GraalVM Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GraalVM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GraalVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GraalVM 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.030% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
UK median daily rate £540 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

GraalVM 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,215 2,885 3,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.09% 17.34% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 1,762 2,618
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £502 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.13% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 92 145
10th Percentile £30.95 £25.14 £45.11
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

GraalVM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GraalVM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GraalVM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraalVM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Midlands - 5 £540 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £540 - 1
GraalVM
UK

GraalVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Mockito
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (100.00%) OpenID
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Spring.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Coaching
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kibana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle