Java Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 416 491
Rank change year-on-year +128 +75 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 56 55 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 118
10th Percentile £455 £438 £438
25th Percentile £506 £509 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £888 £691 £713
90th Percentile - £748 £750
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +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 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Java Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software 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 Software Engineer.

Java Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Java Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software 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 Software Engineer.

Java Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Java
1 56 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 37 (66.07%) AWS
3 34 (60.71%) Agile
4 31 (55.36%) Finance
5 30 (53.57%) Banking
6 29 (51.79%) Front Office
6 29 (51.79%) TypeScript
7 26 (46.43%) JavaScript
7 26 (46.43%) Apache
7 26 (46.43%) Python
8 25 (44.64%) Apache Arrow
8 25 (44.64%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (44.64%) Dremio
8 25 (44.64%) dbt
8 25 (44.64%) Asset Management
8 25 (44.64%) Investment Banking
8 25 (44.64%) SciPy
8 25 (44.64%) NumPy
8 25 (44.64%) Protocol Buffers
8 25 (44.64%) Pandas
8 25 (44.64%) gRPC
8 25 (44.64%) Apache Airflow
8 25 (44.64%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (42.86%) Hedge funds
9 24 (42.86%) Derivative
9 24 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (42.86%) Fixed Income
9 24 (42.86%) Equities
10 22 (39.29%) Investment Management

Java Software 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 (46.43%) Apache
2 25 (44.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) AWS
2 25 (44.64%) dbt
3 22 (39.29%) Snowflake
4 13 (23.21%) GCP
5 7 (12.50%) Azure
6 4 (7.14%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.57%) AWS IoT
7 2 (3.57%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (44.64%) Amazon Athena
1 25 (44.64%) Apache Arrow
1 25 (44.64%) Apache Ignite
1 25 (44.64%) Dremio
2 22 (39.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.36%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.79%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.07%) SonarQube
3 8 (14.29%) Git
4 6 (10.71%) Cucumber
5 5 (8.93%) GitLab
5 5 (8.93%) JIRA
5 5 (8.93%) REST Assured
5 5 (8.93%) Selenium
6 4 (7.14%) Maven
6 4 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 31 (55.36%) Finance
2 30 (53.57%) Banking
3 29 (51.79%) Front Office
4 25 (44.64%) Investment Banking
5 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.14%) Law
7 4 (7.14%) Police
8 3 (5.36%) Retail
9 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (44.64%) gRPC
1 25 (44.64%) NumPy
1 25 (44.64%) Pandas
1 25 (44.64%) Protocol Buffers
1 25 (44.64%) SciPy
2 14 (25.00%) REST
3 8 (14.29%) Java EE
3 8 (14.29%) Spring
3 8 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.93%) ARM Templates
5 4 (7.14%) JSON
5 4 (7.14%) JWT
5 4 (7.14%) Kafka
5 4 (7.14%) Web Services
6 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
6 3 (5.36%) React
6 3 (5.36%) SOAP
7 2 (3.57%) Node.js
7 2 (3.57%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.86%) Derivative
1 24 (42.86%) Equities
1 24 (42.86%) Fixed Income
1 24 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 24 (42.86%) Hedge funds
2 6 (10.71%) Pricing Data
3 2 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (60.71%) Agile
3 25 (44.64%) Asset Management
4 22 (39.29%) Investment Management
5 9 (16.07%) Line Management
5 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.07%) TDD
5 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
6 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 8 (14.29%) DevOps
7 7 (12.50%) Greeks
7 7 (12.50%) Microservices
8 6 (10.71%) Analytics
8 6 (10.71%) BDD
8 6 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (8.93%) API Development
9 5 (8.93%) Configuration Management
9 5 (8.93%) Decision-Making
9 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.93%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (51.79%) TypeScript
3 26 (46.43%) JavaScript
3 26 (46.43%) Python
4 5 (8.93%) PHP
5 4 (7.14%) SQL
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
6 2 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) QA
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Ansible
2 5 (8.93%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (8.93%) Podman
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.79%) Google
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft