Java Contracts in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 2,158 4,581 7,232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.84% 9.06% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.94% 25.63% 27.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 3,480 5,240
10th Percentile £400 £438 £425
25th Percentile £473 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £741 £713
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 101 93
10th Percentile £43.19 £40.00 £28.65
25th Percentile £50.75 £53.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70.31 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £77.29
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
England

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in England

Java
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -9 1,430 £600 -7.69% 563
North of England -5 256 £500 -11.46% 121
South East -17 190 £575 +9.52% 134
North West -3 145 £495 -10.00% 76
Yorkshire +6 101 £525 -4.55% 25
South West -53 88 £575 +4.55% 109
East of England +25 70 £490 -9.76% 49
Midlands -28 69 £504 -6.71% 74
West Midlands -22 47 £525 -4.55% 57
East Midlands +4 22 £489 -9.02% 17
North East -24 10 £501 -12.96% 22
Java
UK

Java
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
1 121 (5.61%) Apache
2 108 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 69 (3.20%) Confluence
5 14 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.60%) Camunda
7 12 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.51%) CMS
9 10 (0.46%) nginx
10 9 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 8 (0.37%) Alfresco
11 8 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.32%) Appian
12 7 (0.32%) JBoss
12 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.28%) SAS
14 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.19%) IIS
15 4 (0.19%) Mule
Applications
1 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.046%) Sketch
6 1 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (0.88%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.56%) ION Anvil
3 9 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.28%) Endur
5 6 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
5 6 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
6 5 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.23%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.14%) Global One
8 3 (0.14%) Maximo
9 2 (0.093%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.093%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.093%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.093%) RMDS
9 2 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.046%) SAP CX
10 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 683 (31.65%) AWS
2 269 (12.47%) Azure
3 201 (9.31%) GCP
4 109 (5.05%) GitHub
4 109 (5.05%) Serverless
5 86 (3.99%) Snowflake
6 84 (3.89%) Amazon S3
7 81 (3.75%) dbt
8 74 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
10 56 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (1.62%) Power Platform
13 34 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (1.48%) OpenShift
15 29 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
16 28 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.53%) DNS
1 33 (1.53%) Firewall
2 23 (1.07%) Network Security
3 21 (0.97%) VPN
4 20 (0.93%) HTTP
4 20 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.88%) DHCP
6 18 (0.83%) Internet
7 11 (0.51%) SSL
8 10 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
9 9 (0.42%) SNMP
10 7 (0.32%) SSH
11 6 (0.28%) FTP
12 5 (0.23%) AMQP
12 5 (0.23%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.19%) BGP
13 4 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.19%) WAN
14 3 (0.14%) IPv4
14 3 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (5.84%) Relational Database
3 110 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 109 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 104 (4.82%) MongoDB
6 92 (4.26%) MySQL
7 91 (4.22%) Data Lake
8 90 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
9 80 (3.71%) Apache Arrow
9 80 (3.71%) Dremio
10 70 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
11 66 (3.06%) Big Data
12 56 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
13 44 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
14 43 (1.99%) KDB
15 42 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
15 42 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
16 38 (1.76%) Oracle Database
17 31 (1.44%) Hadoop
18 28 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 283 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 245 (11.35%) Git
3 181 (8.39%) JIRA
4 174 (8.06%) Selenium
5 135 (6.26%) Cucumber
6 118 (5.47%) JUnit
7 80 (3.71%) GitLab
8 69 (3.20%) Maven
9 68 (3.15%) Mockito
10 54 (2.50%) REST Assured
11 51 (2.36%) Cypress.io
12 42 (1.95%) JMeter
13 40 (1.85%) Bitbucket
14 33 (1.53%) SonarQube
14 33 (1.53%) TestNG
15 32 (1.48%) Postman
16 27 (1.25%) WebDriver
17 25 (1.16%) Gradle
18 24 (1.11%) TeamCity
19 23 (1.07%) Subversion
General
1 549 (25.44%) Finance
2 411 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 360 (16.68%) Banking
4 227 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (10.33%) Front Office
6 172 (7.97%) Investment Banking
7 149 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 33 (1.53%) Law
9 32 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 31 (1.44%) Retail
11 27 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.07%) Marketing
13 22 (1.02%) Back Office
14 18 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 17 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.65%) Electronics
16 14 (0.65%) Police
17 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,000 (46.34%) Developer
2 546 (25.30%) Java Developer
3 352 (16.31%) Senior
4 207 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 177 (8.20%) Senior Developer
6 169 (7.83%) Architect
7 163 (7.55%) Java Engineer
8 160 (7.41%) Lead
9 126 (5.84%) Full Stack Developer
10 103 (4.77%) Senior Java Developer
11 81 (3.75%) Data Engineer
12 75 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 75 (3.48%) Software Developer
13 74 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
14 69 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
15 64 (2.97%) Java Architect
16 63 (2.92%) Analyst
17 60 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
17 60 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
18 57 (2.64%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (18.63%) Spring
2 334 (15.48%) Spring Boot
3 254 (11.77%) REST
4 239 (11.08%) React
5 211 (9.78%) Kafka
6 167 (7.74%) HTML
7 138 (6.39%) RESTful
8 134 (6.21%) Web Services
9 127 (5.89%) Node.js
10 126 (5.84%) CSS
11 107 (4.96%) .NET
12 105 (4.87%) AngularJS
13 96 (4.45%) Hibernate
14 91 (4.22%) XML
15 87 (4.03%) NumPy
15 87 (4.03%) Pandas
16 84 (3.89%) gRPC
16 84 (3.89%) JPA
16 84 (3.89%) Protocol Buffers
17 82 (3.80%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 165 (7.65%) Fixed Income
2 139 (6.44%) Derivative
3 135 (6.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 108 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (4.68%) Equities
6 97 (4.49%) Hedge funds
7 85 (3.94%) Algorithms
8 59 (2.73%) Data Structures
9 58 (2.69%) Product Ownership
10 48 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (2.04%) Onboarding
12 41 (1.90%) Management Information System
13 40 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
14 37 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
15 33 (1.53%) Public Cloud
15 33 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (1.48%) Mobile App
17 28 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
18 26 (1.20%) Cloud Native
19 22 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 227 (10.52%) Linux
2 150 (6.95%) Unix
3 87 (4.03%) Windows
4 61 (2.83%) Android
5 23 (1.07%) Mac OS X
6 22 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 2 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.093%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.046%) CentOS
11 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (35.68%) Agile
2 469 (21.73%) Software Engineering
3 436 (20.20%) DevOps
4 430 (19.93%) CI/CD
5 362 (16.77%) Microservices
6 359 (16.64%) Test Automation
7 314 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
8 220 (10.19%) Scrum
9 215 (9.96%) TDD
10 213 (9.87%) Full Stack Development
11 191 (8.85%) SDLC
12 172 (7.97%) Computer Science
13 148 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
14 146 (6.77%) BDD
15 125 (5.79%) Unit Testing
16 122 (5.65%) Analytics
17 119 (5.51%) OO
18 114 (5.28%) Design Patterns
19 111 (5.14%) Mentoring
20 109 (5.05%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 682 (31.60%) Python
2 442 (20.48%) JavaScript
3 434 (20.11%) SQL
4 277 (12.84%) C#
5 213 (9.87%) TypeScript
6 153 (7.09%) C++
7 104 (4.82%) Scala
8 98 (4.54%) Kotlin
9 93 (4.31%) Go
10 80 (3.71%) PowerShell
10 80 (3.71%) Shell Script
11 71 (3.29%) C
12 56 (2.59%) Perl
13 51 (2.36%) Ruby
14 47 (2.18%) PHP
15 34 (1.58%) Groovy
16 31 (1.44%) Bash
16 31 (1.44%) PL/SQL
17 29 (1.34%) Rust
18 17 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 461 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 346 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 196 (9.08%) Degree
4 113 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 102 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.70%) PhD
8 14 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.32%) CISSP
11 6 (0.28%) ISEB
12 5 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.23%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.14%) CCNP
15 2 (0.093%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.093%) CREST Certified
15 2 (0.093%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.79%) QA
2 59 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.74%) SLA
6 15 (0.70%) GDPR
7 12 (0.56%) MiFID
8 10 (0.46%) WCAG
9 9 (0.42%) NIST
10 7 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.32%) GxP
11 6 (0.28%) MISRA
12 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.093%) Basel III
14 2 (0.093%) IFRS
14 2 (0.093%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 1 (0.046%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 282 (13.07%) Docker
2 56 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.44%) IAG
4 28 (1.30%) ACF2
4 28 (1.30%) RACF
5 19 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.46%) Firmware
9 9 (0.42%) HDFS
10 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
13 4 (0.19%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.14%) OpenIDM
15 2 (0.093%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.093%) vSphere
16 1 (0.046%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.046%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 323 (14.97%) Kubernetes
2 168 (7.78%) Terraform
3 116 (5.38%) Ansible
4 76 (3.52%) Grafana
5 59 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
6 23 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.83%) Kibana
9 15 (0.70%) Podman
9 15 (0.70%) Puppet
10 11 (0.51%) Consul
11 10 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 10 (0.46%) SCCM
12 9 (0.42%) BladeLogic
12 9 (0.42%) Opsgenie
13 8 (0.37%) Packer
13 8 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
15 6 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 197 (9.13%) Oracle
2 131 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 99 (4.59%) Google
4 53 (2.46%) IBM
5 48 (2.22%) SAP
6 40 (1.85%) ION Trading
7 39 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.71%) Splunk
9 34 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.34%) Dynatrace
10 29 (1.34%) Sybase
11 27 (1.25%) Adobe
12 21 (0.97%) Informatica
13 19 (0.88%) VMware
14 18 (0.83%) New Relic
15 17 (0.79%) Atlassian
16 16 (0.74%) Databricks
17 12 (0.56%) Talend
18 11 (0.51%) Cisco
18 11 (0.51%) Red Hat