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 £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 451 499
Rank change year-on-year +83 +48 -85
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 30 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.017% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.018% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 14
10th Percentile £675 £535 £519
25th Percentile £713 £541 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -8.33% +14.83%
75th Percentile £738 £606 £800
90th Percentile - £640 -
UK median daily rate £725 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

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 23 April 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
South East +44 28 £725 +31.82%
Scotland - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £700 - 2
North West - 1 £700 - 1
Java Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 30 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (93.33%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (90.00%) Social Skills
3 27 (90.00%) Security Cleared
4 23 (76.67%) GAP Analysis
4 23 (76.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 23 (76.67%) Product Ownership
5 19 (63.33%) DV Cleared
6 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Project Management
8 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) QA
9 3 (10.00%) Scrum
9 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
9 3 (10.00%) Java EE
9 3 (10.00%) JIRA
9 3 (10.00%) Selenium
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
9 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (10.00%) Azure
9 3 (10.00%) AWS
9 3 (10.00%) Software Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (10.00%) REST
9 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
9 3 (10.00%) Ansible
9 3 (10.00%) Docker

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) AWS
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
1 3 (10.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (10.00%) Selenium
1 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (93.33%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (90.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (10.00%) Java EE
1 3 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (76.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (76.67%) GAP Analysis
2 23 (76.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum
6 3 (10.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.33%) Event-Driven
7 1 (3.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) Podman
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Infoblox