Java Developer Contracts in England

Java Developer
UK > England

The median Java Developer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 78 65
Rank change year-on-year -89 -13 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 544 1,562 2,615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.46% 3.07% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 3.24% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 1,289 2,084
10th Percentile £400 £469 £450
25th Percentile £478 £545 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £743
90th Percentile £888 £863 £838
UK median daily rate £575 £670 £600
% change year-on-year -14.18% +11.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 20
10th Percentile £35.00 £63.21 £49.63
25th Percentile £36.25 £70.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.75% +27.16% -
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £73.19
90th Percentile £69.63 £79.50 £77.46
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +7.62%

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 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in England

Java Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 -54 400 £650 -7.14% 87
North of England -10 64 £525 -12.50% 15
South East -28 47 £500 -4.76% 20
North West +12 37 £525 -4.55% 9
Yorkshire +6 25 £544 -9.38% 4
Midlands +31 20 £475 -17.39% 6
West Midlands +38 17 £475 -32.14% 5
East of England +3 8 £541 -18.34% 4
South West -33 8 £338 -36.92% 9
East Midlands +6 3 £511 -20.58% 1
North East -7 2 £475 -26.88% 2
Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 544 (100.00%) Java
2 223 (40.99%) Agile
3 192 (35.29%) Spring
4 168 (30.88%) AWS
5 164 (30.15%) Spring Boot
6 162 (29.78%) Finance
7 143 (26.29%) Microservices
8 124 (22.79%) Banking
9 119 (21.88%) Security Cleared
10 112 (20.59%) CI/CD
11 109 (20.04%) SC Cleared
12 99 (18.20%) TDD
13 94 (17.28%) REST
14 91 (16.73%) Kafka
14 91 (16.73%) Front Office
14 91 (16.73%) Social Skills
15 87 (15.99%) DevOps
16 84 (15.44%) Docker
17 82 (15.07%) SQL
18 81 (14.89%) Jenkins
19 77 (14.15%) Software Engineering
20 74 (13.60%) Investment Banking
21 72 (13.24%) Kubernetes
22 68 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
23 65 (11.95%) Hibernate
23 65 (11.95%) Scrum
24 63 (11.58%) Python
25 62 (11.40%) Full Stack Development
26 59 (10.85%) JUnit
27 58 (10.66%) JavaScript

Java Developer 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 30 (5.51%) Apache
2 13 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.39%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.39%) Confluence
3 7 (1.29%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.92%) JBoss
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
4 5 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.74%) Mule
6 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) CICS
7 1 (0.18%) GemFire
7 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.18%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (30.88%) AWS
2 53 (9.74%) GCP
3 35 (6.43%) Azure
4 32 (5.88%) Serverless
5 25 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (4.23%) Amazon S3
7 18 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (2.39%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (2.39%) dbt
10 12 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (1.65%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.47%) GitHub
12 8 (1.47%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (0.92%) Amazon EventBridge
15 4 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.92%) Firewall
1 5 (0.92%) SSH
1 5 (0.92%) VPN
2 3 (0.55%) HTTP
2 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.18%) FTP
3 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (7.90%) MongoDB
3 35 (6.43%) Relational Database
4 26 (4.78%) KDB
5 21 (3.86%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.68%) Oracle Database
7 18 (3.31%) SQL Server
8 15 (2.76%) MySQL
9 14 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (2.39%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (2.39%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (2.39%) Dremio
10 13 (2.39%) Flink
11 9 (1.65%) Couchbase
11 9 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.10%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 59 (10.85%) JUnit
3 55 (10.11%) Git
4 44 (8.09%) Mockito
5 38 (6.99%) JIRA
6 33 (6.07%) Cucumber
7 32 (5.88%) GitLab
8 24 (4.41%) Maven
9 16 (2.94%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.39%) Selenium
11 9 (1.65%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.47%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.29%) Liquibase
14 6 (1.10%) TestNG
15 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.92%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.74%) EasyMock
16 4 (0.74%) Gradle
16 4 (0.74%) Log4j
16 4 (0.74%) Sourcetree
General
1 162 (29.78%) Finance
2 124 (22.79%) Banking
3 91 (16.73%) Front Office
3 91 (16.73%) Social Skills
4 74 (13.60%) Investment Banking
5 49 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (8.09%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.47%) Law
9 4 (0.74%) Automotive
9 4 (0.74%) Back Office
9 4 (0.74%) Police
9 4 (0.74%) Retail
9 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.37%) Electronics
10 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.18%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.18%) Marketing
11 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (35.29%) Spring
2 164 (30.15%) Spring Boot
3 94 (17.28%) REST
4 91 (16.73%) Kafka
5 65 (11.95%) Hibernate
6 52 (9.56%) React
7 49 (9.01%) JPA
8 35 (6.43%) HTML
9 34 (6.25%) RESTful
9 34 (6.25%) Web Services
10 31 (5.70%) JAX-RS
11 29 (5.33%) AngularJS
11 29 (5.33%) Node.js
12 27 (4.96%) ActiveMQ
13 25 (4.60%) CSS
14 23 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
15 17 (3.13%) J2EE
15 17 (3.13%) SAML
16 16 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
16 16 (2.94%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.93%) Fixed Income
2 47 (8.64%) Derivative
3 41 (7.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.04%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.86%) Credit Derivative
8 20 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (3.68%) Hedge funds
9 18 (3.31%) Algorithms
9 18 (3.31%) Equities
10 14 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (2.57%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.57%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.21%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.84%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.65%) Market Risk
14 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.11%) Linux
2 45 (8.27%) Unix
3 18 (3.31%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.65%) Windows
5 3 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (40.99%) Agile
2 143 (26.29%) Microservices
3 112 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 99 (18.20%) TDD
5 87 (15.99%) DevOps
6 77 (14.15%) Software Engineering
7 68 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (11.95%) Scrum
9 62 (11.40%) Full Stack Development
10 58 (10.66%) SDLC
10 58 (10.66%) Test Automation
11 55 (10.11%) Electronic Trading
12 48 (8.82%) BDD
12 48 (8.82%) Computer Science
13 47 (8.64%) Multithreading
14 43 (7.90%) Continuous Integration
15 40 (7.35%) Low Latency
15 40 (7.35%) Mentoring
16 32 (5.88%) Front End Development
16 32 (5.88%) OO
Programming Languages
1 544 (100.00%) Java
2 82 (15.07%) SQL
3 63 (11.58%) Python
4 58 (10.66%) JavaScript
5 39 (7.17%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.31%) Perl
7 17 (3.13%) Scala
8 15 (2.76%) C#
9 12 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.21%) PHP
10 10 (1.84%) C++
10 10 (1.84%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.74%) Bash
12 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.74%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) Go
13 2 (0.37%) Groovy
13 2 (0.37%) Haskell
13 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 119 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 109 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.46%) Degree
4 27 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.29%) PhD
8 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.18%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.21%) QA
2 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.92%) MiFID
3 4 (0.74%) Dodd-Frank
4 3 (0.55%) WCAG
5 2 (0.37%) SLA
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (15.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) GridGain
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
3 1 (0.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 72 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.07%) Terraform
3 20 (3.68%) Ansible
4 13 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.47%) Grafana
6 7 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.10%) Podman
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Kibana
8 2 (0.37%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 54 (9.93%) Oracle
2 30 (5.51%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.15%) Google
4 21 (3.86%) ION Trading
5 8 (1.47%) Solace
6 7 (1.29%) IBM
7 6 (1.10%) Splunk
8 5 (0.92%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.55%) Sybase
9 3 (0.55%) Tradeweb
9 3 (0.55%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.37%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.37%) SAP
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe
11 1 (0.18%) Reuters