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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 2,226 4,307 7,176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.05% 8.81% 10.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.48% 25.12% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 3,275 5,191
10th Percentile £400 £438 £425
25th Percentile £473 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +11.63%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £713
90th Percentile £850 £848 £800
UK median daily rate £564 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.04% +2.00% +12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 97 106
10th Percentile £44.85 £40.57 £32.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £48.87
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +3.15% +33.68%

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 10,870 17,144 25,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.57% 35.08% 36.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,899 12,520 19,102
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 422 451
10th Percentile £37.78 £26.08 £20.00
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year - +21.95% +19.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.95
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year -0.12% +23.43% +17.08%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 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 -7 1,468 £606 -6.73% 572
North of England -7 261 £505 -12.13% 111
South East -12 197 £575 +9.52% 120
North West +1 146 £495 -10.00% 75
Yorkshire +2 105 £525 -8.70% 26
South West -35 104 £550 - 125
Midlands -11 72 £504 -6.71% 69
East of England +16 69 £496 -9.28% 53
West Midlands -27 46 £525 -4.55% 45
East Midlands +10 26 £478 -13.05% 24
North East -21 10 £501 -12.96% 12
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
1 133 (5.97%) Apache
2 125 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 69 (3.10%) Confluence
4 15 (0.67%) Camunda
5 13 (0.58%) nginx
6 12 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.36%) Alfresco
8 8 (0.36%) CMS
8 8 (0.36%) JBoss
8 8 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) Appian
10 6 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.18%) IIS
12 4 (0.18%) Mule
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.045%) Sketch
6 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (0.90%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.54%) ION Anvil
3 9 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.36%) Endur
5 7 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
6 6 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
7 5 (0.22%) Shopify
7 5 (0.22%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) RMDS
9 3 (0.13%) Global One
9 3 (0.13%) Maximo
9 3 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.090%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.090%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.045%) BusinessWorks
11 1 (0.045%) Hyperion Planning
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 716 (32.17%) AWS
2 283 (12.71%) Azure
3 220 (9.88%) GCP
4 115 (5.17%) Serverless
5 112 (5.03%) GitHub
6 108 (4.85%) Snowflake
7 100 (4.49%) dbt
8 79 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 76 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 57 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 56 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (1.62%) Power Platform
14 33 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (1.44%) OpenShift
16 31 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
17 27 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (0.90%) SaaS
20 18 (0.81%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.39%) Firewall
2 29 (1.30%) DNS
3 24 (1.08%) Network Security
4 22 (0.99%) VPN
5 20 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.81%) DHCP
6 18 (0.81%) HTTP
7 14 (0.63%) Internet
8 11 (0.49%) SSL
9 10 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
10 9 (0.40%) SNMP
11 8 (0.36%) SSH
12 7 (0.31%) AMQP
13 6 (0.27%) FTP
14 5 (0.22%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.18%) BGP
15 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 4 (0.18%) WAN
16 3 (0.13%) IPv4
16 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.75%) Relational Database
3 112 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 111 (4.99%) Data Lake
5 109 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 108 (4.85%) Amazon Athena
7 107 (4.81%) MongoDB
8 99 (4.45%) Apache Arrow
8 99 (4.45%) Dremio
9 89 (4.00%) MySQL
10 85 (3.82%) Apache Ignite
11 68 (3.05%) Big Data
12 62 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
13 48 (2.16%) KDB
14 43 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
15 42 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
16 40 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (1.66%) Oracle Database
18 29 (1.30%) Hadoop
19 27 (1.21%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 282 (12.67%) Jenkins
2 244 (10.96%) Git
3 193 (8.67%) JIRA
4 179 (8.04%) Selenium
5 132 (5.93%) Cucumber
6 118 (5.30%) JUnit
7 78 (3.50%) GitLab
8 74 (3.32%) Maven
9 68 (3.05%) Mockito
10 54 (2.43%) Cypress.io
11 53 (2.38%) REST Assured
12 45 (2.02%) JMeter
13 42 (1.89%) Bitbucket
14 33 (1.48%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.44%) Postman
15 32 (1.44%) TestNG
16 27 (1.21%) WebDriver
17 25 (1.12%) Gradle
18 24 (1.08%) TeamCity
19 22 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 598 (26.86%) Finance
2 414 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 382 (17.16%) Banking
4 239 (10.74%) Front Office
5 229 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
6 183 (8.22%) Investment Banking
7 142 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 32 (1.44%) Financial Institution
8 32 (1.44%) Retail
9 31 (1.39%) Law
10 27 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.03%) Marketing
12 21 (0.94%) Back Office
13 16 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 16 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.63%) Police
15 11 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.45%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.36%) Automotive
17 8 (0.36%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,012 (45.46%) Developer
2 555 (24.93%) Java Developer
3 364 (16.35%) Senior
4 231 (10.38%) Software Engineer
5 194 (8.72%) Architect
6 191 (8.58%) Java Engineer
7 179 (8.04%) Senior Developer
8 171 (7.68%) Lead
9 128 (5.75%) Full Stack Developer
10 109 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 95 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 87 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (3.59%) Data Engineer
13 80 (3.59%) Software Developer
14 78 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
15 69 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
16 67 (3.01%) Java Architect
17 62 (2.79%) Analyst
17 62 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
18 61 (2.74%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (18.91%) Spring
2 351 (15.77%) Spring Boot
3 264 (11.86%) REST
4 262 (11.77%) React
5 212 (9.52%) Kafka
6 169 (7.59%) HTML
7 131 (5.88%) Node.js
8 130 (5.84%) CSS
9 129 (5.80%) RESTful
10 127 (5.71%) Web Services
11 118 (5.30%) .NET
12 109 (4.90%) AngularJS
13 105 (4.72%) gRPC
14 101 (4.54%) NumPy
14 101 (4.54%) Pandas
15 100 (4.49%) Protocol Buffers
16 98 (4.40%) Hibernate
17 97 (4.36%) SciPy
18 93 (4.18%) XML
19 84 (3.77%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 182 (8.18%) Fixed Income
2 163 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 159 (7.14%) Derivative
4 124 (5.57%) Hedge funds
5 119 (5.35%) Equities
6 112 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
7 88 (3.95%) Algorithms
8 64 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 62 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 58 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
11 42 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.84%) Public Cloud
13 40 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.62%) Onboarding
15 35 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.57%) Mobile App
16 33 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (1.26%) Cloud Native
18 21 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 238 (10.69%) Linux
2 150 (6.74%) Unix
3 86 (3.86%) Windows
4 69 (3.10%) Android
5 28 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.03%) Mac OS X
7 22 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 2 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.045%) CentOS
11 1 (0.045%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (36.39%) Agile
2 504 (22.64%) Software Engineering
3 455 (20.44%) DevOps
4 445 (19.99%) CI/CD
5 379 (17.03%) Test Automation
6 375 (16.85%) Microservices
7 307 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (10.65%) TDD
9 219 (9.84%) Scrum
10 218 (9.79%) Full Stack Development
11 203 (9.12%) SDLC
12 177 (7.95%) Computer Science
13 153 (6.87%) BDD
13 153 (6.87%) Continuous Integration
14 133 (5.97%) Unit Testing
15 124 (5.57%) OO
16 119 (5.35%) Analytics
17 115 (5.17%) Containerisation
17 115 (5.17%) Design Patterns
18 114 (5.12%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 713 (32.03%) Python
2 457 (20.53%) JavaScript
3 448 (20.13%) SQL
4 270 (12.13%) C#
5 231 (10.38%) TypeScript
6 169 (7.59%) C++
7 105 (4.72%) Scala
8 101 (4.54%) Go
9 98 (4.40%) Kotlin
10 80 (3.59%) C
11 78 (3.50%) PowerShell
12 77 (3.46%) Shell Script
13 56 (2.52%) Perl
14 46 (2.07%) Ruby
15 45 (2.02%) PHP
16 34 (1.53%) Bash
16 34 (1.53%) Groovy
17 32 (1.44%) PL/SQL
18 30 (1.35%) Rust
19 17 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 465 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 348 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 199 (8.94%) Degree
4 113 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 102 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.67%) PhD
8 14 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
9 11 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.36%) CISSP
11 7 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.27%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.27%) ISEB
13 4 (0.18%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.090%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.090%) CCNP
15 2 (0.090%) CREST Certified
15 2 (0.090%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.090%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.66%) QA
2 65 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 16 (0.72%) SLA
6 15 (0.67%) GDPR
7 13 (0.58%) MISRA
8 11 (0.49%) MiFID
9 10 (0.45%) WCAG
10 9 (0.40%) NIST
11 7 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.31%) GxP
12 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.18%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.090%) Basel III
15 2 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 2 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 290 (13.03%) Docker
2 59 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.17%) IAG
4 25 (1.12%) ACF2
4 25 (1.12%) RACF
5 19 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.45%) Firmware
9 8 (0.36%) HDFS
9 8 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.18%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.090%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.090%) vSphere
15 1 (0.045%) Cronacle
15 1 (0.045%) zsh
Systems Management
1 334 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 176 (7.91%) Terraform
3 113 (5.08%) Ansible
4 82 (3.68%) Grafana
5 70 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.90%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.76%) Podman
11 14 (0.63%) Puppet
12 12 (0.54%) Consul
13 10 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.45%) Opsgenie
13 10 (0.45%) SCCM
14 9 (0.40%) BladeLogic
15 8 (0.36%) Packer
15 8 (0.36%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
16 6 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 197 (8.85%) Oracle
2 130 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 111 (4.99%) Google
4 54 (2.43%) IBM
5 48 (2.16%) SAP
6 46 (2.07%) ION Trading
7 40 (1.80%) Splunk
8 37 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.08%) Sybase
12 23 (1.03%) Adobe
13 20 (0.90%) Informatica
14 19 (0.85%) VMware
15 18 (0.81%) New Relic
16 17 (0.76%) Databricks
17 16 (0.72%) Atlassian
18 12 (0.54%) Red Hat
18 12 (0.54%) Virgin Media
19 11 (0.49%) PagerDuty