Java Software Engineer Contracts

Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 581 549
Rank change year-on-year +106 -32 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 108 115 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.21% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 77 254
10th Percentile £450 £471 £441
25th Percentile £478 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £869 £675 £675
90th Percentile £888 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 20
10th Percentile £67.50 £52.93 -
25th Percentile £69.38 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

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 39,665 55,057 84,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,784 38,442 59,095
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,534 2,069
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.26 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +107 95 £800 +34.45% 90
Work from Home +123 61 £800 +28.00% 65
London +97 52 £800 +33.33% 55
UK excluding London +63 41 £588 +2.17% 48
South East +29 18 £624 +15.51% 4
South West +12 16 £475 -7.32% 14
North West +24 4 £550 -15.38% 5
North of England +9 4 £550 -15.38% 7
East of England +7 2 £543 -5.65% 1
Scotland +47 1 - - 8

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 107 (99.07%) Software Engineering
3 68 (62.96%) Agile
4 54 (50.00%) AWS
5 43 (39.81%) JavaScript
5 43 (39.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (37.96%) Python
7 40 (37.04%) Finance
8 39 (36.11%) TypeScript
9 37 (34.26%) Front Office
9 37 (34.26%) Banking
10 32 (29.63%) Investment Banking
11 31 (28.70%) Apache
12 30 (27.78%) Asset Management
12 30 (27.78%) Apache Arrow
12 30 (27.78%) Apache Ignite
12 30 (27.78%) Dremio
12 30 (27.78%) dbt
12 30 (27.78%) gRPC
12 30 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
12 30 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
12 30 (27.78%) SciPy
12 30 (27.78%) NumPy
12 30 (27.78%) Protocol Buffers
12 30 (27.78%) Jenkins
12 30 (27.78%) Pandas
13 29 (26.85%) Hedge funds
13 29 (26.85%) Derivative
13 29 (26.85%) Fixed Income
13 29 (26.85%) Equities

Java Software Engineer 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 31 (28.70%) Apache
2 30 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.48%) Confluence
4 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.00%) AWS
2 30 (27.78%) dbt
3 28 (25.93%) Snowflake
4 18 (16.67%) GitHub
5 16 (14.81%) GCP
6 15 (13.89%) Azure
7 4 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.70%) Miro
8 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.85%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) SNMP
1 7 (6.48%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
1 30 (27.78%) Apache Arrow
1 30 (27.78%) Apache Ignite
1 30 (27.78%) Dremio
2 27 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (1.85%) KDB
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 27 (25.00%) JIRA
3 21 (19.44%) Git
4 19 (17.59%) GoogleTest
5 9 (8.33%) Maven
5 9 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 8 (7.41%) Cucumber
7 7 (6.48%) Bitbucket
7 7 (6.48%) Eclipse
7 7 (6.48%) Robot Framework
7 7 (6.48%) Selenium
8 6 (5.56%) GitLab
9 5 (4.63%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.85%) JUnit
12 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.93%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (37.04%) Finance
2 37 (34.26%) Banking
2 37 (34.26%) Front Office
3 32 (29.63%) Investment Banking
4 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Law
5 6 (5.56%) Retail
6 4 (3.70%) Police
7 3 (2.78%) Aviation
8 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.78%) gRPC
1 30 (27.78%) NumPy
1 30 (27.78%) Pandas
1 30 (27.78%) Protocol Buffers
1 30 (27.78%) SciPy
2 22 (20.37%) REST
3 16 (14.81%) Spring
4 14 (12.96%) Spring Boot
5 13 (12.04%) CSS
6 12 (11.11%) Qt
7 11 (10.19%) Java EE
8 9 (8.33%) HTML
8 9 (8.33%) React
9 8 (7.41%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.48%) JSON
11 5 (4.63%) .NET
11 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
11 5 (4.63%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.63%) Kafka
11 5 (4.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (39.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (26.85%) Derivative
2 29 (26.85%) Equities
2 29 (26.85%) Fixed Income
2 29 (26.85%) Hedge funds
3 8 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.41%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (19.44%) Linux
2 7 (6.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (99.07%) Software Engineering
2 68 (62.96%) Agile
3 30 (27.78%) Asset Management
4 25 (23.15%) DevOps
4 25 (23.15%) Investment Management
5 23 (21.30%) CI/CD
6 13 (12.04%) TDD
7 12 (11.11%) Microservices
7 12 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.19%) Analytics
8 11 (10.19%) Line Management
9 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.33%) BDD
10 9 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 8 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (7.41%) Greeks
11 8 (7.41%) Prototyping
11 8 (7.41%) Scrum
11 8 (7.41%) Validation
12 7 (6.48%) UML
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (39.81%) JavaScript
3 41 (37.96%) Python
4 39 (36.11%) TypeScript
5 22 (20.37%) C++
6 13 (12.04%) SQL
7 8 (7.41%) PHP
8 4 (3.70%) C#
8 4 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.78%) Groovy
10 2 (1.85%) Ruby
10 2 (1.85%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Bash
11 1 (0.93%) C
11 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) MISRA
2 8 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Docker
2 7 (6.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.41%) Podman
3 6 (5.56%) Ansible
3 6 (5.56%) Terraform
4 5 (4.63%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Google
2 7 (6.48%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.70%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.78%) Splunk
5 2 (1.85%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.85%) Solace
5 2 (1.85%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.93%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
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