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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 517 560
Rank change year-on-year -39 +43 +120
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 39 27 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% 0.59% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 36
10th Percentile £429 £351 £293
25th Percentile £466 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £440 £438
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +0.57% -24.24%
75th Percentile £550 £825 £600
90th Percentile £575 £863 £847
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +36.67% -31.82% -0.90%
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 5,504 4,538 5,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 13.27% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 2,867 3,981
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £638
90th Percentile £690 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 89 215
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £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 £77.02
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £89.50
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

IntelliJ
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 18 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

IntelliJ
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

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 18 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 -21.57% 10
UK excluding London -42 25 £513 +36.67% 9
London +5 12 £520 -36.97% 2
Scotland +7 10 £550 +54.49% 1
Midlands - 8 £429 -
West Midlands - 8 £429 -
North West -12 7 £550 +37.50% 4
Work from Home -15 7 £430 -20.28% 6
North of England -48 7 £550 +29.41% 4

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 19 (48.72%) 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 16 (41.03%) 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 5 (12.82%) Maven
7 5 (12.82%) Postman
8 4 (10.26%) Appium
8 4 (10.26%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (10.26%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (10.26%) XCUITest
9 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (12.82%) 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 8 (20.51%) 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%) Backend Developer
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%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (46.15%) Spring
2 12 (30.77%) JSON
2 12 (30.77%) REST
3 11 (28.21%) Hibernate
3 11 (28.21%) HTML
3 11 (28.21%) J2EE
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
6 8 (20.51%) Spring Boot
7 6 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (12.82%) Web Services
9 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.13%) JMS
9 2 (5.13%) JSON Schema
9 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%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.69%) Derivative
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%) Windows
2 10 (25.64%) Unix
3 5 (12.82%) Android
3 5 (12.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Agile
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 15 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (30.77%) Microservices
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 14 (35.90%) TypeScript
3 13 (33.33%) Python
4 11 (28.21%) C#
4 11 (28.21%) SQL
5 10 (25.64%) Kotlin
6 9 (23.08%) Scala
7 5 (12.82%) Swift
8 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.56%) Bash
9 1 (2.56%) C++
9 1 (2.56%) Groovy
9 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
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 10 (25.64%) 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