Java Contracts in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 2,299 4,160 7,168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.31% 8.69% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.94% 25.02% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 3,176 5,183
10th Percentile £400 £431 £425
25th Percentile £474 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +0.46% +11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £713
90th Percentile £863 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 97 109
10th Percentile £45.88 £40.57 £32.45
25th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £48.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +2.96% +9.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.80 £75.20 £77.06
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -0.76% +3.56% +15.00%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,977 16,629 25,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.14% 34.75% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,983 12,152 18,995
10th Percentile £350 £382 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
75th Percentile £651 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 404 443
10th Percentile £37.51 £26.09 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.36% +20.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £79.09 £78.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London -5 1,516 £615 -5.38% 532
North of England -6 266 £510 -11.30% 135
South East -11 213 £575 +9.52% 122
North West -2 136 £500 -9.09% 93
Yorkshire +6 119 £525 -8.70% 28
South West -30 110 £550 - 114
East of England +17 72 £495 -8.16% 46
Midlands -10 67 £495 -10.00% 95
West Midlands -24 44 £525 -4.55% 66
East Midlands +2 23 £453 -22.98% 29
North East -22 11 £501 -11.42% 15
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 153 (6.66%) Apache
2 148 (6.44%) Apache Airflow
3 80 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 71 (3.09%) Confluence
5 16 (0.70%) Camunda
6 14 (0.61%) nginx
7 12 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.48%) SAS
8 11 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.35%) Alfresco
9 8 (0.35%) CMS
9 8 (0.35%) JBoss
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.30%) Appian
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.30%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.26%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.17%) Mule
12 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.043%) Sketch
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (1.00%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.52%) ION Anvil
3 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.35%) Endur
4 7 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 6 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
6 5 (0.22%) Shopify
7 4 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.17%) RMDS
8 3 (0.13%) Global One
8 3 (0.13%) Maximo
8 3 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.087%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.087%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.043%) BusinessWorks
10 1 (0.043%) Loan IQ
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 732 (31.84%) AWS
2 321 (13.96%) Azure
3 244 (10.61%) GCP
4 128 (5.57%) Snowflake
5 123 (5.35%) dbt
6 121 (5.26%) GitHub
7 116 (5.05%) Serverless
8 79 (3.44%) Amazon S3
9 72 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (1.61%) OpenShift
14 36 (1.57%) Power Platform
15 34 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
18 20 (0.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.48%) Firewall
2 29 (1.26%) DNS
3 23 (1.00%) Network Security
4 22 (0.96%) VPN
5 20 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.78%) DHCP
7 17 (0.74%) HTTP
8 13 (0.57%) Internet
9 11 (0.48%) SSL
10 10 (0.43%) SNMP
10 10 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
10 10 (0.43%) SSH
11 7 (0.30%) AMQP
12 6 (0.26%) FTP
13 5 (0.22%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.17%) BGP
14 4 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.17%) VoIP
14 4 (0.17%) WAN
15 3 (0.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
2 138 (6.00%) Data Lake
3 126 (5.48%) Relational Database
4 122 (5.31%) Dremio
5 121 (5.26%) Apache Arrow
6 118 (5.13%) NoSQL
7 113 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 107 (4.65%) MongoDB
9 103 (4.48%) Apache Ignite
10 96 (4.18%) MySQL
11 84 (3.65%) Big Data
12 59 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
13 51 (2.22%) KDB
14 47 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
15 45 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
16 42 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
17 39 (1.70%) Hadoop
17 39 (1.70%) Oracle Database
18 35 (1.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 285 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 261 (11.35%) Git
3 200 (8.70%) JIRA
4 186 (8.09%) Selenium
5 133 (5.79%) Cucumber
6 125 (5.44%) JUnit
7 79 (3.44%) GitLab
8 72 (3.13%) Maven
9 66 (2.87%) Mockito
10 54 (2.35%) Cypress.io
11 50 (2.17%) REST Assured
12 47 (2.04%) JMeter
13 39 (1.70%) Bitbucket
14 34 (1.48%) Postman
15 33 (1.44%) SonarQube
16 28 (1.22%) TestNG
17 27 (1.17%) WebDriver
18 26 (1.13%) Gradle
19 24 (1.04%) GoogleTest
19 24 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 650 (28.27%) Finance
2 418 (18.18%) Banking
3 410 (17.83%) Social Skills
4 255 (11.09%) Front Office
5 232 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
6 203 (8.83%) Investment Banking
7 139 (6.05%) Public Sector
8 33 (1.44%) Retail
9 30 (1.30%) Law
10 29 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.17%) Marketing
13 20 (0.87%) Back Office
14 17 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.61%) Police
17 12 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
19 8 (0.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,023 (44.50%) Developer
2 562 (24.45%) Java Developer
3 379 (16.49%) Senior
4 251 (10.92%) Software Engineer
5 209 (9.09%) Architect
6 205 (8.92%) Java Engineer
7 184 (8.00%) Lead
