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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 515 567
Rank change year-on-year -11 +52 +119
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 48 35 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.097% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.90% 0.73% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 49
10th Percentile £279 £354 £310
25th Percentile £407 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +26.76% -17.41%
75th Percentile £539 £863 £600
90th Percentile £575 £916 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £388 £463
% change year-on-year +29.03% -16.22% -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 5,326 4,771 6,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.40% 13.16% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 2,986 4,287
10th Percentile £329 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £505
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.47% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 134 242
10th Percentile £21.44 £24.98 £45.88
25th Percentile £49.38 £46.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.31 £88.53
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 9 November 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 9 November 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 -16 34 £435 -43.87% 5
UK excluding London -24 27 £500 +29.03% 4
London +14 19 £500 -39.39% 1
Work from Home +16 16 £415 -34.98% 2
Scotland +4 13 £525 +47.47%
Midlands -13 11 £412 -45.07% 2
West Midlands - 8 £429 - 1
East Midlands -7 3 £340 -54.67%
South East -1 2 £285 -60.35% 2
North West -10 2 £445 +11.25%
North of England -34 2 £445 +4.71%

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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 11 (22.92%) JBoss
2 9 (18.75%) Apache
2 9 (18.75%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.17%) CICS
4 1 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) GitHub
3 15 (31.25%) Azure
4 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (22.92%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.42%) SaaS
8 4 (8.33%) Sentry
9 1 (2.08%) Datadog
9 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.08%) Multicast
2 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.25%) MSDE
3 2 (4.17%) DB2
3 2 (4.17%) KDB
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (62.50%) Git
2 18 (37.50%) Eclipse
3 17 (35.42%) Jenkins
4 15 (31.25%) Bitbucket
4 15 (31.25%) JIRA
5 13 (27.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (25.00%) JUnit
6 12 (25.00%) Maven
6 12 (25.00%) PyCharm
6 12 (25.00%) Selenium
6 12 (25.00%) Visual Studio
7 6 (12.50%) TeamCity
8 5 (10.42%) Cucumber
8 5 (10.42%) Postman
8 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
9 4 (8.33%) Appium
9 4 (8.33%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (8.33%) XCUITest
General
1 23 (47.92%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Banking
6 4 (8.33%) 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 25 (52.08%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Java Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Python Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Python Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
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
7 3 (6.25%) Tester
8 2 (4.17%) Automation Tester
8 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Systems Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) Spring
2 15 (31.25%) J2EE
3 11 (22.92%) Hibernate
3 11 (22.92%) HTML
3 11 (22.92%) XML
4 10 (20.83%) EJB
4 10 (20.83%) JSON
4 10 (20.83%) REST
5 9 (18.75%) HTML5
5 9 (18.75%) J2SE
5 9 (18.75%) Play Framework
5 9 (18.75%) SOAP
6 8 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 6 (12.50%) Web Services
8 5 (10.42%) RESTful
9 4 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (4.17%) JMS
10 2 (4.17%) JPA
10 2 (4.17%) Middleware
10 2 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Public Cloud
2 5 (10.42%) Virtual Team
3 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.25%) Derivative
5 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.17%) VSAM
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
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 15 (31.25%) Linux
1 15 (31.25%) Unix
2 14 (29.17%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) Android
3 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Agile
2 30 (62.50%) DevOps
3 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (45.83%) Deployment Automation
5 18 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 15 (31.25%) Microservices
7 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (29.17%) SDLC
8 13 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
11 10 (20.83%) Open Source
12 9 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (18.75%) Lean Software Development
12 9 (18.75%) Scrum
13 8 (16.67%) Computer Science
14 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (89.58%) Java
2 17 (35.42%) Python
3 16 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 14 (29.17%) C#
4 14 (29.17%) SQL
5 9 (18.75%) Scala
6 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.33%) Kotlin
7 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.33%) Swift
8 2 (4.17%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) COBOL
8 2 (4.17%) JCL
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.08%) Bash
9 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 15 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Ansible
2 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.17%) Terraform
3 9 (18.75%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) webMethods
2 6 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft