Java Architect Contracts in England

Java Architect
UK > England

The median Java Architect daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 608 726
Rank change year-on-year +132 +118 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 67 30 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.063% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.067% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 20 32
10th Percentile £563 £543 £508
25th Percentile £659 £597 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% -2.04%
75th Percentile £831 £928 £763
90th Percentile £888 £1,090 £774
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £625
% change year-on-year - +16.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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 May 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 May 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 +102 39 £725 -3.33% 4
South East +33 26 £725 +24.46%
North of England +26 1 £700 -6.67%
North West +19 1 £700 -6.67%
Java Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 67 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (41.79%) AWS
3 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
3 26 (38.81%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
4 25 (37.31%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (32.84%) GAP Analysis
5 22 (32.84%) Product Ownership
5 22 (32.84%) Translating Business Requirements
6 21 (31.34%) GCP
7 20 (29.85%) JavaScript
8 19 (28.36%) Python
8 19 (28.36%) DV Cleared
9 18 (26.87%) TypeScript
9 18 (26.87%) Agile
9 18 (26.87%) Software Engineering
10 17 (25.37%) Finance
11 16 (23.88%) Apache Airflow
12 15 (22.39%) Front Office
12 15 (22.39%) Fixed Income
12 15 (22.39%) Banking
13 14 (20.90%) Apache
13 14 (20.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (20.90%) Asset Management
13 14 (20.90%) Investment Banking
13 14 (20.90%) Equities
13 14 (20.90%) Pandas
13 14 (20.90%) Hedge funds
13 14 (20.90%) SciPy
13 14 (20.90%) NumPy

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 16 (23.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (20.90%) Apache
3 6 (8.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) AWS
2 21 (31.34%) GCP
3 14 (20.90%) dbt
4 13 (19.40%) Snowflake
5 6 (8.96%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (8.96%) GitHub
5 6 (8.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (5.97%) Azure
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.49%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (20.90%) Apache Arrow
1 14 (20.90%) Apache Ignite
1 14 (20.90%) Dremio
2 13 (19.40%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.96%) BigQuery
3 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) RDBMS
3 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.48%) DB2
5 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.49%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.48%) GitLab
2 3 (4.48%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) REST Assured
2 3 (4.48%) Selenium
2 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (37.31%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.37%) Finance
3 15 (22.39%) Banking
3 15 (22.39%) Front Office
4 14 (20.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.90%) gRPC
1 14 (20.90%) NumPy
1 14 (20.90%) Pandas
1 14 (20.90%) Protocol Buffers
1 14 (20.90%) SciPy
2 10 (14.93%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.96%) OAuth
4 5 (7.46%) React
4 5 (7.46%) REST
5 4 (5.97%) .NET
5 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.97%) CSS
5 4 (5.97%) Spring
6 3 (4.48%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.48%) Java EE
7 1 (1.49%) EJB
7 1 (1.49%) SOAP
7 1 (1.49%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.49%) Web Services
7 1 (1.49%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.84%) Product Ownership
2 15 (22.39%) Fixed Income
3 14 (20.90%) Derivative
3 14 (20.90%) Equities
3 14 (20.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (20.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (32.84%) GAP Analysis
2 22 (32.84%) Translating Business Requirements
3 18 (26.87%) Agile
3 18 (26.87%) Software Engineering
4 14 (20.90%) Asset Management
5 13 (19.40%) Line Management
6 10 (14.93%) Microservices
7 9 (13.43%) DevOps
8 8 (11.94%) Investment Management
9 7 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.45%) Workflow
10 6 (8.96%) Containerisation
10 6 (8.96%) Data Governance
10 6 (8.96%) Data Modelling
11 5 (7.46%) Analytics
12 4 (5.97%) Business Analysis
12 4 (5.97%) Machine Learning
12 4 (5.97%) Migration
12 4 (5.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (29.85%) JavaScript
3 19 (28.36%) Python
4 18 (26.87%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.96%) C#
5 6 (8.96%) SQL
6 4 (5.97%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.48%) Scala
8 1 (1.49%) C++
8 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.43%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Ansible
3 3 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (4.48%) Podman
4 1 (1.49%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) IBM
3 2 (2.99%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.49%) TIBCO