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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 529 577
Rank change year-on-year -13 +48 +116
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 44 35 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.096% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.81% 0.73% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 48
10th Percentile £277 £354 £309
25th Percentile £428 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £456
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +28.49% -19.25%
75th Percentile £539 £863 £613
90th Percentile £571 £916 £874
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 5,401 4,762 6,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 13.02% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,724 2,969 4,270
10th Percentile £331 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £539
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.53% -2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £503
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.08% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 132 240
10th Percentile £29.00 £24.89 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +7.44%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £86.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

IntelliJ
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
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 16 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 -13 31 £440 -43.23% 7
UK excluding London -24 25 £500 +29.03% 2
London +1 17 £500 -39.39% 5
Work from Home +16 13 £429 -32.71% 5
Scotland +2 12 £538 +50.98%
Midlands -23 11 £412 -45.07% 1
West Midlands - 8 £429 - 1
East Midlands -7 3 £340 -54.67%
North West -21 2 £445 +11.25%
North of England -38 2 £445 +4.71%
South East -3 1 £280 -61.04% 1

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 10 (22.73%) JBoss
2 9 (20.45%) Apache
2 9 (20.45%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.55%) CICS
4 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (63.64%) AWS
2 14 (31.82%) GitHub
3 13 (29.55%) Azure
4 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (22.73%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.09%) SaaS
7 4 (9.09%) Sentry
8 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (2.27%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.27%) Multicast
2 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.82%) MSDE
3 2 (4.55%) DB2
3 2 (4.55%) KDB
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (61.36%) Git
2 18 (40.91%) Eclipse
3 16 (36.36%) Jenkins
4 13 (29.55%) Bitbucket
4 13 (29.55%) JIRA
5 12 (27.27%) Maven
5 12 (27.27%) Selenium
5 12 (27.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (25.00%) JUnit
6 11 (25.00%) PyCharm
6 11 (25.00%) Visual Studio
7 5 (11.36%) Cucumber
7 5 (11.36%) Postman
7 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
7 5 (11.36%) TeamCity
8 4 (9.09%) Appium
8 4 (9.09%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (9.09%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (9.09%) XCUITest
General
1 21 (47.73%) Finance
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (20.45%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Banking
6 4 (9.09%) Front Office
6 4 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.27%) German Language
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (54.55%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Java Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Python Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Python Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior
6 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Tester
8 2 (4.55%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
8 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
8 2 (4.55%) KDB Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) J2EE
1 15 (34.09%) Spring
2 11 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 11 (25.00%) HTML
2 11 (25.00%) XML
3 10 (22.73%) EJB
3 10 (22.73%) JSON
3 10 (22.73%) REST
4 9 (20.45%) HTML5
4 9 (20.45%) J2SE
4 9 (20.45%) Play Framework
4 9 (20.45%) SOAP
5 7 (15.91%) Spring Boot
6 6 (13.64%) Web Services
7 5 (11.36%) RESTful
8 3 (6.82%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (4.55%) JPA
9 2 (4.55%) Middleware
9 2 (4.55%) React
9 2 (4.55%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.82%) Derivative
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.55%) VSAM
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Equities
5 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) TWAP
5 1 (2.27%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.09%) Unix
2 14 (31.82%) Linux
3 13 (29.55%) Windows
4 4 (9.09%) Android
4 4 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Agile
2 26 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 26 (59.09%) DevOps
3 21 (47.73%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 13 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (29.55%) Microservices
5 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (29.55%) SDLC
6 12 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (22.73%) Open Source
9 9 (20.45%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (20.45%) Lean Software Development
9 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.45%) Scrum
10 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
10 7 (15.91%) OO
Programming Languages
1 39 (88.64%) Java
2 16 (36.36%) Python
3 15 (34.09%) TypeScript
4 13 (29.55%) C#
4 13 (29.55%) SQL
5 9 (20.45%) Scala
6 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.09%) Kotlin
7 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.09%) Swift
8 2 (4.55%) C++
8 2 (4.55%) COBOL
8 2 (4.55%) JCL
9 1 (2.27%) Bash
9 1 (2.27%) Groovy
9 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Ansible
2 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (29.55%) Terraform
3 9 (20.45%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Kibana
4 1 (2.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) webMethods
2 5 (11.36%) Splunk
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat