Agile Java Developer Contract Job Trends

Agile Java Developer
UK

The median Agile Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £713, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 541 606
Rank change year-on-year -36 +65 +168
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Java Developer 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.006% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.006% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £545 £396
25th Percentile £700 £575 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £440
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +47.73% -41.33%
75th Percentile £741 £725 £468
90th Percentile £746 £755 £484
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £550 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Agile Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agile Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Agile Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Java Developer job vacancies in the UK

Agile Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Java Developer job vacancies in the UK

Agile Java Developer
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
England -34 5 £713 +9.62%
London -2 3 £725 -3.33%
UK excluding London -38 2 £700 +27.27%
North of England -39 2 £700 +27.27%
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -

Agile Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Agile Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Agile Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) DB2
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (60.00%) MS Visio

Agile Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (60.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (60.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian