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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 910 1,577 2,178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.43% 6.60% 7.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.84% 22.73% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 1,115 1,452
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 91 81
10th Percentile £40.20 £48.48 £32.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year - +13.68% +25.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.80 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% +26.32%

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 4,829 6,937 8,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 29.03% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 4,944 6,223
10th Percentile £317 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.46% +14.82%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 342 337
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.57 £17.27
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.76 £29.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +17.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.45 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -7 257 £500 -12.24% 129
Scotland -4 210 £475 -4.28% 71
South East -15 193 £575 +9.52% 128
North West -1 145 £495 -10.00% 85
Yorkshire -1 102 £525 -8.70% 28
South West -39 96 £569 +3.41% 109
East of England +18 70 £495 -8.16% 55
Midlands -16 69 £500 -7.41% 78
West Midlands -23 46 £525 -4.55% 54
East Midlands +10 23 £453 -17.73% 24
Wales +7 11 £475 -2.56% 12
Northern Ireland -3 10 £550 - 25
North East -26 10 £501 -12.96% 18
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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 32 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.42%) Apache
4 21 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.88%) SAS
6 7 (0.77%) Alfresco
6 7 (0.77%) Appian
6 7 (0.77%) Camunda
6 7 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.55%) CMS
8 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.44%) IIS
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Mule
9 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.33%) nginx
10 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
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
1 320 (35.16%) AWS
2 117 (12.86%) Azure
3 58 (6.37%) Serverless
4 52 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 45 (4.95%) GCP
6 44 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (4.07%) GitHub
8 31 (3.41%) OpenShift
9 25 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (1.87%) Power Platform
14 14 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.54%) SaaS
15 11 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (1.10%) Apigee
16 10 (1.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.31%) Firewall
2 20 (2.20%) HTTP
2 20 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 16 (1.76%) VPN
4 15 (1.65%) SSL
5 13 (1.43%) DNS
6 11 (1.21%) Network Security
7 10 (1.10%) DHCP
7 10 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
8 9 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (0.99%) SNMP
9 7 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (0.77%) iSCSI
9 7 (0.77%) NetScaler
10 6 (0.66%) SAN
11 5 (0.55%) AMQP
11 5 (0.55%) FTP
12 3 (0.33%) BGP
12 3 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.91%) Relational Database
2 69 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 42 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 35 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.97%) MySQL
7 25 (2.75%) Oracle Database
8 21 (2.31%) Big Data
9 18 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (1.87%) DB2
11 16 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.54%) Power BI
13 13 (1.43%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.88%) Couchbase
16 8 (0.88%) GIS
Development Applications
1 178 (19.56%) Jenkins
2 119 (13.08%) Git
3 116 (12.75%) JIRA
4 76 (8.35%) Selenium
5 73 (8.02%) Cucumber
6 66 (7.25%) JUnit
7 40 (4.40%) GitLab
8 32 (3.52%) Maven
9 29 (3.19%) REST Assured
10 26 (2.86%) Mockito
10 26 (2.86%) SonarQube
11 25 (2.75%) Cypress.io
12 22 (2.42%) Bitbucket
13 20 (2.20%) JMeter
14 19 (2.09%) Postman
15 18 (1.98%) GoogleTest
16 17 (1.87%) Eclipse
17 15 (1.65%) Android Studio
18 10 (1.10%) Gradle
19 9 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 185 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 101 (11.10%) Finance
3 91 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.15%) Banking
6 24 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (2.64%) Law
7 14 (1.54%) Police
8 13 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.99%) Back Office
11 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Automotive
14 6 (0.66%) Retail
15 5 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 420 (46.15%) Developer
2 257 (28.24%) Java Developer
3 105 (11.54%) Senior
4 86 (9.45%) Java Engineer
5 84 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 82 (9.01%) Architect
7 65 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
8 46 (5.05%) Senior Developer
9 43 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (4.62%) Lead
11 39 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 38 (4.18%) Java Software Engineer
12 38 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
13 36 (3.96%) Full Stack Engineer
14 34 (3.74%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.19%) Java Architect
16 26 (2.86%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 25 (2.75%) Java Solutions Architect
18 24 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
18 24 (2.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (26.37%) Spring
2 191 (20.99%) Spring Boot
3 176 (19.34%) REST
4 141 (15.49%) React
5 101 (11.10%) RESTful
6 98 (10.77%) Kafka
7 94 (10.33%) HTML
8 79 (8.68%) CSS
9 77 (8.46%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.26%) Node.js
11 53 (5.82%) Web Services
12 40 (4.40%) JPA
13 36 (3.96%) Hibernate
13 36 (3.96%) JSON
14 33 (3.63%) .NET
15 32 (3.52%) OAuth
16 31 (3.41%) Java EE
17 27 (2.97%) XML
18 25 (2.75%) J2EE
19 23 (2.53%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 25 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.53%) Algorithms
5 23 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.21%) Client/Server
12 10 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.77%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.55%) DataPower
15 5 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 112 (12.31%) Linux
2 63 (6.92%) Unix
3 45 (4.95%) Windows
4 39 (4.29%) Android
5 17 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.88%) 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
1 360 (39.56%) Agile
2 214 (23.52%) DevOps
3 202 (22.20%) CI/CD
4 201 (22.09%) Software Engineering
5 187 (20.55%) Microservices
6 154 (16.92%) Test Automation
7 139 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (13.63%) Scrum
9 123 (13.52%) Full Stack Development
10 107 (11.76%) TDD
11 87 (9.56%) SDLC
12 77 (8.46%) Unit Testing
13 69 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
14 67 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
15 65 (7.14%) OO
16 63 (6.92%) Computer Science
17 56 (6.15%) BDD
18 55 (6.04%) Containerisation
18 55 (6.04%) Mentoring
19 50 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 232 (25.49%) Python
2 187 (20.55%) JavaScript
3 171 (18.79%) SQL
4 92 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 75 (8.24%) Scala
6 62 (6.81%) C#
7 53 (5.82%) C++
8 49 (5.38%) C
9 43 (4.73%) Kotlin
10 31 (3.41%) PHP
11 29 (3.19%) Shell Script
12 28 (3.08%) Perl
13 26 (2.86%) Bash
13 26 (2.86%) Go
14 20 (2.20%) Groovy
15 16 (1.76%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.76%) Ruby
16 14 (1.54%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.99%) R
18 4 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 126 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 87 (9.56%) DV Cleared
4 56 (6.15%) Degree
5 38 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.66%) 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%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.71%) QA
2 48 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
4 14 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.10%) WCAG
6 9 (0.99%) GDPR
6 9 (0.99%) MISRA
7 8 (0.88%) NIST
8 6 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (0.66%) GxP
9 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.33%) SLA
11 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (15.82%) Docker
2 13 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.99%) Firmware
5 8 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.77%) NFS
6 7 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (0.55%) HDFS
7 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.44%) GPFS
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
1 131 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 78 (8.57%) Terraform
3 61 (6.70%) Ansible
4 39 (4.29%) Grafana
5 22 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
7 15 (1.65%) 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
12 6 (0.66%) Zipkin
13 4 (0.44%) Puppet
13 4 (0.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 3 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.33%) Istio
14 3 (0.33%) Nagios
15 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
15 1 (0.11%) rkt
Vendors
1 63 (6.92%) Oracle
2 53 (5.82%) Google
3 49 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 25 (2.75%) IBM
5 15 (1.65%) Databricks
5 15 (1.65%) Informatica
6 14 (1.54%) VMware
7 13 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.32%) Pega
9 11 (1.21%) Talend
10 10 (1.10%) SAP
11 9 (0.99%) F5
12 7 (0.77%) Splunk
12 7 (0.77%) Veeam
13 6 (0.66%) Adobe
13 6 (0.66%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.66%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.55%) Cisco
14 5 (0.55%) Sybase
14 5 (0.55%) TSYS