Java Software Engineer Contracts in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 562 500
Rank change year-on-year +112 -62 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 87 100 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.20% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 74 239
10th Percentile £450 £445 £448
25th Percentile £534 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% -1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £875 £675 £675
90th Percentile £888 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
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 34,367 47,420 67,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,815 33,680 48,307
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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £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 2,442 1,403 1,897
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 +91 47 £800 +33.33% 40
South East +28 18 £624 +15.51% 8
South West +8 12 £450 -19.10% 19
North West +18 5 £600 -7.69% 6
North of England +15 5 £600 +4.35% 8
East of England +17 2 £543 - 3
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (98.85%) Software Engineering
3 54 (62.07%) Agile
4 44 (50.57%) AWS
5 38 (43.68%) JavaScript
6 35 (40.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 34 (39.08%) Python
8 32 (36.78%) Front Office
9 30 (34.48%) Finance
9 30 (34.48%) TypeScript
10 28 (32.18%) Banking
11 27 (31.03%) Investment Banking
12 26 (29.89%) Apache
13 25 (28.74%) Asset Management
13 25 (28.74%) Apache Arrow
13 25 (28.74%) gRPC
13 25 (28.74%) Apache Airflow
13 25 (28.74%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (28.74%) Apache Ignite
13 25 (28.74%) Dremio
13 25 (28.74%) dbt
13 25 (28.74%) Pandas
13 25 (28.74%) Protocol Buffers
13 25 (28.74%) SciPy
13 25 (28.74%) NumPy
14 24 (27.59%) Hedge funds
14 24 (27.59%) Jenkins
14 24 (27.59%) Derivative
14 24 (27.59%) JIRA
14 24 (27.59%) Fixed Income

Java Software 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 26 (29.89%) Apache
2 25 (28.74%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (8.05%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.57%) AWS
2 25 (28.74%) dbt
3 23 (26.44%) Snowflake
4 15 (17.24%) Azure
5 14 (16.09%) GCP
6 12 (13.79%) GitHub
7 4 (4.60%) Miro
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.45%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) SNMP
1 7 (8.05%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.74%) Amazon Athena
1 25 (28.74%) Apache Arrow
1 25 (28.74%) Apache Ignite
1 25 (28.74%) Dremio
2 22 (25.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.30%) KDB
3 2 (2.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (27.59%) Jenkins
1 24 (27.59%) JIRA
2 16 (18.39%) GoogleTest
3 14 (16.09%) Git
4 8 (9.20%) Cucumber
5 7 (8.05%) Bitbucket
5 7 (8.05%) Eclipse
5 7 (8.05%) Robot Framework
5 7 (8.05%) Selenium
6 6 (6.90%) GitLab
7 5 (5.75%) Maven
7 5 (5.75%) REST Assured
7 5 (5.75%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.30%) JUnit
9 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.15%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (36.78%) Front Office
2 30 (34.48%) Finance
3 28 (32.18%) Banking
4 27 (31.03%) Investment Banking
5 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
6 7 (8.05%) Retail
7 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.90%) Law
8 4 (4.60%) Police
9 3 (3.45%) Aviation
10 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.15%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.74%) gRPC
1 25 (28.74%) NumPy
1 25 (28.74%) Pandas
1 25 (28.74%) Protocol Buffers
1 25 (28.74%) SciPy
2 16 (18.39%) REST
3 12 (13.79%) CSS
4 11 (12.64%) Java EE
4 11 (12.64%) Spring
5 9 (10.34%) Qt
5 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.20%) HTML
6 8 (9.20%) React
7 5 (5.75%) .NET
7 5 (5.75%) ARM Templates
7 5 (5.75%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.75%) SOAP
8 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.45%) Drools
9 3 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (40.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (27.59%) Derivative
2 24 (27.59%) Equities
2 24 (27.59%) Fixed Income
2 24 (27.59%) Hedge funds
3 6 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.90%) Pricing Data
4 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (98.85%) Software Engineering
2 54 (62.07%) Agile
3 25 (28.74%) Asset Management
4 22 (25.29%) Investment Management
5 19 (21.84%) DevOps
6 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 11 (12.64%) TDD
8 9 (10.34%) Line Management
8 9 (10.34%) Microservices
9 8 (9.20%) Analytics
9 8 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.20%) Prototyping
9 8 (9.20%) Scrum
9 8 (9.20%) Test Automation
9 8 (9.20%) Validation
10 7 (8.05%) API Development
10 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (43.68%) JavaScript
3 34 (39.08%) Python
4 30 (34.48%) TypeScript
5 18 (20.69%) C++
6 11 (12.64%) SQL
7 4 (4.60%) C#
7 4 (4.60%) PHP
7 4 (4.60%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.45%) Groovy
9 2 (2.30%) Ruby
9 2 (2.30%) Scala
10 1 (1.15%) Bash
10 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) MISRA
2 7 (8.05%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) Docker
2 7 (8.05%) Firmware
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Kubernetes
1 8 (9.20%) Podman
2 6 (6.90%) Ansible
2 6 (6.90%) Terraform
3 5 (5.75%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Google
2 7 (8.05%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.60%) ION Trading
4 3 (3.45%) Splunk
5 2 (2.30%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.30%) Solace
5 2 (2.30%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.15%) Databricks
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft