IntelliJ Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IntelliJ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IntelliJ 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 297 343 435
Rank change year-on-year +46 +92 +143
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 7 2 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.013% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 0.11% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 25
10th Percentile £285 - £408
25th Percentile £312 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £443 £575 £688
90th Percentile £518 - £755
UK median daily rate £540 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -8.09% +6.82% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.40% +15.93%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -8.40% -9.46%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

IntelliJ falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

IntelliJ
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IntelliJ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IntelliJ trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IntelliJ.

IntelliJ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IntelliJ
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IntelliJ over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IntelliJ daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IntelliJ
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IntelliJ.

IntelliJ hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IntelliJ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (42.86%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Gradle
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (42.86%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
3 3 (42.86%) HP UFT
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Mockito
3 3 (42.86%) NetBeans
3 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 3 (42.86%) Subversion
3 3 (42.86%) TestNG
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
4 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Hibernate
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (42.86%) J2EE
2 3 (42.86%) JWT
2 3 (42.86%) OAuth
2 3 (42.86%) OpenAPI
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
2 3 (42.86%) Swagger
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) Bootstrap
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) API Design
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) API Management
3 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk