Java Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 30 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 973 1,383 2,222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.62% 6.07% 7.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.49% 21.72% 25.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 963 1,479
10th Percentile £373 £401 £400
25th Percentile £422 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 84 89
10th Percentile £46.39 £48.43 £41.77
25th Percentile £60.00 £54.69 £49.28
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +2.36% +12.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £75.00 £77.06
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +3.05% +3.15% +10.92%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,992 6,368 8,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 27.96% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 4,460 6,202
10th Percentile £317 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.42%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 321 324
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.82 £78.00 £67.46
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.36% +16.65%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK excluding London

Java
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England 0 281 £507 -11.83% 126
South East -1 223 £575 +9.52% 131
Scotland -7 183 £453 -6.60% 83
North West +5 148 £498 -13.48% 96
South West -21 124 £550 +1.85% 123
Yorkshire +8 120 £538 -10.42% 20
East of England +11 73 £485 -8.49% 43
Midlands -18 69 £495 -8.33% 87
West Midlands -35 42 £538 -2.27% 63
East Midlands +3 27 £451 -23.19% 24
Northern Ireland +5 18 £588 -9.62% 34
North East -16 13 £450 -20.35% 10
Wales +14 8 £500 -2.44% 11
Java
UK

Java
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 43 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 36 (3.70%) Confluence
3 20 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.95%) Apache
5 7 (0.72%) Alfresco
5 7 (0.72%) Appian
5 7 (0.72%) Camunda
6 6 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.41%) JBoss
7 4 (0.41%) Mule
7 4 (0.41%) SAS
7 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.31%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.31%) IIS
8 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.31%) nginx
8 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) InVision
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.21%) Sketch
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.31%) Maximo
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.10%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (34.43%) AWS
2 158 (16.24%) Azure
3 71 (7.30%) GCP
4 70 (7.19%) Serverless
5 62 (6.37%) GitHub
6 57 (5.86%) Amazon S3
7 43 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (2.98%) OpenShift
9 27 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (2.16%) Snowflake
13 17 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (1.64%) Power Platform
15 14 (1.44%) SaaS
16 12 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (1.13%) Apigee
18 10 (1.03%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.67%) Firewall
2 16 (1.64%) VPN
3 13 (1.34%) DNS
4 11 (1.13%) HTTP
4 11 (1.13%) Network Security
5 10 (1.03%) DHCP
5 10 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.92%) SNMP
6 9 (0.92%) Software-Defined Radio
7 7 (0.72%) SSL
8 6 (0.62%) AMQP
9 5 (0.51%) FTP
10 3 (0.31%) BGP
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.31%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.31%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.31%) SAN
10 3 (0.31%) WAN
10 3 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 53 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.29%) Big Data
5 32 (3.29%) MySQL
6 29 (2.98%) SQL Server
7 25 (2.57%) Oracle Database
8 23 (2.36%) Hadoop
9 20 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.34%) Data Lake
13 13 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.34%) Power BI
14 11 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.92%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 179 (18.40%) Jenkins
2 129 (13.26%) JIRA
3 128 (13.16%) Git
4 91 (9.35%) Selenium
5 68 (6.99%) Cucumber
6 66 (6.78%) JUnit
7 44 (4.52%) Maven
8 34 (3.49%) GitLab
9 31 (3.19%) GoogleTest
10 28 (2.88%) REST Assured
11 26 (2.67%) Mockito
11 26 (2.67%) SonarQube
12 23 (2.36%) JMeter
13 22 (2.26%) Cypress.io
14 20 (2.06%) Bitbucket
15 16 (1.64%) Eclipse
16 13 (1.34%) Android Studio
17 12 (1.23%) Postman
18 10 (1.03%) Gradle
19 9 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 186 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 112 (11.51%) Finance
3 104 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.06%) Banking
6 25 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.47%) Law
8 15 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.44%) Police
10 13 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.92%) Back Office
15 7 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.72%) Retail
16 6 (0.62%) Automotive
16 6 (0.62%) Marketing
17 4 (0.41%) Aviation
17 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 430 (44.19%) Developer
2 266 (27.34%) Java Developer
3 105 (10.79%) Software Engineer
4 103 (10.59%) Senior
5 100 (10.28%) Architect
5 100 (10.28%) Java Engineer
6 69 (7.09%) Full Stack Developer
7 55 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
8 51 (5.24%) Java Software Engineer
9 46 (4.73%) Lead
10 40 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 38 (3.91%) Senior Developer
12 36 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
13 33 (3.39%) Tester
14 31 (3.19%) Data Engineer
14 31 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (2.98%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 27 (2.77%) Java Architect
17 25 (2.57%) C++ Software Engineer
18 24 (2.47%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (26.52%) Spring
2 219 (22.51%) Spring Boot
3 167 (17.16%) REST
4 148 (15.21%) React
5 111 (11.41%) Kafka
6 98 (10.07%) HTML
7 92 (9.46%) RESTful
8 78 (8.02%) CSS
9 74 (7.61%) AngularJS
10 49 (5.04%) Node.js
11 48 (4.93%) Web Services
12 40 (4.11%) JPA
13 39 (4.01%) Java EE
14 37 (3.80%) .NET
15 33 (3.39%) Hibernate
15 33 (3.39%) JSON
16 32 (3.29%) XML
17 29 (2.98%) J2EE
18 26 (2.67%) OAuth
19 25 (2.57%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.04%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 28 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 28 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 26 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.92%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.82%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.72%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.72%) DataPower
12 7 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 126 (12.95%) Linux
2 53 (5.45%) Unix
3 46 (4.73%) Windows
4 37 (3.80%) Android
5 14 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.72%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) zOS
10 1 (0.10%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) CentOS
10 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (40.49%) Agile
2 263 (27.03%) DevOps
3 237 (24.36%) CI/CD
3 237 (24.36%) Software Engineering
4 195 (20.04%) Microservices
5 182 (18.71%) Test Automation
6 141 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (13.36%) Scrum
8 123 (12.64%) Full Stack Development
9 110 (11.31%) TDD
10 99 (10.17%) SDLC
11 85 (8.74%) Unit Testing
12 78 (8.02%) Containerisation
13 75 (7.71%) Continuous Integration
14 71 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (7.09%) OO
16 67 (6.89%) Computer Science
17 60 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (5.76%) Data Modelling
19 55 (5.65%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 267 (27.44%) Python
2 184 (18.91%) JavaScript
3 166 (17.06%) SQL
4 89 (9.15%) C++
4 89 (9.15%) TypeScript
5 74 (7.61%) Scala
6 68 (6.99%) C
7 67 (6.89%) C#
8 42 (4.32%) Kotlin
9 31 (3.19%) PHP
10 27 (2.77%) Go
11 25 (2.57%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.26%) Groovy
13 21 (2.16%) Bash
14 19 (1.95%) Perl
15 16 (1.64%) PowerShell
16 15 (1.54%) Ruby
17 13 (1.34%) R
18 10 (1.03%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 232 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 131 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 106 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 59 (6.06%) Degree
5 38 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.31%) PhD
10 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.21%) CISSP
10 2 (0.21%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.21%) ISEB
10 2 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.10%) CEH
11 1 (0.10%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.10%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.76%) QA
2 37 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.57%) MISRA
4 16 (1.64%) GDPR
5 13 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (1.03%) NIST
7 8 (0.82%) WCAG
8 6 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (0.62%) GxP
9 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.31%) SLA
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 155 (15.93%) Docker
2 17 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) Firmware
4 8 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.31%) HDFS
7 3 (0.31%) NFS
7 3 (0.31%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.31%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.21%) GPFS
8 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.10%) ACF2
9 1 (0.10%) IAG
9 1 (0.10%) RACF
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 151 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 103 (10.59%) Terraform
3 64 (6.58%) Ansible
4 39 (4.01%) Grafana
5 25 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.95%) Docker Swarm
7 18 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.23%) Podman
9 11 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.03%) Kibana
10 10 (1.03%) SCCM
11 8 (0.82%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.82%) Zipkin
12 3 (0.31%) Nagios
12 3 (0.31%) Puppet
13 2 (0.21%) Control-M
13 2 (0.21%) Istio
13 2 (0.21%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 1 (0.10%) Anchore
14 1 (0.10%) Argo
Vendors
1 83 (8.53%) Google
2 64 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.27%) Oracle
4 24 (2.47%) IBM
5 19 (1.95%) SAP
6 15 (1.54%) Databricks
6 15 (1.54%) VMware
7 13 (1.34%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.03%) Informatica
9 9 (0.92%) Pega
10 8 (0.82%) Splunk
11 7 (0.72%) Talend
11 7 (0.72%) TSYS
11 7 (0.72%) Veeam
12 6 (0.62%) Adobe
12 6 (0.62%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.51%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.41%) Cisco
14 4 (0.41%) Sybase
14 4 (0.41%) Workday