OpenJDK Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle OpenJDK
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenJDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenJDK 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 302 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - +155
Contract jobs citing OpenJDK 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.078% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £588 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 - £595
% change year-on-year - - +19.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

OpenJDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenJDK
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OpenJDK trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenJDK
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenJDK.

OpenJDK daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenJDK
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 2 (100.00%) Camunda
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft