JCE Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JCE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 - 399
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCE 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% - 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £550
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £613 - £550

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JCE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,953 2,420 3,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.70% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 1,678 2,188
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £572 £608
90th Percentile £673 £638 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £538
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 89 219
10th Percentile £36.75 £33.59 £22.70
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.01 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

JCE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JCE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JCE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JCE
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JCE

JCE
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JCE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JCE

JCE
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 JCE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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 West - 1 £613 -
North of England - 1 £613 -
JCE
UK

JCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode