POJO Contracts in the UK excluding London

POJO (Plain Old Java Object)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring POJO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POJO over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing POJO 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
UK median daily rate £510 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

POJO 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,797 3,046 3,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.18% 16.77% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,863 1,947 2,789
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £390 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £682
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 175 109
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.16 £40.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.88% -1.62%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.37 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -

POJO
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for POJO in the UK excluding London

POJO
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

POJO
DemandTrendContract 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 POJO within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 5 £510 - 1
North of England - 5 £510 - 1
POJO
UK

POJO
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) API Development
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes