Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 152 143
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 263 361 577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.59% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.69% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 276 430
10th Percentile £363 £415 £413
25th Percentile £400 £452 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +11.35%
75th Percentile £580 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £564 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -13.27% +7.44% +8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 17
10th Percentile £35.00 £55.00 £46.15
25th Percentile £45.63 £66.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +10.67% +9.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £75.95
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -22.41% +14.62% +10.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Scotland +50 84 £438 -10.85% 13
North of England -3 72 £525 -12.50% 28
South East -17 51 £500 - 19
North West +25 41 £525 -4.55% 22
Yorkshire -9 28 £550 -15.38% 4
South West -31 23 £400 -20.00% 15
Midlands +4 17 £450 -18.18% 9
West Midlands +9 15 £506 -11.96% 5
East of England -10 9 £541 -22.71% 1
Northern Ireland +1 8 £650 - 6
North East -3 3 £450 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -5 2 £398 -43.21% 4
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 263 (100.00%) Java
2 155 (58.94%) Spring
3 125 (47.53%) Agile
4 116 (44.11%) Spring Boot
5 100 (38.02%) AWS
6 92 (34.98%) Microservices
7 73 (27.76%) REST
8 64 (24.33%) Software Engineering
9 60 (22.81%) CI/CD
10 56 (21.29%) Kafka
11 55 (20.91%) TDD
12 54 (20.53%) DevOps
13 52 (19.77%) Security Cleared
14 49 (18.63%) Kubernetes
15 47 (17.87%) React
16 46 (17.49%) Docker
17 45 (17.11%) Jenkins
18 44 (16.73%) SC Cleared
19 43 (16.35%) Scrum
20 41 (15.59%) Finance
20 41 (15.59%) SQL
20 41 (15.59%) Full Stack Development
21 35 (13.31%) JavaScript
21 35 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
22 34 (12.93%) Azure
22 34 (12.93%) Public Sector
23 33 (12.55%) Git
23 33 (12.55%) Test Automation
24 32 (12.17%) Hibernate
25 31 (11.79%) JUnit

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.52%) JBoss
2 4 (1.52%) Mule
3 3 (1.14%) Apache
3 3 (1.14%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.76%) WildFly
5 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 100 (38.02%) AWS
2 34 (12.93%) Azure
3 27 (10.27%) GCP
4 16 (6.08%) Serverless
5 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
5 14 (5.32%) GitHub
6 13 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.42%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.90%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.52%) npm
13 2 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.38%) AWS Step Functions
14 1 (0.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) Firewall
1 4 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.41%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.42%) Couchbase
4 8 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.66%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.28%) Big Data
7 5 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.76%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.76%) Impala
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.76%) Redis
11 1 (0.38%) DB2
11 1 (0.38%) Power BI
11 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 33 (12.55%) Git
3 31 (11.79%) JUnit
4 28 (10.65%) JIRA
5 22 (8.37%) Maven
6 14 (5.32%) Cucumber
7 11 (4.18%) GitLab
8 10 (3.80%) Selenium
9 8 (3.04%) Mockito
10 5 (1.90%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.90%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.52%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.52%) Log4j
11 4 (1.52%) Subversion
12 3 (1.14%) GoogleTest
12 3 (1.14%) JMeter
13 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 41 (15.59%) Finance
2 34 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 31 (11.79%) Social Skills
4 18 (6.84%) Banking
5 13 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.52%) Law
7 4 (1.52%) Police
7 4 (1.52%) Retail
8 3 (1.14%) Automotive
8 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (58.94%) Spring
2 116 (44.11%) Spring Boot
3 73 (27.76%) REST
4 56 (21.29%) Kafka
5 47 (17.87%) React
6 32 (12.17%) Hibernate
7 31 (11.79%) AngularJS
8 27 (10.27%) JPA
8 27 (10.27%) RESTful
9 21 (7.98%) HTML
10 16 (6.08%) CSS
11 14 (5.32%) Web Services
12 13 (4.94%) SAML
12 13 (4.94%) Spring Security
13 12 (4.56%) Java EE
13 12 (4.56%) Node.js
14 11 (4.18%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (3.42%) JAX-RS
15 9 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (3.42%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (8.75%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.18%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.52%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.14%) Derivative
9 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.38%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.38%) FMCG
10 1 (0.38%) iSeries
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.89%) Linux
2 19 (7.22%) Unix
3 3 (1.14%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) AIX
4 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (47.53%) Agile
2 92 (34.98%) Microservices
3 64 (24.33%) Software Engineering
4 60 (22.81%) CI/CD
5 55 (20.91%) TDD
6 54 (20.53%) DevOps
7 43 (16.35%) Scrum
8 41 (15.59%) Full Stack Development
9 33 (12.55%) Test Automation
10 30 (11.41%) SDLC
11 28 (10.65%) Unit Testing
12 24 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (8.75%) Front End Development
13 23 (8.75%) Mentoring
13 23 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (6.84%) High Availability
15 17 (6.46%) Design Patterns
16 16 (6.08%) OO
17 15 (5.70%) BDD
18 14 (5.32%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 263 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (15.59%) SQL
3 35 (13.31%) JavaScript
4 31 (11.79%) Scala
5 26 (9.89%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.22%) Python
7 12 (4.56%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.80%) PHP
9 6 (2.28%) C++
10 4 (1.52%) Perl
11 2 (0.76%) C
11 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) C#
12 1 (0.38%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.60%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.94%) Degree
5 8 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.42%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.90%) MISRA
3 3 (1.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (17.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 49 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.42%) Grafana
2 9 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (3.04%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.04%) Zipkin
4 7 (2.66%) Ansible
4 7 (2.66%) Terraform
5 5 (1.90%) Kibana
6 4 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.52%) Podman
7 2 (0.76%) Control-M
8 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 21 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.84%) Google
3 12 (4.56%) Oracle
4 5 (1.90%) Splunk
5 3 (1.14%) IBM
6 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.38%) Databricks
7 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.38%) Sybase
7 1 (0.38%) VMware