Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 148 138
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 257 421 603
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.25% 1.76% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.87% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 312 439
10th Percentile £359 £438 £413
25th Percentile £400 £464 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £549 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +4.48% +14.13%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £570 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -12.31% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 15
10th Percentile £35.00 £58.45 £46.10
25th Percentile £37.50 £70.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +6.19%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £65.52
90th Percentile £66.95 - £76.30
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.75 £64.13
% change year-on-year -28.81% +15.01% +13.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
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 Java Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Scotland +32 97 £450 -11.42% 18
North of England -9 69 £525 -12.50% 18
South East -26 49 £500 -4.76% 18
North West +27 38 £525 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire -7 28 £544 -9.38% 5
Midlands +25 19 £450 -21.74% 6
West Midlands +25 17 £475 -32.14% 5
South West -27 10 £375 -28.57% 11
East of England +6 8 £541 -22.71% 2
Northern Ireland +5 5 £450 -8.16% 4
North East -6 3 £450 -37.50% 1
East Midlands +6 2 £398 -43.21% 1
Wales +9 1 £450 -10.00% 1
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 257 (100.00%) Java
2 148 (57.59%) Spring
3 123 (47.86%) Agile
4 118 (45.91%) Spring Boot
5 97 (37.74%) Microservices
6 95 (36.96%) AWS
7 86 (33.46%) REST
8 59 (22.96%) CI/CD
9 57 (22.18%) Kafka
10 56 (21.79%) Software Engineering
11 55 (21.40%) TDD
11 55 (21.40%) Jenkins
12 51 (19.84%) Docker
13 49 (19.07%) SQL
14 48 (18.68%) Security Cleared
15 47 (18.29%) Git
16 46 (17.90%) Social Skills
17 45 (17.51%) DevOps
18 44 (17.12%) SC Cleared
18 44 (17.12%) Scrum
19 42 (16.34%) JUnit
20 41 (15.95%) React
21 40 (15.56%) Kubernetes
22 38 (14.79%) JavaScript
23 36 (14.01%) Full Stack Development
24 35 (13.62%) Public Sector
24 35 (13.62%) Hibernate
24 35 (13.62%) Finance
25 33 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
25 33 (12.84%) Relational Database

Java Developer Skill Set
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 14 (5.45%) Confluence
2 7 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.33%) Apache
3 6 (2.33%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.56%) JBoss
4 4 (1.56%) Mule
5 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.78%) WildFly
6 1 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 95 (36.96%) AWS
2 22 (8.56%) Azure
3 20 (7.78%) GCP
4 15 (5.84%) Serverless
5 12 (4.67%) Amazon S3
6 9 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.11%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.56%) GitHub
12 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.78%) npm
13 2 (0.78%) Snowflake
14 1 (0.39%) Amazon EventBridge
14 1 (0.39%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.33%) HTTP
2 5 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (1.95%) NetScaler
2 5 (1.95%) SSL
2 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.56%) Firewall
3 4 (1.56%) VPN
4 3 (1.17%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.39%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
1 33 (12.84%) Relational Database
2 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.11%) Couchbase
4 7 (2.72%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.56%) DB2
7 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) Big Data
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.78%) Power BI
10 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.39%) GIS
10 1 (0.39%) MySQL
10 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (21.40%) Jenkins
2 47 (18.29%) Git
3 42 (16.34%) JUnit
4 28 (10.89%) JIRA
5 22 (8.56%) Cucumber
6 15 (5.84%) GitLab
7 11 (4.28%) Maven
7 11 (4.28%) Postman
8 6 (2.33%) IntelliJ
8 6 (2.33%) Mockito
8 6 (2.33%) Selenium
9 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.56%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.56%) Log4j
10 4 (1.56%) Subversion
11 3 (1.17%) JMeter
12 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 46 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.62%) Finance
2 35 (13.62%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.39%) Banking
4 12 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.11%) Financial Institution
6 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.95%) Law
7 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.56%) Police
8 3 (1.17%) Automotive
8 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (57.59%) Spring
2 118 (45.91%) Spring Boot
3 86 (33.46%) REST
4 57 (22.18%) Kafka
5 41 (15.95%) React
6 35 (13.62%) Hibernate
7 32 (12.45%) RESTful
8 27 (10.51%) JPA
9 25 (9.73%) AngularJS
10 20 (7.78%) HTML
10 20 (7.78%) Node.js
11 17 (6.61%) Web Services
12 16 (6.23%) CSS
12 16 (6.23%) J2EE
13 14 (5.45%) Apache Camel
13 14 (5.45%) Spring Security
14 12 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (4.67%) SAML
15 9 (3.50%) OAuth
15 9 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.11%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.56%) Insider Threat
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Derivative
9 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.39%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.39%) iSeries
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.39%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.34%) Linux
2 21 (8.17%) Unix
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) AIX
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (47.86%) Agile
2 97 (37.74%) Microservices
3 59 (22.96%) CI/CD
4 56 (21.79%) Software Engineering
5 55 (21.40%) TDD
6 45 (17.51%) DevOps
7 44 (17.12%) Scrum
8 36 (14.01%) Full Stack Development
9 29 (11.28%) Test Automation
10 26 (10.12%) SDLC
11 25 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (9.73%) Unit Testing
12 23 (8.95%) Front End Development
12 23 (8.95%) Mentoring
13 20 (7.78%) End-to-End Testing
14 18 (7.00%) High Availability
15 14 (5.45%) BDD
15 14 (5.45%) Coaching
16 13 (5.06%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 257 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (19.07%) SQL
3 38 (14.79%) JavaScript
4 32 (12.45%) Scala
5 27 (10.51%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.39%) Python
7 10 (3.89%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.89%) PHP
8 9 (3.50%) Perl
9 6 (2.33%) Bash
9 6 (2.33%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) C
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.06%) Degree
3 13 (5.06%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.89%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.17%) WCAG
3 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.39%) NCSC
3 1 (0.39%) QA
3 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (19.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) NFS
2 1 (0.39%) zsh
Systems Management
1 40 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.89%) Terraform
3 9 (3.50%) Ansible
3 9 (3.50%) Kibana
4 8 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.33%) Grafana
5 6 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.33%) Zipkin
6 4 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.23%) Oracle
3 12 (4.67%) Google
4 5 (1.95%) F5
5 3 (1.17%) IBM
6 2 (0.78%) Databricks
6 2 (0.78%) Splunk
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.39%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.39%) Sybase
7 1 (0.39%) VMware