Java Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 328 462
Rank change year-on-year +36 +134 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 12 17 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.11% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 10
10th Percentile - £685 £540
25th Percentile £500 £725 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £825 £688
Median % change year-on-year -34.91% +20.00% +12.24%
75th Percentile £563 £888 £800
90th Percentile £588 - £1,113
UK median daily rate £575 £725 £620
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.94% +3.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Java Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Java Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) RESTful
4 5 (41.67%) Docker
4 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (33.33%) Kafka
5 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (25.00%) Oracle
6 3 (25.00%) Spring
7 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Degree
7 2 (16.67%) JIRA
7 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 2 (16.67%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 2 (16.67%) Open Source
7 2 (16.67%) SaaS

Java Architect Skill Set
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 (16.67%) Camunda
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
1 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) Express.js
4 2 (16.67%) J2EE
4 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
4 2 (16.67%) Node.js
4 2 (16.67%) OpenJDK
5 1 (8.33%) SOAP
5 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Budget Control
4 2 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) Open Source
4 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Virgin Media