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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 2,158 2,616 5,503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 5.99% 9.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.59% 20.39% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,950 4,105
10th Percentile £372 £400 £435
25th Percentile £448 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £501 £540
% change year-on-year -3.10% -7.31% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 58 108
10th Percentile £33.91 £40.35 £40.67
25th Percentile £42.25 £49.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.25 £73.72
90th Percentile £78.47 £75.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +14.54%

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 9,997 12,830 21,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.03% 29.40% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,774 9,114 15,252
10th Percentile £359 £350 £397
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 £767 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.55% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 487 483
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 1,731 £575 - 3,439
London -2 1,185 £630 +5.00% 2,243
Work from Home +5 806 £550 -4.35% 1,784
UK excluding London +7 760 £485 -3.10% 1,569
Scotland +4 232 £450 -4.15% 217
North of England -3 187 £492 -1.70% 406
South East +1 118 £507 -11.78% 374
North West 0 110 £492 -1.11% 245
Midlands +28 81 £450 -10.00% 201
South West +27 74 £606 +5.43% 168
Yorkshire -15 50 £525 - 105
West Midlands +17 49 £500 -4.76% 112
East of England -2 35 £490 +1.03% 138
East Midlands +24 32 £379 -22.49% 82
North East +15 28 £390 -22.08% 57
Northern Ireland +8 28 £410 -18.00% 60
Wales 0 8 £453 -4.63% 45

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 (6.49%) Apache
2 108 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 104 (4.82%) Confluence
4 101 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.88%) JBoss
6 18 (0.83%) Camunda
6 18 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 17 (0.79%) NetWeaver
8 16 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 16 (0.74%) WebLogic
9 14 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
10 13 (0.60%) CMS
11 10 (0.46%) GemFire
12 9 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
12 9 (0.42%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.32%) nginx
14 7 (0.32%) SAP EP
15 6 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) 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 (0.046%) CATIA
6 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.42%) Endur
3 7 (0.32%) 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 ERP
6 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.19%) Unica
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
8 2 (0.093%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 808 (37.44%) AWS
2 403 (18.67%) Azure
3 203 (9.41%) GCP
4 150 (6.95%) Serverless
5 109 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
6 101 (4.68%) GitHub
7 98 (4.54%) OpenShift
8 97 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (4.49%) dbt
9 77 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
10 71 (3.29%) Amazon S3
11 69 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (3.15%) Snowflake
13 61 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
14 52 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (1.90%) PaaS
17 32 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.39%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.92%) HTTP
2 26 (1.20%) DNS
3 21 (0.97%) DHCP
3 21 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.88%) Wireshark
5 18 (0.83%) ATM
5 18 (0.83%) 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
1 247 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 212 (9.82%) MongoDB
3 201 (9.31%) Relational Database
4 128 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 118 (5.47%) MySQL
6 95 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
7 88 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
7 88 (4.08%) Dremio
8 78 (3.61%) Apache Arrow
9 71 (3.29%) Big Data
10 65 (3.01%) SQL Server
11 62 (2.87%) DB2
12 60 (2.78%) Apache Ignite
13 54 (2.50%) Data Lake
14 53 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
15 47 (2.18%) Oracle Database
16 41 (1.90%) RDBMS
17 38 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
18 36 (1.67%) Hadoop
19 35 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 332 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 293 (13.58%) Git
3 212 (9.82%) JIRA
4 205 (9.50%) JUnit
5 152 (7.04%) GitLab
6 134 (6.21%) Selenium
7 115 (5.33%) Maven
8 102 (4.73%) Cucumber
9 81 (3.75%) Gradle
10 68 (3.15%) Mockito
11 49 (2.27%) Artifactory
11 49 (2.27%) REST Assured
12 48 (2.22%) Bitbucket
13 46 (2.13%) SonarQube
14 37 (1.71%) Cypress.io
14 37 (1.71%) JMeter
14 37 (1.71%) Postman
14 37 (1.71%) Subversion
15 35 (1.62%) Liquibase
16 31 (1.44%) TeamCity
General
1 616 (28.54%) Finance
2 503 (23.31%) Social Skills
3 401 (18.58%) Banking
4 268 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 231 (10.70%) Public Sector
6 228 (10.57%) Investment Banking
7 220 (10.19%) Front Office
8 61 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 44 (2.04%) Marketing
10 32 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.34%) Retail
13 27 (1.25%) Electronics
13 27 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (0.93%) Back Office
15 18 (0.83%) Military
16 17 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.70%) Law
18 12 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,030 (47.73%) Developer
2 594 (27.53%) Java Developer
3 302 (13.99%) Senior
4 206 (9.55%) Software Engineer
5 183 (8.48%) Java Engineer
6 179 (8.29%) Architect
7 173 (8.02%) Lead
8 165 (7.65%) Senior Developer
9 123 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 118 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
11 116 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
12 100 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 99 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
14 94 (4.36%) Data Engineer
15 88 (4.08%) Python Engineer
16 70 (3.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 66 (3.06%) Test Engineer
18 65 (3.01%) AWS Developer
19 63 (2.92%) Lead Developer
20 61 (2.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (23.17%) Spring
2 399 (18.49%) Spring Boot
3 356 (16.50%) Kafka
4 268 (12.42%) React
5 176 (8.16%) REST
6 162 (7.51%) AngularJS
7 160 (7.41%) RESTful
8 138 (6.39%) HTML
9 136 (6.30%) .NET
10 123 (5.70%) Node.js
11 111 (5.14%) CSS
12 94 (4.36%) Web Services
13 88 (4.08%) PySpark
14 86 (3.99%) Swagger
15 85 (3.94%) SOAP
16 76 (3.52%) OpenAPI
17 74 (3.43%) XML
18 73 (3.38%) J2EE
19 70 (3.24%) Hibernate
20 62 (2.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.16%) Equities
2 123 (5.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 106 (4.91%) Derivative
4 95 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 92 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (3.52%) Fixed Income
7 72 (3.34%) Algorithms
8 65 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 64 (2.97%) Hedge funds
10 63 (2.92%) Cloud Native
11 49 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 49 (2.27%) Product Ownership
12 45 (2.09%) Public Cloud
13 41 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
14 38 (1.76%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
16 28 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.25%) Virtual Team
18 25 (1.16%) PKI
19 24 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 354 (16.40%) Linux
2 109 (5.05%) Unix
3 93 (4.31%) Windows
4 53 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.67%) Android
6 30 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.46%) 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 (0.093%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (37.16%) Agile
2 624 (28.92%) CI/CD
3 568 (26.32%) DevOps
4 493 (22.85%) Microservices
5 486 (22.52%) Software Engineering
6 397 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
7 330 (15.29%) Test Automation
8 291 (13.48%) TDD
9 236 (10.94%) Containerisation
10 231 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 184 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
11 184 (8.53%) SDLC
12 168 (7.78%) Computer Science
13 159 (7.37%) Scrum
14 156 (7.23%) Mentoring
15 125 (5.79%) Migration
16 123 (5.70%) Design Patterns
17 120 (5.56%) Open Source
18 119 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
19 118 (5.47%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 743 (34.43%) Python
2 606 (28.08%) SQL
3 444 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 256 (11.86%) TypeScript
5 178 (8.25%) C#
6 135 (6.26%) C++
7 118 (5.47%) Shell Script
8 110 (5.10%) Go
9 85 (3.94%) Kotlin
10 82 (3.80%) Bash
11 76 (3.52%) PowerShell
12 68 (3.15%) C
13 67 (3.10%) Scala
14 56 (2.59%) PL/SQL
15 43 (1.99%) Ruby
16 29 (1.34%) Perl
17 26 (1.20%) PHP
18 25 (1.16%) ABAP
18 25 (1.16%) Groovy
19 23 (1.07%) Rust
Qualifications
1 415 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 345 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 192 (8.90%) Degree
4 101 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 45 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 44 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 33 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 29 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 22 (1.02%) ISEB
12 19 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 18 (0.83%) 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
1 151 (7.00%) QA
2 32 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.16%) GDPR
4 20 (0.93%) 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 (0.46%) Def Stans
8 10 (0.46%) IEC 61508
9 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.42%) SLA
10 8 (0.37%) NIST
10 8 (0.37%) WCAG
11 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.14%) NCSC
12 3 (0.14%) PMO
12 3 (0.14%) SEPA
13 2 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.046%) SOC 2
System Software
1 446 (20.67%) Docker
2 34 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.74%) 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
1 474 (21.96%) Kubernetes
2 270 (12.51%) Terraform
3 123 (5.70%) Ansible
4 64 (2.97%) Grafana
5 49 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.67%) Puppet
7 34 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.07%) Istio
8 23 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.93%) Kibana
10 14 (0.65%) Podman
11 12 (0.56%) Packer
12 11 (0.51%) Argo
13 10 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
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
17 4 (0.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 244 (11.31%) Oracle
2 150 (6.95%) Microsoft
3 90 (4.17%) SAP
4 80 (3.71%) Google
5 61 (2.83%) Sybase
6 44 (2.04%) Splunk
7 38 (1.76%) IBM
8 37 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 35 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 32 (1.48%) Virgin Media
11 31 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.39%) VMware
13 26 (1.20%) Databricks
14 24 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 24 (1.11%) ForgeRock
15 21 (0.97%) Dynatrace
15 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.93%) Cloudera
17 19 (0.88%) Cisco
17 19 (0.88%) TIBCO