Java Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 86 70
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 271 651 1,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.83% 2.64% 3.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 2.78% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 522 1,105
10th Percentile £425 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £510 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £838 £775 £688
90th Percentile £888 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 21
10th Percentile £39.80 £70.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £47.00 £71.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 - £65.54
90th Percentile £78.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +10.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Developer.

Java Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Java Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Developer.

Java Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Java Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 271 (100.00%) Java
2 92 (33.95%) AWS
3 90 (33.21%) Spring Boot
4 85 (31.37%) Agile
5 82 (30.26%) Spring
6 76 (28.04%) Finance
7 68 (25.09%) Banking
8 59 (21.77%) Front Office
9 58 (21.40%) Software Engineering
10 56 (20.66%) Microservices
11 53 (19.56%) CI/CD
12 50 (18.45%) SQL
12 50 (18.45%) Investment Banking
13 47 (17.34%) Security Cleared
14 43 (15.87%) GCP
15 42 (15.50%) SDLC
15 42 (15.50%) SC Cleared
16 41 (15.13%) REST
17 40 (14.76%) DevOps
18 39 (14.39%) JavaScript
19 35 (12.92%) TDD
20 33 (12.18%) Fixed Income
21 31 (11.44%) Kafka
21 31 (11.44%) Jenkins
22 30 (11.07%) Docker
22 30 (11.07%) Oracle
22 30 (11.07%) Derivative
23 29 (10.70%) Python
23 29 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
24 27 (9.96%) Electronic Trading

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 23 (8.49%) Apache
2 14 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.11%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) GemFire
6 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.37%) Mule
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.37%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 92 (33.95%) AWS
2 43 (15.87%) GCP
3 25 (9.23%) Azure
4 14 (5.17%) dbt
5 11 (4.06%) Snowflake
6 8 (2.95%) Serverless
7 7 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.21%) GitHub
8 6 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.11%) npm
12 2 (0.74%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (0.74%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.11%) Firewall
1 3 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.01%) Oracle Database
2 14 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (5.17%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (5.17%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (5.17%) Dremio
3 11 (4.06%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.69%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.32%) MySQL
5 9 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.85%) Flink
8 5 (1.85%) KDB
8 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.11%) Big Data
10 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.74%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (11.44%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.12%) JUnit
3 20 (7.38%) Cucumber
4 19 (7.01%) Mockito
5 18 (6.64%) GitLab
5 18 (6.64%) Maven
6 8 (2.95%) Git
6 8 (2.95%) Selenium
7 7 (2.58%) JIRA
8 5 (1.85%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.11%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.11%) Subversion
11 2 (0.74%) JMeter
12 1 (0.37%) EasyMock
12 1 (0.37%) Log4j
12 1 (0.37%) Postman
12 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 76 (28.04%) Finance
2 68 (25.09%) Banking
3 59 (21.77%) Front Office
4 50 (18.45%) Investment Banking
5 22 (8.12%) Social Skills
6 9 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.48%) Automotive
7 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.11%) Law
8 3 (1.11%) Police
9 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (33.21%) Spring Boot
2 82 (30.26%) Spring
3 41 (15.13%) REST
4 31 (11.44%) Kafka
5 23 (8.49%) Hibernate
6 22 (8.12%) JPA
6 22 (8.12%) React
7 17 (6.27%) HTML
8 14 (5.17%) gRPC
8 14 (5.17%) NumPy
8 14 (5.17%) Pandas
8 14 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
8 14 (5.17%) SAML
8 14 (5.17%) SciPy
9 13 (4.80%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (4.43%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.43%) CSS
10 12 (4.43%) JAX-RS
11 11 (4.06%) Node.js
11 11 (4.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.18%) Fixed Income
2 30 (11.07%) Derivative
3 19 (7.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (6.64%) Equities
5 16 (5.90%) Credit Derivative
5 16 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.54%) Hedge funds
7 13 (4.80%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (4.06%) Management Information System
9 10 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (3.32%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.95%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.74%) Insider Threat
16 1 (0.37%) Educational Technology
16 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.43%) Unix
2 11 (4.06%) Linux
3 3 (1.11%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (31.37%) Agile
2 58 (21.40%) Software Engineering
3 56 (20.66%) Microservices
4 53 (19.56%) CI/CD
5 42 (15.50%) SDLC
6 40 (14.76%) DevOps
7 35 (12.92%) TDD
8 29 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
9 27 (9.96%) Electronic Trading
10 22 (8.12%) Test Automation
11 17 (6.27%) Computer Science
11 17 (6.27%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (6.27%) Scrum
12 16 (5.90%) Multithreading
13 15 (5.54%) Low Latency
14 14 (5.17%) Algorithmic Trading
14 14 (5.17%) Asset Management
15 13 (4.80%) BDD
15 13 (4.80%) Decision-Making
15 13 (4.80%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 271 (100.00%) Java
2 50 (18.45%) SQL
3 39 (14.39%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.70%) Python
5 22 (8.12%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.27%) Scala
7 9 (3.32%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.58%) C#
8 7 (2.58%) PHP
8 7 (2.58%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.11%) C++
11 2 (0.74%) Bash
11 2 (0.74%) Perl
11 2 (0.74%) Ruby
11 2 (0.74%) VBA
12 1 (0.37%) Bicep
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Go
12 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.23%) Degree
4 10 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.58%) PhD
7 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.48%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (1.48%) MiFID
3 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.37%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (11.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) GridGain
3 1 (0.37%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.69%) Terraform
3 9 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.58%) Ansible
5 6 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (2.21%) Grafana
6 3 (1.11%) Kibana
6 3 (1.11%) Podman
6 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (11.07%) Oracle
2 19 (7.01%) Google
3 7 (2.58%) IBM
3 7 (2.58%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.21%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.48%) Solace
5 4 (1.48%) Splunk
6 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.74%) SAP
7 1 (0.37%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.37%) Databricks
7 1 (0.37%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.37%) Wallstreet Suite