Java Developer Contracts

Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 July 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
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 134 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 703 755 1,279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.17% 1.75% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 1.88% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 615 1,058
10th Percentile £358 £390 £438
25th Percentile £425 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £597 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% -4.48% -
75th Percentile £640 £800 £760
90th Percentile £838 £888 £866
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -2.63% -7.32% -5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 22
10th Percentile - £36.00 £55.75
25th Percentile - £51.25 £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +14.62%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +10.67%

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 29,779 40,145 54,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 92.99% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,981 25,838 37,549
10th Percentile £288 £288 £313
25th Percentile £401 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,369 2,770 1,583
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.88 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.79 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.32 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% -14.05% +71.10%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.35 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year -37.13% +0.50% +96.64%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -15 512 £534 -11.08% 133
London -9 364 £575 -17.86% 54
Work from Home +27 296 £550 -8.33% 94
UK excluding London +44 277 £463 -2.63% 116
Scotland +21 133 £450 +3.45% 14
Midlands +43 52 £420 -6.67% 15
North of England -15 51 £464 -11.57% 26
North West -1 36 £469 -10.67% 13
West Midlands +30 34 £500 +11.11% 11
East Midlands +18 18 £320 -19.62% 4
South East +5 15 £501 -4.67% 24
Yorkshire -15 12 £513 -6.82% 9
Northern Ireland -5 11 £410 -36.92% 19
East of England +20 5 £488 -9.80% 3
South West +18 5 £475 +11.76% 14
Wales - 5 £469 - 1
North East -1 4 £380 -13.14% 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 2025, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 703 (100.00%) Java
2 352 (50.07%) Spring
3 309 (43.95%) Agile
4 255 (36.27%) SQL
5 254 (36.13%) AWS
6 251 (35.70%) Microservices
7 243 (34.57%) Spring Boot
8 225 (32.01%) Finance
9 212 (30.16%) CI/CD
10 211 (30.01%) Kafka
11 193 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
12 182 (25.89%) JUnit
13 178 (25.32%) TDD
14 169 (24.04%) Social Skills
15 153 (21.76%) DevOps
16 152 (21.62%) Banking
17 146 (20.77%) PostgreSQL
17 146 (20.77%) Relational Database
18 144 (20.48%) Software Engineering
19 140 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
20 137 (19.49%) Docker
20 137 (19.49%) Linux
21 135 (19.20%) Python
22 131 (18.63%) MongoDB
23 128 (18.21%) React
24 124 (17.64%) Kubernetes
25 123 (17.50%) Jenkins
26 118 (16.79%) Security Cleared
27 109 (15.50%) Git
28 107 (15.22%) SC Cleared

Java Developer 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 29 (4.13%) Apache
2 27 (3.84%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.85%) Tomcat
5 11 (1.56%) Confluence
5 11 (1.56%) JBoss
5 11 (1.56%) Oracle Coherence
6 8 (1.14%) GemFire
7 6 (0.85%) Camunda
8 3 (0.43%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.43%) CMS
8 3 (0.43%) OpenROAD
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 254 (36.13%) AWS
2 81 (11.52%) Azure
3 52 (7.40%) GCP
4 34 (4.84%) Serverless
5 33 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (4.27%) Amazon S3
7 29 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.13%) dbt
9 22 (3.13%) GitHub
10 20 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.13%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.71%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (1.42%) AWS KMS
14 10 (1.42%) Route 53
15 9 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.28%) HTTP
2 5 (0.71%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (0.71%) SSL
3 4 (0.57%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) MQTT
5 2 (0.28%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (20.77%) PostgreSQL
1 146 (20.77%) Relational Database
2 131 (18.63%) MongoDB
3 60 (8.53%) DB2
4 57 (8.11%) NoSQL
5 31 (4.41%) MySQL
6 30 (4.27%) Redis
7 26 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (3.70%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.13%) RDBMS
9 21 (2.99%) SQL Server
10 20 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.84%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
10 20 (2.84%) Big Data
10 20 (2.84%) Dremio
11 16 (2.28%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 182 (25.89%) JUnit
2 123 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 109 (15.50%) Git
4 77 (10.95%) Maven
5 68 (9.67%) Mockito
6 59 (8.39%) Gradle
7 48 (6.83%) GitLab
8 47 (6.69%) SonarQube
9 42 (5.97%) JIRA
10 33 (4.69%) Cucumber
11 24 (3.41%) Liquibase
12 22 (3.13%) IntelliJ
13 21 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
14 20 (2.84%) Selenium
15 16 (2.28%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.28%) Bitbucket Server
16 14 (1.99%) TeamCity
17 9 (1.28%) Subversion
18 8 (1.14%) Eclipse
18 8 (1.14%) jMock
General
1 225 (32.01%) Finance
2 169 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 152 (21.62%) Banking
4 140 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (14.65%) Investment Banking
6 83 (11.81%) Front Office
7 73 (10.38%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.85%) Marketing
10 11 (1.56%) Electronics
10 11 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.85%) Law
13 5 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.57%) Automotive
15 3 (0.43%) Games
15 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (50.07%) Spring
2 243 (34.57%) Spring Boot
3 211 (30.01%) Kafka
4 128 (18.21%) React
5 95 (13.51%) REST
5 95 (13.51%) RESTful
6 91 (12.94%) AngularJS
7 69 (9.82%) Hibernate
8 62 (8.82%) Node.js
9 50 (7.11%) JMS
10 48 (6.83%) Web Services
11 44 (6.26%) HTML
12 40 (5.69%) JPA
13 38 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
13 38 (5.41%) CSS
14 36 (5.12%) Swagger
15 35 (4.98%) SOAP
16 34 (4.84%) OpenAPI
17 28 (3.98%) FIX Protocol
18 26 (3.70%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 86 (12.23%) Equities
2 77 (10.95%) Data Structures
3 54 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (5.69%) Derivative
5 36 (5.12%) Fixed Income
6 28 (3.98%) Algorithms
7 23 (3.27%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.70%) Market Risk
9 17 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
10 15 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.99%) Equity Derivative
12 13 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.56%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 137 (19.49%) Linux
2 47 (6.69%) Unix
3 4 (0.57%) Android
3 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.57%) Windows
4 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (43.95%) Agile
2 251 (35.70%) Microservices
3 212 (30.16%) CI/CD
4 193 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (25.32%) TDD
6 153 (21.76%) DevOps
7 144 (20.48%) Software Engineering
8 105 (14.94%) SDLC
9 103 (14.65%) Multithreading
10 99 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 85 (12.09%) Containerisation
12 78 (11.10%) Performance Tuning
13 65 (9.25%) Computer Science
14 62 (8.82%) Test Automation
15 59 (8.39%) Scrum
16 58 (8.25%) BDD
16 58 (8.25%) Open Source
17 56 (7.97%) Design Patterns
18 55 (7.82%) Clean Code
18 55 (7.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 703 (100.00%) Java
2 255 (36.27%) SQL
3 135 (19.20%) Python
4 98 (13.94%) JavaScript
5 70 (9.96%) TypeScript
6 65 (9.25%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.71%) Perl
9 11 (1.56%) Ruby
9 11 (1.56%) Scala
10 10 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.14%) C#
11 8 (1.14%) C++
12 7 (1.00%) Bash
13 6 (0.85%) Go
14 5 (0.71%) PHP
15 4 (0.57%) Clojure
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) Groovy
16 3 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 118 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.97%) Degree
4 25 (3.56%) Numerate Degree
5 17 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.28%) OCP
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.70%) QA
2 6 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (19.49%) Docker
2 9 (1.28%) Postfix
3 8 (1.14%) GridGain
4 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.28%) HDFS
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (17.64%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.41%) Terraform
3 27 (3.84%) Grafana
4 25 (3.56%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.85%) Ansible
6 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.57%) Kibana
6 4 (0.57%) Podman
7 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.28%) Istio
8 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Control-M
9 1 (0.14%) Kiali
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (8.96%) Sybase
2 60 (8.53%) Oracle
3 19 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.42%) Splunk
5 14 (1.99%) SAP
6 13 (1.85%) Google
6 13 (1.85%) Virgin Media
7 12 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
9 8 (1.14%) IBM
10 7 (1.00%) TIBCO
10 7 (1.00%) Veracode
11 6 (0.85%) Solace
12 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.71%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.57%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.57%) Refinitiv