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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 515 573
Rank change year-on-year -8 +58 +120
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 48 38 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 0.78% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 30 49
10th Percentile £279 £355 £350
25th Percentile £386 £361 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +26.76% -16.67%
75th Percentile £539 £863 £650
90th Percentile £575 £914 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +25.00% -13.51% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 -

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 5,186 4,890 6,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.41% 13.27% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,523 3,054 4,392
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 157 238
10th Percentile £20.82 £26.40 £45.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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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 26 October 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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Top 11 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 26 October 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 +5 33 £465 -40.00% 5
UK excluding London -15 27 £500 +25.00% 3
London +9 20 £510 -38.18% 3
Work from Home +20 16 £400 -37.25% 9
Scotland +10 14 £513 +43.96%
Midlands -17 10 £350 -53.33%
West Midlands - 6 £429 -
East Midlands -4 4 £340 -54.67%
North West -19 3 £340 -15.00%
North of England -33 3 £340 -20.00%
South East +6 2 £285 -55.29% 3

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 (18.75%) JBoss
2 7 (14.58%) Apache
2 7 (14.58%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.25%) CICS
4 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (64.58%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) GitHub
3 16 (33.33%) Azure
4 14 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (12.50%) SaaS
7 4 (8.33%) Sentry
8 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.08%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (2.08%) Multicast
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.25%) DB2
2 3 (6.25%) MSDE
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) KDB
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (64.58%) Git
2 20 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 18 (37.50%) Eclipse
4 16 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 16 (33.33%) JIRA
5 14 (29.17%) Maven
5 14 (29.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (27.08%) PyCharm
6 13 (27.08%) Visual Studio
7 11 (22.92%) Selenium
8 10 (20.83%) JUnit
9 7 (14.58%) Cucumber
10 6 (12.50%) TeamCity
11 5 (10.42%) Postman
11 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
12 4 (8.33%) Appium
12 4 (8.33%) Charles Proxy
12 4 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (8.33%) XCUITest
General
1 24 (50.00%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Banking
5 5 (10.42%) Front Office
6 4 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) German Language
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (56.25%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 6 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Tester
7 3 (6.25%) Automation Tester
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (6.25%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Quality Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) Spring
2 13 (27.08%) J2EE
3 9 (18.75%) Hibernate
3 9 (18.75%) HTML
3 9 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 9 (18.75%) XML
4 8 (16.67%) EJB
4 8 (16.67%) JSON
4 8 (16.67%) REST
5 7 (14.58%) HTML5
5 7 (14.58%) J2SE
5 7 (14.58%) Play Framework
5 7 (14.58%) SOAP
5 7 (14.58%) Web Services
6 6 (12.50%) RESTful
7 4 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (6.25%) JPA
8 3 (6.25%) Swing
9 2 (4.17%) AWT
9 2 (4.17%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Public Cloud
2 6 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.25%) Derivative
4 3 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.25%) VSAM
5 2 (4.17%) Client/Server
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Equities
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) TWAP
6 1 (2.08%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Linux
2 15 (31.25%) Windows
3 13 (27.08%) Unix
4 4 (8.33%) Android
4 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Agile
2 30 (62.50%) DevOps
3 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 21 (43.75%) Deployment Automation
5 20 (41.67%) Test Automation
6 15 (31.25%) SDLC
7 13 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (27.08%) Microservices
8 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 8 (16.67%) Build Automation
11 8 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 8 (16.67%) Open Source
11 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
12 7 (14.58%) Analytical Thinking
12 7 (14.58%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (14.58%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 43 (89.58%) Java
2 17 (35.42%) Python
3 16 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 15 (31.25%) C#
5 13 (27.08%) SQL
6 7 (14.58%) Scala
7 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 4 (8.33%) Kotlin
8 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 4 (8.33%) Swift
9 3 (6.25%) COBOL
9 3 (6.25%) JCL
10 2 (4.17%) C++
10 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (2.08%) Bash
11 1 (2.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Ansible
2 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (31.25%) Terraform
3 7 (14.58%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) webMethods
2 6 (12.50%) Splunk
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft