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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 2,172 2,562 6,002
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 5.80% 9.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.99% 19.87% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,884 4,445
10th Percentile £363 £400 £438
25th Percentile £433 £457 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £838 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 56 122
10th Percentile £39.88 £37.42 £45.13
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.05 £55.31
Median hourly rate £61.25 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +14.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.41 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.61 £76.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 9,875 12,895 22,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 29.21% 35.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,629 9,117 16,115
10th Percentile £356 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £757 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.74% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 480 501
10th Percentile £22.30 £30.63 £26.13
25th Percentile £32.88 £46.23 £49.68
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.56 £67.38 £69.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.82 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £61.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% -1.44% +25.63%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +5 1,734 £578 +0.43% 3,104
London +3 1,188 £625 +2.04% 2,071
Work from Home +4 798 £550 -3.51% 1,550
UK excluding London +7 766 £478 -4.50% 1,375
Scotland +2 233 £450 -6.25% 206
North of England -1 182 £485 -2.02% 330
South East +1 108 £575 +4.55% 382
North West 0 105 £487 -1.67% 192
South West +26 88 £613 +6.52% 159
Midlands +30 82 £460 -8.10% 134
West Midlands +21 50 £477 -9.14% 85
Yorkshire -12 46 £550 +10.00% 80
East of England +1 33 £488 -1.66% 127
East Midlands +26 32 £402 -8.64% 45
North East +22 32 £395 -28.18% 59
Northern Ireland +10 28 £410 - 33
Wales +7 15 £446 -3.68% 27

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
1 134 (6.17%) Apache
2 120 (5.52%) Confluence
3 109 (5.02%) Apache Spark
4 95 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.57%) CMS
6 20 (0.92%) Camunda
6 20 (0.92%) JBoss
7 19 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 15 (0.69%) WebLogic
9 14 (0.64%) NetWeaver
9 14 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 13 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
10 13 (0.60%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.46%) GemFire
13 9 (0.41%) SharePoint
14 7 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
14 7 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.32%) SAP EP
14 7 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.23%) EngageOne
4 3 (0.14%) Trello
5 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.092%) Sketch
6 1 (0.046%) CATIA
6 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.32%) SAP CRM
3 6 (0.28%) Endur
3 6 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
3 6 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
3 6 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.18%) Unica
6 3 (0.14%) BASE24
6 3 (0.14%) Exstream
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.092%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.092%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.092%) Misys Opics
7 2 (0.092%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 858 (39.50%) AWS
2 439 (20.21%) Azure
3 230 (10.59%) GCP
4 162 (7.46%) Serverless
5 117 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
6 115 (5.29%) GitHub
7 109 (5.02%) OpenShift
8 95 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (4.33%) dbt
10 84 (3.87%) Amazon S3
11 82 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
12 69 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
13 66 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
14 62 (2.85%) Snowflake
15 54 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
16 50 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 43 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (1.89%) PaaS
19 35 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
20 32 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.49%) HTTP
2 24 (1.10%) DNS
3 21 (0.97%) DHCP
3 21 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.64%) Network Security
5 13 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
5 13 (0.60%) Wireshark
6 12 (0.55%) ATM
6 12 (0.55%) VPN
7 9 (0.41%) Ethernet
7 9 (0.41%) Frame Relay
7 9 (0.41%) GPRS
7 9 (0.41%) GSM
7 9 (0.41%) Internet
7 9 (0.41%) LAN
7 9 (0.41%) MPLS
7 9 (0.41%) SAN
7 9 (0.41%) SDH
7 9 (0.41%) UMTS
7 9 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 215 (9.90%) MongoDB
3 196 (9.02%) Relational Database
4 133 (6.12%) MySQL
5 132 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 97 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
7 81 (3.73%) Apache Iceberg
7 81 (3.73%) Big Data
7 81 (3.73%) Dremio
8 67 (3.08%) Apache Arrow
9 66 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
10 63 (2.90%) SQL Server
11 58 (2.67%) DB2
12 53 (2.44%) Apache Ignite
13 50 (2.30%) Data Lake
13 50 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
14 48 (2.21%) Hadoop
15 44 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
16 42 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
17 41 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 333 (15.33%) Jenkins
2 266 (12.25%) Git
3 209 (9.62%) JIRA
4 193 (8.89%) JUnit
5 170 (7.83%) GitLab
6 123 (5.66%) Selenium
7 112 (5.16%) Maven
8 98 (4.51%) Cucumber
9 66 (3.04%) Gradle
10 58 (2.67%) Bitbucket
11 56 (2.58%) Artifactory
12 55 (2.53%) Mockito
13 42 (1.93%) REST Assured
14 39 (1.80%) SonarQube
15 36 (1.66%) Cypress.io
16 35 (1.61%) JMeter
17 33 (1.52%) Postman
18 32 (1.47%) Subversion
19 31 (1.43%) IntelliJ
19 31 (1.43%) Jasmine
General
1 607 (27.95%) Finance
2 467 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 390 (17.96%) Banking
4 257 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (11.56%) Public Sector
6 219 (10.08%) Front Office
7 208 (9.58%) Investment Banking
8 42 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 39 (1.80%) Marketing
10 34 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 31 (1.43%) Retail
12 30 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.10%) Military
15 21 (0.97%) Back Office
15 21 (0.97%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.87%) Electronics
17 15 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,009 (46.45%) Developer
2 567 (26.10%) Java Developer
3 305 (14.04%) Senior
4 201 (9.25%) Software Engineer
5 199 (9.16%) Architect
6 172 (7.92%) Java Engineer
7 169 (7.78%) Lead
8 156 (7.18%) Senior Developer
9 124 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 123 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 117 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
12 110 (5.06%) Data Engineer
13 108 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
14 87 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
15 86 (3.96%) Python Engineer
16 66 (3.04%) Test Engineer
17 65 (2.99%) Software Developer
18 63 (2.90%) Lead Developer
19 60 (2.76%) Python Developer
19 60 (2.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (22.79%) Spring
2 395 (18.19%) Spring Boot
3 359 (16.53%) Kafka
4 254 (11.69%) React
5 189 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 178 (8.20%) REST
7 172 (7.92%) RESTful
8 169 (7.78%) HTML
9 139 (6.40%) Node.js
10 134 (6.17%) CSS
11 127 (5.85%) .NET
12 101 (4.65%) Web Services
13 98 (4.51%) PySpark
14 81 (3.73%) SOAP
15 77 (3.55%) Swagger
16 76 (3.50%) HTML5
16 76 (3.50%) J2EE
16 76 (3.50%) XML
17 64 (2.95%) OpenAPI
18 63 (2.90%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.29%) Equities
2 105 (4.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 99 (4.56%) Derivative
4 95 (4.37%) Data Structures
5 85 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 67 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (3.04%) Fixed Income
9 59 (2.72%) Cloud Native
10 57 (2.62%) Onboarding
11 53 (2.44%) Product Ownership
12 52 (2.39%) Hedge funds
13 50 (2.30%) Public Cloud
14 39 (1.80%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
17 28 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
18 26 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
19 25 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
20 24 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 355 (16.34%) Linux
2 120 (5.52%) Unix
3 93 (4.28%) Windows
4 58 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (2.12%) Android
6 30 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.23%) MVS
11 4 (0.18%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.18%) Solaris
12 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.092%) CentOS
13 2 (0.092%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.092%) zOS
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (35.59%) Agile
2 648 (29.83%) CI/CD
3 576 (26.52%) DevOps
4 493 (22.70%) Software Engineering
5 490 (22.56%) Microservices
6 386 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
7 309 (14.23%) Test Automation
8 290 (13.35%) TDD
9 241 (11.10%) Containerisation
10 221 (10.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 182 (8.38%) Continuous Integration
12 176 (8.10%) SDLC
13 165 (7.60%) Computer Science
14 155 (7.14%) Mentoring
15 147 (6.77%) Scrum
16 136 (6.26%) Design Patterns
17 129 (5.94%) Analytics
18 125 (5.76%) Migration
19 121 (5.57%) Technical Leadership
20 117 (5.39%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 766 (35.27%) Python
2 617 (28.41%) SQL
3 428 (19.71%) JavaScript
4 244 (11.23%) TypeScript
5 167 (7.69%) C#
6 125 (5.76%) Go
7 121 (5.57%) C++
8 107 (4.93%) Shell Script
9 97 (4.47%) Kotlin
10 93 (4.28%) Bash
11 82 (3.78%) Scala
12 78 (3.59%) PowerShell
13 71 (3.27%) C
14 57 (2.62%) PL/SQL
15 50 (2.30%) Ruby
16 40 (1.84%) Perl
17 29 (1.34%) Groovy
18 27 (1.24%) PHP
19 20 (0.92%) ABAP
20 18 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 421 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 321 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 191 (8.79%) Degree
4 101 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.06%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
11 15 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 14 (0.64%) ISEB
13 13 (0.60%) PhD
14 9 (0.41%) CCNP
14 9 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.41%) OCP
14 9 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (6.95%) QA
2 43 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.10%) GDPR
4 21 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
9 10 (0.46%) Def Stans
9 10 (0.46%) IEC 61508
9 10 (0.46%) SLA
9 10 (0.46%) WCAG
10 8 (0.37%) NIST
11 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 4 (0.18%) SEPA
14 3 (0.14%) NCSC
14 3 (0.14%) PMO
15 2 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 466 (21.45%) Docker
2 37 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.41%) HDFS
6 8 (0.37%) GridGain
7 6 (0.28%) Firmware
8 5 (0.23%) Lustre
8 5 (0.23%) OpenAM
8 5 (0.23%) OpenDJ
8 5 (0.23%) OpenIDM
9 4 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.18%) Platform Symphony
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.14%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.14%) iptables
10 3 (0.14%) LXC
10 3 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.14%) RACF
10 3 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 513 (23.62%) Kubernetes
2 296 (13.63%) Terraform
3 137 (6.31%) Ansible
4 69 (3.18%) Grafana
5 51 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.80%) Puppet
7 30 (1.38%) Istio
8 28 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.83%) Argo
11 16 (0.74%) Kibana
12 13 (0.60%) Packer
13 11 (0.51%) Podman
14 10 (0.46%) Control-M
15 7 (0.32%) logstash
16 6 (0.28%) CloudHub
16 6 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
17 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
17 5 (0.23%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 236 (10.87%) Oracle
2 152 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 84 (3.87%) Google
4 79 (3.64%) SAP
5 57 (2.62%) Splunk
5 57 (2.62%) Sybase
6 51 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 44 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 40 (1.84%) IBM
9 35 (1.61%) VMware
10 34 (1.57%) Virgin Media
11 32 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.38%) Databricks
13 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.97%) TIBCO
14 20 (0.92%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.87%) Cloudera
16 18 (0.83%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.78%) Adobe
18 14 (0.64%) Cisco