POJO Contracts

POJO (Plain Old Java Object)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring POJO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POJO over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 - 660
Rank change year-on-year - - +203
DemandTrendContract jobs citing POJO 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% - 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.054% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

POJO 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,403 8,544 11,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.41% 22.03% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,961 5,734 8,275
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 208 160
10th Percentile £30.40 £23.80 £35.23
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.44 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.88% -1.62%

POJO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for POJO in the UK

POJO
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

POJO
Top 4 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POJO within the UK over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 4 £510 - 2
England - 4 £510 - 2
UK excluding London - 4 £510 - 2
North of England - 4 £510 - 2

POJO
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes