OpenJDK Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle OpenJDK
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenJDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenJDK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 398 -
Rank change year-on-year +64 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenJDK 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.005% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.084% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 - £595
% change year-on-year - - +19.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OpenJDK 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 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenJDK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OpenJDK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenJDK in the UK excluding London

OpenJDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OpenJDK in the UK excluding London

OpenJDK
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 OpenJDK within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 2 £575 -
OpenJDK
UK

OpenJDK
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 2 (100.00%) Camunda
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft