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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 501 539
Rank change year-on-year -161 +38 +61
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 21 48 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.15% 0.082%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.34% 0.97% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 42 21
10th Percentile £333 £276 £356
25th Percentile £425 £363 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -37.50% +68.42%
75th Percentile £590 £550 £875
90th Percentile £600 £575 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £400
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
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 6,183 4,945 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.20% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,329 3,246
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 110 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 5 September 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

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 5 September 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 -144 19 £550 +10.00% 22
UK excluding London -109 13 £500 - 16
London -94 8 £525 +2.44% 9
East of England - 7 £570 -
Work from Home -71 4 £442 +29.85% 12
Scotland -44 2 £343 -33.17% 1
South West - 2 - - 2
Midlands -57 1 £550 +61.76%
North West -62 1 £313 -7.94% 3
North of England -76 1 £313 -39.78% 4
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) GitHub
2 7 (33.33%) GCP
3 6 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (9.52%) Azure
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Git
2 11 (52.38%) JUnit
3 9 (42.86%) JIRA
4 8 (38.10%) SonarQube
5 5 (23.81%) Maven
5 5 (23.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
7 3 (14.29%) JProfiler
8 1 (4.76%) Bundler
8 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (4.76%) GitLab
8 1 (4.76%) GoCD
8 1 (4.76%) Gradle
8 1 (4.76%) Leiningen
8 1 (4.76%) Mockito
8 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.76%) Selenium
8 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
8 1 (4.76%) TestNG
8 1 (4.76%) TestRail
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
3 3 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Java Software Architect
4 2 (9.52%) React Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) Spring
2 13 (61.90%) Spring Boot
3 7 (33.33%) Node.js
4 6 (28.57%) React
4 6 (28.57%) REST
5 4 (19.05%) CSS
5 4 (19.05%) HTML
5 4 (19.05%) HTML5
5 4 (19.05%) JPA
6 3 (14.29%) FreeMarker
6 3 (14.29%) Jakarta EE
6 3 (14.29%) JDBC
6 3 (14.29%) JSF
6 3 (14.29%) Redux
6 3 (14.29%) Sass
6 3 (14.29%) Servlets
6 3 (14.29%) Spring MVC
7 2 (9.52%) Kafka
7 2 (9.52%) Middleware
7 2 (9.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) TDD
3 9 (42.86%) Code Quality
3 9 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) BDD
4 8 (38.10%) Security Testing
5 7 (33.33%) DevOps
5 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (33.33%) Open Source
6 6 (28.57%) Application Security
6 6 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Architectural Design
7 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (23.81%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 4 (19.05%) Scrum
8 4 (19.05%) SDLC
9 3 (14.29%) MVC
9 3 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) QA
2 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Checkmarx
1 7 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle