Java Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, 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 112 119 80
Rank change year-on-year +7 -39 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 231 280 714
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.33% 1.82% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 1.95% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 236 564
10th Percentile £399 £402 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £723 £828 £775
90th Percentile £873 £894 £863
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £669
% change year-on-year -7.83% -14.05% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £39.80 £65.50
25th Percentile - £47.00 £70.94
Median hourly rate - £59.00 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +22.92%
75th Percentile - £71.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £78.20 -
UK median hourly rate £69.11 £52.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +31.64% -27.59% +20.83%

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 Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Java Developer
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 Developer.

Java Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 231 (100.00%) Java
2 111 (48.05%) SQL
3 106 (45.89%) Spring
4 90 (38.96%) Agile
5 80 (34.63%) Banking
6 76 (32.90%) Social Skills
7 71 (30.74%) Kafka
8 70 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (27.27%) Relational Database
9 63 (27.27%) AWS
10 61 (26.41%) Linux
11 59 (25.54%) JUnit
12 58 (25.11%) Finance
13 57 (24.68%) Investment Banking
14 56 (24.24%) Software Engineering
14 56 (24.24%) Spring Boot
15 54 (23.38%) Multithreading
16 53 (22.94%) Microservices
17 52 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
18 51 (22.08%) Python
19 50 (21.65%) Equities
20 44 (19.05%) Front Office
20 44 (19.05%) MongoDB
21 43 (18.61%) PostgreSQL
22 41 (17.75%) Docker
23 40 (17.32%) Performance Tuning
23 40 (17.32%) TDD
24 39 (16.88%) Data Structures
25 38 (16.45%) SDLC
25 38 (16.45%) CI/CD

Java Developer 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 10 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.90%) Apache
2 9 (3.90%) Oracle Coherence
3 8 (3.46%) GemFire
4 6 (2.60%) Confluence
5 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.30%) JBoss
5 3 (1.30%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Camunda
7 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.27%) AWS
2 21 (9.09%) Azure
3 13 (5.63%) GCP
4 11 (4.76%) dbt
5 7 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.16%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.73%) Slack
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.30%) Serverless
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.87%) GitHub
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.19%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (1.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 44 (19.05%) MongoDB
3 43 (18.61%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (14.72%) DB2
5 13 (5.63%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.19%) Redis
7 11 (4.76%) MySQL
8 10 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.33%) Apache Arrow
8 10 (4.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (4.33%) Dremio
9 6 (2.60%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.30%) Neo4j
12 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.87%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.87%) Big Data
13 2 (0.87%) GIS
13 2 (0.87%) HBase
Development Applications
1 59 (25.54%) JUnit
2 24 (10.39%) Git
3 22 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 17 (7.36%) Maven
5 16 (6.93%) JIRA
6 14 (6.06%) Mockito
7 13 (5.63%) Gradle
8 8 (3.46%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.46%) Liquibase
9 7 (3.03%) Selenium
10 6 (2.60%) GitLab
10 6 (2.60%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.16%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.73%) Jasmine
13 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.30%) Subversion
13 3 (1.30%) TestNG
14 2 (0.87%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.87%) NetBeans
General
1 80 (34.63%) Banking
2 76 (32.90%) Social Skills
3 58 (25.11%) Finance
4 57 (24.68%) Investment Banking
5 52 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (19.05%) Front Office
7 8 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.30%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (45.89%) Spring
2 71 (30.74%) Kafka
3 56 (24.24%) Spring Boot
4 33 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 29 (12.55%) React
6 24 (10.39%) JMS
7 20 (8.66%) Node.js
7 20 (8.66%) RESTful
7 20 (8.66%) Swagger
8 19 (8.23%) FIX Protocol
8 19 (8.23%) OpenAPI
9 14 (6.06%) Hibernate
9 14 (6.06%) REST
10 12 (5.19%) HTML
11 9 (3.90%) .NET
11 9 (3.90%) CSS
12 8 (3.46%) ASP.NET
13 7 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (3.03%) Vue
13 7 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.65%) Equities
2 39 (16.88%) Data Structures
3 24 (10.39%) Derivative
4 13 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.63%) Fixed Income
4 13 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (2.16%) State Machine
8 4 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.73%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.30%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.87%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.41%) Linux
2 17 (7.36%) Unix
3 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Windows
4 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (38.96%) Agile
2 70 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (24.24%) Software Engineering
4 54 (23.38%) Multithreading
5 53 (22.94%) Microservices
6 40 (17.32%) Performance Tuning
6 40 (17.32%) TDD
7 38 (16.45%) CI/CD
7 38 (16.45%) SDLC
8 35 (15.15%) DevOps
9 34 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (12.12%) Computer Science
11 27 (11.69%) Open Source
12 26 (11.26%) Database Tuning
13 24 (10.39%) Containerisation
14 22 (9.52%) Concurrent Programming
14 22 (9.52%) Electronic Trading
14 22 (9.52%) Low Latency
15 19 (8.23%) Design Patterns
16 18 (7.79%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 231 (100.00%) Java
2 111 (48.05%) SQL
3 51 (22.08%) Python
4 28 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 21 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.23%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.60%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.16%) Bash
10 4 (1.73%) Ruby
11 3 (1.30%) Perl
11 3 (1.30%) Scala
12 2 (0.87%) Clojure
12 2 (0.87%) DAML
12 2 (0.87%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) COBOL
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (10.82%) Degree
2 23 (9.96%) SC Cleared
2 23 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.49%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.33%) QA
2 7 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (17.75%) Docker
2 8 (3.46%) GridGain
3 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) HDFS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.93%) Terraform
3 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.73%) Ansible
5 3 (1.30%) Grafana
5 3 (1.30%) Puppet
6 2 (0.87%) Kibana
6 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 34 (14.72%) Sybase
2 20 (8.66%) Oracle
3 6 (2.60%) ION Trading
4 5 (2.16%) Solace
5 4 (1.73%) Google
5 4 (1.73%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.30%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.30%) Splunk
7 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.43%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.43%) IBM
8 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) SAP
8 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.43%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.43%) Veracode