JVM Tuning Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JVM Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JVM Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 349 -
Rank change year-on-year -86 - -
Contract jobs citing JVM Tuning 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.015% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 £408 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% - -
75th Percentile £488 £423 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £475 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

JVM Tuning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,584 11,869 17,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.53% 90.50% 83.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,275 7,358 10,334
10th Percentile £300 £235 £247
25th Percentile £402 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,184 883 2,159
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.95 £15.40
Median hourly rate £46.11 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +83.32% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -23.32% +1.39%

JVM Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JVM Tuning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JVM Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

JVM Tuning
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 JVM Tuning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Yorkshire - 10 £475 -
North of England - 10 £475 -
Scotland -7 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £425 -
JVM Tuning
UK

JVM Tuning
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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) CICS
1 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Jaeger
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior
3 6 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 1 (8.33%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Middleware
1 10 (83.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 10 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 9 (75.00%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Java SE
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Online Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
1 10 (83.33%) Microservices
1 10 (83.33%) Observability
1 10 (83.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 9 (75.00%) API Design
2 9 (75.00%) Application Security
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (75.00%) GAP Analysis
3 8 (66.67%) Business Development
3 8 (66.67%) Business Strategy
3 8 (66.67%) Coaching
3 8 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 8 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 8 (66.67%) Process Improvement
3 8 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 8 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) Rust
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) RACF
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kiali
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Grafana
2 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) SELinux
3 1 (8.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow