Junior Java Developer Contracts in England

Junior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Junior Java Developer daily rate in England is £268, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 514 618
Rank change year-on-year +14 +104 +164
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Java Developer 3 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.033% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.036% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - £368 £376
25th Percentile - - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.53% -31.82% +72.55%
75th Percentile - £516 £575
90th Percentile - £575 -
UK median daily rate £268 £375 £550
% change year-on-year -28.53% -31.82% +72.55%

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Junior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Java Developer in England

Junior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Java Developer in England

Junior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Java Developer in England

Junior 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 Junior Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 August 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 +7 3 £268 -40.44% 3
Junior Java Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Junior 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 Junior Java Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Straight-Through Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Enablement
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) C#

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) J2SE
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Straight-Through Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Enablement
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker