Core Java Developer Contracts

Core Java Developer
UK

The median Core Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £675, 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 544 622 796
Rank change year-on-year +78 +174 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Core Java Developer 5 5 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.011% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.011% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 34
10th Percentile £490 £751 £556
25th Percentile £625 £791 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £825 £838
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -1.49% -6.94%
75th Percentile £725 £903 £950
90th Percentile £830 £1,021 £1,050
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £540

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,956 44,250 77,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.82% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,486 30,168 54,199
10th Percentile £300 £300 £316
25th Percentile £411 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 1,536 1,766
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%

Core Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Core Java Developer over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Core Java Developer in the UK

Core Java Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Core Java Developer within the UK 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
England +75 5 £675 -18.18%
London +48 3 £675 -18.18%
UK excluding London - 2 £550 -
Work from Home - 1 £900 -
Midlands - 1 £700 -
South East - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 £700 -

Core Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Core Java Developer 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 featuring Core Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Redis
4 1 (20.00%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Solace
4 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree

Core Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Smart Order Routing
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) OCP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ION Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Solace
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase