Java Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 802 990 2,357
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 8.10% 6.45% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.68% 19.29% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 789 1,727
10th Percentile £384 £405 £432
25th Percentile £460 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +0.25% +7.73%
75th Percentile £794 £750 £738
90th Percentile £875 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 43
10th Percentile - £60.02 £46.70
25th Percentile £87.50 £64.73 £56.80
Median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +7.69% +16.59%
75th Percentile £92.50 £74.63 £74.38
90th Percentile - £82.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java
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.

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 remote working options citing Java over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Java.

Java hourly rate 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 84 (10.47%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (10.22%) Apache
3 41 (5.11%) Apache Spark
3 41 (5.11%) Confluence
4 13 (1.62%) Oracle Coherence
5 8 (1.00%) GemFire
6 7 (0.87%) CMS
6 7 (0.87%) NetWeaver
7 6 (0.75%) JBoss
7 6 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.62%) Camunda
9 4 (0.50%) Drupal
9 4 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.50%) WordPress
10 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.25%) IIS
11 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.75%) Endur
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
3 3 (0.37%) Unica
4 2 (0.25%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.25%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Maximo
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.12%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 329 (41.02%) AWS
2 152 (18.95%) Azure
3 89 (11.10%) GCP
4 82 (10.22%) dbt
5 62 (7.73%) Serverless
6 57 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (5.11%) Snowflake
9 40 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (4.11%) OpenShift
11 29 (3.62%) GitHub
12 27 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (3.24%) Dagster
14 24 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 24 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (1.87%) SaaS
17 12 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.62%) HTTP
2 12 (1.50%) FIX Connectivity
3 7 (0.87%) HTTPS
4 6 (0.75%) DNS
5 5 (0.62%) Network Security
5 5 (0.62%) SSL
6 4 (0.50%) DHCP
6 4 (0.50%) Firewall
6 4 (0.50%) Internet
6 4 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.37%) IPsec
7 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.37%) Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.25%) 4G
8 2 (0.25%) 5G
8 2 (0.25%) DOCSIS
8 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.12%) FTP
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
2 82 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (10.10%) Relational Database
4 80 (9.98%) Apache Iceberg
4 80 (9.98%) Dremio
5 71 (8.85%) Apache Arrow
5 71 (8.85%) MongoDB
6 57 (7.11%) Apache Ignite
7 43 (5.36%) MySQL
8 41 (5.11%) Data Lake
9 39 (4.86%) DB2
10 35 (4.36%) NoSQL
11 21 (2.62%) Redis
12 20 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (2.37%) SQL Server
14 16 (2.00%) Big Data
15 15 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
16 14 (1.75%) Oracle Database
17 13 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (1.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 118 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 89 (11.10%) JIRA
3 84 (10.47%) Git
4 78 (9.73%) JUnit
5 52 (6.48%) Selenium
6 43 (5.36%) GitLab
7 41 (5.11%) Maven
8 31 (3.87%) Artifactory
9 30 (3.74%) Cucumber
10 25 (3.12%) Gradle
11 18 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.24%) Mockito
11 18 (2.24%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.12%) Subversion
13 16 (2.00%) Postman
14 15 (1.87%) JMeter
15 14 (1.75%) SonarQube
16 10 (1.25%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.12%) HP UFT
17 9 (1.12%) Liquibase
General
1 219 (27.31%) Finance
2 205 (25.56%) Banking
3 179 (22.32%) Social Skills
4 136 (16.96%) Front Office
4 136 (16.96%) Investment Banking
5 130 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (8.23%) Public Sector
7 18 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.37%) Retail
10 10 (1.25%) Back Office
11 9 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.87%) Law
13 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.50%) Marketing
14 4 (0.50%) Military
14 4 (0.50%) Police
15 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 407 (50.75%) Developer
2 231 (28.80%) Java Developer
3 114 (14.21%) Senior
4 93 (11.60%) Software Engineer
5 79 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
6 76 (9.48%) Java Engineer
7 70 (8.73%) Python Engineer
8 67 (8.35%) Architect
9 61 (7.61%) Lead
10 57 (7.11%) Senior Developer
11 52 (6.48%) Data Engineer
12 50 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 48 (5.99%) Senior Java Developer
14 46 (5.74%) Java Software Engineer
15 44 (5.49%) AWS Software Engineer
16 36 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
17 33 (4.11%) SQL Developer
17 33 (4.11%) Technical Architect
18 32 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
18 32 (3.99%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (21.95%) Spring
2 157 (19.58%) Kafka
3 120 (14.96%) Spring Boot
4 92 (11.47%) React
5 73 (9.10%) .NET
5 73 (9.10%) AngularJS
6 68 (8.48%) REST
7 65 (8.10%) PySpark
8 58 (7.23%) RESTful
9 51 (6.36%) Node.js
10 46 (5.74%) NumPy
10 46 (5.74%) Pandas
11 44 (5.49%) HTML
11 44 (5.49%) SciPy
12 43 (5.36%) J2EE
13 38 (4.74%) CSS
14 34 (4.24%) Swagger
15 31 (3.87%) gRPC
15 31 (3.87%) JMS
15 31 (3.87%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.10%) Equities
2 65 (8.10%) Derivative
3 56 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 50 (6.23%) Data Structures
5 49 (6.11%) Fixed Income
6 43 (5.36%) Hedge funds
7 30 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.62%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.12%) Cloud Native
11 16 (2.00%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.75%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.62%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.50%) Pricing Data
15 11 (1.37%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.25%) PKI
17 9 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 117 (14.59%) Linux
2 32 (3.99%) Unix
3 25 (3.12%) Windows
4 14 (1.75%) Android
5 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (45.01%) Agile
2 217 (27.06%) CI/CD
3 206 (25.69%) Software Engineering
4 199 (24.81%) DevOps
5 146 (18.20%) Microservices
6 145 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (12.34%) Test Automation
8 97 (12.09%) TDD
9 93 (11.60%) SDLC
10 84 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
11 83 (10.35%) Asset Management
12 77 (9.60%) Containerisation
13 73 (9.10%) Open Source
13 73 (9.10%) Scrum
14 61 (7.61%) Migration
15 59 (7.36%) Design Patterns
15 59 (7.36%) Multithreading
16 58 (7.23%) Computer Science
17 57 (7.11%) Mentoring
18 54 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 303 (37.78%) Python
2 240 (29.93%) SQL
3 183 (22.82%) JavaScript
4 150 (18.70%) TypeScript
5 83 (10.35%) C#
6 52 (6.48%) Shell Script
7 48 (5.99%) Go
8 43 (5.36%) C++
9 33 (4.11%) Kotlin
10 26 (3.24%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.62%) PowerShell
12 20 (2.49%) Bash
13 19 (2.37%) C
13 19 (2.37%) Scala
14 17 (2.12%) Ruby
15 14 (1.75%) PHP
16 12 (1.50%) Groovy
17 11 (1.37%) Perl
18 9 (1.12%) ABAP
19 4 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 117 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.23%) Degree
4 33 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.87%) Numerate Degree
6 14 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.37%) ISEB
12 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CISSP
13 2 (0.25%) OCP
13 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.25%) OSCP
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.86%) QA
2 11 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (1.12%) GDPR
4 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.50%) WCAG
7 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.25%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.12%) GRC
8 1 (0.12%) PMO
8 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 181 (22.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.00%) GridGain
3 7 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.50%) HDFS
5 3 (0.37%) RACF
5 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.25%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.25%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.25%) Platform Symphony
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 162 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 92 (11.47%) Terraform
3 51 (6.36%) Ansible
4 23 (2.87%) Grafana
5 16 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.62%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.12%) Puppet
8 8 (1.00%) Istio
8 8 (1.00%) Kibana
9 7 (0.87%) Packer
10 6 (0.75%) Perfmon
11 5 (0.62%) Control-M
11 5 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.62%) Podman
12 3 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.37%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.25%) WSUS
14 1 (0.12%) CA Wily
14 1 (0.12%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 91 (11.35%) Oracle
2 44 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.74%) Sybase
4 31 (3.87%) Google
5 20 (2.49%) SAP
6 17 (2.12%) IBM
7 13 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.50%) Splunk
9 11 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.25%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.00%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.00%) TIBCO
12 7 (0.87%) OpenLink
12 7 (0.87%) VMware
13 6 (0.75%) ION Trading
13 6 (0.75%) Virgin Media
14 5 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
14 5 (0.62%) Solace