Java Contracts

Java
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java 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 24 24 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 2,466 2,927 4,566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.75% 6.75% 8.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.09% 22.03% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,155 3,426
10th Percentile £356 £400 £419
25th Percentile £420 £461 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £672 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.05% -4.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 84 101
10th Percentile £30.65 £45.88 £47.73
25th Percentile £35.74 £57.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £68.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.96% +3.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.90 £74.28 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% +2.36%

All Programming Languages
UK

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,680 13,287 18,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 30.65% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,203 9,330 13,600
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 540 454
10th Percentile £27.00 £31.25 £30.23
25th Percentile £34.94 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.58 £75.00 £79.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +17.92%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java 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 0 2,001 £534 -11.08% 5,954
London -4 1,265 £600 -4.00% 3,596
UK excluding London +8 944 £465 -7.05% 2,825
Work from Home +2 907 £548 -12.36% 2,485
North of England 0 249 £454 -10.50% 736
Scotland +5 247 £470 +4.44% 293
Midlands +44 172 £420 -16.00% 379
North West +6 165 £420 -15.15% 445
South East -4 154 £498 -14.96% 609
West Midlands +41 89 £493 -10.45% 239
East Midlands +29 82 £362 -21.41% 138
Yorkshire -26 57 £515 -6.39% 220
East of England +6 52 £489 -1.80% 293
South West -17 51 £588 +8.29% 341
North East +9 28 £455 +7.06% 71
Northern Ireland -11 16 £410 -30.21% 117
Wales +9 11 £455 -9.00% 73

Java
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
1 133 (5.39%) Apache
2 123 (4.99%) Confluence
3 101 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
4 96 (3.89%) Apache Spark
5 41 (1.66%) JBoss
6 32 (1.30%) Tomcat
7 30 (1.22%) WebLogic
8 25 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.81%) Camunda
10 18 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 16 (0.65%) NetWeaver
12 15 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
13 13 (0.53%) Documentum
13 13 (0.53%) FileNet
14 11 (0.45%) CMS
15 10 (0.41%) CICS
15 10 (0.41%) GemFire
15 10 (0.41%) Mule
15 10 (0.41%) SharePoint
16 9 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Maya
2 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.45%) NUKE
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.24%) Adobe Captivate
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.041%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Oracle BPM
2 15 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.49%) Endur
4 10 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.36%) Temenos T24
6 7 (0.28%) SAP CRM
7 6 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.16%) Shopify
9 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.081%) Misys Midas
10 2 (0.081%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 956 (38.77%) AWS
2 445 (18.05%) Azure
3 234 (9.49%) GCP
4 170 (6.89%) Serverless
5 127 (5.15%) GitHub
6 117 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
7 105 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (3.89%) dbt
8 96 (3.89%) OpenShift
9 94 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 86 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 63 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
13 54 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
14 52 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
15 49 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
17 44 (1.78%) SaaS
18 43 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.23%) HTTP
2 31 (1.26%) Firewall
3 26 (1.05%) DNS
4 20 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.77%) VPN
6 18 (0.73%) HTTPS
6 18 (0.73%) Wireshark
7 16 (0.65%) LAN
8 15 (0.61%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.61%) WAN
9 14 (0.57%) ATM
9 14 (0.57%) Frame Relay
9 14 (0.57%) GPRS
9 14 (0.57%) GSM
9 14 (0.57%) LTE
9 14 (0.57%) MPLS
9 14 (0.57%) SAN
9 14 (0.57%) SDH
9 14 (0.57%) UMTS
10 12 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 229 (9.29%) Relational Database
3 222 (9.00%) MongoDB
4 143 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 114 (4.62%) MySQL
6 88 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 82 (3.33%) DB2
8 81 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
8 81 (3.28%) Dremio
9 79 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 77 (3.12%) Apache Arrow
11 75 (3.04%) Big Data
12 67 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
13 62 (2.51%) Oracle Database
14 53 (2.15%) Data Lake
15 52 (2.11%) Apache Ignite
15 52 (2.11%) DynamoDB
16 50 (2.03%) Redis
17 40 (1.62%) Hadoop
17 40 (1.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 440 (17.84%) Jenkins
2 400 (16.22%) Git
3 270 (10.95%) JUnit
4 264 (10.71%) JIRA
5 190 (7.70%) GitLab
6 161 (6.53%) Selenium
7 151 (6.12%) Maven
8 128 (5.19%) Cucumber
9 114 (4.62%) Gradle
10 97 (3.93%) Mockito
11 90 (3.65%) SonarQube
12 65 (2.64%) Bitbucket
13 57 (2.31%) REST Assured
14 56 (2.27%) IntelliJ
15 52 (2.11%) Postman
16 50 (2.03%) Cypress.io
17 48 (1.95%) Liquibase
18 43 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
19 40 (1.62%) JMeter
20 39 (1.58%) TeamCity
General
1 706 (28.63%) Finance
2 638 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 450 (18.25%) Banking
4 373 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
5 245 (9.94%) Investment Banking
6 240 (9.73%) Public Sector
7 206 (8.35%) Front Office
8 59 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 49 (1.99%) Financial Institution
10 35 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.30%) Military
13 31 (1.26%) Marketing
14 28 (1.14%) Automotive
14 28 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (0.93%) Electronics
17 23 (0.93%) Games
18 20 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,168 (47.36%) Developer
2 697 (28.26%) Java Developer
3 359 (14.56%) Senior
4 248 (10.06%) Software Engineer
5 220 (8.92%) Architect
6 217 (8.80%) Java Engineer
7 194 (7.87%) Lead
8 182 (7.38%) Senior Developer
9 138 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
10 131 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 123 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
12 120 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
13 111 (4.50%) AWS Developer
14 97 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 84 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
16 83 (3.37%) Lead Developer
17 80 (3.24%) Python Engineer
18 76 (3.08%) Data Engineer
19 75 (3.04%) Test Engineer
20 70 (2.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 589 (23.88%) Spring
2 444 (18.00%) Spring Boot
3 413 (16.75%) Kafka
4 355 (14.40%) React
5 277 (11.23%) REST
6 221 (8.96%) AngularJS
7 215 (8.72%) RESTful
8 197 (7.99%) Node.js
9 184 (7.46%) HTML
10 149 (6.04%) CSS
11 147 (5.96%) .NET
12 129 (5.23%) Web Services
13 120 (4.87%) SOAP
14 119 (4.83%) Hibernate
15 95 (3.85%) XML
16 86 (3.49%) OAuth
17 81 (3.28%) Swagger
18 76 (3.08%) JSON
19 74 (3.00%) Middleware
20 73 (2.96%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 151 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 146 (5.92%) Equities
3 131 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (4.50%) Cloud Native
5 106 (4.30%) Data Structures
5 106 (4.30%) Derivative
6 99 (4.01%) Fixed Income
7 78 (3.16%) Hedge funds
8 76 (3.08%) Algorithms
9 64 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.55%) Public Cloud
11 62 (2.51%) Product Ownership
12 54 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (2.11%) Management Information System
14 46 (1.87%) Onboarding
15 41 (1.66%) Mobile App
15 41 (1.66%) Virtual Team
16 38 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
18 32 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 397 (16.10%) Linux
2 128 (5.19%) Unix
3 106 (4.30%) Windows
4 48 (1.95%) Android
5 38 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.28%) AIX
9 7 (0.28%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.16%) Solaris
11 4 (0.16%) zOS
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.081%) CentOS
13 2 (0.081%) OS/2
14 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,012 (41.04%) Agile
2 777 (31.51%) CI/CD
3 642 (26.03%) DevOps
4 625 (25.34%) Microservices
5 538 (21.82%) Software Engineering
6 512 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
7 400 (16.22%) Test Automation
8 359 (14.56%) TDD
9 282 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 273 (11.07%) Containerisation
11 261 (10.58%) Scrum
12 248 (10.06%) SDLC
13 215 (8.72%) Computer Science
14 201 (8.15%) Continuous Integration
15 181 (7.34%) Mentoring
16 158 (6.41%) Migration
17 154 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 151 (6.12%) Event-Driven
19 145 (5.88%) Design Patterns
20 134 (5.43%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 845 (34.27%) Python
2 655 (26.56%) SQL
3 521 (21.13%) JavaScript
4 323 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 207 (8.39%) C#
6 183 (7.42%) C++
7 124 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 102 (4.14%) Go
9 97 (3.93%) Kotlin
10 81 (3.28%) C
11 76 (3.08%) PowerShell
12 74 (3.00%) Bash
13 69 (2.80%) Scala
14 67 (2.72%) PL/SQL
15 55 (2.23%) Perl
16 47 (1.91%) Ruby
17 40 (1.62%) PHP
18 36 (1.46%) Rust
19 33 (1.34%) Groovy
20 21 (0.85%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 455 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 370 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 241 (9.77%) Degree
4 118 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 44 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 41 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 32 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 24 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 24 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
10 22 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 20 (0.81%) ISEB
12 17 (0.69%) CCNP
13 13 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.53%) PhD
14 10 (0.41%) CISSP
15 9 (0.36%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (8.03%) QA
2 44 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.62%) GDPR
4 33 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.73%) HIPAA
5 18 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (0.53%) SLA
6 13 (0.53%) WCAG
7 12 (0.49%) NIST
7 12 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (0.28%) SEPA
10 4 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.12%) NCSC
12 2 (0.081%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 460 (18.65%) Docker
2 40 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.36%) Postfix
6 8 (0.32%) GridGain
7 6 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.24%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.16%) OpenAM
8 4 (0.16%) OpenDJ
8 4 (0.16%) OpenIDM
8 4 (0.16%) Platform Symphony
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.12%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.12%) HDFS
9 3 (0.12%) iptables
9 3 (0.12%) Lustre
9 3 (0.12%) LXC
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 476 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 255 (10.34%) Terraform
3 132 (5.35%) Ansible
4 92 (3.73%) Grafana
5 67 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.22%) Puppet
8 26 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 25 (1.01%) Kibana
10 17 (0.69%) Istio
11 14 (0.57%) Podman
12 12 (0.49%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 11 (0.45%) Control-M
14 10 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.28%) Argo
17 6 (0.24%) CloudHub
17 6 (0.24%) Perfmon
18 4 (0.16%) Packer
18 4 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 294 (11.92%) Oracle
2 184 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 82 (3.33%) SAP
4 76 (3.08%) Google
5 70 (2.84%) Sybase
6 66 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 55 (2.23%) IBM
8 52 (2.11%) Splunk
9 40 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 40 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 37 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.30%) MuleSoft
12 28 (1.14%) Virgin Media
13 26 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.93%) Cisco
14 23 (0.93%) Databricks
14 23 (0.93%) ForgeRock
15 22 (0.89%) VMware
16 20 (0.81%) Ping Identity
17 19 (0.77%) CA Agile Central