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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 535 564
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 +126
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 39 29 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.084% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% 0.63% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 39
10th Percentile £428 £352 £297
25th Percentile £438 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +3.89% -22.40%
75th Percentile £550 £825 £600
90th Percentile £575 £863 £834
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £388 £550
% change year-on-year +29.03% -29.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile £66.50 - -
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 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

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Top 10 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 14 December 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 -29 28 £500 -27.93% 14
UK excluding London -39 26 £500 +29.03% 10
London +4 11 £510 -38.18% 5
Scotland +6 10 £550 +54.49% 1
Midlands -30 9 £429 -42.80%
Work from Home +12 8 £429 -32.71% 4
West Midlands - 8 £429 -
North West -14 7 £550 +37.50% 3
North of England -35 7 £550 +29.41% 5
East Midlands -19 1 £276 -63.20%

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 (23.08%) Apache
1 9 (23.08%) JBoss
1 9 (23.08%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) GitHub
3 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.26%) Sentry
6 2 (5.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) HTTP
2 1 (2.56%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.56%) Multicast
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.69%) MSDE
3 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) KDB
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) Git
2 14 (35.90%) Eclipse
3 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
4 10 (25.64%) Bitbucket
4 10 (25.64%) JIRA
4 10 (25.64%) JUnit
4 10 (25.64%) Selenium
4 10 (25.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 9 (23.08%) Gradle
5 9 (23.08%) PyCharm
5 9 (23.08%) Visual Studio
6 8 (20.51%) GitLab
7 6 (15.38%) Maven
8 5 (12.82%) Postman
9 4 (10.26%) Appium
9 4 (10.26%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (10.26%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (10.26%) XCUITest
10 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
10 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.69%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) German Language
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Java Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Python Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Python Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior
7 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
9 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) Spring
2 12 (30.77%) J2EE
2 12 (30.77%) JSON
2 12 (30.77%) REST
3 11 (28.21%) Hibernate
3 11 (28.21%) HTML
3 11 (28.21%) XML
4 10 (25.64%) EJB
5 9 (23.08%) HTML5
5 9 (23.08%) J2SE
5 9 (23.08%) Play Framework
5 9 (23.08%) SOAP
5 9 (23.08%) Spring Boot
6 6 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (12.82%) Web Services
8 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
8 2 (5.13%) JMS
8 2 (5.13%) JSON Schema
8 2 (5.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.69%) Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) Equities
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) TWAP
5 1 (2.56%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
1 11 (28.21%) Unix
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 5 (12.82%) Android
2 5 (12.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
3 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 16 (41.03%) Deployment Automation
5 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 12 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (30.77%) Microservices
6 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (28.21%) SDLC
8 10 (25.64%) Open Source
8 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
9 9 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (23.08%) Lean Software Development
9 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 9 (23.08%) Scrum
10 8 (20.51%) User Experience
11 7 (17.95%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 34 (87.18%) Java
2 13 (33.33%) Python
2 13 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 11 (28.21%) C#
3 11 (28.21%) SQL
4 10 (25.64%) Kotlin
5 9 (23.08%) Scala
6 5 (12.82%) Swift
7 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) Accessibility
2 6 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.21%) Ansible
2 11 (28.21%) Terraform
3 9 (23.08%) Puppet
4 6 (15.38%) Grafana
5 1 (2.56%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) webMethods
2 4 (10.26%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle