JCE Contract Job Trends

Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JCE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 - 650
Rank change year-on-year - - +194
Contract jobs citing JCE 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.013% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JCE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,446 8,629 11,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 22.39% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,963 5,670 8,111
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £651 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 186 172
10th Percentile £31.20 £25.60 £36.03
25th Percentile £41.13 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.05 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -4.02%

JCE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JCE in the UK

JCE
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JCE

JCE
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JCE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JCE

JCE
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCE within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 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 - 1 - -

JCE
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Web Signature
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Attestation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISSAP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Thales