Java Card Contract Job Trends

JavaCard
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Java Card in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java Card over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java Card 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £527 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £579 - -
90th Percentile £583 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £585 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Java Card falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,884 10,892 13,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.95% 31.96% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,046 6,517 9,247
10th Percentile £275 £270 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 340 494
10th Percentile £13.84 £17.48 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.00 £22.72 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.47 £76.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +53.25%

Java Card
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java Card relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Java Card job vacancy trend in the UK

Java Card
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Java Card.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Java Card

Java Card
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Card within the UK over the 6 months to 20 December 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 - 2 £585 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £540 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £585 -
London - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £585 -

Java Card
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) EMV
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Android Development
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Content Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree