Eclipse Contracts

Eclipse
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Eclipse skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Eclipse over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 522 574
Rank change year-on-year +39 +52 +20
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 42 63 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.00% 1.22% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 78
10th Percentile £181 £375 £412
25th Percentile £410 £405 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £643 £588 £725
90th Percentile £684 £600 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £410 £435
% change year-on-year +15.85% -5.75% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 7
10th Percentile £51.06 £61.55 £16.25
25th Percentile £58.31 £62.50 £17.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -3.85% +84.40% -53.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Eclipse falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,193 5,144 8,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.55% 12.01% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 3,468 5,710
10th Percentile £340 £352 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 219 227
10th Percentile £21.27 £27.65 £44.86
25th Percentile £46.44 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.06 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.66 £77.60 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Eclipse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Eclipse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Eclipse in the UK

Eclipse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Eclipse.

Daily rate trend for Eclipse in the UK

Eclipse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Eclipse over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Eclipse in the UK

Eclipse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Eclipse.

Hourly rate trend for Eclipse in the UK

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Eclipse over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Eclipse in the UK

Eclipse
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +55 42 £545 +5.06% 95
UK excluding London +48 26 £475 +15.85% 98
Work from Home +44 19 £530 +9.84% 95
London +55 15 £573 +5.05% 9
South East +34 12 £626 +901.60% 23
East of England +23 6 - - 12
North of England +12 4 £340 - 25
North West +8 4 £340 - 14
East Midlands - 4 £208 - 9
Midlands - 4 £208 - 20
South West +39 1 - - 12

Eclipse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (26.19%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) CICS
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) BASE24
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) AWS
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.52%) SNMP
2 4 (9.52%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (7.14%) Firewall
3 3 (7.14%) NAS
4 2 (4.76%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.38%) ATM
5 1 (2.38%) HTTP
5 1 (2.38%) NFC
5 1 (2.38%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
2 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Redis
3 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.38%) DB2
4 1 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) JIRA
2 12 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (26.19%) Git
4 10 (23.81%) GoogleTest
4 10 (23.81%) Robot Framework
5 8 (19.05%) IntelliJ
5 8 (19.05%) Maven
6 7 (16.67%) GitLab
6 7 (16.67%) Visual Studio
7 5 (11.90%) Gradle
8 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (7.14%) JUnit
9 3 (7.14%) Mockito
9 3 (7.14%) TestNG
10 2 (4.76%) NetBeans
10 2 (4.76%) REST Assured
10 2 (4.76%) Subversion
10 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
11 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Military
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Front Office
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Digital Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.76%) UI Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Web Services
2 6 (14.29%) Node.js
3 5 (11.90%) CSS
3 5 (11.90%) HTML
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
3 5 (11.90%) Spring
3 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.52%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.14%) JWT
5 3 (7.14%) Kafka
5 3 (7.14%) LDAP
5 3 (7.14%) OAuth
5 3 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.14%) Swagger
5 3 (7.14%) XML
6 2 (4.76%) AWT
6 2 (4.76%) POSIX
6 2 (4.76%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.76%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.76%) Equities
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) APACS
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) IoT
3 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Smartcard
3 1 (2.38%) Tandem
3 1 (2.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 24 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Android
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Agile
2 21 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (26.19%) Scrum
4 9 (21.43%) Validation
4 9 (21.43%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 8 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (19.05%) DevOps
5 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.05%) Unit Testing
6 7 (16.67%) Digital Twin
6 7 (16.67%) Migration
6 7 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
7 6 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (14.29%) TDD
7 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.90%) Design Patterns
8 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
8 5 (11.90%) UML
8 5 (11.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) C++
2 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (28.57%) Java
4 8 (19.05%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
6 2 (4.76%) C
6 2 (4.76%) COBOL
7 1 (2.38%) ABAP
7 1 (2.38%) JCL
7 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.38%) Python
7 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) MISRA
2 2 (4.76%) MISRA C
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.38%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Grafana
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 3 (7.14%) SELinux
2 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Google
2 10 (23.81%) Atlassian
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (14.29%) Intel
5 4 (9.52%) Oracle
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) Splunk
7 2 (4.76%) QNX
7 2 (4.76%) Sybase
8 1 (2.38%) Guidewire
8 1 (2.38%) HP
8 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.38%) SAP
8 1 (2.38%) Workday