Quarkus Contract Job Trends in the South East

Quarkus
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Quarkus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 - 191
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Quarkus 14 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.24% - 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £575
75th Percentile £519 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +20.59% -26.09% +19.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Quarkus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 848 493 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.57% 16.43% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 313 464
10th Percentile £326 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £619
90th Percentile £688 £663 £659
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 37
10th Percentile £41.84 £29.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -8.69% -4.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £70.00
90th Percentile - £67.78 £76.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Quarkus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quarkus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Quarkus job vacancy trend in the South East

Quarkus
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Quarkus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Quarkus

Quarkus
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Quarkus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Quarkus

Quarkus
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quarkus within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2026. 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
Surrey - 14 £513 - 2
Quarkus
England

Quarkus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.14%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 14 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 13 (92.86%) Front End Development
2 13 (92.86%) Scrum
2 13 (92.86%) SDLC
2 13 (92.86%) Software Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
3 12 (85.71%) Sprint Planning
3 12 (85.71%) Sprint Review
4 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
4 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Argo
1 14 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Red Hat