Java Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 994 2,173 4,433
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.72% 8.82% 10.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.87% 23.69% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 1,593 3,228
10th Percentile £413 £438 £413
25th Percentile £473 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year - +8.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £675
90th Percentile £875 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 40 47
10th Percentile £47.45 £48.25 £20.25
25th Percentile £60.09 £55.00 £48.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £73.50 £74.06 £65.66
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.00 £76.16
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.38% +3.16% +29.74%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Java daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Java hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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
1 117 (11.77%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (10.06%) Apache
3 29 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.11%) Confluence
5 12 (1.21%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) Camunda
8 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.20%) Appian
11 2 (0.20%) FileNet
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
2 4 (0.40%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.30%) RMDS
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.10%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 386 (38.83%) AWS
2 132 (13.28%) Azure
3 122 (12.27%) GCP
4 99 (9.96%) dbt
5 98 (9.86%) Snowflake
6 51 (5.13%) GitHub
7 40 (4.02%) Serverless
8 36 (3.62%) Amazon S3
9 25 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (1.91%) OpenShift
12 17 (1.71%) SaaS
13 16 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (1.01%) Route 53
16 9 (0.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.81%) Firewall
2 15 (1.51%) VPN
3 13 (1.31%) Network Security
4 12 (1.21%) DNS
5 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.40%) BGP
7 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.30%) HTTP
7 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.10%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.10%) RFID
9 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.46%) Amazon Athena
2 99 (9.96%) Apache Arrow
2 99 (9.96%) Data Lake
2 99 (9.96%) Dremio
3 83 (8.35%) Apache Ignite
4 62 (6.24%) MySQL
5 59 (5.94%) SQL Server
6 50 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (4.63%) MongoDB
8 43 (4.33%) Big Data
9 40 (4.02%) Relational Database
10 32 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (3.22%) NoSQL
10 32 (3.22%) Oracle Database
11 23 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (1.31%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 77 (7.75%) Git
3 72 (7.24%) Selenium
4 55 (5.53%) JIRA
5 53 (5.33%) Cucumber
6 42 (4.23%) JUnit
7 39 (3.92%) Maven
8 36 (3.62%) GitLab
9 31 (3.12%) Mockito
10 28 (2.82%) Cypress.io
10 28 (2.82%) JMeter
11 19 (1.91%) REST Assured
12 15 (1.51%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.41%) Postman
14 13 (1.31%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.31%) TestNG
14 13 (1.31%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.21%) Subversion
16 10 (1.01%) SoapUI
17 9 (0.91%) Gradle
General
1 316 (31.79%) Finance
2 208 (20.93%) Banking
3 167 (16.80%) Social Skills
4 160 (16.10%) Front Office
5 129 (12.98%) Investment Banking
6 72 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (7.04%) Public Sector
8 16 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.41%) Marketing
11 13 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.11%) Retail
13 9 (0.91%) Law
14 7 (0.70%) Back Office
14 7 (0.70%) Police
15 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.40%) Automotive
18 3 (0.30%) Electronics
18 3 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 476 (47.89%) Developer
2 271 (27.26%) Java Developer
3 201 (20.22%) Senior
4 124 (12.47%) Software Engineer
5 115 (11.57%) Java Engineer
6 106 (10.66%) Senior Developer
7 90 (9.05%) Lead
8 81 (8.15%) Architect
9 65 (6.54%) Senior Java Developer
10 64 (6.44%) Java Software Engineer
10 64 (6.44%) Software Developer
11 60 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
12 50 (5.03%) Python Engineer
13 48 (4.83%) Full Stack Developer
14 47 (4.73%) Senior Java Engineer
15 45 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
16 43 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (4.12%) Lead Developer
18 40 (4.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 35 (3.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (16.60%) Spring Boot
2 151 (15.19%) Spring
3 108 (10.87%) React
4 107 (10.76%) REST
5 101 (10.16%) gRPC
6 99 (9.96%) Protocol Buffers
7 97 (9.76%) Kafka
8 84 (8.45%) NumPy
8 84 (8.45%) Pandas
8 84 (8.45%) SciPy
9 81 (8.15%) Web Services
10 79 (7.95%) HTML
11 69 (6.94%) Node.js
12 59 (5.94%) AngularJS
12 59 (5.94%) CSS
12 59 (5.94%) RESTful
13 50 (5.03%) .NET
14 42 (4.23%) XML
15 40 (4.02%) SOAP
16 30 (3.02%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 128 (12.88%) Fixed Income
2 108 (10.87%) Derivative
2 108 (10.87%) Hedge funds
3 100 (10.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 95 (9.56%) Equities
5 50 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 24 (2.41%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.91%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.61%) Clustering
13 16 (1.61%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (1.51%) Equity Derivative
15 13 (1.31%) Cloud Native
15 13 (1.31%) Product Ownership
16 12 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.85%) Linux
2 32 (3.22%) Unix
3 28 (2.82%) Android
4 25 (2.52%) Windows
5 11 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (34.51%) Agile
2 258 (25.96%) Software Engineering
3 209 (21.03%) DevOps
4 197 (19.82%) CI/CD
5 157 (15.79%) Microservices
6 152 (15.29%) Test Automation
7 112 (11.27%) Asset Management
8 108 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (9.66%) Full Stack Development
10 95 (9.56%) SDLC
11 93 (9.36%) Investment Management
12 82 (8.25%) TDD
13 74 (7.44%) Analytics
14 71 (7.14%) Computer Science
15 67 (6.74%) Scrum
16 54 (5.43%) Mentoring
17 53 (5.33%) BDD
17 53 (5.33%) ETL
18 49 (4.93%) Data Modelling
19 47 (4.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 314 (31.59%) Python
2 284 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 205 (20.62%) SQL
4 156 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 89 (8.95%) C#
6 59 (5.94%) C++
7 47 (4.73%) Scala
8 42 (4.23%) Go
9 41 (4.12%) Kotlin
10 30 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.82%) PHP
11 28 (2.82%) PowerShell
12 27 (2.72%) C
13 23 (2.31%) PL/SQL
14 22 (2.21%) Bash
15 19 (1.91%) Perl
16 18 (1.81%) Ruby
17 10 (1.01%) Groovy
18 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 119 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.65%) Degree
4 43 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.11%) PhD
8 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.40%) CISSP
9 4 (0.40%) ISEB
9 4 (0.40%) SANS
10 3 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.10%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.10%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.53%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.02%) QA
3 33 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.01%) GDPR
5 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.80%) WCAG
7 7 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.70%) MiFID
8 4 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.30%) GRC
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.10%) COPPA
11 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 137 (13.78%) Docker
2 30 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.71%) IAG
4 16 (1.61%) ACF2
4 16 (1.61%) RACF
5 9 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.10%) GridGain
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) iptables
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 149 (14.99%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.36%) Terraform
3 49 (4.93%) Prometheus
4 46 (4.63%) Ansible
5 45 (4.53%) Grafana
6 16 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.11%) Consul
9 10 (1.01%) Kibana
9 10 (1.01%) Puppet
10 8 (0.80%) Podman
10 8 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (0.40%) BladeLogic
12 4 (0.40%) Istio
12 4 (0.40%) Nagios
12 4 (0.40%) Packer
13 3 (0.30%) Zipkin
14 2 (0.20%) Argo
14 2 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 101 (10.16%) Oracle
2 48 (4.83%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.43%) Google
4 26 (2.62%) IBM
5 23 (2.31%) SAP
5 23 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.61%) Sybase
7 15 (1.51%) Splunk
8 12 (1.21%) ION Trading
9 11 (1.11%) Databricks
10 10 (1.01%) Adobe
11 9 (0.91%) AVEVA
11 9 (0.91%) SaltStack
12 7 (0.70%) Informatica
12 7 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.60%) Confluent
13 6 (0.60%) New Relic
14 5 (0.50%) TSYS
15 4 (0.40%) CyberArk