IntelliJ Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 336 422
Rank change year-on-year +50 +86 +142
Contract jobs citing IntelliJ 20 7 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.049% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.24% 0.41% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 21
10th Percentile £274 £605 £363
25th Percentile £280 £725 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £800 £500
Median % change year-on-year -57.50% +60.00% -
75th Percentile £530 £825 £606
90th Percentile £565 £878 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £800 £540
% change year-on-year -36.25% +48.15% -1.82%
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% -2.96%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -8.40% -2.86%

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 1,611 1,712 3,407
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.79% 12.09% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,199 2,424
10th Percentile £327 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £650
90th Percentile £688 £702 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 102
10th Percentile £51.00 £15.45 £39.82
25th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £51.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £66.09
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.44% +10.15%
75th Percentile £68.58 £65.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.31% +4.00% +13.64%

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 18 July 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 (10.00%) CICS
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.00%) Datadog
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (15.00%) MySQL
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.00%) Redis
1 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Maven
2 11 (55.00%) Git
3 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (40.00%) JUnit
5 7 (35.00%) Eclipse
6 6 (30.00%) Gradle
6 6 (30.00%) JIRA
7 5 (25.00%) Selenium
7 5 (25.00%) TeamCity
8 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (15.00%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (15.00%) HP UFT
9 3 (15.00%) Mockito
9 3 (15.00%) NetBeans
9 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
9 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (15.00%) Subversion
9 3 (15.00%) TestNG
10 2 (10.00%) git-flow
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 2 (10.00%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (55.00%) Spring
3 8 (40.00%) RESTful
4 7 (35.00%) Kafka
5 6 (30.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (30.00%) J2EE
6 5 (25.00%) Web Services
7 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (15.00%) JWT
7 3 (15.00%) OAuth
7 3 (15.00%) OpenAPI
7 3 (15.00%) Spring Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Spring MVC
7 3 (15.00%) Swagger
8 2 (10.00%) Ajax
8 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (10.00%) JavaFX
8 2 (10.00%) JPA
8 2 (10.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (10.00%) VSAM
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
2 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
5 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (15.00%) API Design
7 3 (15.00%) API Development
7 3 (15.00%) Coaching
7 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (15.00%) SOLID
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) COBOL
5 2 (10.00%) JCL
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
2 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace