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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 28 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 2,176 2,566 6,060
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.48% 5.80% 9.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.02% 19.88% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,885 4,489
10th Percentile £363 £400 £438
25th Percentile £433 £456 £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 £477 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.60% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 56 124
10th Percentile £39.88 £37.42 £45.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.05 £55.94
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 9,881 12,908 22,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.98% 29.20% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,640 9,123 16,286
10th Percentile £356 £350 £399
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £676
90th Percentile £756 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.64% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 482 506
10th Percentile £22.35 £30.63 £26.19
25th Percentile £33.69 £46.20 £49.76
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.69 £67.38 £69.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.37 £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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +3 1,739 £575 - 2,975
London +3 1,192 £625 +4.17% 2,034
Work from Home +3 798 £550 - 1,507
UK excluding London +6 766 £477 -4.60% 1,275
Scotland +2 233 £450 -6.25% 195
North of England -1 179 £479 -3.23% 300
South East -3 108 £550 - 381
North West -7 102 £498 +0.56% 185
South West +26 90 £613 +6.52% 135
Midlands +33 82 £460 -8.10% 118
West Midlands +20 50 £477 -9.14% 75
Yorkshire -13 44 £550 +10.00% 67
East of England -2 35 £488 -1.66% 102
North East +21 34 £413 -25.00% 49
East Midlands +24 32 £402 -8.64% 40
Northern Ireland +9 27 £410 - 31
Wales +8 15 £446 -3.68% 25

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
1 133 (6.11%) Apache
2 120 (5.51%) Confluence
3 109 (5.01%) Apache Spark
4 94 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.65%) CMS
6 20 (0.92%) Camunda
7 18 (0.83%) JBoss
8 17 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.60%) NetWeaver
9 13 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
9 13 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 13 (0.60%) WebLogic
10 11 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.51%) WebSphere
11 10 (0.46%) GemFire
12 9 (0.41%) SharePoint
13 7 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
13 7 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
13 7 (0.32%) SAP EP
13 7 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.28%) 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%) Chatbot
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
1 862 (39.61%) AWS
2 442 (20.31%) Azure
3 225 (10.34%) GCP
4 163 (7.49%) Serverless
5 118 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
6 114 (5.24%) GitHub
7 110 (5.06%) OpenShift
8 95 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (4.27%) dbt
10 85 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 82 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
12 69 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
13 65 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
14 62 (2.85%) Snowflake
15 54 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
16 51 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 44 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (1.88%) PaaS
19 36 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
20 32 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.44%) HTTP
2 24 (1.10%) DNS
3 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.97%) DHCP
5 14 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
5 14 (0.64%) Network Security
6 12 (0.55%) Wireshark
7 11 (0.51%) ATM
7 11 (0.51%) VPN
8 9 (0.41%) Internet
9 8 (0.37%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.37%) GPRS
9 8 (0.37%) GSM
9 8 (0.37%) LAN
9 8 (0.37%) MPLS
9 8 (0.37%) SAN
9 8 (0.37%) SDH
9 8 (0.37%) SSL
9 8 (0.37%) UMTS
9 8 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
2 215 (9.88%) MongoDB
3 195 (8.96%) Relational Database
4 133 (6.11%) MySQL
5 130 (5.97%) NoSQL
6 98 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
7 82 (3.77%) Big Data
8 80 (3.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 80 (3.68%) Dremio
9 66 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
9 66 (3.03%) Apache Arrow
10 63 (2.90%) SQL Server
11 56 (2.57%) DB2
12 53 (2.44%) Apache Ignite
13 51 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
14 50 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 50 (2.30%) Hadoop
15 44 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
16 42 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
17 41 (1.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 331 (15.21%) Jenkins
2 267 (12.27%) Git
3 210 (9.65%) JIRA
4 192 (8.82%) JUnit
5 174 (8.00%) GitLab
6 122 (5.61%) Selenium
7 114 (5.24%) Maven
8 99 (4.55%) Cucumber
9 65 (2.99%) Gradle
10 56 (2.57%) Artifactory
10 56 (2.57%) Bitbucket
11 54 (2.48%) Mockito
12 42 (1.93%) REST Assured
13 39 (1.79%) SonarQube
14 35 (1.61%) Cypress.io
14 35 (1.61%) JMeter
15 34 (1.56%) IntelliJ
16 33 (1.52%) Postman
17 32 (1.47%) Subversion
18 31 (1.42%) Jasmine
General
1 605 (27.80%) Finance
2 471 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 390 (17.92%) Banking
4 259 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 257 (11.81%) Public Sector
6 220 (10.11%) Front Office
7 211 (9.70%) Investment Banking
8 41 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 39 (1.79%) Marketing
10 34 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 32 (1.47%) Retail
12 29 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.15%) Military
13 25 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (0.97%) Back Office
14 21 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.87%) Electronics
16 13 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,011 (46.46%) Developer
2 569 (26.15%) Java Developer
3 311 (14.29%) Senior
4 202 (9.28%) Architect
5 201 (9.24%) Software Engineer
6 170 (7.81%) Lead
7 169 (7.77%) Java Engineer
8 159 (7.31%) Senior Developer
9 125 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 123 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 117 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
12 112 (5.15%) Data Engineer
13 110 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
14 86 (3.95%) Java Software Engineer
14 86 (3.95%) Python Engineer
15 66 (3.03%) Test Engineer
16 65 (2.99%) Software Developer
17 63 (2.90%) Lead Developer
18 60 (2.76%) Python Developer
18 60 (2.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (22.70%) Spring
2 394 (18.11%) Spring Boot
3 356 (16.36%) Kafka
4 252 (11.58%) React
5 188 (8.64%) AngularJS
6 179 (8.23%) REST
7 172 (7.90%) HTML
7 172 (7.90%) RESTful
8 138 (6.34%) Node.js
9 137 (6.30%) CSS
10 126 (5.79%) .NET
11 101 (4.64%) Web Services
12 99 (4.55%) PySpark
13 79 (3.63%) SOAP
14 78 (3.58%) HTML5
15 76 (3.49%) XML
16 75 (3.45%) Swagger
17 74 (3.40%) J2EE
18 63 (2.90%) Hibernate
19 62 (2.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.28%) Equities
2 106 (4.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 100 (4.60%) Derivative
4 95 (4.37%) Data Structures
5 85 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 68 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.99%) Fixed Income
9 57 (2.62%) Onboarding
10 56 (2.57%) Cloud Native
11 52 (2.39%) Hedge funds
12 51 (2.34%) Product Ownership
12 51 (2.34%) Public Cloud
13 38 (1.75%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
16 28 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 25 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
19 24 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 353 (16.22%) Linux
2 118 (5.42%) Unix
3 92 (4.23%) Windows
4 59 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (2.11%) 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
12 3 (0.14%) CentOS
13 2 (0.092%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.092%) zOS
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (35.48%) Agile
2 648 (29.78%) CI/CD
3 577 (26.52%) DevOps
4 493 (22.66%) Software Engineering
5 490 (22.52%) Microservices
6 387 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 309 (14.20%) Test Automation
8 290 (13.33%) TDD
9 238 (10.94%) Containerisation
10 218 (10.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 184 (8.46%) Continuous Integration
12 173 (7.95%) SDLC
13 168 (7.72%) Computer Science
14 157 (7.22%) Mentoring
15 145 (6.66%) Scrum
16 136 (6.25%) Design Patterns
17 130 (5.97%) Analytics
18 124 (5.70%) Migration
19 122 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
20 118 (5.42%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 772 (35.48%) Python
2 613 (28.17%) SQL
3 429 (19.72%) JavaScript
4 240 (11.03%) TypeScript
5 166 (7.63%) C#
6 127 (5.84%) Go
7 121 (5.56%) C++
8 108 (4.96%) Shell Script
9 95 (4.37%) Kotlin
10 91 (4.18%) Bash
11 83 (3.81%) Scala
12 78 (3.58%) PowerShell
13 71 (3.26%) C
14 57 (2.62%) PL/SQL
15 51 (2.34%) Ruby
16 41 (1.88%) Perl
17 27 (1.24%) Groovy
17 27 (1.24%) PHP
18 19 (0.87%) ABAP
19 18 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 430 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 327 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 194 (8.92%) Degree
4 104 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.01%) 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
12 14 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 13 (0.60%) ISEB
13 13 (0.60%) PhD
14 9 (0.41%) OCP
14 9 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (0.37%) CCNP
15 8 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.99%) QA
2 43 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.10%) GDPR
4 22 (1.01%) 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
1 464 (21.32%) Docker
2 37 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.37%) GridGain
5 8 (0.37%) HDFS
6 6 (0.28%) Firmware
7 5 (0.23%) Lustre
7 5 (0.23%) OpenAM
7 5 (0.23%) OpenDJ
7 5 (0.23%) OpenIDM
8 4 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.18%) Platform Symphony
8 4 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.14%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.14%) iptables
9 3 (0.14%) LXC
9 3 (0.14%) Postfix
9 3 (0.14%) RACF
9 3 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 515 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 301 (13.83%) Terraform
3 137 (6.30%) Ansible
4 68 (3.13%) Grafana
5 52 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.84%) Puppet
7 28 (1.29%) Istio
7 28 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.83%) Argo
10 16 (0.74%) Kibana
11 13 (0.60%) Packer
12 11 (0.51%) Podman
13 8 (0.37%) Control-M
14 7 (0.32%) logstash
15 6 (0.28%) CloudHub
15 6 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
16 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.23%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 233 (10.71%) Oracle
2 149 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 83 (3.81%) Google
4 78 (3.58%) SAP
5 57 (2.62%) Sybase
6 55 (2.53%) Splunk
7 53 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 41 (1.88%) IBM
10 35 (1.61%) VMware
11 34 (1.56%) Virgin Media
12 32 (1.47%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.38%) Databricks
14 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.97%) TIBCO
15 20 (0.92%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.87%) Cloudera
17 18 (0.83%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.78%) Adobe
19 14 (0.64%) Informatica