Java Developer Contracts

Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 187 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -123 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 600 2,750 3,314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 3.58% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 3.76% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 2,102 2,546
10th Percentile £413 £465 £425
25th Percentile £463 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £586
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.02% +6.45%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £688
90th Percentile £938 £850 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £495
% change year-on-year -13.04% +16.16% +10.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 19
10th Percentile £59.68 £66.00 £55.70
25th Percentile £60.22 £70.00 £58.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +11.45% +12.93%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.00 - £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.42 £72.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.82% +11.07% +12.93%

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 41,552 73,114 85,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 95.16% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 50,959 59,881
10th Percentile £293 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +8.47%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £613
90th Percentile £740 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,473 1,721 2,216
10th Percentile £15.16 £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% +50.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £45.89
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.73 £17.50
% change year-on-year +79.98% +41.29% -14.29%

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 December 2023.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram 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 December 2023. 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 -137 492 £625 -7.41% 216
London -74 375 £675 -3.57% 119
Work from Home -103 237 £600 -4.00% 103
UK excluding London -117 176 £500 -13.04% 121
Scotland -3 64 £475 -5.00% 10
North of England -60 52 £500 -20.00% 27
Yorkshire -3 27 £588 -12.96% 5
South West -26 27 £550 -8.33% 21
North West -26 24 £450 -25.00% 15
South East -59 19 £430 -21.82% 43
Midlands +42 11 £675 +33.00% 10
East of England -26 9 £700 +16.67% 5
West Midlands +38 8 £700 +35.92% 9
East Midlands +24 8 £700 +12.00% 1
Northern Ireland -11 3 £575 +15.00% 6
Wales -2 1 £450 -5.26% 1
North East -12 1 £473 -21.25% 7

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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.

1 600 (100.00%) Java
2 259 (43.17%) Agile
3 209 (34.83%) Spring
4 200 (33.33%) AWS
5 170 (28.33%) Spring Boot
6 163 (27.17%) Microservices
7 161 (26.83%) Finance
8 140 (23.33%) Banking
9 119 (19.83%) CI/CD
10 114 (19.00%) Jenkins
11 111 (18.50%) SQL
12 110 (18.33%) Docker
13 109 (18.17%) JavaScript
14 108 (18.00%) Social Skills
15 102 (17.00%) Security Cleared
16 94 (15.67%) Git
16 94 (15.67%) TDD
17 90 (15.00%) REST
18 86 (14.33%) Kafka
19 84 (14.00%) Kubernetes
19 84 (14.00%) Investment Banking
19 84 (14.00%) Python
20 82 (13.67%) DevOps
21 80 (13.33%) SC Cleared
22 72 (12.00%) Multithreading
22 72 (12.00%) SDLC
22 72 (12.00%) RESTful
23 71 (11.83%) Electronic Trading
24 69 (11.50%) Front Office
24 69 (11.50%) Full Stack Development

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 24 (4.00%) Apache
2 20 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 20 (3.33%) Confluence
3 13 (2.17%) JBoss
4 9 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.33%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.67%) Camunda
6 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
6 4 (0.67%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) JCAPS
8 1 (0.17%) Liferay
8 1 (0.17%) MTS
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.50%) ION MarketView
2 4 (0.67%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.33%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.17%) BondVision
5 1 (0.17%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 200 (33.33%) AWS
2 67 (11.17%) Azure
3 38 (6.33%) GCP
4 29 (4.83%) Serverless
5 26 (4.33%) OpenShift
6 25 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 15 (2.50%) GitHub
11 14 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.67%) Azure AKS
13 10 (1.67%) dbt
14 8 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 5 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.50%) HTTP
2 8 (1.33%) SSL
3 5 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (0.83%) NetScaler
3 5 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.50%) 5G
5 3 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.50%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.33%) MQTT
7 1 (0.17%) Firewall
7 1 (0.17%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.67%) Relational Database
2 46 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 20 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (3.00%) MySQL
9 13 (2.17%) Redis
10 10 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.67%) Apache Arrow
10 10 (1.67%) Dremio
10 10 (1.67%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
12 8 (1.33%) Big Data
12 8 (1.33%) KDB
13 7 (1.17%) DB2
14 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.00%) Hazelcast
15 5 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 114 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 94 (15.67%) Git
3 53 (8.83%) JUnit
4 41 (6.83%) JIRA
5 28 (4.67%) Maven
6 26 (4.33%) Cucumber
7 19 (3.17%) GitLab
8 17 (2.83%) IntelliJ
9 15 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.50%) Mockito
10 13 (2.17%) Postman
11 12 (2.00%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.50%) Selenium
13 8 (1.33%) Gradle
14 6 (1.00%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.00%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.83%) Subversion
16 4 (0.67%) EasyMock
16 4 (0.67%) Liquibase
General
1 161 (26.83%) Finance
2 140 (23.33%) Banking
3 108 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 84 (14.00%) Investment Banking
5 69 (11.50%) Front Office
6 62 (10.33%) Public Sector
7 25 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.17%) Law
10 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.67%) Electronics
11 4 (0.67%) Marketing
12 3 (0.50%) Military
13 2 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Publishing
14 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (34.83%) Spring
2 170 (28.33%) Spring Boot
3 90 (15.00%) REST
4 86 (14.33%) Kafka
5 72 (12.00%) RESTful
6 58 (9.67%) React
7 57 (9.50%) Node.js
8 51 (8.50%) AngularJS
9 43 (7.17%) Web Services
10 38 (6.33%) Hibernate
11 35 (5.83%) OAuth
12 34 (5.67%) HTML
13 30 (5.00%) XML
14 29 (4.83%) J2EE
14 29 (4.83%) JSON
15 28 (4.67%) CSS
16 27 (4.50%) Apache Camel
16 27 (4.50%) Spring Security
17 26 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
18 19 (3.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.00%) Fixed Income
2 32 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.00%) Derivative
8 16 (2.67%) Hedge funds
8 16 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 15 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.17%) Equities
12 9 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.50%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (1.00%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.33%) Linux
2 47 (7.83%) Unix
3 28 (4.67%) Windows
4 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.17%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (43.17%) Agile
2 163 (27.17%) Microservices
3 119 (19.83%) CI/CD
4 94 (15.67%) TDD
5 82 (13.67%) DevOps
6 72 (12.00%) Multithreading
6 72 (12.00%) SDLC
7 71 (11.83%) Electronic Trading
8 69 (11.50%) Full Stack Development
9 67 (11.17%) Scrum
10 66 (11.00%) Software Engineering
11 53 (8.83%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (8.83%) Low Latency
12 48 (8.00%) Test Automation
13 44 (7.33%) Computer Science
14 38 (6.33%) Design Patterns
15 36 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (5.83%) OO
17 31 (5.17%) Analytics
18 30 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 600 (100.00%) Java
2 111 (18.50%) SQL
3 109 (18.17%) JavaScript
4 84 (14.00%) Python
5 40 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 37 (6.17%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.83%) Scala
8 20 (3.33%) C++
9 18 (3.00%) Perl
10 16 (2.67%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.50%) C#
12 12 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.67%) Bash
15 7 (1.17%) C
16 4 (0.67%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.67%) Go
16 4 (0.67%) VBA
17 3 (0.50%) Haskell
18 2 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 102 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 80 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 21 (3.50%) Degree
4 19 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.50%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.17%) EnCE
9 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.00%) QA
2 9 (1.50%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.50%) PMO
3 6 (1.00%) WCAG
4 2 (0.33%) SLA
5 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 110 (18.33%) Docker
2 3 (0.50%) Cronacle
2 3 (0.50%) NFS
2 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.33%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 84 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.00%) Terraform
3 32 (5.33%) Ansible
4 21 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.33%) Grafana
6 11 (1.83%) Zipkin
7 10 (1.67%) Rundeck
8 8 (1.33%) Kibana
9 7 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.50%) Control-M
11 2 (0.33%) Podman
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (7.67%) Oracle
2 24 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.83%) ION Trading
4 10 (1.67%) Databricks
5 9 (1.50%) Solace
6 8 (1.33%) Sybase
7 7 (1.17%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 6 (1.00%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.83%) F5
9 5 (0.83%) IBM
10 4 (0.67%) Google
10 4 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.67%) Splunk
10 4 (0.67%) Temenos
10 4 (0.67%) WSO2
11 3 (0.50%) Calypso
11 3 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.33%) NetApp