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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 554 634
Rank change year-on-year +11 +80 +191
Contract jobs citing Garbage Collection 13 8 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.020% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.024% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 29
10th Percentile - £717 £438
25th Percentile £550 £741 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £825 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +26.92% -
75th Percentile £819 £894 £713
90th Percentile £841 £940 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £475

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 29,981 33,385 47,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,763 21,485 32,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 1,871 1,564
10th Percentile £14.17 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Garbage Collection over the 6 months to 3 August 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

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Top 5 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 3 August 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 +27 13 £750 -9.09% 10
London +13 10 £775 -6.06% 10
Work from Home - 3 £775 - 4
East of England - 3 £600 -
UK excluding London - 3 £600 - 2

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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Hazelcast
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Maven
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (30.77%) AWT
2 4 (30.77%) GWT
2 4 (30.77%) JMS
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) Rendezvous
2 4 (30.77%) TIBCO EMS
3 3 (23.08%) Middleware
4 2 (15.38%) MyBatis
4 2 (15.38%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (30.77%) Equities
3 3 (23.08%) Clustering
3 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (23.08%) Replication
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Low Latency
2 8 (61.54%) Multithreading
3 5 (38.46%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) OO
4 4 (30.77%) OOD
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Market Making
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Distributed Cache
6 2 (15.38%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
1 4 (30.77%) TIBCO
2 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
2 3 (23.08%) Refinitiv
2 3 (23.08%) Solace