Java Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 35 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 918 1,475 2,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.52% 6.41% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.18% 22.23% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 1,036 1,420
10th Percentile £375 £410 £405
25th Percentile £425 £455 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +2.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 88 88
10th Percentile £42.65 £48.26 £37.36
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £49.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +2.77% +41.34%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £68.19
90th Percentile £74.80 £75.00 £76.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.38% +3.16% +29.74%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,635 8,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.59% 28.84% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 4,688 6,111
10th Percentile £315 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 329 336
10th Percentile £37.96 £23.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
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 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -5 270 £510 -11.30% 113
South East -13 201 £580 +10.48% 133
Scotland -5 188 £466 -4.70% 91
North West +1 143 £500 -9.09% 77
Yorkshire +3 117 £523 -9.13% 25
South West -36 102 £550 - 130
East of England +14 70 £496 -11.54% 47
Midlands -12 69 £500 -9.09% 88
West Midlands -17 45 £525 -4.55% 57
East Midlands 0 24 £460 -19.12% 31
Northern Ireland 0 14 £588 +2.17% 45
Wales +13 10 £488 -3.70% 11
North East -23 10 £501 -11.42% 12
Java
UK

Java
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 40 (4.36%) Confluence
2 38 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.29%) Apache
4 20 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.76%) Alfresco
5 7 (0.76%) Appian
5 7 (0.76%) Camunda
5 7 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.65%) SAS
7 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) Mule
8 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.33%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.33%) Maximo
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 325 (35.40%) AWS
2 145 (15.80%) Azure
3 67 (7.30%) GCP
4 58 (6.32%) Serverless
5 53 (5.77%) Amazon S3
6 47 (5.12%) GitHub
7 36 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (2.83%) OpenShift
9 25 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (2.29%) Snowflake
12 17 (1.85%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.53%) SaaS
15 12 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.31%) Apigee
16 9 (0.98%) IaaS
17 8 (0.87%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.51%) Firewall
2 16 (1.74%) VPN
3 13 (1.42%) DNS
4 12 (1.31%) HTTP
4 12 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.20%) Network Security
6 10 (1.09%) DHCP
6 10 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
7 9 (0.98%) SNMP
8 7 (0.76%) SSL
9 6 (0.65%) SAN
10 5 (0.54%) AMQP
10 5 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (0.54%) FTP
10 5 (0.54%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.33%) BGP
11 3 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (0.33%) IOS XR
11 3 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.52%) Relational Database
2 66 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (5.23%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.12%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.70%) MySQL
6 31 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.83%) Big Data
8 25 (2.72%) Oracle Database
9 19 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.96%) Hadoop
11 17 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.53%) Power BI
14 13 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.42%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.42%) DB2
15 9 (0.98%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 162 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 121 (13.18%) JIRA
3 113 (12.31%) Git
4 80 (8.71%) Selenium
5 63 (6.86%) Cucumber
6 60 (6.54%) JUnit
7 36 (3.92%) GitLab
8 30 (3.27%) Maven
9 28 (3.05%) REST Assured
10 26 (2.83%) Mockito
10 26 (2.83%) SonarQube
11 21 (2.29%) GoogleTest
11 21 (2.29%) JMeter
12 19 (2.07%) Bitbucket
12 19 (2.07%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.74%) Eclipse
14 15 (1.63%) Android Studio
14 15 (1.63%) Postman
15 9 (0.98%) Gradle
15 9 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (18.74%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.33%) Finance
3 93 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 60 (6.54%) Banking
6 24 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (2.61%) Law
7 14 (1.53%) Police
8 13 (1.42%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.98%) Back Office
11 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.65%) Automotive
12 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.54%) Retail
14 4 (0.44%) Electronics
15 3 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 409 (44.55%) Developer
2 252 (27.45%) Java Developer
3 103 (11.22%) Senior
4 94 (10.24%) Architect
5 91 (9.91%) Software Engineer
6 90 (9.80%) Java Engineer
7 59 (6.43%) Full Stack Developer
8 51 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (4.79%) Lead
10 43 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 42 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
12 38 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (3.92%) Full Stack Engineer
13 36 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.38%) Data Engineer
15 28 (3.05%) Java Architect
16 26 (2.83%) Software Developer
16 26 (2.83%) Tester
17 25 (2.72%) Test Engineer
18 24 (2.61%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (26.58%) Spring
2 199 (21.68%) Spring Boot
3 161 (17.54%) REST
4 139 (15.14%) React
5 109 (11.87%) Kafka
6 97 (10.57%) RESTful
7 92 (10.02%) HTML
8 76 (8.28%) CSS
9 68 (7.41%) AngularJS
10 56 (6.10%) Node.js
11 50 (5.45%) Web Services
12 40 (4.36%) JPA
13 36 (3.92%) .NET
14 33 (3.59%) Hibernate
15 31 (3.38%) Java EE
15 31 (3.38%) JSON
15 31 (3.38%) XML
16 28 (3.05%) OAuth
17 26 (2.83%) J2EE
18 24 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.12%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.27%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 25 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 22 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.53%) Cloud Native
13 10 (1.09%) Client/Server
14 9 (0.98%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.76%) DataPower
15 7 (0.76%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 108 (11.76%) Linux
2 54 (5.88%) Unix
3 46 (5.01%) Windows
4 40 (4.36%) Android
5 16 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.65%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.22%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (38.89%) Agile
2 229 (24.95%) DevOps
3 214 (23.31%) Software Engineering
4 207 (22.55%) CI/CD
5 188 (20.48%) Microservices
6 156 (16.99%) Test Automation
7 137 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (13.62%) Scrum
9 114 (12.42%) Full Stack Development
10 100 (10.89%) TDD
11 92 (10.02%) SDLC
12 77 (8.39%) Unit Testing
13 68 (7.41%) Containerisation
14 67 (7.30%) Computer Science
15 66 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 64 (6.97%) OO
17 63 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
18 56 (6.10%) Mentoring
19 55 (5.99%) Data Modelling
19 55 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 240 (26.14%) Python
2 171 (18.63%) JavaScript
3 167 (18.19%) SQL
4 88 (9.59%) TypeScript
5 72 (7.84%) Scala
6 64 (6.97%) C++
7 63 (6.86%) C#
8 56 (6.10%) C
9 44 (4.79%) Kotlin
10 31 (3.38%) PHP
11 26 (2.83%) Go
11 26 (2.83%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.18%) Perl
13 19 (2.07%) Groovy
14 18 (1.96%) Bash
15 16 (1.74%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.74%) Ruby
16 12 (1.31%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.98%) R
18 4 (0.44%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 225 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 130 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.46%) DV Cleared
4 58 (6.32%) Degree
5 38 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.33%) PhD
11 2 (0.22%) CISSP
11 2 (0.22%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.22%) ISEB
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.11%) CEH
12 1 (0.11%) CISM
12 1 (0.11%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.34%) QA
2 40 (4.36%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.63%) MISRA
4 14 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 13 (1.42%) GDPR
6 10 (1.09%) WCAG
7 8 (0.87%) NIST
8 6 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (0.65%) GxP
9 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.33%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (15.90%) Docker
2 15 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.98%) Firmware
5 8 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.54%) NFS
8 4 (0.44%) GPFS
9 3 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.33%) HDFS
9 3 (0.33%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.33%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.11%) ACF2
11 1 (0.11%) IAG
11 1 (0.11%) RACF
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 142 (15.47%) Kubernetes
2 89 (9.69%) Terraform
3 58 (6.32%) Ansible
4 38 (4.14%) Grafana
5 24 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
6 18 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.31%) Podman
8 11 (1.20%) Kibana
8 11 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.09%) SCCM
10 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.87%) Zipkin
11 4 (0.44%) Puppet
11 4 (0.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 3 (0.33%) Istio
12 3 (0.33%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) Argo
13 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (7.84%) Google
2 64 (6.97%) Oracle
3 60 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 27 (2.94%) IBM
5 15 (1.63%) SAP
6 14 (1.53%) Databricks
6 14 (1.53%) VMware
7 13 (1.42%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.20%) Informatica
9 9 (0.98%) Pega
9 9 (0.98%) Splunk
10 7 (0.76%) Talend
10 7 (0.76%) TSYS
10 7 (0.76%) Veeam
11 6 (0.65%) Adobe
11 6 (0.65%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.54%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.54%) Sybase
13 4 (0.44%) NetApp
13 4 (0.44%) Veritas