IntelliJ Contracts in the UK excluding London

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IntelliJ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IntelliJ over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 380 395
Rank change year-on-year +50 +15 +97
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 33 8 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.040% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.60% 0.35% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 4 23
10th Percentile £289 £498 £436
25th Percentile £343 £644 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £775 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +47.62% -2.78%
75th Percentile £534 £825 £575
90th Percentile £575 - £613
UK median daily rate £510 £800 £550
% change year-on-year -36.25% +45.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,058 2,274 2,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.81% 11.43% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,393 1,430 2,047
10th Percentile £313 £341 £338
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 202 167
10th Percentile £21.57 £40.00 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.56 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +6.96%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.98 £73.98 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.15% +4.00% +13.64%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IntelliJ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IntelliJ in the UK excluding London

IntelliJ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IntelliJ in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IntelliJ in the UK excluding London

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK excluding London

IntelliJ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IntelliJ in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IntelliJ in the UK excluding London

IntelliJ
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 IntelliJ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
North of England - 14 £520 -
Scotland - 12 £500 - 3
Yorkshire - 9 £520 -
East Midlands +6 7 £333 -55.60%
Midlands -2 7 £333 -55.60%
North West - 5 £340 -
South East +38 2 £285 -64.38% 1
IntelliJ
UK

IntelliJ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) CICS
3 2 (6.06%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) GitHub
2 17 (51.52%) AWS
3 12 (36.36%) Azure
4 11 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (18.18%) SaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) DB2
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) Aerospike
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (72.73%) JIRA
2 23 (69.70%) Git
2 23 (69.70%) Jenkins
3 18 (54.55%) Maven
4 16 (48.48%) Selenium
5 13 (39.39%) Bitbucket
6 12 (36.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (33.33%) JUnit
7 11 (33.33%) PyCharm
7 11 (33.33%) Visual Studio
8 8 (24.24%) Gradle
8 8 (24.24%) HP UFT
9 7 (21.21%) Cucumber
10 5 (15.15%) Postman
11 4 (12.12%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (12.12%) Eclipse
11 4 (12.12%) NetBeans
11 4 (12.12%) Subversion
12 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
13 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Tester
3 7 (21.21%) Automation Tester
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Python Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Python Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Test Manager
7 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.03%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.03%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Spring
2 6 (18.18%) J2EE
2 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.15%) Hibernate
3 5 (15.15%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) Web Services
4 4 (12.12%) Ajax
4 4 (12.12%) HTML
4 4 (12.12%) Spring Integration
4 4 (12.12%) Spring MVC
5 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.09%) Bootstrap
5 3 (9.09%) CSS
5 3 (9.09%) HTML5
5 3 (9.09%) jQuery
5 3 (9.09%) Node.js
6 1 (3.03%) JDBC
6 1 (3.03%) JSP
6 1 (3.03%) JSTL
6 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Public Cloud
2 7 (21.21%) Virtual Team
3 6 (18.18%) Mainframe
4 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
5 3 (9.09%) VSAM
6 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Windows
2 12 (36.36%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) Test Automation
2 20 (60.61%) DevOps
3 18 (54.55%) Agile
3 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 15 (45.45%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (36.36%) SDLC
6 11 (33.33%) Code Quality
7 9 (27.27%) Build Automation
7 9 (27.27%) Software Testing
8 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.21%) Test Strategy
10 6 (18.18%) TDD
11 5 (15.15%) API Testing
11 5 (15.15%) Issue Tracking
11 5 (15.15%) Microservices
12 4 (12.12%) API Development
12 4 (12.12%) Case Management
12 4 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (12.12%) Data Privacy
12 4 (12.12%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 13 (39.39%) C#
4 12 (36.36%) Python
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
7 3 (9.09%) COBOL
7 3 (9.09%) JCL
8 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Ansible
1 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 12 (36.36%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Progress Chef
2 4 (12.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Veracode