Java Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 368 379
Rank change year-on-year +57 +11 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 84 84 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.37% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 53 93
10th Percentile £396 £413 £450
25th Percentile £418 £453 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £672 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 20
10th Percentile £66.75 £60.91 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £62.19 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%

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 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +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 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £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% +1.41%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +33 30 £648 +21.60% 9
Scotland +38 18 £435 +2.84% 8
North of England +32 14 £513 -12.77% 13
East of England +25 13 £534 -5.07% 3
North West +26 12 £538 -17.31% 11
South West -3 9 £500 -0.74% 20
Yorkshire +25 2 £425 -17.87% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (76.19%) Software Engineering
3 42 (50.00%) Agile
4 34 (40.48%) DevOps
5 33 (39.29%) REST
6 31 (36.90%) CI/CD
7 30 (35.71%) AWS
8 29 (34.52%) Jenkins
9 27 (32.14%) Security Cleared
10 26 (30.95%) SC Cleared
10 26 (30.95%) Test Automation
10 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (27.38%) Decision-Making
11 23 (27.38%) Cucumber
11 23 (27.38%) HTML
11 23 (27.38%) CSS
12 22 (26.19%) Selenium
12 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
13 21 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
13 21 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (25.00%) JIRA
14 19 (22.62%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (21.43%) Java EE
16 17 (20.24%) Spring
16 17 (20.24%) Law
16 17 (20.24%) Software Architecture
16 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
17 16 (19.05%) TypeScript
17 16 (19.05%) Ansible
17 16 (19.05%) React

Java Engineer 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 9 (10.71%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.71%) AWS
2 14 (16.67%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) GitHub
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.57%) GCP
4 3 (3.57%) Serverless
5 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.19%) Datadog
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) Firewall
1 8 (9.52%) VPN
2 7 (8.33%) SNMP
2 7 (8.33%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) Internet
4 1 (1.19%) HTTP
4 1 (1.19%) SSL
4 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.57%) MySQL
4 2 (2.38%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.19%) Big Data
5 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.19%) HBase
5 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (34.52%) Jenkins
2 23 (27.38%) Cucumber
3 22 (26.19%) Selenium
4 21 (25.00%) JIRA
5 16 (19.05%) REST Assured
5 16 (19.05%) SonarQube
6 11 (13.10%) GoogleTest
7 9 (10.71%) Bitbucket
7 9 (10.71%) Git
8 7 (8.33%) Eclipse
8 7 (8.33%) Robot Framework
9 6 (7.14%) GitLab
9 6 (7.14%) JUnit
10 4 (4.76%) Mockito
11 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.38%) JMeter
11 2 (2.38%) Maven
12 1 (1.19%) Gradle
12 1 (1.19%) Postman
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (20.24%) Law
3 9 (10.71%) Police
4 8 (9.52%) Finance
4 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.29%) REST
2 23 (27.38%) CSS
2 23 (27.38%) HTML
3 18 (21.43%) Java EE
4 17 (20.24%) Spring
5 16 (19.05%) React
6 14 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 10 (11.90%) JPA
8 9 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 9 (10.71%) Kafka
9 7 (8.33%) RESTful
10 5 (5.95%) ARM Templates
11 4 (4.76%) Qt
12 3 (3.57%) Node.js
12 3 (3.57%) Web Services
13 2 (2.38%) CSS3
13 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
13 2 (2.38%) HTML5
13 2 (2.38%) J2EE
13 2 (2.38%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.10%) Linux
2 7 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Android
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (76.19%) Software Engineering
2 42 (50.00%) Agile
3 34 (40.48%) DevOps
4 31 (36.90%) CI/CD
5 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (30.95%) Test Automation
6 23 (27.38%) Decision-Making
7 21 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (22.62%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (20.24%) Software Architecture
10 14 (16.67%) Microservices
11 12 (14.29%) SDLC
12 10 (11.90%) Scrum
13 9 (10.71%) Containerisation
13 9 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (10.71%) Load Balancing
14 8 (9.52%) Operational Stability
14 8 (9.52%) Prototyping
14 8 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (19.05%) TypeScript
3 12 (14.29%) C++
3 12 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.29%) SQL
4 10 (11.90%) Python
5 4 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.76%) PHP
5 4 (4.76%) Scala
6 2 (2.38%) Bash
6 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.19%) Perl
7 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) MISRA
2 3 (3.57%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Docker
2 7 (8.33%) Firmware
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Ansible
2 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.90%) Terraform
4 5 (5.95%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (5.95%) Podman
5 1 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Google
2 8 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle
4 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) Confluent
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.19%) New Relic