Java Engineer Contracts in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Northern Ireland is £550, 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 29 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.58% - 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £497 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.34%
75th Percentile £600 - £588
90th Percentile £615 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £595 £625
% change year-on-year +17.65% -4.80% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 176 146 236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 91.25% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 81 104
10th Percentile £151 £159 £174
25th Percentile £183 £250 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -19.15% +12.57%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £551
90th Percentile £641 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 12
10th Percentile - £11.08 -
25th Percentile £15.48 £11.09 £10.22
Median hourly rate £23.37 £13.46 £10.74
Median % change year-on-year +73.63% +25.36% -17.40%
75th Percentile £24.18 £16.50 £11.90
90th Percentile £41.38 £18.23 £20.25
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in Northern Ireland

Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 3 £550 - 3
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Spring

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Trading
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA