Java Concurrency Contract Job Trends

Java Concurrency
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Java Concurrency skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 551 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Java Concurrency 2 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.021% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.093% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £605 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% - -
75th Percentile £615 £393 -
90th Percentile - £509 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Java Concurrency falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,498 8,630 10,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 22.41% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,987 5,626 7,855
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £794 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 187 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.42 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.40 £74.65 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -13.46% +10.11% -6.24%

Java Concurrency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Concurrency in the UK

Java Concurrency
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Java Concurrency
Top 2 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 Concurrency within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
London +23 2 £610 -6.15% 3
England +10 2 £610 +62.67% 3

Java Concurrency
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) GridGain
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Solace
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase