IntelliJ Contracts

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IntelliJ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IntelliJ over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 553 593
Rank change year-on-year +59 +40 +125
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 56 21 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.048% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.21% 0.39% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 13 63
10th Percentile £276 £527 £433
25th Percentile £345 £540 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £800 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% +45.45% +0.92%
75th Percentile £550 £875 £688
90th Percentile £589 £915 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £775 £525
% change year-on-year -35.48% +47.62% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.40% -2.86%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -8.40% -2.96%

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 4,633 5,388 7,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 12.43% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,104 3,565 5,580
10th Percentile £330 £351 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 251 238
10th Percentile £21.10 £31.25 £45.83
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

IntelliJ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IntelliJ in the UK

IntelliJ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IntelliJ.

Daily rate trend for IntelliJ in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IntelliJ in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IntelliJ.

Hourly rate trend for IntelliJ in the UK

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Top 11 Contract 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 July 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 +78 45 £520 -35.03% 33
UK excluding London +67 32 £500 -35.48% 18
London +56 24 £535 -35.15% 21
Work from Home +44 20 £340 -56.13% 20
North of England - 14 £520 - 1
Scotland - 11 £500 - 6
Yorkshire - 9 £520 -
Midlands +15 7 £333 -55.60% 3
East Midlands +10 7 £333 -55.60% 2
North West - 5 £340 - 1
South East +34 2 £285 -64.38% 6

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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) CICS
3 2 (3.57%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (58.93%) AWS
2 18 (32.14%) GitHub
3 16 (28.57%) Azure
4 12 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.93%) SaaS
7 3 (5.36%) Datadog
7 3 (5.36%) GCP
7 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.36%) DB2
3 3 (5.36%) KDB
3 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.36%) Redis
4 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Aerospike
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (60.71%) Maven
2 32 (57.14%) Git
3 27 (48.21%) Jenkins
4 26 (46.43%) JIRA
5 19 (33.93%) Gradle
5 19 (33.93%) JUnit
6 16 (28.57%) Selenium
7 15 (26.79%) Bitbucket
8 13 (23.21%) Eclipse
9 11 (19.64%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (17.86%) PyCharm
10 10 (17.86%) SonarQube
10 10 (17.86%) TeamCity
10 10 (17.86%) Visual Studio
11 9 (16.07%) Cucumber
12 8 (14.29%) HP UFT
13 6 (10.71%) Subversion
14 5 (8.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (8.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (42.86%) Finance
2 16 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Front Office
5 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (53.57%) Developer
2 22 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Tester
4 7 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 7 (12.50%) Lead
5 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Python Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Digital Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Test Manager
9 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (39.29%) Spring
2 18 (32.14%) Spring Boot
3 10 (17.86%) J2EE
3 10 (17.86%) Kafka
3 10 (17.86%) RESTful
4 8 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 7 (12.50%) JPA
5 7 (12.50%) Web Services
6 6 (10.71%) JMS
7 4 (7.14%) Ajax
7 4 (7.14%) HTML
7 4 (7.14%) Spring Integration
7 4 (7.14%) Spring MVC
8 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.36%) Bootstrap
8 3 (5.36%) CSS
8 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.36%) HTML5
8 3 (5.36%) Node.js
8 3 (5.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 6 (10.71%) Mainframe
4 5 (8.93%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.36%) VSAM
6 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Equities
6 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Linux
2 12 (21.43%) Windows
3 7 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (51.79%) DevOps
1 29 (51.79%) Test Automation
2 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
3 23 (41.07%) Agile
4 18 (32.14%) Deployment Automation
5 15 (26.79%) Microservices
6 13 (23.21%) SDLC
7 11 (19.64%) Code Quality
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (19.64%) Design Patterns
7 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.07%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (16.07%) OO
8 9 (16.07%) Software Testing
9 8 (14.29%) Build Automation
9 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.50%) TDD
10 7 (12.50%) Test Strategy
10 7 (12.50%) Unit Testing
11 6 (10.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 13 (23.21%) Python
4 12 (21.43%) C#
5 9 (16.07%) JavaScript
6 8 (14.29%) SQL
7 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.36%) COBOL
8 3 (5.36%) JCL
9 2 (3.57%) C++
9 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.79%) Bash
10 1 (1.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (23.21%) Ansible
3 11 (19.64%) Terraform
4 4 (7.14%) Grafana
4 4 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.14%) Puppet
5 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Splunk
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (5.36%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.57%) Sybase
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.79%) Veracode