Java Contracts

Java
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 26 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 2,139 2,622 5,421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.32% 6.01% 9.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.51% 20.40% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 1,949 4,048
10th Percentile £375 £400 £433
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -7.50% +2.39%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -5.28% -6.16% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 62 106
10th Percentile £33.91 £41.04 £40.48
25th Percentile £42.25 £51.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.94 £73.08
90th Percentile £78.47 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.77% - +15.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +2 1,717 £575 - 2,076
London -2 1,167 £630 +5.00% 1,107
Work from Home +4 799 £550 -7.41% 1,345
UK excluding London +8 763 £480 -5.28% 1,137
Scotland +3 231 £450 -6.15% 136
North of England 0 193 £490 -3.92% 357
North West +2 118 £475 -4.52% 222
South East -1 118 £514 -10.61% 224
Midlands +27 82 £455 -9.00% 172
South West +24 74 £606 +5.43% 123
Yorkshire -17 49 £525 - 92
West Midlands +16 48 £500 -4.76% 103
East Midlands +19 34 £397 -18.92% 67
East of England 0 34 £490 - 85
Northern Ireland +7 28 £410 -18.00% 32
North East +16 27 £390 -22.08% 44
Wales +2 8 £453 -4.63% 26

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
1 140 (6.55%) Apache
2 108 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 102 (4.77%) Confluence
4 101 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.98%) JBoss
6 20 (0.94%) Tomcat
7 18 (0.84%) Camunda
7 18 (0.84%) WebLogic
8 17 (0.79%) NetWeaver
9 16 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 14 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
10 14 (0.65%) WebSphere
11 13 (0.61%) CMS
12 10 (0.47%) GemFire
13 9 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
13 9 (0.42%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 7 (0.33%) nginx
15 7 (0.33%) SAP EP
16 6 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.23%) EngageOne
5 3 (0.14%) Maya
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) NUKE
5 3 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.047%) CATIA
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.42%) Endur
3 7 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 6 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 6 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.23%) Shopify
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.14%) BASE24
7 3 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.14%) Exstream
7 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.14%) Unica
8 2 (0.094%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 800 (37.40%) AWS
2 390 (18.23%) Azure
3 195 (9.12%) GCP
4 153 (7.15%) Serverless
5 112 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (4.63%) OpenShift
7 97 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (4.53%) GitHub
8 95 (4.44%) dbt
9 76 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
10 73 (3.41%) Amazon S3
11 70 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
12 66 (3.09%) Snowflake
13 57 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
14 51 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (1.82%) PaaS
18 34 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 30 (1.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.95%) HTTP
2 26 (1.22%) DNS
3 21 (0.98%) DHCP
3 21 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.89%) Wireshark
5 18 (0.84%) ATM
5 18 (0.84%) VPN
6 15 (0.70%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.70%) Frame Relay
6 15 (0.70%) GPRS
6 15 (0.70%) GSM
6 15 (0.70%) HTTPS
6 15 (0.70%) LAN
6 15 (0.70%) LTE
6 15 (0.70%) MPLS
6 15 (0.70%) SAN
6 15 (0.70%) SDH
6 15 (0.70%) UMTS
6 15 (0.70%) WAN
7 14 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
2 210 (9.82%) MongoDB
3 200 (9.35%) Relational Database
4 127 (5.94%) NoSQL
5 115 (5.38%) MySQL
6 94 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
7 87 (4.07%) Apache Iceberg
7 87 (4.07%) Dremio
8 78 (3.65%) Apache Arrow
9 71 (3.32%) Big Data
10 67 (3.13%) DB2
11 64 (2.99%) SQL Server
12 60 (2.81%) Apache Ignite
13 53 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
14 52 (2.43%) Data Lake
15 47 (2.20%) Oracle Database
16 40 (1.87%) RDBMS
17 39 (1.82%) Hadoop
18 37 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
19 33 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 336 (15.71%) Jenkins
2 291 (13.60%) Git
3 210 (9.82%) JIRA
4 202 (9.44%) JUnit
5 146 (6.83%) GitLab
6 137 (6.40%) Selenium
7 109 (5.10%) Maven
8 101 (4.72%) Cucumber
9 79 (3.69%) Gradle
10 68 (3.18%) Mockito
11 51 (2.38%) Bitbucket
12 49 (2.29%) Artifactory
12 49 (2.29%) REST Assured
13 46 (2.15%) SonarQube
14 39 (1.82%) Cypress.io
15 37 (1.73%) JMeter
15 37 (1.73%) Postman
15 37 (1.73%) Subversion
16 35 (1.64%) Liquibase
17 32 (1.50%) TeamCity
General
1 609 (28.47%) Finance
2 500 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 401 (18.75%) Banking
4 271 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
5 229 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 228 (10.66%) Investment Banking
7 218 (10.19%) Front Office
8 60 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 41 (1.92%) Marketing
11 33 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (1.26%) Retail
15 26 (1.22%) Electronics
16 20 (0.94%) Back Office
17 17 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.79%) Military
18 15 (0.70%) Law
19 12 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,021 (47.73%) Developer
2 588 (27.49%) Java Developer
3 300 (14.03%) Senior
4 202 (9.44%) Software Engineer
5 181 (8.46%) Java Engineer
6 178 (8.32%) Architect
7 173 (8.09%) Lead
8 164 (7.67%) Senior Developer
9 122 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 117 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
11 115 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
12 99 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 99 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
13 93 (4.35%) Data Engineer
14 87 (4.07%) Python Engineer
15 70 (3.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 67 (3.13%) Test Engineer
17 65 (3.04%) AWS Developer
18 63 (2.95%) Lead Developer
19 61 (2.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (23.09%) Spring
2 392 (18.33%) Spring Boot
3 352 (16.46%) Kafka
4 267 (12.48%) React
5 180 (8.42%) REST
6 161 (7.53%) AngularJS
7 160 (7.48%) RESTful
8 138 (6.45%) HTML
9 136 (6.36%) .NET
10 122 (5.70%) Node.js
11 111 (5.19%) CSS
12 99 (4.63%) Web Services
13 87 (4.07%) SOAP
14 86 (4.02%) PySpark
15 84 (3.93%) Swagger
16 77 (3.60%) J2EE
17 76 (3.55%) XML
18 75 (3.51%) OpenAPI
19 70 (3.27%) Hibernate
20 62 (2.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.22%) Equities
2 123 (5.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 105 (4.91%) Derivative
4 95 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 90 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (3.55%) Fixed Income
7 72 (3.37%) Algorithms
8 64 (2.99%) Cloud Native
8 64 (2.99%) Hedge funds
9 62 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.48%) Product Ownership
11 48 (2.24%) Onboarding
12 47 (2.20%) Public Cloud
13 40 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.78%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
16 28 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
18 25 (1.17%) PKI
19 24 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 352 (16.46%) Linux
2 109 (5.10%) Unix
3 93 (4.35%) Windows
4 52 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.64%) Android
6 30 (1.40%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.28%) AIX
9 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.23%) MVS
11 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.19%) Solaris
12 3 (0.14%) zOS
13 2 (0.094%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.047%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (37.73%) Agile
2 624 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 566 (26.46%) DevOps
4 487 (22.77%) Microservices
5 477 (22.30%) Software Engineering
6 395 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (15.52%) Test Automation
8 290 (13.56%) TDD
9 231 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 229 (10.71%) Containerisation
11 188 (8.79%) SDLC
12 183 (8.56%) Continuous Integration
13 164 (7.67%) Computer Science
13 164 (7.67%) Scrum
14 157 (7.34%) Mentoring
15 125 (5.84%) Migration
16 122 (5.70%) Design Patterns
17 120 (5.61%) Open Source
18 117 (5.47%) Event-Driven
18 117 (5.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 727 (33.99%) Python
2 595 (27.82%) SQL
3 445 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 255 (11.92%) TypeScript
5 178 (8.32%) C#
6 134 (6.26%) C++
7 115 (5.38%) Shell Script
8 105 (4.91%) Go
9 83 (3.88%) Kotlin
10 81 (3.79%) Bash
11 76 (3.55%) PowerShell
12 67 (3.13%) Scala
13 66 (3.09%) C
14 56 (2.62%) PL/SQL
15 43 (2.01%) Ruby
16 28 (1.31%) Perl
17 26 (1.22%) PHP
18 25 (1.17%) ABAP
18 25 (1.17%) Groovy
19 23 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 413 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 343 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 189 (8.84%) Degree
4 99 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 42 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 33 (1.54%) ISTQB
9 29 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 22 (1.03%) ISEB
12 19 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 18 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.70%) CCNP
16 14 (0.65%) PhD
17 9 (0.42%) CISSP
17 9 (0.42%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.25%) QA
2 32 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.17%) GDPR
4 18 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 17 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 10 (0.47%) Def Stans
8 10 (0.47%) IEC 61508
9 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.42%) SLA
10 8 (0.37%) NIST
10 8 (0.37%) WCAG
11 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.14%) NCSC
12 3 (0.14%) PMO
12 3 (0.14%) SEPA
13 2 (0.094%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.047%) SOC 2
System Software
1 435 (20.34%) Docker
2 34 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.37%) GridGain
6 6 (0.28%) Firmware
6 6 (0.28%) OpenAM
6 6 (0.28%) OpenDJ
6 6 (0.28%) OpenIDM
7 5 (0.23%) Postfix
8 4 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.19%) HDFS
8 4 (0.19%) Lustre
8 4 (0.19%) Platform Symphony
8 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.14%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.14%) iptables
9 3 (0.14%) LXC
9 3 (0.14%) RACF
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 462 (21.60%) Kubernetes
2 265 (12.39%) Terraform
3 123 (5.75%) Ansible
4 61 (2.85%) Grafana
5 45 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.68%) Puppet
7 34 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.98%) Istio
10 20 (0.94%) Kibana
11 14 (0.65%) Podman
12 12 (0.56%) Packer
13 10 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
14 9 (0.42%) Argo
14 9 (0.42%) Control-M
15 6 (0.28%) Perfmon
16 5 (0.23%) CloudHub
16 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
17 4 (0.19%) Karpenter
18 3 (0.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 246 (11.50%) Oracle
2 150 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 88 (4.11%) SAP
4 73 (3.41%) Google
5 61 (2.85%) Sybase
6 44 (2.06%) Splunk
7 37 (1.73%) IBM
7 37 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 35 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.50%) Virgin Media
10 30 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.36%) VMware
12 26 (1.22%) Databricks
13 24 (1.12%) Atlassian
13 24 (1.12%) ForgeRock
14 21 (0.98%) Dynatrace
14 21 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.94%) Cloudera
16 19 (0.89%) Cisco
16 19 (0.89%) TIBCO