Java Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 978 2,282 4,462
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.46% 8.92% 10.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.26% 23.91% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 1,664 3,260
10th Percentile £405 £437 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £663
90th Percentile £875 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 38
10th Percentile £44.60 £48.63 £20.18
25th Percentile £60.18 £55.90 £45.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +16.59% +17.37%
75th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £65.53
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.00 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,078 9,546 16,961
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.52% 37.33% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,680 6,981 12,592
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 207 190
10th Percentile £26.50 £33.30 £20.70
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £49.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.94% +10.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.38 £77.60 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Java daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Java hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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 97 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (8.49%) Apache
3 27 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.04%) Confluence
5 13 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.82%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.61%) CMS
8 5 (0.51%) Camunda
8 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.41%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.20%) FileNet
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.41%) Endur
1 4 (0.41%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
2 3 (0.31%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.20%) RMDS
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.10%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 370 (37.83%) AWS
2 115 (11.76%) Azure
3 105 (10.74%) GCP
4 79 (8.08%) dbt
4 79 (8.08%) Snowflake
5 48 (4.91%) GitHub
6 43 (4.40%) Serverless
7 42 (4.29%) Amazon S3
8 32 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (2.25%) OpenShift
11 20 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (1.84%) SaaS
14 16 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (1.12%) Power Platform
18 10 (1.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.74%) Firewall
2 15 (1.53%) VPN
3 13 (1.33%) Network Security
4 12 (1.23%) DNS
5 7 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.61%) HTTP
7 4 (0.41%) BGP
7 4 (0.41%) SSL
8 3 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.31%) DHCP
8 3 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.31%) IOS XR
9 2 (0.20%) Internet
9 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.20%) VLAN
10 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.10%) IPv4
10 1 (0.10%) PPP
10 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.28%) Amazon Athena
2 79 (8.08%) Apache Arrow
2 79 (8.08%) Dremio
3 77 (7.87%) Data Lake
4 67 (6.85%) Apache Ignite
5 61 (6.24%) MySQL
6 60 (6.13%) SQL Server
7 53 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (4.50%) MongoDB
9 40 (4.09%) Relational Database
10 34 (3.48%) Big Data
11 33 (3.37%) Oracle Database
12 32 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (3.17%) NoSQL
14 22 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.12%) DB2
18 10 (1.02%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 72 (7.36%) Git
2 72 (7.36%) Selenium
3 62 (6.34%) Cucumber
4 57 (5.83%) JIRA
5 45 (4.60%) JUnit
6 40 (4.09%) Maven
7 39 (3.99%) GitLab
8 35 (3.58%) Cypress.io
9 32 (3.27%) Mockito
10 29 (2.97%) JMeter
11 22 (2.25%) REST Assured
12 15 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.53%) Postman
12 15 (1.53%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.53%) TestNG
13 13 (1.33%) WebDriver
14 12 (1.23%) Subversion
15 10 (1.02%) SoapUI
16 9 (0.92%) Gradle
General
1 297 (30.37%) Finance
2 192 (19.63%) Banking
3 176 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 145 (14.83%) Front Office
5 114 (11.66%) Investment Banking
6 73 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 71 (7.26%) Public Sector
8 18 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.23%) Marketing
12 11 (1.12%) Retail
13 9 (0.92%) Law
14 7 (0.72%) Back Office
14 7 (0.72%) Police
15 6 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.41%) Automotive
18 3 (0.31%) Electronics
18 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 487 (49.80%) Developer
2 275 (28.12%) Java Developer
3 189 (19.33%) Senior
4 110 (11.25%) Software Engineer
5 105 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 103 (10.53%) Java Engineer
7 82 (8.38%) Lead
8 71 (7.26%) Architect
9 63 (6.44%) Senior Java Developer
10 60 (6.13%) Software Developer
11 56 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 49 (5.01%) Full Stack Developer
13 47 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
14 41 (4.19%) Python Engineer
15 39 (3.99%) Senior Java Engineer
16 38 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
17 37 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 37 (3.78%) Lead Developer
18 35 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
19 34 (3.48%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (16.46%) Spring Boot
2 158 (16.16%) Spring
3 117 (11.96%) REST
4 108 (11.04%) React
5 90 (9.20%) Kafka
6 86 (8.79%) Web Services
7 84 (8.59%) HTML
8 81 (8.28%) Protocol Buffers
9 79 (8.08%) gRPC
10 74 (7.57%) Node.js
11 68 (6.95%) NumPy
11 68 (6.95%) Pandas
11 68 (6.95%) SciPy
12 64 (6.54%) CSS
13 63 (6.44%) RESTful
14 62 (6.34%) AngularJS
15 48 (4.91%) .NET
16 43 (4.40%) XML
17 39 (3.99%) SOAP
18 37 (3.78%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 112 (11.45%) Fixed Income
2 93 (9.51%) Derivative
3 87 (8.90%) Hedge funds
4 83 (8.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 78 (7.98%) Equities
6 46 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.45%) Algorithms
9 23 (2.35%) Data Structures
10 22 (2.25%) Onboarding
11 20 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.04%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.74%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.64%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
15 13 (1.33%) Cloud Native
15 13 (1.33%) Product Ownership
16 12 (1.23%) Clustering
16 12 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (8.08%) Linux
2 32 (3.27%) Unix
3 27 (2.76%) Android
3 27 (2.76%) Windows
4 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.31%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) CentOS
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (35.69%) Agile
2 231 (23.62%) Software Engineering
3 206 (21.06%) CI/CD
4 197 (20.14%) DevOps
5 160 (16.36%) Microservices
6 157 (16.05%) Test Automation
7 106 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (10.12%) Full Stack Development
9 93 (9.51%) Asset Management
10 90 (9.20%) SDLC
11 81 (8.28%) Investment Management
12 80 (8.18%) TDD
13 75 (7.67%) Analytics
14 73 (7.46%) Scrum
15 66 (6.75%) Computer Science
16 56 (5.73%) BDD
17 53 (5.42%) Mentoring
18 52 (5.32%) ETL
19 50 (5.11%) Infrastructure as Code
20 49 (5.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 291 (29.75%) Python
2 270 (27.61%) JavaScript
3 205 (20.96%) SQL
4 144 (14.72%) TypeScript
5 92 (9.41%) C#
6 51 (5.21%) C++
7 49 (5.01%) Scala
8 44 (4.50%) Kotlin
9 35 (3.58%) Go
10 31 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 30 (3.07%) PowerShell
12 27 (2.76%) PHP
13 23 (2.35%) Bash
13 23 (2.35%) PL/SQL
14 21 (2.15%) Perl
15 19 (1.94%) Ruby
16 18 (1.84%) C
17 9 (0.92%) Groovy
18 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 119 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.00%) Degree
4 44 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.23%) PhD
8 6 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.41%) CISSP
10 4 (0.41%) ISEB
10 4 (0.41%) SANS
11 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.10%) CISM
13 1 (0.10%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.10%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.19%) QA
2 38 (3.89%) Accessibility
2 38 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
4 8 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (0.82%) GDPR
4 8 (0.82%) WCAG
5 7 (0.72%) MiFID
6 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.31%) GRC
7 3 (0.31%) SLA
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.10%) COPPA
9 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.10%) GxP
9 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 134 (13.70%) Docker
2 28 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.74%) IAG
4 16 (1.64%) ACF2
4 16 (1.64%) RACF
5 8 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.10%) GridGain
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) iptables
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 138 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 82 (8.38%) Terraform
3 47 (4.81%) Grafana
4 45 (4.60%) Ansible
5 44 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.02%) Consul
8 10 (1.02%) Kibana
9 9 (0.92%) Puppet
10 8 (0.82%) Podman
10 8 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (0.41%) BladeLogic
12 4 (0.41%) Istio
12 4 (0.41%) Nagios
12 4 (0.41%) Packer
13 3 (0.31%) Zipkin
14 2 (0.20%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 104 (10.63%) Oracle
2 45 (4.60%) Microsoft
3 38 (3.89%) Google
4 29 (2.97%) IBM
5 24 (2.45%) SAP
6 23 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.64%) Splunk
8 16 (1.64%) Sybase
9 12 (1.23%) Databricks
10 11 (1.12%) Adobe
10 11 (1.12%) ION Trading
11 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.92%) AVEVA
13 8 (0.82%) Informatica
13 8 (0.82%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.61%) New Relic
15 5 (0.51%) Confluent
15 5 (0.51%) Murex
16 4 (0.41%) Workday