Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 360 319
Rank change year-on-year +117 -41 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 103 112 335
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.44% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.46% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 83 267
10th Percentile £443 £450 £438
25th Percentile £479 £528 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% +10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £694
90th Percentile £888 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -28.16% -23.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 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 a work from home option citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 May 2024, 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.

1 103 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (68.93%) Software Engineering
3 50 (48.54%) Agile
4 45 (43.69%) AWS
5 43 (41.75%) Finance
6 37 (35.92%) TypeScript
7 34 (33.01%) Python
8 33 (32.04%) Banking
9 32 (31.07%) JavaScript
10 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
11 29 (28.16%) Front Office
12 26 (25.24%) Apache
12 26 (25.24%) Hedge funds
12 26 (25.24%) Apache Airflow
13 25 (24.27%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (24.27%) SciPy
13 25 (24.27%) NumPy
13 25 (24.27%) Pandas
13 25 (24.27%) Protocol Buffers
13 25 (24.27%) Investment Banking
13 25 (24.27%) Asset Management
13 25 (24.27%) Fixed Income
13 25 (24.27%) Dremio
13 25 (24.27%) gRPC
13 25 (24.27%) Apache Ignite
13 25 (24.27%) dbt
13 25 (24.27%) Apache Arrow
14 24 (23.30%) Equities
14 24 (23.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (23.30%) Derivative

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 26 (25.24%) Apache
1 26 (25.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.97%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) nginx
2 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (43.69%) AWS
2 25 (24.27%) dbt
3 23 (22.33%) Snowflake
4 16 (15.53%) Azure
4 16 (15.53%) GCP
5 7 (6.80%) GitHub
6 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.94%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.94%) Datadog
7 2 (1.94%) Miro
7 2 (1.94%) Serverless
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.97%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.80%) Firewall
1 7 (6.80%) VPN
2 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) HTTP
3 1 (0.97%) MQTT
3 1 (0.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.27%) Amazon Athena
1 25 (24.27%) Apache Arrow
1 25 (24.27%) Apache Ignite
1 25 (24.27%) Dremio
2 22 (21.36%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.91%) MySQL
4 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.97%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.97%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.68%) Selenium
3 10 (9.71%) Cucumber
4 9 (8.74%) Git
4 9 (8.74%) SonarQube
5 8 (7.77%) JIRA
6 7 (6.80%) Maven
7 6 (5.83%) GitLab
8 5 (4.85%) JUnit
8 5 (4.85%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.91%) Mockito
11 2 (1.94%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.94%) JMeter
12 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
General
1 43 (41.75%) Finance
2 33 (32.04%) Banking
3 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
4 29 (28.16%) Front Office
5 25 (24.27%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Law
7 4 (3.88%) Police
8 3 (2.91%) Retail
9 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.97%) Aviation
10 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) gRPC
1 25 (24.27%) NumPy
1 25 (24.27%) Pandas
1 25 (24.27%) Protocol Buffers
1 25 (24.27%) SciPy
2 22 (21.36%) REST
3 16 (15.53%) Spring
3 16 (15.53%) Spring Boot
4 15 (14.56%) React
5 9 (8.74%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.74%) Kafka
6 8 (7.77%) CSS
6 8 (7.77%) HTML
6 8 (7.77%) Java EE
7 5 (4.85%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.85%) RESTful
7 5 (4.85%) Web Services
8 4 (3.88%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.88%) JWT
8 4 (3.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.24%) Hedge funds
2 25 (24.27%) Fixed Income
3 24 (23.30%) Derivative
3 24 (23.30%) Equities
3 24 (23.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.83%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.97%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Android
2 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.97%) Unix
2 1 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.93%) Software Engineering
2 50 (48.54%) Agile
3 25 (24.27%) Asset Management
4 22 (21.36%) CI/CD
4 22 (21.36%) DevOps
4 22 (21.36%) Investment Management
5 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (15.53%) Microservices
6 16 (15.53%) Test Automation
7 13 (12.62%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (10.68%) TDD
9 9 (8.74%) Containerisation
9 9 (8.74%) Line Management
10 8 (7.77%) Load Balancing
11 7 (6.80%) Analytics
11 7 (6.80%) API Development
11 7 (6.80%) ETL
11 7 (6.80%) Greeks
11 7 (6.80%) Identity Management
12 6 (5.83%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 103 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (35.92%) TypeScript
3 34 (33.01%) Python
4 32 (31.07%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.68%) SQL
6 5 (4.85%) PHP
6 5 (4.85%) Scala
7 4 (3.88%) C++
8 3 (2.91%) Bash
8 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.97%) Go
10 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.97%) Perl
10 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) SC Cleared
1 13 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.85%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (17.48%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) iptables
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) zsh
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.74%) Terraform
3 6 (5.83%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (5.83%) Grafana
4 5 (4.85%) Ansible
4 5 (4.85%) Podman
5 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.91%) Consul
7 2 (1.94%) Kibana
7 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (3.88%) Google
1 4 (3.88%) ION Trading
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.91%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.94%) Databricks
3 2 (1.94%) New Relic
4 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.97%) Confluent
4 1 (0.97%) Informatica
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle