Java Architect Contracts

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 680 778
Rank change year-on-year +158 +98 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 61 36 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.060% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.063% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 19 44
10th Percentile £563 £511 £511
25th Percentile £666 £540 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £734
90th Percentile £888 £923 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +31.82% -8.33% +14.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,284 57,177 85,797
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.53% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,293 39,889 60,217
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £747 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,625 2,127
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% +0.48%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £43.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.12% +120.51% +2.63%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Java Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Architect over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 2024. 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 +149 59 £725 +20.83% 9
UK excluding London +95 30 £725 +31.82% 5
London +94 29 £725 +7.41% 6
South East +38 28 £725 +31.82%
Work from Home +136 14 £825 +22.22% 8
North West - 1 £700 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £700 - 2

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 April 2024, Java Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (47.54%) Security Cleared
3 28 (45.90%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (45.90%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
5 23 (37.70%) Product Ownership
5 23 (37.70%) Translating Business Requirements
5 23 (37.70%) GAP Analysis
6 21 (34.43%) AWS
7 19 (31.15%) DV Cleared
8 15 (24.59%) GCP
9 13 (21.31%) Python
10 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
10 12 (19.67%) Agile
11 11 (18.03%) Finance
11 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
12 10 (16.39%) Spring Boot
12 10 (16.39%) Terraform
12 10 (16.39%) Apache Airflow
12 10 (16.39%) Banking
12 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
12 10 (16.39%) Microservices
12 10 (16.39%) TypeScript
13 9 (14.75%) DevOps
13 9 (14.75%) Front Office
13 9 (14.75%) Fixed Income
14 8 (13.11%) Equities
14 8 (13.11%) Asset Management
14 8 (13.11%) Investment Banking
14 8 (13.11%) Oracle

Java Architect Skill Set
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 10 (16.39%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (13.11%) Apache
3 6 (9.84%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.28%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) AWS
2 15 (24.59%) GCP
3 8 (13.11%) dbt
4 7 (11.48%) Snowflake
5 6 (9.84%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (9.84%) GitHub
5 6 (9.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (6.56%) Azure
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (13.11%) Apache Arrow
1 8 (13.11%) Apache Ignite
1 8 (13.11%) Dremio
2 7 (11.48%) Data Lake
2 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
3 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.84%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.92%) DB2
5 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.64%) MySQL
6 1 (1.64%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
2 3 (4.92%) REST Assured
2 3 (4.92%) Selenium
2 3 (4.92%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.64%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) Maven
General
1 28 (45.90%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (44.26%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Finance
4 10 (16.39%) Banking
5 9 (14.75%) Front Office
6 8 (13.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Spring Boot
2 8 (13.11%) gRPC
2 8 (13.11%) NumPy
2 8 (13.11%) Pandas
2 8 (13.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 8 (13.11%) SciPy
3 6 (9.84%) OAuth
4 5 (8.20%) Spring
5 4 (6.56%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.92%) Java EE
6 3 (4.92%) React
7 2 (3.28%) .NET
7 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.28%) CSS
7 2 (3.28%) J2EE
7 2 (3.28%) SOAP
7 2 (3.28%) Web Services
8 1 (1.64%) EJB
8 1 (1.64%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.70%) Product Ownership
2 9 (14.75%) Fixed Income
3 8 (13.11%) Derivative
3 8 (13.11%) Equities
3 8 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (13.11%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (37.70%) GAP Analysis
2 23 (37.70%) Translating Business Requirements
3 12 (19.67%) Agile
4 10 (16.39%) Microservices
4 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
5 9 (14.75%) DevOps
6 8 (13.11%) Asset Management
6 8 (13.11%) Investment Management
6 8 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (11.48%) Line Management
7 7 (11.48%) Workflow
8 6 (9.84%) Containerisation
8 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
9 5 (8.20%) Business Analysis
9 5 (8.20%) Project Management
10 4 (6.56%) Migration
11 3 (4.92%) Configuration Management
11 3 (4.92%) Decision-Making
11 3 (4.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (21.31%) Python
3 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.39%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.20%) SQL
6 2 (3.28%) C#
6 2 (3.28%) Scala
6 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (47.54%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.15%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.39%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (4.92%) Podman
4 1 (1.64%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Google
3 2 (3.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.64%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.64%) Virgin Media