IntelliJ Contract Job Trends in London

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IntelliJ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 362 384
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +104
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 12 7 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.084% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.53% 0.34% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 19
10th Percentile - £558 £285
25th Percentile £500 £694 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £825 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.97% +83.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £540 £888 £813
90th Percentile £735 £933 £888
England median daily rate £500 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -21.57% +41.67% -22.75%

All Development Application Skills
London

IntelliJ falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,259 2,086 2,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.81% 13.84% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,542 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £356 £349 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 22
10th Percentile £38.80 £28.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.44 £41.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £50.75 £67.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +31.71% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75.31 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IntelliJ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

IntelliJ job vacancy trend in London

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IntelliJ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IntelliJ

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IntelliJ in London

IntelliJ
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IntelliJ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IntelliJ

IntelliJ
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IntelliJ within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
South London - 2 £850 -
Central London +1 1 - -
East London - 1 £540 -
IntelliJ
England

IntelliJ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Sentry
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (8.33%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (8.33%) Multicast
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) KDB
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Maven
1 5 (41.67%) Postman
2 4 (33.33%) Appium
2 4 (33.33%) Charles Proxy
2 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
2 4 (33.33%) XCUITest
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) Gradle
4 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (16.67%) GitLab
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (8.33%) Chocolatey
5 1 (8.33%) JMeter
5 1 (8.33%) NeoLoad
5 1 (8.33%) Selenium
5 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) German Language
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Backend Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Quantitative Developer
5 1 (8.33%) KDB Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (8.33%) Bazel
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) J2EE
3 1 (8.33%) JMS
3 1 (8.33%) JPA
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Sass
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (25.00%) Derivative
3 2 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (8.33%) Equities
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (8.33%) TWAP
4 1 (8.33%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Android
1 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) API Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Functional Programming
2 4 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) User Experience
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) UML
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 4 (33.33%) Swift
3 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) logstash
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle