JVM Tuning Contracts

JVM Tuning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JVM Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JVM Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JVM Tuning 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

JVM Tuning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,656 35,918 49,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.33% 85.38% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,620 23,009 34,128
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,566 2,286 1,643
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.71 £18.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%
75th Percentile £51.10 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.38 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.58
% change year-on-year -37.04% -6.05% +88.72%

JVM Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JVM Tuning in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JVM Tuning.

Daily rate trend for JVM Tuning in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JVM Tuning over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JVM Tuning in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JVM Tuning within the UK over the 6 months to 19 July 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
London - 4 £900 - 5
England - 4 £900 - 5
Scotland - 2 £415 -
UK excluding London - 2 £415 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - - 2

JVM Tuning
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 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Support
2 2 (28.57%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Support
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (28.57%) Loki
3 1 (14.29%) Hystrix
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Equities
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Asynchronous Programming
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Foglight
4 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 2 (28.57%) Veritas
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce