Java Architect Contracts in England

Java Architect
UK > England

The median Java Architect daily rate in England is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 569 703
Rank change year-on-year +84 +134 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 29 20 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.050% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.053% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 31
10th Percentile £490 £513 £513
25th Percentile £538 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £640 £700
Median % change year-on-year +28.91% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £888 £825 £772
90th Percentile - £1,088 £850
UK median daily rate £825 £620 £675
% change year-on-year +33.06% -8.15% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Java Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Architect in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Java Architect in England

Java Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +61 27 £825 +26.92%
North of England +31 2 £467 -
North West +27 2 £467 -
Midlands +5 1 £490 -1.01% 1
East Midlands - 1 £490 -
Java Architect
UK

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Java Architect 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 job ads across the England region featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (86.21%) AWS
3 20 (68.97%) Banking
4 19 (65.52%) Finance
5 18 (62.07%) GCP
6 17 (58.62%) Python
7 16 (55.17%) Agile
7 16 (55.17%) Software Engineering
8 15 (51.72%) Investment Banking
8 15 (51.72%) Apache
8 15 (51.72%) Front Office
8 15 (51.72%) Apache Ignite
8 15 (51.72%) Snowflake
9 14 (48.28%) Dremio
9 14 (48.28%) Apache Arrow
9 14 (48.28%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (48.28%) dbt
9 14 (48.28%) Fixed Income
9 14 (48.28%) Equities
9 14 (48.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
9 14 (48.28%) Derivative
9 14 (48.28%) Asset Management
9 14 (48.28%) Data Lake
9 14 (48.28%) gRPC
9 14 (48.28%) Apache Airflow
9 14 (48.28%) Hedge funds
9 14 (48.28%) SciPy
9 14 (48.28%) NumPy
9 14 (48.28%) Protocol Buffers

Java Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (51.72%) Apache
2 14 (48.28%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.34%) Camunda
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (10.34%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) GCP
3 15 (51.72%) Snowflake
4 14 (48.28%) dbt
5 10 (34.48%) Azure
6 8 (27.59%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (13.79%) GitHub
8 4 (13.79%) SaaS
9 3 (10.34%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (10.34%) PaaS
10 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (3.45%) Amazon Glacier
11 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
11 1 (3.45%) Kong
11 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (48.28%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (48.28%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (48.28%) Data Lake
2 14 (48.28%) Dremio
3 5 (17.24%) DB2
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Terragrunt
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 20 (68.97%) Banking
2 19 (65.52%) Finance
3 15 (51.72%) Front Office
3 15 (51.72%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) gRPC
1 14 (48.28%) NumPy
1 14 (48.28%) Pandas
1 14 (48.28%) Protocol Buffers
1 14 (48.28%) SciPy
2 8 (27.59%) Kafka
3 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.24%) RESTful
5 4 (13.79%) Spring
6 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.34%) JPA
6 3 (10.34%) Keycloak
6 3 (10.34%) OpenJDK
7 2 (6.90%) .NET
8 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (3.45%) Middleware
8 1 (3.45%) Node.js
8 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Derivative
1 14 (48.28%) Equities
1 14 (48.28%) Fixed Income
1 14 (48.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 14 (48.28%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.90%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Agile
1 16 (55.17%) Software Engineering
2 14 (48.28%) Asset Management
2 14 (48.28%) Line Management
3 10 (34.48%) Microservices
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Migration
7 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
8 3 (10.34%) Open Source
8 3 (10.34%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (10.34%) TOGAF
8 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
9 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
9 2 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (6.90%) Design Patterns
9 2 (6.90%) iOS Development
9 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (58.62%) Python
3 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
3 14 (48.28%) TypeScript
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Bloomberg
1 5 (17.24%) Reuters
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Confluent
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft