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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 498 580
Rank change year-on-year -83 +82 +54
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 39 30 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.10% 0.042%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.67% 0.73% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 7
10th Percentile £417 £317 £429
25th Percentile £463 £425 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -7.69% +6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £654 £700 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £590
% change year-on-year -2.89% -12.73% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £61.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.40%

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 5,814 4,111 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.38% 14.00% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,759 3,445
10th Percentile £343 £340 £356
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 67 190
10th Percentile £37.05 £26.92 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.53 £46.20
Median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £82.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 28 April 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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

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 28 April 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 -89 38 £548 +0.92% 9
UK excluding London -84 27 £500 -2.89% 6
North West -22 13 £313 -6.57% 1
North of England -73 13 £313 -39.78% 1
Work from Home -25 10 £415 +13.87% 7
London -69 9 £608 +10.45% 5
East of England - 7 £570 -
South West - 5 £525 -
Midlands -67 2 £435 +36.42%
West Midlands - 2 £435 -

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%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) JBoss
2 2 (5.13%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.56%) Camunda
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) GitHub
2 7 (17.95%) GCP
3 5 (12.82%) SaaS
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (7.69%) AWS
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.56%) Azure
7 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) GitLab
2 13 (33.33%) Gradle
3 12 (30.77%) Git
4 11 (28.21%) JUnit
5 10 (25.64%) JIRA
6 8 (20.51%) SonarQube
7 5 (12.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
8 3 (7.69%) Selenium
9 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
9 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
9 2 (5.13%) Maven
10 1 (2.56%) Android Studio
10 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.56%) fastlane
10 1 (2.56%) Postman
10 1 (2.56%) Protractor
10 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.56%) XCTest
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Automotive
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Software Engineer
2 16 (41.03%) Java Engineer
3 14 (35.90%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 3 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.13%) GCP Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Java Software Architect
7 2 (5.13%) JIRA Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Senior
7 2 (5.13%) Software Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Android Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (61.54%) Spring
2 21 (53.85%) Spring Boot
3 12 (30.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (12.82%) Bazel
4 5 (12.82%) JSON
4 5 (12.82%) REST
5 4 (10.26%) Node.js
6 3 (7.69%) HTML
6 3 (7.69%) HTML5
7 2 (5.13%) EJB
7 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
7 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.13%) J2EE
7 2 (5.13%) J2SE
7 2 (5.13%) JSON Schema
7 2 (5.13%) Play Framework
7 2 (5.13%) SOAP
7 2 (5.13%) XML
8 1 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Equities
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) TWAP
3 1 (2.56%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
2 11 (28.21%) TDD
3 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.64%) Open Source
4 9 (23.08%) BDD
4 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) Code Quality
5 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.95%) Security Testing
7 6 (15.38%) Application Security
7 6 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Architectural Design
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Microservices
8 5 (12.82%) Migration
8 5 (12.82%) Monorepo
8 5 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (12.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (79.49%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) Kotlin
3 8 (20.51%) Python
4 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.26%) SQL
6 3 (7.69%) Go
7 2 (5.13%) Scala
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
2 5 (12.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Grafana
2 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Checkmarx
1 7 (17.95%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.13%) Spotify
3 2 (5.13%) webMethods
4 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Thales