Java Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 373 380
Rank change year-on-year +78 +7 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 90 71 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.33% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 45 91
10th Percentile £400 £413 £430
25th Percentile £423 £450 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £661 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £68.25 £60.91 -
25th Percentile - £61.08 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%
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% +47.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +57 31 £648 +18.81% 32
South West 0 20 £475 +5.56% 18
Scotland +48 14 £438 +25.00% 13
North of England +28 13 £500 -21.57% 13
East of England +9 11 £534 -3.78% 4
North West +25 10 £525 -16.00% 10
Yorkshire +15 3 £425 -17.87% 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 £600 +17.07% 9
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (84.44%) Software Engineering
3 48 (53.33%) Agile
4 43 (47.78%) DevOps
5 38 (42.22%) Jenkins
5 38 (42.22%) CI/CD
6 32 (35.56%) REST
7 30 (33.33%) JIRA
8 28 (31.11%) Security Cleared
9 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (28.89%) SC Cleared
11 25 (27.78%) AWS
12 24 (26.67%) Test Automation
12 24 (26.67%) HTML
13 23 (25.56%) CSS
13 23 (25.56%) C++
13 23 (25.56%) Decision-Making
14 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
14 22 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (24.44%) Cucumber
14 22 (24.44%) Selenium
15 21 (23.33%) Full Stack Development
16 20 (22.22%) Google
17 19 (21.11%) Technical Leadership
17 19 (21.11%) GoogleTest
18 18 (20.00%) GitHub
18 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
19 17 (18.89%) Software Architecture
19 17 (18.89%) Java EE
19 17 (18.89%) Law

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 18 (20.00%) GitHub
3 15 (16.67%) Azure
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.33%) Serverless
5 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.22%) GCP
5 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) Firewall
1 8 (8.89%) VPN
2 7 (7.78%) SNMP
2 7 (7.78%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (3.33%) MySQL
2 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.11%) Big Data
4 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.11%) HBase
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (42.22%) Jenkins
2 30 (33.33%) JIRA
3 22 (24.44%) Cucumber
3 22 (24.44%) Selenium
4 19 (21.11%) GoogleTest
5 16 (17.78%) REST Assured
5 16 (17.78%) SonarQube
6 10 (11.11%) Git
7 9 (10.00%) Bitbucket
8 7 (7.78%) Eclipse
8 7 (7.78%) Robot Framework
9 6 (6.67%) GitLab
9 6 (6.67%) JUnit
10 3 (3.33%) Mockito
11 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.22%) JMeter
11 2 (2.22%) Maven
12 1 (1.11%) Postman
General
1 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Law
4 9 (10.00%) Police
5 8 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.67%) Finance
7 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (35.56%) REST
2 24 (26.67%) HTML
3 23 (25.56%) CSS
4 17 (18.89%) Java EE
4 17 (18.89%) Spring Boot
5 16 (17.78%) React
5 16 (17.78%) Spring
6 12 (13.33%) Qt
7 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.00%) JPA
8 5 (5.56%) ARM Templates
8 5 (5.56%) Kafka
9 3 (3.33%) J2EE
9 3 (3.33%) Node.js
9 3 (3.33%) RESTful
10 2 (2.22%) CSS3
10 2 (2.22%) HTML5
10 2 (2.22%) Jest
10 2 (2.22%) React Native
10 2 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.78%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (84.44%) Software Engineering
2 48 (53.33%) Agile
3 43 (47.78%) DevOps
4 38 (42.22%) CI/CD
5 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 23 (25.56%) Decision-Making
8 22 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (23.33%) Full Stack Development
10 19 (21.11%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (18.89%) Software Architecture
12 13 (14.44%) SDLC
13 12 (13.33%) Microservices
14 9 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 9 (10.00%) Scrum
15 8 (8.89%) Identity Management
15 8 (8.89%) Load Balancing
15 8 (8.89%) Operational Stability
15 8 (8.89%) Prototyping
15 8 (8.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 90 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (25.56%) C++
3 16 (17.78%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.44%) Python
5 12 (13.33%) SQL
6 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.44%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.44%) PHP
7 4 (4.44%) Scala
8 2 (2.22%) C
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) MISRA
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.22%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) WCAG
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (10.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) Firmware
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Ansible
2 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.11%) Terraform
3 5 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (5.56%) Podman
4 1 (1.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) Google
2 8 (8.89%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle