Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £710 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 355 323
Rank change year-on-year +125 -32 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 116 104 328
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.42% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.44% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 80 259
10th Percentile £450 £463 £438
25th Percentile £500 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +7.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £708
90th Percentile £888 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -28.16% -23.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

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 13,777 23,614 42,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.28% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 16,695 30,580
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 589
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
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 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) Java
2 82 (70.69%) Software Engineering
3 59 (50.86%) Agile
4 55 (47.41%) AWS
5 51 (43.97%) Finance
6 45 (38.79%) TypeScript
7 42 (36.21%) Python
8 41 (35.34%) Banking
9 40 (34.48%) JavaScript
10 37 (31.90%) Front Office
11 35 (30.17%) Hedge funds
11 35 (30.17%) Apache Airflow
12 34 (29.31%) Apache
13 33 (28.45%) Fixed Income
13 33 (28.45%) Investment Banking
13 33 (28.45%) Asset Management
13 33 (28.45%) gRPC
13 33 (28.45%) Pandas
13 33 (28.45%) SciPy
13 33 (28.45%) NumPy
13 33 (28.45%) Protocol Buffers
13 33 (28.45%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (28.45%) Apache Ignite
13 33 (28.45%) Dremio
13 33 (28.45%) dbt
13 33 (28.45%) Apache Arrow
14 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
14 32 (27.59%) Derivative
14 32 (27.59%) Equities
14 32 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Java Engineer 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 35 (30.17%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (29.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.41%) AWS
2 33 (28.45%) dbt
3 31 (26.72%) Snowflake
4 18 (15.52%) GCP
5 17 (14.66%) Azure
6 7 (6.03%) GitHub
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.72%) AWS IoT
8 2 (1.72%) Datadog
8 2 (1.72%) Miro
8 2 (1.72%) Serverless
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.86%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.03%) Firewall
1 7 (6.03%) VPN
2 1 (0.86%) MQTT
2 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.45%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (28.45%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (28.45%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (28.45%) Dremio
2 30 (25.86%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.59%) MySQL
4 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.86%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.86%) Flink
6 1 (0.86%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.48%) Selenium
3 10 (8.62%) Cucumber
4 9 (7.76%) Git
4 9 (7.76%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.90%) JIRA
6 7 (6.03%) Maven
7 6 (5.17%) GitLab
8 5 (4.31%) JUnit
8 5 (4.31%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.59%) Mockito
11 2 (1.72%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.72%) JMeter
12 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
General
1 51 (43.97%) Finance
2 41 (35.34%) Banking
3 37 (31.90%) Front Office
4 33 (28.45%) Investment Banking
5 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
6 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (3.45%) Police
8 3 (2.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.86%) Aviation
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (28.45%) gRPC
1 33 (28.45%) NumPy
1 33 (28.45%) Pandas
1 33 (28.45%) Protocol Buffers
1 33 (28.45%) SciPy
2 22 (18.97%) REST
3 18 (15.52%) Spring Boot
4 16 (13.79%) React
4 16 (13.79%) Spring
5 12 (10.34%) Kafka
6 9 (7.76%) AngularJS
6 9 (7.76%) HTML
7 8 (6.90%) CSS
7 8 (6.90%) Java EE
8 6 (5.17%) RESTful
9 5 (4.31%) ARM Templates
9 5 (4.31%) Web Services
10 4 (3.45%) JSON
10 4 (3.45%) JWT
10 4 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.17%) Hedge funds
2 33 (28.45%) Fixed Income
3 32 (27.59%) Derivative
3 32 (27.59%) Equities
3 32 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (8.62%) Pricing Data
5 7 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.31%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.72%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.86%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.86%) Social Media
8 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Android
2 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (70.69%) Software Engineering
2 59 (50.86%) Agile
3 33 (28.45%) Asset Management
4 28 (24.14%) Investment Management
5 24 (20.69%) CI/CD
6 23 (19.83%) DevOps
6 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.52%) Microservices
8 16 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (11.21%) TDD
11 11 (9.48%) Line Management
12 9 (7.76%) Containerisation
12 9 (7.76%) Greeks
13 7 (6.03%) Analytics
13 7 (6.03%) API Development
13 7 (6.03%) Computer Science
13 7 (6.03%) ETL
13 7 (6.03%) Identity Management
13 7 (6.03%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 116 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (38.79%) TypeScript
3 42 (36.21%) Python
4 40 (34.48%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.21%) SQL
6 6 (5.17%) C++
6 6 (5.17%) PHP
7 5 (4.31%) Scala
8 4 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.72%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) Ruby
10 1 (0.86%) C
10 1 (0.86%) Go
10 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.31%) Degree
3 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) iptables
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.86%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.76%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) Grafana
4 6 (5.17%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (4.31%) Ansible
5 5 (4.31%) Podman
5 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.45%) Consul
7 2 (1.72%) Kibana
7 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.45%) Google
2 4 (3.45%) ION Trading
2 4 (3.45%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.72%) Databricks
3 2 (1.72%) New Relic
4 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.86%) Confluent
4 1 (0.86%) Informatica
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle