Java Software Engineer Contracts in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 460 552
Rank change year-on-year +62 +92 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 87 82 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 61 75
10th Percentile £509 £450 £448
25th Percentile £675 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £725 £580
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +25.00% -3.33%
75th Percentile £875 £875 £688
90th Percentile £888 £888 £749
UK median daily rate £750 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 18
10th Percentile £59.75 £67.25 £54.92
25th Percentile £63.13 - £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 £66.25 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -5.36% +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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £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 £643 £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 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +49 56 £800 - 64
South West +47 11 £519 +15.28% 4
South East +37 9 - - 30
North of England +23 9 £638 +6.25% 18
North West +19 7 - - 14
East of England +30 2 £485 -10.60% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £638 - 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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
1 87 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 54 (62.07%) AWS
2 54 (62.07%) Agile
3 52 (59.77%) Finance
4 41 (47.13%) Front Office
5 39 (44.83%) TypeScript
6 38 (43.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 38 (43.68%) Fixed Income
6 38 (43.68%) Equities
7 37 (42.53%) Asset Management
7 37 (42.53%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (42.53%) Amazon Athena
7 37 (42.53%) Dremio
7 37 (42.53%) dbt
7 37 (42.53%) Apache Arrow
7 37 (42.53%) Apache Iceberg
8 34 (39.08%) Banking
8 34 (39.08%) Python
9 32 (36.78%) Investment Banking
9 32 (36.78%) Derivative
10 31 (35.63%) Hedge funds
10 31 (35.63%) Apache
10 31 (35.63%) Snowflake
11 30 (34.48%) JavaScript
11 30 (34.48%) Security Cleared
12 29 (33.33%) SciPy
12 29 (33.33%) NumPy
12 29 (33.33%) Pandas
13 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared

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 37 (42.53%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (35.63%) Apache
3 3 (3.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 54 (62.07%) AWS
2 37 (42.53%) dbt
3 31 (35.63%) Snowflake
4 20 (22.99%) GCP
5 11 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (12.64%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (12.64%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (12.64%) Azure
5 11 (12.64%) Dagster
6 3 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.45%) Slack
7 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Serverless
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (42.53%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (42.53%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (42.53%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (42.53%) Dremio
2 23 (26.44%) Apache Ignite
2 23 (26.44%) Data Lake
3 21 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (13.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.15%) Apache Accumulo
7 1 (1.15%) Big Data
7 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.15%) KDB
7 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.94%) JUnit
3 12 (13.79%) Cucumber
3 12 (13.79%) JIRA
4 10 (11.49%) Gradle
4 10 (11.49%) Liquibase
4 10 (11.49%) Mockito
5 9 (10.34%) GitLab
5 9 (10.34%) REST Assured
5 9 (10.34%) Selenium
6 6 (6.90%) Git
7 5 (5.75%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.45%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 52 (59.77%) Finance
2 41 (47.13%) Front Office
3 34 (39.08%) Banking
4 32 (36.78%) Investment Banking
5 10 (11.49%) Electronics
5 10 (11.49%) Manufacturing
5 10 (11.49%) Marketing
5 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.49%) Telecoms
6 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
7 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.75%) Law
9 4 (4.60%) Police
10 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.15%) Military
11 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (33.33%) NumPy
1 29 (33.33%) Pandas
1 29 (33.33%) SciPy
2 23 (26.44%) gRPC
2 23 (26.44%) Protocol Buffers
3 19 (21.84%) PySpark
3 19 (21.84%) Spring
4 18 (20.69%) Spring Boot
5 17 (19.54%) React
6 14 (16.09%) Swagger
7 13 (14.94%) OpenAPI
8 12 (13.79%) Kafka
8 12 (13.79%) REST
9 9 (10.34%) Java EE
10 8 (9.20%) Middleware
10 8 (9.20%) Node.js
11 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
12 6 (6.90%) Vue
13 5 (5.75%) ARM Templates
13 5 (5.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (43.68%) Equities
1 38 (43.68%) Fixed Income
1 38 (43.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 32 (36.78%) Derivative
3 31 (35.63%) Hedge funds
4 12 (13.79%) Pricing Data
5 3 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 54 (62.07%) Agile
3 37 (42.53%) Asset Management
4 24 (27.59%) DevOps
5 23 (26.44%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (25.29%) Migration
7 20 (22.99%) TDD
8 19 (21.84%) Containerisation
9 18 (20.69%) Investment Management
9 18 (20.69%) Microservices
10 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
11 13 (14.94%) Test Automation
12 11 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (11.49%) Digital Marketing
13 10 (11.49%) Programme Management
14 9 (10.34%) Configuration Management
14 9 (10.34%) Software Architecture
15 8 (9.20%) Data Management
16 6 (6.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (44.83%) TypeScript
3 34 (39.08%) Python
4 30 (34.48%) JavaScript
5 23 (26.44%) SQL
6 8 (9.20%) Ada
7 3 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Perl
8 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) Def Stans
1 8 (9.20%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 7 (8.05%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (5.75%) Podman
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) SAP
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle
3 1 (1.15%) Confluent
3 1 (1.15%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.15%) MKS
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
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