Quarkus Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Quarkus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Quarkus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 341 388
Rank change year-on-year -68 +47 +88
Contract jobs citing Quarkus 16 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.008% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.041% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £575
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £425 £575
% change year-on-year -17.65% -26.09% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Quarkus 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 3,798 2,413 3,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.39% 19.02% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 1,638 2,197
10th Percentile £350 £350 £319
25th Percentile £410 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £598
90th Percentile £655 £669 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 70 166
10th Percentile £40.75 £26.48 £21.04
25th Percentile £53.75 £59.94 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Quarkus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Quarkus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Quarkus
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Quarkus
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Quarkus
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Quarkus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Quarkus in the UK excluding London

Quarkus
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 Quarkus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England - 10 - - 3
North East - 10 - - 3
South East - 8 - - 6
Scotland - 2 £350 - 2
Quarkus
UK

Quarkus
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) JAX-RS
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
1 14 (87.50%) DevSecOps
1 14 (87.50%) Front End Development
1 14 (87.50%) Scrum
1 14 (87.50%) Software Engineering
1 14 (87.50%) Sprint Planning
1 14 (87.50%) Sprint Review
1 14 (87.50%) Test Automation
1 14 (87.50%) Unit Testing
2 13 (81.25%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) TDD
4 2 (12.50%) AI
4 2 (12.50%) BDD
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Coaching
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 2 (12.50%) Line Management
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (81.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (87.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Red Hat