Java Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 370 456
Rank change year-on-year +46 +86 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 12 29 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.14% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.15% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 5
10th Percentile £504 £675 £539
25th Percentile £537 £713 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £615
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +17.89% +2.50%
75th Percentile £615 £738 £663
90th Percentile - - £730
UK median daily rate £575 £725 £620
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.94% +3.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in the UK excluding London

Java Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Architect in the UK excluding London

Java Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Architect in the UK excluding London

Java Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +28 10 £550 -21.43% 3
North West +24 8 £575 -17.86% 2
South East +20 2 £575 -20.69% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £537 - 1
Midlands - 2 £537 - 2
Java Architect
UK

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) Microservices
3 8 (66.67%) Docker
3 8 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (50.00%) Serverless
4 6 (50.00%) Virgin Media
4 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) .NET
5 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 4 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) Kafka
5 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (16.67%) Express.js
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) SaaS

Java Architect Skill Set
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 2 (16.67%) Camunda
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Serverless
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Express.js
2 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) OpenJDK
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Budget Control
5 2 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft