IntelliJ Contract Job Trends

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IntelliJ skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 541 575
Rank change year-on-year +34 +34 +123
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 52 32 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.084% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.04% 0.63% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 46
10th Percentile £277 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £448 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £800 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +68.42% -12.04%
75th Percentile £550 £869 £605
90th Percentile £575 £923 £878
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £380 £463
% change year-on-year +31.58% -17.84% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 5,013 5,075 6,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 13.27% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 3,242 4,640
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 175 243
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.09 £45.94
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.25
90th Percentile £87.05 £73.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IntelliJ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IntelliJ 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

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Top 12 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 17 September 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 +43 37 £500 -39.39% 3
UK excluding London +19 31 £500 +31.58% 1
London +28 20 £513 -37.88% 2
Work from Home +15 17 £370 -43.08%
Scotland +3 14 £513 +43.96%
North of England - 9 £520 -
Midlands -5 8 £345 -54.00%
Yorkshire - 5 £520 -
East Midlands -2 4 £340 -54.67%
West Midlands - 4 £430 -
North West - 4 £340 -
South East +20 2 £285 -64.38% 1

IntelliJ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) JBoss
2 5 (9.62%) Apache
2 5 (9.62%) WebLogic
3 3 (5.77%) CICS
3 3 (5.77%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) AWS
2 20 (38.46%) GitHub
3 16 (30.77%) Azure
4 14 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.46%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (11.54%) SaaS
8 4 (7.69%) Sentry
9 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.92%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.77%) DB2
2 3 (5.77%) MSDE
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.85%) KDB
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (69.23%) Git
2 26 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 22 (42.31%) JIRA
4 20 (38.46%) Maven
5 18 (34.62%) Eclipse
6 16 (30.77%) Bitbucket
7 15 (28.85%) Selenium
8 14 (26.92%) Visual Studio Code
9 13 (25.00%) PyCharm
9 13 (25.00%) Visual Studio
10 12 (23.08%) JUnit
11 9 (17.31%) Gradle
12 8 (15.38%) Cucumber
12 8 (15.38%) TeamCity
13 7 (13.46%) Postman
14 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
15 4 (7.69%) Appium
15 4 (7.69%) Charles Proxy
15 4 (7.69%) HP UFT
15 4 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Front Office
5 5 (9.62%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Banking
7 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) German Language
8 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (51.92%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 6 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Python Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Tester
5 5 (9.62%) Automation Tester
5 5 (9.62%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Systems Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.85%) Spring
2 12 (23.08%) J2EE
3 10 (19.23%) Spring Boot
4 8 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 8 (15.38%) Web Services
5 7 (13.46%) HTML
5 7 (13.46%) XML
6 6 (11.54%) EJB
6 6 (11.54%) JSON
6 6 (11.54%) REST
6 6 (11.54%) RESTful
7 5 (9.62%) HTML5
7 5 (9.62%) J2SE
7 5 (9.62%) Play Framework
7 5 (9.62%) SOAP
8 4 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (5.77%) JPA
9 3 (5.77%) Swing
10 2 (3.85%) AWT
10 2 (3.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Public Cloud
2 6 (11.54%) Virtual Team
3 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Equities
4 3 (5.77%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.77%) VSAM
5 2 (3.85%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Derivative
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) TWAP
6 1 (1.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 15 (28.85%) Windows
3 11 (21.15%) Unix
4 4 (7.69%) Android
4 4 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) Agile
1 32 (61.54%) DevOps
2 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 20 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
4 17 (32.69%) SDLC
5 14 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (21.15%) Software Testing
7 10 (19.23%) Code Quality
7 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (19.23%) Test Strategy
8 9 (17.31%) Microservices
8 9 (17.31%) OO
8 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
9 8 (15.38%) Build Automation
9 8 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (15.38%) Design Patterns
9 8 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 47 (90.38%) Java
2 17 (32.69%) Python
3 15 (28.85%) C#
4 14 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 11 (21.15%) SQL
6 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
7 5 (9.62%) Scala
8 4 (7.69%) Kotlin
8 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 4 (7.69%) Swift
9 3 (5.77%) COBOL
9 3 (5.77%) JCL
10 2 (3.85%) C++
10 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.92%) Bash
11 1 (1.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Ansible
2 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (28.85%) Terraform
3 6 (11.54%) Puppet
4 1 (1.92%) Kibana
4 1 (1.92%) logstash
4 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Splunk
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) webMethods
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.85%) Sybase
5 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace