jMock Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring jMock skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 335 -
Rank change year-on-year -79 - -
Contract jobs citing jMock 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.016% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.25% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

jMock falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,787 1,720 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.08% 13.49% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 1,096 1,560
10th Percentile £322 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £644 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 59 183
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.20 £40.19
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.34 £48.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.10
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

jMock
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

jMock job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

jMock
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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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 jMock within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
West Midlands -52 7 £475 - 4
Midlands -61 7 £475 - 4
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 7 (100.00%) Route 53
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) JUnit
1 7 (100.00%) Maven
1 7 (100.00%) Mockito
1 7 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (71.43%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 7 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) JPA
1 7 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) SOAP
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
2 6 (85.71%) Node.js
3 5 (71.43%) Bootstrap
3 5 (71.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) BPMN
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) BDD
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) Kanban
3 5 (71.43%) Open Source
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (42.86%) Biometrics
5 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 7 (100.00%) Jaspersoft