Java
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 29 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 2,720 8,354 9,874
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 10.87% 11.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.87% 28.91% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 5,943 7,170
10th Percentile £400 £450 £411
25th Percentile £463 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £675
90th Percentile £810 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 166 81
10th Percentile £38.24 £47.99 £36.64
25th Percentile £48.32 £58.05 £45.72
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% +31.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £71.00
90th Percentile £77.85 £75.00 £77.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +16.07% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
UK

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,690 28,899 34,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.78% 37.61% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,741 20,684 25,192
10th Percentile £360 £400 £363
25th Percentile £431 £465 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £470
% change year-on-year -3.38% +10.11% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 496 427
10th Percentile £31.90 £25.50 £19.05
25th Percentile £47.13 £46.63 £30.63
Median hourly rate £61.84 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% +28.87% +14.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.15 £74.76 £70.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year - +39.28% +8.53%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
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 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 -19 2,218 £575 -5.74% 1,607
London -12 1,441 £600 -7.69% 855
Work from Home -15 1,128 £575 -4.17% 829
UK excluding London -23 926 £525 -4.55% 923
Scotland -7 222 £478 -4.50% 66
North of England -19 212 £525 -10.64% 201
South East -20 210 £528 -4.09% 295
South West -18 163 £600 +3.23% 151
North West -16 122 £528 -8.26% 122
Yorkshire -10 87 £525 -12.50% 58
Midlands -38 72 £495 -8.33% 87
East Midlands +12 40 £500 -4.76% 28
East of England -48 39 £500 -16.67% 83
West Midlands -52 36 £525 -2.78% 59
Wales -7 11 £488 +8.33% 22
Northern Ireland -13 11 £700 +40.00% 30
North East -23 3 £473 -17.83% 22

Java
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
1 160 (5.88%) Confluence
2 108 (3.97%) Apache
3 76 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 65 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 56 (2.06%) Tomcat
6 38 (1.40%) CMS
6 38 (1.40%) nginx
7 30 (1.10%) JBoss
8 26 (0.96%) WebLogic
9 24 (0.88%) WebSphere
10 23 (0.85%) SharePoint
11 18 (0.66%) NetWeaver
12 17 (0.63%) WordPress
13 15 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
13 15 (0.55%) SAS
14 14 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 12 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 11 (0.40%) Apache Solr
16 11 (0.40%) IIS
16 11 (0.40%) SAP EP
Applications
1 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.48%) CATIA
3 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.22%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.18%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.11%) Trello
6 2 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.037%) Fireworks
7 1 (0.037%) Sketch
7 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (0.88%) ION MarketView
2 20 (0.74%) Loan IQ
3 16 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.59%) Magento
4 11 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
5 10 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
6 9 (0.33%) SAP CRM
7 8 (0.29%) Temenos T24
8 7 (0.26%) Shopify
9 6 (0.22%) DELMIA
9 6 (0.22%) ENOVIA
9 6 (0.22%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.18%) Misys Midas
10 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
12 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (36.88%) AWS
2 442 (16.25%) Azure
3 226 (8.31%) GCP
4 158 (5.81%) GitHub
5 133 (4.89%) Serverless
6 127 (4.67%) OpenShift
7 103 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 82 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
13 53 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
14 52 (1.91%) SaaS
15 47 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
16 45 (1.65%) Power Platform
17 44 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
19 33 (1.21%) dbt
19 33 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.32%) HTTP
2 44 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.47%) DNS
4 35 (1.29%) SSL
5 30 (1.10%) IPv4
6 24 (0.88%) Internet
7 21 (0.77%) Firewall
8 19 (0.70%) HTTPS
9 18 (0.66%) SAN
10 17 (0.63%) Network Security
11 16 (0.59%) SMTP
12 15 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
12 15 (0.55%) iSCSI
12 15 (0.55%) SNMP
13 13 (0.48%) POP3
13 13 (0.48%) Tactical Data Link
14 10 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 9 (0.33%) DHCP
15 9 (0.33%) FTP
15 9 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (7.94%) Relational Database
2 180 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.70%) MySQL
4 153 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 132 (4.85%) NoSQL
6 103 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 79 (2.90%) Big Data
8 77 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
9 57 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 52 (1.91%) DB2
10 52 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 52 (1.91%) Hadoop
11 47 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
12 42 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
13 41 (1.51%) Oracle Database
13 41 (1.51%) RDBMS
14 40 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
15 38 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
16 33 (1.21%) Data Lake
16 33 (1.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 401 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 368 (13.53%) Git
3 261 (9.60%) JIRA
4 159 (5.85%) Selenium
5 149 (5.48%) Cucumber
5 149 (5.48%) JUnit
6 106 (3.90%) Maven
7 101 (3.71%) Bitbucket
8 99 (3.64%) GitLab
9 59 (2.17%) Cypress.io
10 54 (1.99%) Artifactory
10 54 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 48 (1.76%) Postman
12 45 (1.65%) JMeter
13 40 (1.47%) REST Assured
14 38 (1.40%) TeamCity
15 37 (1.36%) IntelliJ
16 36 (1.32%) Gradle
17 34 (1.25%) WebDriver
18 31 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 629 (23.13%) Finance
2 524 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 385 (14.15%) Banking
4 240 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 192 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 179 (6.58%) Investment Banking
7 159 (5.85%) Front Office
8 43 (1.58%) Financial Institution
9 31 (1.14%) Law
10 30 (1.10%) Marketing
10 30 (1.10%) Retail
11 29 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (0.99%) Electronics
13 22 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (0.70%) Military
16 16 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,143 (42.02%) Developer
2 600 (22.06%) Java Developer
3 324 (11.91%) Senior
4 204 (7.50%) Architect
5 196 (7.21%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.99%) Lead
7 147 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 143 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 142 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
10 122 (4.49%) Java Engineer
11 99 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
11 99 (3.64%) Software Developer
12 98 (3.60%) Analyst
12 98 (3.60%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
14 76 (2.79%) Consultant
15 74 (2.72%) AWS Developer
16 67 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
17 65 (2.39%) Technical Architect
18 63 (2.32%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (17.02%) Spring
2 357 (13.13%) Spring Boot
3 339 (12.46%) REST
4 313 (11.51%) Kafka
5 244 (8.97%) React
6 241 (8.86%) Node.js
7 222 (8.16%) Web Services
8 217 (7.98%) HTML
9 212 (7.79%) RESTful
10 201 (7.39%) .NET
11 191 (7.02%) AngularJS
12 160 (5.88%) XML
13 141 (5.18%) CSS
14 133 (4.89%) JSON
15 131 (4.82%) SOAP
16 95 (3.49%) OAuth
17 88 (3.24%) J2EE
18 82 (3.01%) Hibernate
18 82 (3.01%) LDAP
19 69 (2.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 89 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
2 86 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
3 80 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 74 (2.72%) Fixed Income
5 68 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 67 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 60 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 60 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 59 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 56 (2.06%) Mobile App
10 54 (1.99%) Derivative
11 50 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 44 (1.62%) Equities
13 43 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (0.99%) Management Information System
16 25 (0.92%) Hedge funds
16 25 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 514 (18.90%) Linux
2 232 (8.53%) Unix
3 208 (7.65%) Windows
4 73 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 52 (1.91%) Android
6 49 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 41 (1.51%) Ubuntu
8 30 (1.10%) Solaris
9 23 (0.85%) Debian
10 22 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 22 (0.81%) CentOS
11 16 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
12 12 (0.44%) Fedora
13 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.26%) AIX
14 7 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
15 6 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.22%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.18%) SUSE
16 5 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (37.24%) Agile
2 633 (23.27%) CI/CD
3 620 (22.79%) DevOps
4 453 (16.65%) Microservices
5 448 (16.47%) Test Automation
6 443 (16.29%) Software Engineering
7 273 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (10.04%) SDLC
8 251 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
9 249 (9.15%) Scrum
10 242 (8.90%) TDD
11 224 (8.24%) Continuous Integration
12 217 (7.98%) OO
13 203 (7.46%) Computer Science
14 179 (6.58%) Analytics
15 178 (6.54%) Mentoring
16 171 (6.29%) Containerisation
17 163 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
18 152 (5.59%) Design Patterns
19 141 (5.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 968 (35.59%) Python
2 658 (24.19%) SQL
3 603 (22.17%) JavaScript
4 355 (13.05%) C#
5 253 (9.30%) C++
6 189 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 166 (6.10%) Go
8 149 (5.48%) Perl
8 149 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 142 (5.22%) Scala
10 140 (5.15%) C
11 133 (4.89%) Bash
12 122 (4.49%) Kotlin
13 116 (4.26%) Shell Script
14 95 (3.49%) Ruby
15 74 (2.72%) PL/SQL
16 67 (2.46%) PHP
17 54 (1.99%) Groovy
18 46 (1.69%) Rust
19 38 (1.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 525 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 406 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 203 (7.46%) Degree
4 115 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 106 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 26 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.55%) PhD
12 14 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.33%) ISEB
15 8 (0.29%) CISSP
15 8 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
17 5 (0.18%) CISM
18 4 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.40%) QA
2 77 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 52 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.66%) NIST
4 18 (0.66%) SLA
5 16 (0.59%) GRC
6 15 (0.55%) PMO
7 14 (0.51%) GDPR
8 13 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 11 (0.40%) WCAG
11 9 (0.33%) NCSC
12 8 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.22%) MiFID
14 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.11%) EMIR
15 3 (0.11%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.074%) GxP
System Software
1 501 (18.42%) Docker
2 92 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.32%) IAG
4 32 (1.18%) RACF
4 32 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (1.10%) ACF2
6 16 (0.59%) NFS
7 13 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
8 11 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.26%) GPFS
11 6 (0.22%) HDFS
12 5 (0.18%) Postfix
13 4 (0.15%) Cronacle
13 4 (0.15%) Gluster
13 4 (0.15%) GlusterFS
13 4 (0.15%) Squid
14 3 (0.11%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 484 (17.79%) Kubernetes
2 279 (10.26%) Terraform
3 204 (7.50%) Ansible
4 105 (3.86%) Grafana
5 79 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 50 (1.84%) Puppet
7 41 (1.51%) Consul
8 37 (1.36%) Packer
9 35 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 33 (1.21%) Kibana
11 21 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
13 15 (0.55%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.51%) Nagios
15 13 (0.48%) Rundeck
15 13 (0.48%) Zipkin
16 12 (0.44%) Data Guard
16 12 (0.44%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.37%) BladeLogic
17 10 (0.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 333 (12.24%) Oracle
2 173 (6.36%) Microsoft
3 129 (4.74%) Red Hat
4 105 (3.86%) SAP
5 90 (3.31%) Google
6 89 (3.27%) IBM
7 86 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.87%) Splunk
9 75 (2.76%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.99%) Sybase
11 51 (1.88%) Dynatrace
12 39 (1.43%) VMware
13 36 (1.32%) TOWER Software
14 34 (1.25%) Atlassian
15 31 (1.14%) Adobe
15 31 (1.14%) CyberArk
15 31 (1.14%) ION Trading
16 30 (1.10%) Databricks
17 24 (0.88%) MuleSoft
18 22 (0.81%) HP