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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 29 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 2,773 8,513 9,991
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 10.95% 11.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.92% 28.99% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,028 6,081 7,228
10th Percentile £400 £450 £410
25th Percentile £463 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £696 £725 £673
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 71 168 80
10th Percentile £39.85 £47.13 £35.00
25th Percentile £48.32 £57.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% +32.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £70.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.18% +27.17%

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 13,918 29,368 34,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.90% 37.77% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,893 21,029 25,213
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £431 £466 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £472
% change year-on-year -3.38% +9.64% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 509 440
10th Percentile £31.43 £25.40 £18.60
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £27.38
Median hourly rate £60.36 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £74.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.24
% change year-on-year - +40.57% +7.53%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -17 2,277 £575 -5.74% 1,579
London -12 1,475 £600 -7.69% 797
Work from Home -16 1,156 £575 -4.17% 885
UK excluding London -23 947 £525 -4.55% 988
Scotland -7 222 £475 -5.00% 93
North of England -19 217 £525 -10.64% 223
South East -23 216 £525 -4.55% 306
South West -19 165 £600 +4.35% 149
North West -10 125 £533 -9.55% 131
Yorkshire -14 88 £525 -12.50% 68
Midlands -43 71 £498 -7.87% 101
East of England -40 49 £513 -14.58% 83
East Midlands +12 41 £500 -4.76% 31
West Midlands -55 34 £550 +1.85% 70
Northern Ireland -13 11 £700 +40.00% 29
Wales 0 10 £450 -10.00% 18
North East -22 4 £499 -13.26% 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
1 162 (5.84%) Confluence
2 108 (3.89%) Apache
3 75 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 65 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
5 57 (2.06%) Tomcat
6 38 (1.37%) CMS
6 38 (1.37%) nginx
7 30 (1.08%) JBoss
8 28 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.97%) WebLogic
10 25 (0.90%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.65%) NetWeaver
12 17 (0.61%) WordPress
13 15 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
14 14 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 13 (0.47%) IIS
15 13 (0.47%) SAS
16 12 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 12 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 11 (0.40%) SAP EP
Applications
1 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.50%) CATIA
3 6 (0.22%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.18%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.11%) Trello
6 2 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.036%) Fireworks
7 1 (0.036%) Sketch
7 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.05%) ION MarketView
2 21 (0.76%) Loan IQ
3 17 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.58%) Magento
5 12 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
7 9 (0.32%) SAP CRM
8 8 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
8 8 (0.29%) Temenos T24
9 7 (0.25%) ENOVIA
9 7 (0.25%) Shopify
10 6 (0.22%) DELMIA
10 6 (0.22%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.18%) Misys Midas
11 5 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 3 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
13 3 (0.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (36.68%) AWS
2 454 (16.37%) Azure
3 234 (8.44%) GCP
4 162 (5.84%) GitHub
5 137 (4.94%) Serverless
6 131 (4.72%) OpenShift
7 105 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (3.46%) Amazon S3
9 92 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
12 55 (1.98%) SaaS
13 51 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
14 46 (1.66%) Power Platform
15 44 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
17 37 (1.33%) Azure AKS
17 37 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.31%) HTTP
2 44 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.44%) DNS
4 37 (1.33%) SSL
5 30 (1.08%) IPv4
6 23 (0.83%) Firewall
6 23 (0.83%) Internet
7 21 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 17 (0.61%) Network Security
8 17 (0.61%) SMTP
9 16 (0.58%) SAN
10 15 (0.54%) SNMP
11 14 (0.50%) POP3
12 13 (0.47%) Tactical Data Link
13 12 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
13 12 (0.43%) iSCSI
14 10 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 9 (0.32%) FTP
15 9 (0.32%) SSH
16 8 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.83%) Relational Database
2 184 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 159 (5.73%) MySQL
4 158 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 137 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 106 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 79 (2.85%) Big Data
8 77 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 57 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 53 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 50 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
11 50 (1.80%) DB2
11 50 (1.80%) Hadoop
12 47 (1.69%) Oracle Database
13 45 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
13 45 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
14 41 (1.48%) RDBMS
15 38 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
16 37 (1.33%) Redis
17 33 (1.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 417 (15.04%) Jenkins
2 373 (13.45%) Git
3 269 (9.70%) JIRA
4 167 (6.02%) Selenium
5 153 (5.52%) Cucumber
6 152 (5.48%) JUnit
7 111 (4.00%) Maven
8 102 (3.68%) Bitbucket
9 95 (3.43%) GitLab
10 60 (2.16%) Cypress.io
11 55 (1.98%) Artifactory
11 55 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 46 (1.66%) JMeter
12 46 (1.66%) Postman
12 46 (1.66%) TeamCity
13 39 (1.41%) REST Assured
14 38 (1.37%) Gradle
15 36 (1.30%) IntelliJ
15 36 (1.30%) WebDriver
16 33 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 656 (23.66%) Finance
2 524 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 395 (14.24%) Banking
4 245 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 196 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 180 (6.49%) Investment Banking
7 166 (5.99%) Front Office
8 42 (1.51%) Financial Institution
9 31 (1.12%) Retail
10 30 (1.08%) Law
10 30 (1.08%) Marketing
11 29 (1.05%) Electronics
12 27 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.69%) Military
17 18 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,153 (41.58%) Developer
2 610 (22.00%) Java Developer
3 329 (11.86%) Senior
4 216 (7.79%) Architect
5 199 (7.18%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.02%) Lead
7 154 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 144 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 136 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
10 122 (4.40%) Java Engineer
11 101 (3.64%) Analyst
11 101 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
11 101 (3.64%) Data Engineer
12 100 (3.61%) Software Developer
13 82 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
14 75 (2.70%) Consultant
15 72 (2.60%) AWS Developer
15 72 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 66 (2.38%) Technical Architect
17 65 (2.34%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (16.66%) Spring
2 353 (12.73%) Spring Boot
3 337 (12.15%) REST
4 312 (11.25%) Kafka
5 243 (8.76%) Node.js
6 239 (8.62%) React
7 230 (8.29%) HTML
8 226 (8.15%) Web Services
9 225 (8.11%) RESTful
10 209 (7.54%) .NET
11 189 (6.82%) AngularJS
12 177 (6.38%) XML
13 145 (5.23%) CSS
14 141 (5.08%) JSON
15 136 (4.90%) SOAP
16 94 (3.39%) J2EE
16 94 (3.39%) OAuth
17 83 (2.99%) Hibernate
17 83 (2.99%) LDAP
18 72 (2.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 89 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
2 82 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
3 80 (2.88%) Fixed Income
4 79 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 71 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 67 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 65 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 63 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 61 (2.20%) Derivative
10 60 (2.16%) Algorithms
11 58 (2.09%) Mobile App
12 55 (1.98%) Product Ownership
13 48 (1.73%) Data Structures
14 47 (1.69%) Equities
15 43 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 29 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
18 28 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
18 28 (1.01%) Management Information System
18 28 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 532 (19.18%) Linux
2 237 (8.55%) Unix
3 221 (7.97%) Windows
4 73 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (1.84%) Android
6 49 (1.77%) Windows Server
7 41 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.12%) Solaris
9 23 (0.83%) CentOS
9 23 (0.83%) Debian
10 22 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
12 12 (0.43%) Fedora
13 9 (0.32%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.25%) AIX
15 6 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.22%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
16 5 (0.18%) VMS
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (37.22%) Agile
2 659 (23.76%) CI/CD
3 633 (22.83%) DevOps
4 466 (16.80%) Test Automation
5 459 (16.55%) Microservices
6 446 (16.08%) Software Engineering
7 278 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (9.92%) SDLC
9 255 (9.20%) TDD
10 253 (9.12%) Scrum
11 245 (8.84%) Full Stack Development
12 228 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
13 217 (7.83%) OO
14 202 (7.28%) Computer Science
15 188 (6.78%) Analytics
16 183 (6.60%) Mentoring
17 174 (6.27%) Containerisation
18 171 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 159 (5.73%) Design Patterns
20 143 (5.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 986 (35.56%) Python
2 677 (24.41%) SQL
3 625 (22.54%) JavaScript
4 363 (13.09%) C#
5 268 (9.66%) C++
6 192 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 172 (6.20%) Go
8 156 (5.63%) PowerShell
9 150 (5.41%) Perl
10 144 (5.19%) Bash
11 142 (5.12%) C
12 141 (5.08%) Scala
13 124 (4.47%) Kotlin
14 120 (4.33%) Shell Script
15 102 (3.68%) Ruby
16 75 (2.70%) PL/SQL
17 73 (2.63%) PHP
18 57 (2.06%) Groovy
19 46 (1.66%) Rust
20 44 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 529 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 413 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 204 (7.36%) Degree
4 113 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 26 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 15 (0.54%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 14 (0.50%) PhD
13 13 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.36%) ISEB
15 9 (0.32%) CISSP
15 9 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
17 6 (0.22%) CISM
18 4 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.27%) QA
2 80 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 53 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.65%) NIST
4 18 (0.65%) PMO
4 18 (0.65%) SLA
5 16 (0.58%) GRC
6 15 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.50%) GDPR
8 12 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (0.40%) WCAG
10 9 (0.32%) NCSC
11 8 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
11 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.22%) MiFID
13 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.11%) EMIR
16 2 (0.072%) GxP
System Software
1 507 (18.28%) Docker
2 97 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.30%) IAG
4 32 (1.15%) RACF
5 31 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 30 (1.08%) ACF2
7 13 (0.47%) NFS
7 13 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
8 12 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 8 (0.29%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.22%) HDFS
12 5 (0.18%) GPFS
12 5 (0.18%) Postfix
13 4 (0.14%) Cronacle
13 4 (0.14%) Gluster
13 4 (0.14%) GlusterFS
13 4 (0.14%) Samba
13 4 (0.14%) Squid
14 3 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 502 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 287 (10.35%) Terraform
3 216 (7.79%) Ansible
4 107 (3.86%) Grafana
5 83 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 51 (1.84%) Puppet
7 41 (1.48%) Consul
8 38 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 37 (1.33%) Packer
10 32 (1.15%) Kibana
11 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
13 15 (0.54%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.50%) Nagios
15 13 (0.47%) Rundeck
15 13 (0.47%) Zipkin
16 12 (0.43%) Data Guard
16 12 (0.43%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.36%) BladeLogic
17 10 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 354 (12.77%) Oracle
2 182 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 134 (4.83%) Red Hat
4 105 (3.79%) SAP
5 89 (3.21%) Google
6 87 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 86 (3.10%) IBM
8 79 (2.85%) Splunk
9 69 (2.49%) Salesforce
10 52 (1.88%) Sybase
11 51 (1.84%) Dynatrace
12 38 (1.37%) Atlassian
12 38 (1.37%) VMware
13 37 (1.33%) ION Trading
13 37 (1.33%) TOWER Software
14 32 (1.15%) CyberArk
15 30 (1.08%) Adobe
16 28 (1.01%) Databricks
17 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.83%) Bloomberg