Java Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £750, 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 228 245 366
Rank change year-on-year +17 +121 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 76 100 111
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.70% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 82 82
10th Percentile £456 £441 £450
25th Percentile £519 £489 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £738
90th Percentile - £888 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 £67.50 £37.80
Median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +72.46% -28.16%
75th Percentile £92.50 £72.50 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (76.32%) AWS
3 52 (68.42%) Software Engineering
4 47 (61.84%) Finance
4 47 (61.84%) Agile
5 36 (47.37%) Front Office
5 36 (47.37%) Banking
6 35 (46.05%) Python
7 34 (44.74%) JavaScript
7 34 (44.74%) Equities
8 33 (43.42%) Apache Airflow
8 33 (43.42%) Amazon Athena
8 33 (43.42%) Dremio
8 33 (43.42%) dbt
8 33 (43.42%) Apache Arrow
8 33 (43.42%) Apache Iceberg
8 33 (43.42%) Fixed Income
8 33 (43.42%) Asset Management
9 32 (42.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (40.79%) TypeScript
11 29 (38.16%) Pandas
11 29 (38.16%) SciPy
11 29 (38.16%) NumPy
12 28 (36.84%) Snowflake
12 28 (36.84%) Apache
12 28 (36.84%) Investment Banking
13 27 (35.53%) Derivative
13 27 (35.53%) Hedge funds
14 25 (32.89%) GCP
15 23 (30.26%) Data Lake

Java Engineer 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 33 (43.42%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (36.84%) Apache
3 7 (9.21%) Confluence
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.32%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 58 (76.32%) AWS
2 33 (43.42%) dbt
3 28 (36.84%) Snowflake
4 25 (32.89%) GCP
5 12 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (14.47%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (14.47%) Dagster
7 8 (10.53%) Azure
8 3 (3.95%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.63%) Slack
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) HTTP
1 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (43.42%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (43.42%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (43.42%) Apache Iceberg
1 33 (43.42%) Dremio
2 23 (30.26%) Apache Ignite
2 23 (30.26%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.58%) MySQL
5 3 (3.95%) Metadata
5 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.32%) DB2
7 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) JIRA
2 9 (11.84%) GitLab
2 9 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.21%) Cucumber
3 7 (9.21%) REST Assured
4 6 (7.89%) JUnit
5 4 (5.26%) Selenium
5 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.63%) Git
7 2 (2.63%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.63%) Maven
8 1 (1.32%) Gradle
8 1 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 47 (61.84%) Finance
2 36 (47.37%) Banking
2 36 (47.37%) Front Office
3 28 (36.84%) Investment Banking
4 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.84%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Law
5 4 (5.26%) Police
5 4 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (38.16%) NumPy
1 29 (38.16%) Pandas
1 29 (38.16%) SciPy
2 23 (30.26%) gRPC
2 23 (30.26%) Protocol Buffers
3 17 (22.37%) Spring
4 15 (19.74%) PySpark
4 15 (19.74%) REST
5 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
6 10 (13.16%) Node.js
7 7 (9.21%) Kafka
7 7 (9.21%) React
8 6 (7.89%) AngularJS
8 6 (7.89%) Vue
9 5 (6.58%) Java EE
9 5 (6.58%) Spring Security
10 4 (5.26%) ARM Templates
10 4 (5.26%) Micronaut
10 4 (5.26%) RESTful
10 4 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (44.74%) Equities
2 33 (43.42%) Fixed Income
3 32 (42.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (35.53%) Derivative
4 27 (35.53%) Hedge funds
5 12 (15.79%) Pricing Data
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (68.42%) Software Engineering
2 47 (61.84%) Agile
3 33 (43.42%) Asset Management
4 18 (23.68%) Fintech
4 18 (23.68%) Investment Management
5 16 (21.05%) Microservices
6 14 (18.42%) Migration
7 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
8 12 (15.79%) TDD
9 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.16%) Containerisation
10 10 (13.16%) DevOps
11 7 (9.21%) Risk Management
12 6 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (7.89%) Mentoring
12 6 (7.89%) Order Management
12 6 (7.89%) Performance Attribution
12 6 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (46.05%) Python
3 34 (44.74%) JavaScript
4 31 (40.79%) TypeScript
5 10 (13.16%) SQL
6 5 (6.58%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.63%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) DAML
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) GDPR
1 1 (1.32%) QA
1 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (23.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) Terraform
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (5.26%) Podman
4 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (5.26%) Google
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle
3 1 (1.32%) Databricks
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.32%) Sybase
3 1 (1.32%) WSO2