IntelliJ Contract Job Trends

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IntelliJ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 500 580
Rank change year-on-year -79 +80 +89
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 34 32 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.10% 0.067%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.75% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 22
10th Percentile £428 £345 £285
25th Percentile £430 £356 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £433 £456
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -5.21% -22.51%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £600
90th Percentile £765 £703 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +14.53% -31.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £61.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 5,594 4,241 5,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.98% 13.69% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,822 2,693 3,731
10th Percentile £343 £338 £363
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 67 210
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.85 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.25 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.08 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IntelliJ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IntelliJ job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IntelliJ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IntelliJ

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IntelliJ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IntelliJ

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Job 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 13 February 2026. 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 -69 33 £500 -9.09% 1
UK excluding London -62 21 £430 +14.53%
North West -22 12 - -
North of England -51 12 - -
London -27 11 £520 -5.45% 1
Midlands -48 8 £429 +37.94%
West Midlands - 8 £429 -
Work from Home -14 6 £429 +7.25%
South West - 1 £525 -

IntelliJ
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 9 (26.47%) Apache
1 9 (26.47%) JBoss
1 9 (26.47%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) AWS
1 9 (26.47%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (8.82%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.94%) Multicast
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Gradle
2 14 (41.18%) GitLab
3 13 (38.24%) Git
4 12 (35.29%) Eclipse
5 9 (26.47%) JUnit
5 9 (26.47%) Selenium
6 6 (17.65%) Maven
7 3 (8.82%) Appium
7 3 (8.82%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.82%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (8.82%) Postman
7 3 (8.82%) XCUITest
8 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.94%) fastlane
8 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.94%) XCTest
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Front Office
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Java Engineer
2 14 (41.18%) Software Engineer
3 12 (35.29%) Developer
4 11 (32.35%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (26.47%) Java Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior
7 3 (8.82%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Messaging Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) QA Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Quantitative Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Software Tester
9 1 (2.94%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) Spring
2 13 (38.24%) Spring Boot
3 12 (35.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (32.35%) JSON
4 11 (32.35%) REST
5 9 (26.47%) EJB
5 9 (26.47%) Hibernate
5 9 (26.47%) HTML
5 9 (26.47%) HTML5
5 9 (26.47%) J2EE
5 9 (26.47%) J2SE
5 9 (26.47%) Play Framework
5 9 (26.47%) SOAP
5 9 (26.47%) XML
6 3 (8.82%) Bazel
6 3 (8.82%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (8.82%) Web Services
7 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.88%) JSON Schema
7 2 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Derivative
2 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Equities
3 2 (5.88%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.88%) TWAP
3 2 (5.88%) VWAP
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Android
2 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Software Engineering
2 16 (47.06%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (35.29%) Microservices
5 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (29.41%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Scrum
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (26.47%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (26.47%) Lean Software Development
7 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
7 9 (26.47%) Open Source
8 7 (20.59%) User Experience
9 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
9 5 (14.71%) TDD
10 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) Kotlin
3 10 (29.41%) SQL
4 9 (26.47%) Scala
5 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.76%) Swift
7 2 (5.88%) Python
8 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.71%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Grafana
1 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) webMethods
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Spotify
3 1 (2.94%) Thales