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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 500 538
Rank change year-on-year -160 +38 +48
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 18 52 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.16% 0.086%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.28% 1.03% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 44 24
10th Percentile £375 £277 £356
25th Percentile £425 £420 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £775
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -35.48% +67.57%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £866
90th Percentile - £575 £921
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £375
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 6,331 5,063 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.31% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 3,408 3,229
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 110 176
10th Percentile £22.68 £28.94 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.75 £73.88
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

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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 26 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 26 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 -135 16 £570 +14.00% 16
UK excluding London -122 10 £550 +10.00% 10
London -95 8 £525 +2.44% 8
East of England - 5 £570 -
Work from Home -64 3 £528 +42.57% 3
Scotland -35 2 £343 -33.17% 1
West Midlands -48 1 £550 +28.06% 1
Midlands -52 1 £550 +59.42% 1
North of England -79 1 £485 -6.69% 2
North East - 1 £485 -
South West - 1 - - 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) GitHub
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) JUnit
3 7 (38.89%) JIRA
4 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 6 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (27.78%) Maven
6 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
7 3 (16.67%) JProfiler
8 1 (5.56%) Bundler
8 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (5.56%) GoCD
8 1 (5.56%) Gradle
8 1 (5.56%) Leiningen
8 1 (5.56%) Mockito
8 1 (5.56%) Postman
8 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (5.56%) Selenium
8 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.56%) TestNG
8 1 (5.56%) TestRail
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.11%) GCP Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Java Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Software Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.11%) React Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) GCP Developer
4 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Spring
2 10 (55.56%) Spring Boot
3 5 (27.78%) Node.js
3 5 (27.78%) React
3 5 (27.78%) REST
4 4 (22.22%) CSS
5 3 (16.67%) FreeMarker
5 3 (16.67%) HTML
5 3 (16.67%) HTML5
5 3 (16.67%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (16.67%) JDBC
5 3 (16.67%) JPA
5 3 (16.67%) JSF
5 3 (16.67%) Redux
5 3 (16.67%) Sass
5 3 (16.67%) Servlets
5 3 (16.67%) Spring MVC
6 2 (11.11%) RESTful
7 1 (5.56%) JSP
7 1 (5.56%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) TDD
3 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 6 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 5 (27.78%) BDD
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) Open Source
6 4 (22.22%) Application Security
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) SDLC
6 4 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 3 (16.67%) MVC
7 3 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Checkmarx
1 5 (27.78%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle