Garbage Collection Contracts

Garbage Collection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Garbage Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Garbage Collection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 575 703
Rank change year-on-year +68 +128 +119
Contract jobs citing Garbage Collection 13 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.016% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.019% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 15
10th Percentile £425 £750 £525
25th Percentile £550 £775 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +30.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £834 £938 £838
90th Percentile - £975 £1,475
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Garbage Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Garbage Collection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Garbage Collection in the UK

Garbage Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Garbage Collection in the UK

Garbage Collection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Garbage Collection over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Garbage Collection in the UK

Garbage Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Garbage Collection in the UK

Garbage Collection
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Garbage Collection within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +60 10 £789 -7.18% 9
London +38 7 £789 -7.18% 8
UK excluding London - 6 £600 - 4
East of England - 3 £600 - 1
Scotland - 3 £445 -
Work from Home - 1 £450 - 5

Garbage Collection
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 1 (7.69%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Hazelcast
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Front Office
5 2 (15.38%) Legal
6 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (23.08%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
1 3 (23.08%) Loki
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (7.69%) Guice
3 1 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Derivative
2 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (23.08%) Market Risk
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Multithreading
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) BDD
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (23.08%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (23.08%) Economics
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (15.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Solace