 (26.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 42 (26.09%) TypeScript
9 42 (26.09%) Security Cleared
9 42 (26.09%) CI/CD
10 40 (24.84%) JavaScript
10 40 (24.84%) Fixed Income
10 40 (24.84%) Equities
11 39 (24.22%) Asset Management
11 39 (24.22%) SC Cleared
11 39 (24.22%) Kubernetes
11 39 (24.22%) DevOps
11 39 (24.22%) Apache Iceberg
11 39 (24.22%) Apache Arrow
11 39 (24.22%) Dremio
11 39 (24.22%) dbt
11 39 (24.22%) Apache Airflow
11 39 (24.22%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (23.60%) Microservices
12 38 (23.60%) Spring
13 36 (22.36%) Investment Banking
13 36 (22.36%) Apache
13 36 (22.36%) Docker

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 39 (24.22%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (22.36%) Apache
3 10 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.21%) Confluence
4 3 (1.86%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.62%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.62%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 83 (51.55%) AWS
2 39 (24.22%) dbt
3 34 (21.12%) Snowflake
4 29 (18.01%) GCP
5 23 (14.29%) Azure
6 14 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (6.83%) Dagster
9 6 (3.73%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.48%) Datadog
10 4 (2.48%) Slack
11 3 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.86%) GitHub
11 3 (1.86%) Serverless
12 2 (1.24%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) Network Security
2 3 (1.86%) HTTP
3 2 (1.24%) Firewall
3 2 (1.24%) Multicast
4 1 (0.62%) SSH
4 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.22%) Amazon Athena
1 39 (24.22%) Apache Arrow
1 39 (24.22%) Apache Iceberg
1 39 (24.22%) Dremio
2 25 (15.53%) Apache Ignite
2 25 (15.53%) Data Lake
3 22 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.45%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.97%) Big Data
6 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.48%) MySQL
8 3 (1.86%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.24%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.62%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.62%) KDB
10 1 (0.62%) Redis
10 1 (0.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (19.88%) Jenkins
2 24 (14.91%) GitLab
3 21 (13.04%) JIRA
4 18 (11.18%) JUnit
5 17 (10.56%) Cucumber
6 12 (7.45%) Gradle
6 12 (7.45%) Mockito
6 12 (7.45%) REST Assured
7 11 (6.83%) Selenium
8 10 (6.21%) Git
8 10 (6.21%) Liquibase
9 7 (4.35%) Maven
10 5 (3.11%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.48%) Jasmine
12 3 (1.86%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.62%) LoadRunner
14 1 (0.62%) Postman
14 1 (0.62%) WebDriver
General
1 76 (47.20%) Finance
2 48 (29.81%) Banking
3 44 (27.33%) Front Office
4 36 (22.36%) Investment Banking
5 21 (13.04%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.83%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.83%) Telecoms
8 10 (6.21%) Electronics
8 10 (6.21%) Manufacturing
8 10 (6.21%) Marketing
9 8 (4.97%) Retail
10 5 (3.11%) Law
11 4 (2.48%) Police
12 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.62%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (23.60%) Spring
2 35 (21.74%) Spring Boot
3 31 (19.25%) NumPy
3 31 (19.25%) Pandas
3 31 (19.25%) SciPy
4 25 (15.53%) gRPC
4 25 (15.53%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (13.66%) Kafka
5 22 (13.66%) PySpark
6 21 (13.04%) React
7 20 (12.42%) REST
8 17 (10.56%) Swagger
9 14 (8.70%) OpenAPI
10 11 (6.83%) Java EE
10 11 (6.83%) Node.js
11 9 (5.59%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.59%) Middleware
12 8 (4.97%) RESTful
13 6 (3.73%) Vue
14 5 (3.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 42 (26.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (24.84%) Equities
2 40 (24.84%) Fixed Income
3 34 (21.12%) Derivative
4 33 (20.50%) Hedge funds
5 14 (8.70%) Pricing Data
6 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.07%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.48%) Android
3 4 (2.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (62.11%) Software Engineering
2 73 (45.34%) Agile
3 42 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 39 (24.22%) Asset Management
4 39 (24.22%) DevOps
5 38 (23.60%) Microservices
6 30 (18.63%) TDD
7 28 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (15.53%) Test Automation
9 24 (14.91%) Containerisation
9 24 (14.91%) Migration
10 20 (12.42%) Investment Management
11 16 (9.94%) Fintech
12 15 (9.32%) Computer Science
12 15 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (8.70%) Software Architecture
14 11 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (6.21%) Digital Marketing
15 10 (6.21%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (31.06%) Python
3 42 (26.09%) TypeScript
4 40 (24.84%) JavaScript
5 33 (20.50%) SQL
6 9 (5.59%) Ada
7 7 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.73%) C++
9 5 (3.11%) Bash
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.86%) C
11 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.62%) DAML
Qualifications
1 42 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) Degree
4 10 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.11%) PhD
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) Def Stans
1 9 (5.59%) IEC 61508
2 5 (3.11%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (22.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (24.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.32%) Terraform
3 8 (4.97%) Ansible
4 6 (3.73%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (3.11%) Grafana
5 5 (3.11%) Podman
5 5 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.24%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (6.21%) SAP
2 7 (4.35%) Oracle
3 4 (2.48%) Google
4 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.86%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.86%) Splunk
5 2 (1.24%) Confluent
6 1 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.62%) Databricks
6 1 (0.62%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.62%) Informatica
6 1 (0.62%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.62%) MKS
6 1 (0.62%) New Relic
6 1 (0.62%) WSO2