8 179 (7.79%) Senior Developer
9 124 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
10 110 (4.78%) Senior Java Developer
11 104 (4.52%) Java Software Engineer
12 99 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
13 89 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
14 84 (3.65%) Software Developer
15 82 (3.57%) Data Engineer
16 74 (3.22%) Senior Software Engineer
17 71 (3.09%) Analyst
18 70 (3.04%) Python Engineer
19 66 (2.87%) Java Architect
19 66 (2.87%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (18.79%) Spring
2 364 (15.83%) Spring Boot
3 266 (11.57%) REST
4 264 (11.48%) React
5 229 (9.96%) Kafka
6 179 (7.79%) HTML
7 134 (5.83%) CSS
8 131 (5.70%) gRPC
9 124 (5.39%) RESTful
10 122 (5.31%) Protocol Buffers
11 121 (5.26%) Web Services
12 120 (5.22%) NumPy
12 120 (5.22%) Pandas
13 118 (5.13%) .NET
14 116 (5.05%) SciPy
15 112 (4.87%) Node.js
16 107 (4.65%) AngularJS
17 98 (4.26%) XML
18 93 (4.05%) Hibernate
19 81 (3.52%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 203 (8.83%) Fixed Income
2 190 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 179 (7.79%) Derivative
4 146 (6.35%) Hedge funds
5 136 (5.92%) Equities
6 116 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
7 93 (4.05%) Algorithms
8 69 (3.00%) Data Structures
9 68 (2.96%) Product Ownership
10 64 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
12 42 (1.83%) Management Information System
13 41 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.78%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
15 39 (1.70%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.61%) Onboarding
17 36 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (1.35%) Cloud Native
19 21 (0.91%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 249 (10.83%) Linux
2 164 (7.13%) Unix
3 86 (3.74%) Windows
4 78 (3.39%) Android
5 38 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 24 (1.04%) Mac OS X
8 11 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.087%) VMS
11 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.043%) CentOS
12 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (36.36%) Agile
2 549 (23.88%) Software Engineering
3 497 (21.62%) DevOps
4 459 (19.97%) CI/CD
5 401 (17.44%) Test Automation
6 374 (16.27%) Microservices
7 313 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
8 249 (10.83%) TDD
9 225 (9.79%) Scrum
10 215 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
10 215 (9.35%) SDLC
11 191 (8.31%) Computer Science
12 153 (6.66%) Continuous Integration
13 151 (6.57%) BDD
14 143 (6.22%) Unit Testing
15 135 (5.87%) Asset Management
16 127 (5.52%) Analytics
17 126 (5.48%) Containerisation
18 125 (5.44%) OO
19 113 (4.92%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 777 (33.80%) Python
2 497 (21.62%) JavaScript
3 463 (20.14%) SQL
4 264 (11.48%) C#
5 251 (10.92%) TypeScript
6 190 (8.26%) C++
7 115 (5.00%) Go
8 103 (4.48%) Scala
9 100 (4.35%) Kotlin
10 96 (4.18%) C
11 82 (3.57%) PowerShell
12 80 (3.48%) Shell Script
13 63 (2.74%) Perl
14 50 (2.17%) PHP
15 44 (1.91%) Ruby
16 40 (1.74%) Bash
17 36 (1.57%) Groovy
17 36 (1.57%) PL/SQL
18 33 (1.44%) Rust
19 19 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 451 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 334 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 210 (9.13%) Degree
4 120 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 110 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.65%) PhD
8 14 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (0.39%) CISSP
10 7 (0.30%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.22%) ISEB
13 2 (0.087%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.087%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.087%) IBM Certification
13 2 (0.087%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.087%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.087%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.70%) QA
2 75 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 20 (0.87%) GDPR
6 17 (0.74%) MISRA
7 15 (0.65%) SLA
8 11 (0.48%) MiFID
9 10 (0.43%) NIST
10 9 (0.39%) WCAG
11 7 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.30%) GxP
12 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.13%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 2 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.087%) IFRS
System Software
1 304 (13.22%) Docker
2 63 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.13%) IAG
4 25 (1.09%) ACF2
4 25 (1.09%) RACF
5 19 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.43%) Firmware
9 8 (0.35%) HDFS
9 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.17%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.087%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.087%) vSphere
15 1 (0.043%) Apache Flume
15 1 (0.043%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 353 (15.35%) Kubernetes
2 190 (8.26%) Terraform
3 113 (4.92%) Ansible
4 87 (3.78%) Grafana
5 75 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
8 21 (0.91%) Podman
9 20 (0.87%) Kibana
10 17 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.65%) Puppet
12 13 (0.57%) Consul
13 10 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.43%) Opsgenie
13 10 (0.43%) SCCM
14 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
15 8 (0.35%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.30%) Control-M
17 6 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
17 6 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 206 (8.96%) Oracle
2 132 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 128 (5.57%) Google
4 51 (2.22%) IBM
4 51 (2.22%) ION Trading
5 50 (2.17%) SAP
6 44 (1.91%) Splunk
7 36 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 30 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.09%) Sybase
11 24 (1.04%) Adobe
12 19 (0.83%) VMware
13 18 (0.78%) New Relic
14 17 (0.74%) Databricks
14 17 (0.74%) Informatica
15 16 (0.70%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.52%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.52%) Solace
16 12 (0.52%) TIBCO