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 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 553 621
Rank change year-on-year +1 +68 +190
Contract jobs citing Quarkus 5 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.066% 0.036% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £554 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £675 - £588
90th Percentile £709 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £575
% change year-on-year - - +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.00 - -

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 7,540 8,364 10,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 22.15% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,973 5,314 7,696
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 171 202
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.40 £38.10
25th Percentile £41.13 £43.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -11.54% +16.01% -13.80%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quarkus over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quarkus in the UK

Quarkus
Top 6 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 12 October 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 - 4 £609 - 4
London - 3 £609 - 1
Work from Home +17 1 - - 3
UK excluding London - 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 3

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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat