Java Architect Contracts

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 516 684
Rank change year-on-year +26 +168 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 30 66 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.15% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 54 20
10th Percentile - £563 £515
25th Percentile £500 £657 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £620
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +16.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £604 £738 £756
90th Percentile £615 £888 £899
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -22.41% +17.89% +2.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 10 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 1 May 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 +21 29 £575 -20.69% 15
London +20 17 £575 -20.69% 9
UK excluding London +46 12 £563 -22.41% 8
Work from Home +36 12 £537 -34.91% 7
North of England +28 10 £550 -21.43% 3
North West +24 8 £575 -17.86% 2
South East +20 2 £575 -20.69% 2
East Midlands - 2 £537 - 1
Midlands - 2 £537 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 30 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (66.67%) Microservices
3 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 12 (40.00%) Docker
5 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 9 (30.00%) Spring
6 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
7 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
7 8 (26.67%) DevOps
7 8 (26.67%) Serverless
7 8 (26.67%) Azure
7 8 (26.67%) AWS
7 8 (26.67%) Oracle
7 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
8 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (23.33%) Virgin Media
8 7 (23.33%) RESTful
9 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 6 (20.00%) GCP
9 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
10 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
10 5 (16.67%) .NET
10 5 (16.67%) Agile
10 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 5 (16.67%) Finance
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
11 4 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns

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 2 (6.67%) Camunda
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Sitefinity
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
1 8 (26.67%) Serverless
2 6 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) IBM Watson
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Terragrunt
3 1 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Mockito
3 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Spring
2 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 7 (23.33%) RESTful
4 5 (16.67%) .NET
5 4 (13.33%) Kafka
6 3 (10.00%) Web Services
7 2 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.67%) Express.js
7 2 (6.67%) J2EE
7 2 (6.67%) Keycloak
7 2 (6.67%) Node.js
7 2 (6.67%) OpenJDK
7 2 (6.67%) SOAP
8 1 (3.33%) React
8 1 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (3.33%) Spring MVC
8 1 (3.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) DTCC
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Microservices
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 5 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (6.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (6.67%) Design Patterns
8 2 (6.67%) DevSecOps
8 2 (6.67%) Event-Driven Programming
8 2 (6.67%) Machine Learning
8 2 (6.67%) Open Source
8 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
8 2 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 7 (23.33%) Virgin Media
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) IBM