Quarkus Contract Job Trends

Quarkus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Quarkus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 560 605
Rank change year-on-year -15 +45 +194
Contract jobs citing Quarkus 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.012% 0.016%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.073% 0.053% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £694 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% -13.04% -9.80%
75th Percentile £731 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £575
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Quarkus 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 8,189 7,567 9,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.88% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,414 4,793 6,998
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 175
10th Percentile £30.40 £21.55 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £74.70 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

Quarkus
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Quarkus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Quarkus job vacancy trend in the UK

Quarkus
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Quarkus
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quarkus within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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 - 6 £713 - 1
North East - 4 - - 1
UK excluding London - 4 - - 2
North of England - 4 - - 1
London - 2 £713 -
Work from Home +14 1 - - 3
South East - 1 - -

Quarkus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Payments Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Review
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) AI
5 1 (16.67%) API Design
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat