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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 500 536
Rank change year-on-year -170 +36 +35
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 10 51 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 1.00% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 43 26
10th Percentile £345 £282 £356
25th Percentile £409 £428 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £738
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -32.20% +59.46%
75th Percentile £563 £545 £863
90th Percentile £615 £575 £919
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £500 £388
% change year-on-year -14.00% +29.03% -16.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 6,389 5,110 5,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 15.43% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,092 3,463 3,163
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.75% -3.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 110 173
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £27.04
25th Percentile £48.75 £43.81 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £75.25 £73.95
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 10 October 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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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 10 October 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 -152 8 £518 +3.50% 20
London -100 6 £525 +0.96% 10
UK excluding London -113 4 £430 -14.00% 13
Scotland -31 2 £343 -33.17% 3
West Midlands -48 1 £550 +28.06% 1
Midlands -49 1 £550 +59.42% 1
Work from Home -78 1 £485 +21.25% 6
North of England -80 1 £485 -6.69% 1
North East - 1 £485 -

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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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) Maven
3 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (30.00%) JProfiler
4 3 (30.00%) JUnit
5 1 (10.00%) Bundler
5 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (10.00%) GoCD
5 1 (10.00%) Gradle
5 1 (10.00%) JMeter
5 1 (10.00%) Mockito
5 1 (10.00%) Selenium
5 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (10.00%) Subversion
5 1 (10.00%) TestNG
5 1 (10.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (40.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) Node.js
4 3 (30.00%) FreeMarker
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) HTML5
4 3 (30.00%) Jakarta EE
4 3 (30.00%) JDBC
4 3 (30.00%) JPA
4 3 (30.00%) JSF
4 3 (30.00%) Redux
4 3 (30.00%) Sass
4 3 (30.00%) Servlets
4 3 (30.00%) Spring MVC
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (10.00%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle