Java Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 997 2,191 4,470
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.70% 8.77% 10.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.90% 23.59% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 1,603 3,261
10th Percentile £413 £438 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £553
Median % change year-on-year - +8.60% +7.80%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £673
90th Percentile £875 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 40 45
10th Percentile £46.53 £48.25 £20.25
25th Percentile £61.70 £55.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £74.00 £74.06 £65.54
90th Percentile £82.05 £75.00 £76.32
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.76% +3.56% +26.50%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,009 9,289 16,846
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.64% 37.18% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,813 12,524
10th Percentile £351 £388 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 203 194
10th Percentile £33.75 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.75 £84.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Java daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Java hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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
1 115 (11.53%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (9.83%) Apache
3 28 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.11%) Confluence
5 12 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) Camunda
8 5 (0.50%) CMS
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.20%) FileNet
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.40%) Endur
1 4 (0.40%) Teamcenter
1 4 (0.40%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.30%) Loan IQ
2 3 (0.30%) RMDS
3 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.10%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (39.02%) AWS
2 125 (12.54%) Azure
3 121 (12.14%) GCP
4 97 (9.73%) dbt
5 96 (9.63%) Snowflake
6 47 (4.71%) GitHub
7 42 (4.21%) Serverless
8 39 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 28 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (1.91%) OpenShift
13 18 (1.81%) SaaS
14 16 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (1.00%) Route 53
18 9 (0.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.71%) Firewall
2 15 (1.50%) VPN
3 13 (1.30%) Network Security
4 12 (1.20%) DNS
5 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.40%) BGP
6 4 (0.40%) HTTP
7 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.10%) IPv4
9 1 (0.10%) LAN
9 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (10.13%) Amazon Athena
2 97 (9.73%) Apache Arrow
2 97 (9.73%) Dremio
3 96 (9.63%) Data Lake
4 81 (8.12%) Apache Ignite
5 62 (6.22%) MySQL
6 60 (6.02%) SQL Server
7 50 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (4.51%) MongoDB
9 42 (4.21%) Big Data
10 40 (4.01%) Relational Database
11 32 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.21%) Oracle Database
12 30 (3.01%) NoSQL
13 23 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
17 12 (1.20%) BigQuery
18 11 (1.10%) Flink
Development Applications
1 106 (10.63%) Jenkins
2 78 (7.82%) Git
3 74 (7.42%) Selenium
4 57 (5.72%) Cucumber
4 57 (5.72%) JIRA
5 42 (4.21%) JUnit
6 41 (4.11%) Maven
7 37 (3.71%) GitLab
8 32 (3.21%) Cypress.io
9 31 (3.11%) Mockito
10 29 (2.91%) JMeter
11 21 (2.11%) REST Assured
12 15 (1.50%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.50%) Postman
12 15 (1.50%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.50%) TestNG
13 14 (1.40%) WebDriver
14 12 (1.20%) Subversion
15 10 (1.00%) SoapUI
16 9 (0.90%) Gradle
General
1 314 (31.49%) Finance
2 206 (20.66%) Banking
3 176 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 158 (15.85%) Front Office
5 127 (12.74%) Investment Banking
6 77 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (7.02%) Public Sector
8 17 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.40%) Marketing
11 13 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.10%) Retail
13 9 (0.90%) Law
14 7 (0.70%) Back Office
14 7 (0.70%) Police
15 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.40%) Automotive
18 3 (0.30%) Electronics
18 3 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 479 (48.04%) Developer
2 276 (27.68%) Java Developer
3 198 (19.86%) Senior
4 121 (12.14%) Software Engineer
5 113 (11.33%) Java Engineer
6 106 (10.63%) Senior Developer
7 90 (9.03%) Lead
8 79 (7.92%) Architect
9 65 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 62 (6.22%) Java Software Engineer
10 62 (6.22%) Software Developer
11 57 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (4.71%) Full Stack Developer
12 47 (4.71%) Python Engineer
13 45 (4.51%) Senior Java Engineer
14 43 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
15 41 (4.11%) Lead Developer
15 41 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (4.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 35 (3.51%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (16.25%) Spring Boot
2 156 (15.65%) Spring
3 109 (10.93%) REST
4 107 (10.73%) React
5 99 (9.93%) gRPC
6 97 (9.73%) Protocol Buffers
7 94 (9.43%) Kafka
8 82 (8.22%) NumPy
8 82 (8.22%) Pandas
8 82 (8.22%) SciPy
9 81 (8.12%) HTML
10 79 (7.92%) Web Services
11 73 (7.32%) Node.js
12 63 (6.32%) AngularJS
13 60 (6.02%) CSS
13 60 (6.02%) RESTful
14 49 (4.91%) .NET
15 42 (4.21%) XML
16 39 (3.91%) SOAP
17 36 (3.61%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 126 (12.64%) Fixed Income
2 106 (10.63%) Derivative
2 106 (10.63%) Hedge funds
3 98 (9.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 93 (9.33%) Equities
5 50 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (2.51%) Algorithms
8 24 (2.41%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.91%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.60%) Clustering
13 16 (1.60%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
15 13 (1.30%) Cloud Native
15 13 (1.30%) Product Ownership
16 12 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.02%) Linux
2 32 (3.21%) Unix
3 28 (2.81%) Android
4 26 (2.61%) Windows
5 11 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (35.71%) Agile
2 255 (25.58%) Software Engineering
3 203 (20.36%) CI/CD
4 200 (20.06%) DevOps
5 156 (15.65%) Microservices
6 153 (15.35%) Test Automation
7 110 (11.03%) Asset Management
8 109 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (9.73%) Full Stack Development
10 95 (9.53%) SDLC
11 92 (9.23%) Investment Management
12 83 (8.32%) TDD
13 75 (7.52%) Analytics
14 70 (7.02%) Computer Science
15 69 (6.92%) Scrum
16 57 (5.72%) BDD
17 54 (5.42%) Mentoring
18 53 (5.32%) ETL
19 51 (5.12%) Data Modelling
20 46 (4.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 307 (30.79%) Python
2 283 (28.39%) JavaScript
3 207 (20.76%) SQL
4 155 (15.55%) TypeScript
5 91 (9.13%) C#
6 57 (5.72%) C++
7 47 (4.71%) Scala
8 42 (4.21%) Go
9 41 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 30 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 29 (2.91%) PHP
12 28 (2.81%) PowerShell
13 24 (2.41%) C
14 23 (2.31%) PL/SQL
15 22 (2.21%) Bash
16 19 (1.91%) Perl
16 19 (1.91%) Ruby
17 10 (1.00%) Groovy
18 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.63%) Degree
4 43 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.10%) PhD
8 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.40%) CISSP
9 4 (0.40%) ISEB
9 4 (0.40%) SANS
10 3 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.10%) CISM
12 1 (0.10%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.10%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.51%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.11%) QA
3 34 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.00%) GDPR
5 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.80%) WCAG
7 7 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.70%) MiFID
8 4 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.30%) GRC
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.10%) COPPA
11 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 135 (13.54%) Docker
2 29 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.71%) IAG
4 16 (1.60%) ACF2
4 16 (1.60%) RACF
5 9 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.10%) GridGain
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) iptables
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 148 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 90 (9.03%) Terraform
3 49 (4.91%) Prometheus
4 46 (4.61%) Ansible
5 44 (4.41%) Grafana
6 15 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.10%) Consul
9 10 (1.00%) Kibana
9 10 (1.00%) Puppet
10 8 (0.80%) Podman
10 8 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (0.40%) BladeLogic
12 4 (0.40%) Istio
12 4 (0.40%) Nagios
12 4 (0.40%) Packer
13 3 (0.30%) Zipkin
14 2 (0.20%) logstash
14 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (10.03%) Oracle
2 45 (4.51%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.31%) Google
4 28 (2.81%) IBM
5 23 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.21%) SAP
7 16 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.60%) Sybase
8 14 (1.40%) Splunk
9 12 (1.20%) ION Trading
10 11 (1.10%) Databricks
11 10 (1.00%) Adobe
12 9 (0.90%) AVEVA
12 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.90%) SaltStack
13 7 (0.70%) Informatica
14 6 (0.60%) Confluent
14 6 (0.60%) New Relic
15 4 (0.40%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.40%) Workday