IntelliJ Contracts

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IntelliJ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IntelliJ over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 581 628
Rank change year-on-year +92 +47 +116
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 30 19 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.044% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.73% 0.37% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 61
10th Percentile £317 £453 £464
25th Percentile £425 £536 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +6.82% +0.92%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £700
90th Percentile £700 £875 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -12.73% +7.27% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.40% -9.46%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -8.40% +15.93%

All Development Application Skills
UK

IntelliJ 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IntelliJ in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IntelliJ in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IntelliJ in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IntelliJ within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +83 29 £543 -1.36% 10
UK excluding London +57 15 £515 -12.73% 6
London +43 15 £550 - 4
North of England - 11 £520 - 5
Yorkshire - 9 £520 - 3
Work from Home +55 7 £364 -33.82% 12
East Midlands - 3 £319 -
Midlands - 3 £319 -
North West - 2 £335 - 2
Scotland 0 1 £450 -23.73%

IntelliJ
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 7 (23.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) GitHub
3 5 (16.67%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.00%) Redis
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospike
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) KDB
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (83.33%) Maven
2 19 (63.33%) Gradle
3 16 (53.33%) JUnit
4 14 (46.67%) JIRA
5 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
5 13 (43.33%) Selenium
6 12 (40.00%) Git
7 8 (26.67%) HP UFT
8 6 (20.00%) Eclipse
8 6 (20.00%) SonarQube
8 6 (20.00%) Subversion
9 5 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (16.67%) Postman
10 4 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
10 4 (13.33%) NetBeans
10 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
11 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
11 3 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
1 15 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Tester
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Automation Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Digital Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Junior
7 1 (3.33%) Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Junior Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) Spring
2 11 (36.67%) Spring Boot
3 9 (30.00%) Kafka
4 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
5 5 (16.67%) J2EE
5 5 (16.67%) JMS
5 5 (16.67%) JPA
6 4 (13.33%) RESTful
6 4 (13.33%) Spring Integration
6 4 (13.33%) Spring MVC
6 4 (13.33%) Web Services
7 3 (10.00%) Ajax
7 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.00%) Bootstrap
7 3 (10.00%) CSS
7 3 (10.00%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) HTML5
7 3 (10.00%) jQuery
7 3 (10.00%) Node.js
7 3 (10.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.67%) Equities
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Test Automation
2 13 (43.33%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Microservices
4 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
7 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (16.67%) API Testing
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (16.67%) Pair Programming
8 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 5 (16.67%) TDD
8 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
9 4 (13.33%) API Development
9 4 (13.33%) Case Management
9 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (13.33%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Groovy
4 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Grafana
2 4 (13.33%) Progress Chef
2 4 (13.33%) Puppet
3 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Argo
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) Sybase
6 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.33%) ION Trading
6 1 (3.33%) Veracode