Java Contracts in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 2,257 4,229 7,159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.20% 8.78% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.81% 25.11% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,708 3,228 5,173
10th Percentile £400 £438 £425
25th Percentile £473 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +0.96% +11.63%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £713
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 96 109
10th Percentile £45.88 £40.48 £32.45
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £49.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% +15.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.52 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.32
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.38% +3.16% +29.74%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in England

Java
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 -6 1,489 £613 -5.77% 564
North of England -5 270 £510 -11.30% 115
South East -13 201 £580 +10.48% 125
North West +1 143 £500 -9.09% 79
Yorkshire +3 117 £523 -9.13% 26
South West -36 102 £550 - 132
East of England +14 70 £496 -11.54% 49
Midlands -12 69 £500 -9.09% 83
West Midlands -17 45 £525 -4.55% 56
East Midlands 0 24 £460 -19.12% 27
North East -23 10 £501 -11.42% 11
Java
UK

Java
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
1 144 (6.38%) Apache
2 137 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 70 (3.10%) Confluence
5 16 (0.71%) Camunda
6 15 (0.66%) nginx
7 12 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.35%) Alfresco
9 8 (0.35%) CMS
9 8 (0.35%) JBoss
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 7 (0.31%) Appian
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.27%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 24 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.044%) Sketch
6 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (0.97%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.53%) ION Anvil
3 9 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.35%) Endur
5 7 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
5 7 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
7 5 (0.22%) Shopify
8 4 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) RMDS
9 3 (0.13%) Global One
9 3 (0.13%) Loan IQ
9 3 (0.13%) Maximo
9 3 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.089%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.089%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.044%) Hyperion Planning
11 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 731 (32.39%) AWS
2 306 (13.56%) Azure
3 237 (10.50%) GCP
4 117 (5.18%) Snowflake
5 115 (5.10%) Serverless
6 114 (5.05%) GitHub
7 111 (4.92%) dbt
8 78 (3.46%) Amazon S3
9 70 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 36 (1.60%) Power Platform
14 34 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (1.46%) OpenShift
16 32 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
17 28 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 21 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
19 20 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.46%) Firewall
2 29 (1.28%) DNS
3 24 (1.06%) Network Security
4 22 (0.97%) VPN
5 20 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.80%) DHCP
7 17 (0.75%) HTTP
8 13 (0.58%) Internet
9 11 (0.49%) SSL
10 10 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
11 9 (0.40%) SNMP
12 8 (0.35%) SSH
13 7 (0.31%) AMQP
14 6 (0.27%) FTP
15 5 (0.22%) Kerberos
16 4 (0.18%) BGP
16 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
16 4 (0.18%) WAN
17 3 (0.13%) IPv4
17 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
2 127 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 126 (5.58%) Data Lake
4 115 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 115 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 110 (4.87%) Apache Arrow
5 110 (4.87%) Dremio
5 110 (4.87%) MongoDB
6 94 (4.16%) Apache Ignite
7 92 (4.08%) MySQL
8 79 (3.50%) Big Data
9 58 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
10 51 (2.26%) KDB
11 50 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
12 44 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
13 41 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (1.64%) Oracle Database
15 35 (1.55%) Hadoop
16 34 (1.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 280 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 254 (11.25%) Git
3 194 (8.60%) JIRA
4 180 (7.98%) Selenium
5 126 (5.58%) Cucumber
6 118 (5.23%) JUnit
7 80 (3.54%) GitLab
8 67 (2.97%) Maven
8 67 (2.97%) Mockito
9 51 (2.26%) REST Assured
10 50 (2.22%) Cypress.io
11 44 (1.95%) JMeter
12 39 (1.73%) Bitbucket
13 33 (1.46%) SonarQube
14 31 (1.37%) Postman
15 30 (1.33%) TestNG
16 27 (1.20%) WebDriver
17 25 (1.11%) Gradle
18 24 (1.06%) TeamCity
19 22 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 624 (27.65%) Finance
2 405 (17.94%) Social Skills
3 400 (17.72%) Banking
4 246 (10.90%) Front Office
5 225 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
6 191 (8.46%) Investment Banking
7 145 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 32 (1.42%) Retail
9 31 (1.37%) Law
10 29 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.11%) Marketing
13 21 (0.93%) Back Office
14 17 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.71%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.62%) Police
17 11 (0.49%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,013 (44.88%) Developer
2 556 (24.63%) Java Developer
3 370 (16.39%) Senior
4 238 (10.54%) Software Engineer
5 206 (9.13%) Architect
6 194 (8.60%) Java Engineer
7 178 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 176 (7.80%) Lead
9 128 (5.67%) Full Stack Developer
10 110 (4.87%) Senior Java Developer
11 98 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
12 96 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
13 85 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
14 82 (3.63%) Software Developer
15 78 (3.46%) Data Engineer
16 72 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 67 (2.97%) Java Architect
18 64 (2.84%) Python Engineer
19 63 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
19 63 (2.79%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (18.61%) Spring
2 355 (15.73%) Spring Boot
3 259 (11.48%) REST
4 258 (11.43%) React
5 223 (9.88%) Kafka
6 172 (7.62%) HTML
7 129 (5.72%) CSS
8 127 (5.63%) RESTful
9 123 (5.45%) Web Services
10 120 (5.32%) gRPC
10 120 (5.32%) Node.js
11 119 (5.27%) .NET
12 111 (4.92%) Protocol Buffers
13 110 (4.87%) NumPy
13 110 (4.87%) Pandas
14 106 (4.70%) SciPy
15 103 (4.56%) AngularJS
16 94 (4.16%) Hibernate
16 94 (4.16%) XML
17 80 (3.54%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 192 (8.51%) Fixed Income
2 176 (7.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 167 (7.40%) Derivative
4 136 (6.03%) Hedge funds
5 128 (5.67%) Equities
6 114 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
7 88 (3.90%) Algorithms
8 64 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 62 (2.75%) Data Structures
10 61 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
12 42 (1.86%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.82%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.68%) Onboarding
15 37 (1.64%) Mobile App
16 36 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
17 34 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (1.28%) Cloud Native
19 21 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 239 (10.59%) Linux
2 153 (6.78%) Unix
3 85 (3.77%) Windows
4 70 (3.10%) Android
5 30 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.11%) Windows Server
7 23 (1.02%) Mac OS X
8 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.044%) CentOS
12 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.044%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (35.84%) Agile
2 520 (23.04%) Software Engineering
3 481 (21.31%) DevOps
4 447 (19.81%) CI/CD
5 386 (17.10%) Test Automation
6 378 (16.75%) Microservices
7 305 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (10.54%) TDD
9 216 (9.57%) Full Stack Development
10 213 (9.44%) Scrum
11 205 (9.08%) SDLC
12 182 (8.06%) Computer Science
13 150 (6.65%) Continuous Integration
14 149 (6.60%) BDD
15 134 (5.94%) Unit Testing
16 127 (5.63%) Containerisation
17 126 (5.58%) Analytics
18 124 (5.49%) Asset Management
19 123 (5.45%) OO
20 116 (5.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 746 (33.05%) Python
2 471 (20.87%) JavaScript
3 456 (20.20%) SQL
4 265 (11.74%) C#
5 240 (10.63%) TypeScript
6 177 (7.84%) C++
7 108 (4.79%) Go
8 101 (4.47%) Scala
9 96 (4.25%) Kotlin
10 88 (3.90%) C
11 82 (3.63%) PowerShell
12 78 (3.46%) Shell Script
13 58 (2.57%) Perl
14 46 (2.04%) PHP
15 45 (1.99%) Ruby
16 38 (1.68%) Bash
17 35 (1.55%) Groovy
18 32 (1.42%) PL/SQL
19 31 (1.37%) Rust
20 19 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 462 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 346 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 202 (8.95%) Degree
4 116 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 103 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.66%) PhD
8 14 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
9 11 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.44%) CISSP
11 7 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.27%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.27%) ISEB
13 5 (0.22%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.089%) CREST Certified
15 2 (0.089%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.089%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.089%) OSCP
15 2 (0.089%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.58%) QA
2 67 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 19 (0.84%) GDPR
6 15 (0.66%) MISRA
6 15 (0.66%) SLA
7 11 (0.49%) MiFID
8 10 (0.44%) WCAG
9 9 (0.40%) NIST
10 7 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.31%) GxP
11 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.18%) GRC
12 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.089%) Basel III
14 2 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.089%) IFRS
System Software
1 302 (13.38%) Docker
2 63 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.15%) IAG
4 25 (1.11%) ACF2
4 25 (1.11%) RACF
5 19 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.44%) Firmware
9 8 (0.35%) HDFS
9 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.18%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.089%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.089%) vSphere
15 1 (0.044%) Cronacle
15 1 (0.044%) NFS
Systems Management
1 349 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 191 (8.46%) Terraform
3 114 (5.05%) Ansible
4 85 (3.77%) Grafana
5 72 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.89%) Kibana
9 18 (0.80%) Podman
9 18 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.66%) Puppet
11 12 (0.53%) Consul
12 10 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (0.44%) Opsgenie
12 10 (0.44%) SCCM
13 9 (0.40%) BladeLogic
14 8 (0.35%) Packer
14 8 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.31%) Control-M
16 6 (0.27%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 205 (9.08%) Oracle
2 133 (5.89%) Microsoft
3 123 (5.45%) Google
4 51 (2.26%) IBM
4 51 (2.26%) SAP
5 50 (2.22%) ION Trading
6 44 (1.95%) Splunk
7 37 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 30 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.06%) Sybase
11 23 (1.02%) Adobe
12 19 (0.84%) VMware
13 18 (0.80%) Informatica
13 18 (0.80%) New Relic
14 17 (0.75%) Databricks
15 16 (0.71%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.58%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.53%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.53%) Virgin Media