Java Engineer Contracts in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 452 343
Rank change year-on-year +112 -109 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 196 189 542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.39% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.41% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 151 435
10th Percentile £428 £419 £452
25th Percentile £500 £478 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £850 £701 £701
90th Percentile £888 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile £68.25 £50.93 -
25th Percentile - £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

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 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +90 118 £719 +10.58% 88
South East +45 31 £648 +18.81% 30
South West +5 20 £475 +5.56% 19
North of England +25 13 £500 -21.57% 15
East of England +18 11 £534 -3.78% 3
North West +18 10 £525 -16.00% 12
Yorkshire +18 3 £425 -17.87% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 196 (100.00%) Java
2 131 (66.84%) Software Engineering
3 90 (45.92%) Agile
4 68 (34.69%) AWS
5 63 (32.14%) Python
6 60 (30.61%) Finance
7 57 (29.08%) DevOps
8 53 (27.04%) JavaScript
9 50 (25.51%) CI/CD
10 49 (25.00%) TypeScript
11 47 (23.98%) Banking
12 46 (23.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 45 (22.96%) Jenkins
13 45 (22.96%) Social Skills
14 42 (21.43%) REST
15 40 (20.41%) Front Office
15 40 (20.41%) Investment Banking
16 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (18.37%) Equities
18 35 (17.86%) Apache
18 35 (17.86%) Hedge funds
19 34 (17.35%) Asset Management
20 33 (16.84%) Fixed Income
20 33 (16.84%) Test Automation
20 33 (16.84%) SciPy
20 33 (16.84%) NumPy
20 33 (16.84%) Protocol Buffers
20 33 (16.84%) Pandas
20 33 (16.84%) Apache Ignite
20 33 (16.84%) gRPC

Java Engineer 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 35 (17.86%) Apache
2 33 (16.84%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.08%) Confluence
4 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.69%) AWS
2 33 (16.84%) dbt
3 31 (15.82%) Snowflake
4 30 (15.31%) Azure
5 24 (12.24%) GCP
5 24 (12.24%) GitHub
6 6 (3.06%) Cloud Run
7 5 (2.55%) Serverless
8 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.04%) Datadog
8 4 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (2.04%) Miro
9 3 (1.53%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.02%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.02%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (1.02%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.08%) Firewall
1 8 (4.08%) VPN
2 7 (3.57%) SNMP
2 7 (3.57%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.51%) MQTT
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.84%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (16.84%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (16.84%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (16.84%) Dremio
2 31 (15.82%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.53%) MySQL
8 2 (1.02%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.02%) KDB
8 2 (1.02%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.51%) Big Data
9 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.51%) HBase
9 1 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 45 (22.96%) Jenkins
2 29 (14.80%) JIRA
2 29 (14.80%) Selenium
3 21 (10.71%) Cucumber
4 19 (9.69%) GoogleTest
5 16 (8.16%) Git
5 16 (8.16%) REST Assured
5 16 (8.16%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.59%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.08%) GitLab
7 8 (4.08%) Maven
8 7 (3.57%) Eclipse
8 7 (3.57%) Robot Framework
9 5 (2.55%) Gradle
10 4 (2.04%) JUnit
11 3 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.02%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.02%) JMeter
General
1 60 (30.61%) Finance
2 47 (23.98%) Banking
3 45 (22.96%) Social Skills
4 40 (20.41%) Front Office
4 40 (20.41%) Investment Banking
5 23 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (8.67%) Law
7 12 (6.12%) Retail
8 9 (4.59%) Police
9 4 (2.04%) Aviation
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.43%) REST
2 33 (16.84%) gRPC
2 33 (16.84%) NumPy
2 33 (16.84%) Pandas
2 33 (16.84%) Protocol Buffers
2 33 (16.84%) SciPy
3 30 (15.31%) Spring
3 30 (15.31%) Spring Boot
4 26 (13.27%) React
5 22 (11.22%) Java EE
6 21 (10.71%) CSS
7 18 (9.18%) HTML
8 13 (6.63%) Kafka
9 12 (6.12%) Qt
10 9 (4.59%) Node.js
11 8 (4.08%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.08%) RESTful
12 7 (3.57%) .NET
13 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (18.37%) Equities
3 35 (17.86%) Hedge funds
4 33 (16.84%) Fixed Income
5 32 (16.33%) Derivative
6 10 (5.10%) Pricing Data
7 9 (4.59%) Algorithms
8 8 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (4.08%) Public Cloud
9 6 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.55%) Reference Data
11 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.04%) Legacy Code
11 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.51%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.51%) Machine to Machine
12 1 (0.51%) Social Media
12 1 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.78%) Linux
2 9 (4.59%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Android
3 5 (2.55%) Unix
4 4 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (66.84%) Software Engineering
2 90 (45.92%) Agile
3 57 (29.08%) DevOps
4 50 (25.51%) CI/CD
5 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.35%) Asset Management
7 33 (16.84%) Test Automation
8 31 (15.82%) Microservices
9 28 (14.29%) Investment Management
10 24 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (9.69%) TDD
11 19 (9.69%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (9.18%) Decision-Making
12 18 (9.18%) Full Stack Development
13 17 (8.67%) Software Architecture
14 13 (6.63%) Computer Science
15 12 (6.12%) API Development
16 11 (5.61%) Containerisation
16 11 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 11 (5.61%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (32.14%) Python
3 53 (27.04%) JavaScript
4 49 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 29 (14.80%) C++
6 24 (12.24%) SQL
7 8 (4.08%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.55%) C#
8 5 (2.55%) PHP
8 5 (2.55%) Scala
8 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.53%) Bash
9 3 (1.53%) C
9 3 (1.53%) Groovy
10 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.02%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.12%) MISRA
2 11 (5.61%) QA
3 10 (5.10%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.16%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) Firmware
3 4 (2.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) iptables
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) zsh
Systems Management
1 17 (8.67%) Ansible
1 17 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.12%) Terraform
3 11 (5.61%) Grafana
4 8 (4.08%) Podman
5 6 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.04%) Consul
6 4 (2.04%) Kibana
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (12.24%) Google
2 8 (4.08%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.57%) Splunk
4 6 (3.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.04%) ION Trading
5 4 (2.04%) New Relic
5 4 (2.04%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.02%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.02%) Databricks
6 2 (1.02%) Solace
6 2 (1.02%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.51%) Confluent
7 1 (0.51%) Informatica
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle