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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 980 2,222 4,444
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.52% 8.84% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.50% 23.73% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 1,618 3,242
10th Percentile £413 £438 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year - +8.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £730 £669
90th Percentile £875 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 40 40
10th Percentile £46.53 £48.25 £20.23
25th Percentile £61.70 £55.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +11.59% +22.63%
75th Percentile £74.00 £74.06 £65.51
90th Percentile £82.05 £75.00 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.30% +4.40% +31.58%

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 5,025 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,641 6,853 12,474
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 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 186
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

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 7 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 7 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
1 105 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (9.08%) Apache
3 27 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.04%) Confluence
5 12 (1.22%) 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%) nginx
8 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.41%) IIS
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 (1.22%) 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
1 371 (37.86%) AWS
2 115 (11.73%) Azure
3 111 (11.33%) GCP
4 87 (8.88%) dbt
4 87 (8.88%) Snowflake
5 48 (4.90%) GitHub
6 39 (3.98%) Serverless
7 38 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 28 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (1.84%) OpenShift
12 18 (1.84%) SaaS
13 16 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (1.12%) Power Platform
16 10 (1.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.73%) Firewall
2 15 (1.53%) VPN
3 13 (1.33%) Network Security
4 12 (1.22%) DNS
5 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.41%) BGP
6 4 (0.41%) HTTP
7 3 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.31%) DHCP
7 3 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.31%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.10%) IPv4
9 1 (0.10%) PPP
9 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (9.08%) Amazon Athena
2 87 (8.88%) Apache Arrow
2 87 (8.88%) Dremio
3 85 (8.67%) Data Lake
4 73 (7.45%) Apache Ignite
5 60 (6.12%) MySQL
5 60 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (4.59%) MongoDB
8 40 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 37 (3.78%) Big Data
10 33 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (3.27%) Oracle Database
12 30 (3.06%) NoSQL
13 22 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (1.12%) DB2
17 10 (1.02%) KDB
Development Applications
1 108 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 72 (7.35%) Git
3 71 (7.24%) Selenium
4 58 (5.92%) Cucumber
5 57 (5.82%) JIRA
6 43 (4.39%) JUnit
7 41 (4.18%) Maven
8 39 (3.98%) GitLab
9 32 (3.27%) Mockito
10 31 (3.16%) Cypress.io
11 30 (3.06%) JMeter
12 21 (2.14%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.53%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.53%) Postman
13 15 (1.53%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.53%) TestNG
14 13 (1.33%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.22%) Subversion
16 10 (1.02%) SoapUI
17 9 (0.92%) Artifactory
General
1 305 (31.12%) Finance
2 198 (20.20%) Banking
3 177 (18.06%) Social Skills
4 152 (15.51%) Front Office
5 121 (12.35%) Investment Banking
6 75 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (7.04%) Public Sector
8 18 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.33%) Marketing
10 13 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.12%) Retail
12 9 (0.92%) Law
13 7 (0.71%) Back Office
13 7 (0.71%) Police
14 6 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.41%) Automotive
17 3 (0.31%) Electronics
17 3 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 483 (49.29%) Developer
2 276 (28.16%) Java Developer
3 194 (19.80%) Senior
4 115 (11.73%) Software Engineer
5 107 (10.92%) Senior Developer
6 106 (10.82%) Java Engineer
7 85 (8.67%) Lead
8 73 (7.45%) Architect
9 65 (6.63%) Senior Java Developer
10 60 (6.12%) Software Developer
11 58 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
12 51 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
13 45 (4.59%) Full Stack Developer
14 43 (4.39%) Python Engineer
15 41 (4.18%) Senior Java Engineer
16 40 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
17 39 (3.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 39 (3.98%) Lead Developer
18 36 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
19 35 (3.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (16.12%) Spring Boot
2 154 (15.71%) Spring
3 110 (11.22%) REST
4 105 (10.71%) React
5 90 (9.18%) Kafka
6 87 (8.88%) gRPC
6 87 (8.88%) Protocol Buffers
7 84 (8.57%) Web Services
8 79 (8.06%) HTML
9 76 (7.76%) Node.js
10 74 (7.55%) NumPy
10 74 (7.55%) Pandas
10 74 (7.55%) SciPy
11 61 (6.22%) AngularJS
11 61 (6.22%) RESTful
12 60 (6.12%) CSS
13 48 (4.90%) .NET
14 42 (4.29%) XML
15 39 (3.98%) SOAP
16 37 (3.78%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 119 (12.14%) Fixed Income
2 99 (10.10%) Derivative
3 95 (9.69%) Hedge funds
4 90 (9.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 85 (8.67%) Equities
6 49 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 24 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.04%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.84%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.73%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.63%) Credit Derivative
15 15 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
16 14 (1.43%) Clustering
17 13 (1.33%) Cloud Native
17 13 (1.33%) Product Ownership
18 12 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.96%) Linux
2 30 (3.06%) Unix
3 27 (2.76%) Windows
4 26 (2.65%) Android
5 9 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.31%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (35.31%) Agile
2 240 (24.49%) Software Engineering
3 201 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 192 (19.59%) DevOps
5 155 (15.82%) Microservices
6 153 (15.61%) Test Automation
7 108 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (10.31%) Asset Management
9 95 (9.69%) Full Stack Development
10 92 (9.39%) SDLC
11 86 (8.78%) Investment Management
12 78 (7.96%) TDD
13 75 (7.65%) Analytics
14 73 (7.45%) Scrum
15 67 (6.84%) Computer Science
16 56 (5.71%) BDD
17 54 (5.51%) Mentoring
18 53 (5.41%) ETL
19 46 (4.69%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (4.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 294 (30.00%) Python
2 274 (27.96%) JavaScript
3 202 (20.61%) SQL
4 147 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 92 (9.39%) C#
6 52 (5.31%) C++
7 48 (4.90%) Scala
8 43 (4.39%) Kotlin
9 38 (3.88%) Go
10 30 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.06%) Shell Script
11 27 (2.76%) PHP
12 23 (2.35%) PL/SQL
13 21 (2.14%) Bash
14 19 (1.94%) Perl
14 19 (1.94%) Ruby
15 18 (1.84%) C
16 9 (0.92%) Groovy
17 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 120 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.98%) Degree
4 44 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.22%) PhD
8 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.41%) CISSP
9 4 (0.41%) ISEB
9 4 (0.41%) SANS
10 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.10%) CISM
12 1 (0.10%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.10%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.08%) QA
3 33 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.82%) GDPR
5 8 (0.82%) WCAG
6 7 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.71%) MiFID
7 4 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.31%) GRC
8 3 (0.31%) SLA
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.10%) COPPA
10 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.10%) GxP
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 132 (13.47%) Docker
2 28 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.73%) IAG
4 16 (1.63%) ACF2
4 16 (1.63%) RACF
5 9 (0.92%) 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
1 141 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 83 (8.47%) Terraform
3 47 (4.80%) Prometheus
4 45 (4.59%) Ansible
4 45 (4.59%) Grafana
5 15 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (1.12%) 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%) logstash
14 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (10.31%) Oracle
2 45 (4.59%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.18%) Google
4 29 (2.96%) IBM
5 23 (2.35%) SAP
5 23 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.73%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.63%) Splunk
7 16 (1.63%) Sybase
8 12 (1.22%) Adobe
8 12 (1.22%) Databricks
9 11 (1.12%) ION Trading
10 10 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.92%) AVEVA
11 9 (0.92%) SaltStack
12 8 (0.82%) Informatica
13 6 (0.61%) New Relic
14 5 (0.51%) Confluent
15 4 (0.41%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.41%) Workday