OpenJDK Contracts

Oracle OpenJDK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenJDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenJDK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 581 715
Rank change year-on-year +63 +134 +138
Contract jobs citing OpenJDK 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.030% 0.011% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £161
25th Percentile £563 - £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £595
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.00%
75th Percentile £588 - £636
90th Percentile - - £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenJDK 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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

OpenJDK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenJDK in the UK

OpenJDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenJDK in the UK

OpenJDK
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenJDK within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
UK excluding London +64 2 £575 -
Work from Home - 2 £575 -
South East - 2 £575 -
England - 2 £575 -

OpenJDK
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 2 (100.00%) Camunda
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft