Java Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -10
Contract jobs citing Java 912 1,522 2,158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.45% 6.50% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.01% 22.43% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 1,073 1,423
10th Percentile £375 £413 £405
25th Percentile £425 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +2.86% +11.70%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £565 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -5.83% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 89 86
10th Percentile £41.04 £48.33 £35.90
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 £48.87
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +2.77% +40.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £73.44
90th Percentile £74.95 £75.00 £76.82
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +3.15% +33.68%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,797 6,785 8,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.43% 29.00% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,802 6,091
10th Percentile £318 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +2.46% +14.82%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 342 339
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.57 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £30.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.98 £67.99
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
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 Java within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 -7 261 £505 -12.13% 106
South East -13 197 £575 +9.52% 115
Scotland -7 196 £470 -5.29% 83
North West +1 146 £495 -10.00% 71
Yorkshire +2 105 £525 -8.70% 25
South West -35 103 £550 - 125
Midlands -14 72 £504 -8.41% 74
East of England +18 70 £496 -8.61% 52
West Midlands -26 46 £525 -4.55% 51
East Midlands +12 26 £478 -13.05% 23
Wales +11 10 £488 -2.50% 11
North East -21 10 £501 -12.96% 12
Northern Ireland -3 9 £550 -4.35% 35
Java
UK

Java
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 42 (4.61%) Confluence
2 33 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.41%) Apache
4 20 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.77%) Alfresco
5 7 (0.77%) Appian
5 7 (0.77%) Camunda
6 6 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.66%) SAS
7 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) CMS
8 4 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) Mule
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.33%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.33%) Maximo
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 317 (34.76%) AWS
2 124 (13.60%) Azure
3 55 (6.03%) Serverless
4 54 (5.92%) GCP
5 48 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 40 (4.39%) GitHub
7 39 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (2.85%) OpenShift
9 24 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 19 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (1.75%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.54%) SaaS
15 10 (1.10%) Apigee
16 9 (0.99%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (0.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.30%) Firewall
2 16 (1.75%) VPN
3 14 (1.54%) HTTP
3 14 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.43%) DNS
5 11 (1.21%) Network Security
6 10 (1.10%) DHCP
6 10 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
7 9 (0.99%) SNMP
7 9 (0.99%) SSL
8 6 (0.66%) SAN
9 5 (0.55%) AMQP
9 5 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (0.55%) FTP
9 5 (0.55%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.33%) 5G
10 3 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.33%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.89%) Relational Database
2 64 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.04%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 33 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 32 (3.51%) MySQL
7 25 (2.74%) Oracle Database
8 21 (2.30%) Big Data
9 18 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 16 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (1.64%) DB2
12 14 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.54%) Hadoop
13 13 (1.43%) Power BI
14 12 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (0.99%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.88%) Couchbase
17 8 (0.88%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 167 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 124 (13.60%) JIRA
3 114 (12.50%) Git
4 81 (8.88%) Selenium
5 71 (7.79%) Cucumber
6 64 (7.02%) JUnit
7 38 (4.17%) GitLab
8 30 (3.29%) Maven
8 30 (3.29%) REST Assured
9 26 (2.85%) Mockito
9 26 (2.85%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.52%) Bitbucket
11 21 (2.30%) GoogleTest
11 21 (2.30%) JMeter
12 20 (2.19%) Cypress.io
13 19 (2.08%) Postman
14 17 (1.86%) Eclipse
15 15 (1.64%) Android Studio
16 9 (0.99%) Gradle
16 9 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 183 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 103 (11.29%) Finance
3 93 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 57 (6.25%) Banking
6 24 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (2.63%) Law
7 14 (1.54%) Police
8 13 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.99%) Back Office
12 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Automotive
15 5 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.55%) Retail
16 4 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 414 (45.39%) Developer
2 254 (27.85%) Java Developer
3 104 (11.40%) Senior
4 90 (9.87%) Software Engineer
5 89 (9.76%) Java Engineer
6 85 (9.32%) Architect
7 59 (6.47%) Full Stack Developer
8 45 (4.93%) Senior Developer
9 44 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (4.61%) Lead
11 41 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
12 37 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (4.06%) Senior Java Developer
13 36 (3.95%) Full Stack Engineer
14 33 (3.62%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.18%) Java Architect
16 25 (2.74%) Java Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.74%) Test Engineer
16 25 (2.74%) Tester
17 23 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (26.64%) Spring
2 193 (21.16%) Spring Boot
3 164 (17.98%) REST
4 141 (15.46%) React
5 104 (11.40%) Kafka
6 98 (10.75%) RESTful
7 92 (10.09%) HTML
8 76 (8.33%) CSS
9 71 (7.79%) AngularJS
10 61 (6.69%) Node.js
11 50 (5.48%) Web Services
12 40 (4.39%) JPA
13 34 (3.73%) .NET
13 34 (3.73%) Hibernate
13 34 (3.73%) JSON
14 31 (3.40%) Java EE
15 30 (3.29%) XML
16 27 (2.96%) OAuth
17 24 (2.63%) J2EE
18 22 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
1 47 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 30 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 29 (3.18%) Public Cloud
4 25 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 22 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.97%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 9 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.77%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.55%) DataPower
14 5 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 111 (12.17%) Linux
2 56 (6.14%) Unix
3 44 (4.82%) Windows
4 40 (4.39%) Android
5 15 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.66%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (39.69%) Agile
2 211 (23.14%) DevOps
3 209 (22.92%) Software Engineering
4 201 (22.04%) CI/CD
5 187 (20.50%) Microservices
6 159 (17.43%) Test Automation
7 141 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 126 (13.82%) Scrum
9 117 (12.83%) Full Stack Development
10 103 (11.29%) TDD
11 88 (9.65%) SDLC
12 78 (8.55%) Unit Testing
13 69 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
14 65 (7.13%) Computer Science
15 64 (7.02%) OO
16 62 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
17 57 (6.25%) Containerisation
18 55 (6.03%) Mentoring
19 52 (5.70%) BDD
20 50 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 229 (25.11%) Python
2 178 (19.52%) JavaScript
3 168 (18.42%) SQL
4 89 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 76 (8.33%) Scala
6 64 (7.02%) C#
7 58 (6.36%) C++
8 49 (5.37%) C
9 44 (4.82%) Kotlin
10 31 (3.40%) PHP
11 28 (3.07%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.85%) Go
13 22 (2.41%) Perl
14 20 (2.19%) Bash
14 20 (2.19%) Groovy
15 16 (1.75%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.75%) Ruby
16 14 (1.54%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.99%) R
18 4 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 218 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 127 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 57 (6.25%) Degree
5 39 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.33%) PhD
10 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.22%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.22%) ISEB
10 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.59%) QA
2 40 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 14 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.43%) MISRA
6 10 (1.10%) WCAG
7 9 (0.99%) GDPR
8 8 (0.88%) NIST
9 6 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (0.66%) GxP
10 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.33%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (15.68%) Docker
2 14 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.99%) Firmware
5 8 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.55%) NFS
8 4 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.44%) GPFS
8 4 (0.44%) HDFS
9 3 (0.33%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.33%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.11%) ACF2
11 1 (0.11%) IAG
11 1 (0.11%) RACF
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 137 (15.02%) Kubernetes
2 78 (8.55%) Terraform
3 59 (6.47%) Ansible
4 38 (4.17%) Grafana
5 24 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
7 16 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.32%) Kibana
8 12 (1.32%) Podman
9 11 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.10%) SCCM
11 8 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.88%) Zipkin
12 4 (0.44%) Puppet
12 4 (0.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
13 3 (0.33%) Istio
13 3 (0.33%) Nagios
14 2 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
15 1 (0.11%) FreeIPA
15 1 (0.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 64 (7.02%) Oracle
2 60 (6.58%) Google
3 50 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.74%) IBM
5 14 (1.54%) Databricks
5 14 (1.54%) VMware
6 13 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.43%) Informatica
6 13 (1.43%) SAP
7 11 (1.21%) Pega
8 10 (1.10%) Splunk
9 9 (0.99%) Talend
10 7 (0.77%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.77%) Veeam
11 6 (0.66%) Adobe
11 6 (0.66%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.55%) F5
12 5 (0.55%) Sybase
12 5 (0.55%) TSYS
13 4 (0.44%) Cisco