Java Developer Contracts

Java Developer
UK

The median Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 86 66
Rank change year-on-year -62 -20 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 698 1,592 3,057
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.79% 3.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 2.95% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 1,312 2,377
10th Percentile £399 £450 £438
25th Percentile £455 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £738
90th Percentile £875 £863 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 28
10th Percentile £35.00 £61.49 £46.18
25th Percentile £40.00 £70.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +16.60% +10.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £73.19
90th Percentile £72.60 £76.50 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.41% +20.83% +6.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the UK

Java Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England -80 556 £600 -11.11% 134
London -47 399 £675 -3.57% 78
Work from Home -39 271 £600 -4.00% 82
UK excluding London -25 252 £488 -7.05% 79
Scotland +32 91 £450 -9.73% 18
North of England -14 66 £525 -8.70% 13
South East -38 46 £500 -3.85% 16
North West +20 35 £525 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire -13 28 £550 -10.20%
Midlands +20 19 £450 -21.74% 8
West Midlands +25 17 £475 -26.92% 5
South West -32 16 £375 -25.00% 14
East of England -3 9 £541 -22.71% 2
Northern Ireland +6 6 £650 - 7
North East -5 3 £450 -30.77% 1
East Midlands -1 2 £398 -43.21% 3

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 698 (100.00%) Java
2 291 (41.69%) Agile
2 291 (41.69%) Spring
3 244 (34.96%) Spring Boot
4 224 (32.09%) AWS
5 206 (29.51%) Microservices
6 191 (27.36%) Finance
7 149 (21.35%) Security Cleared
8 146 (20.92%) REST
9 139 (19.91%) CI/CD
10 136 (19.48%) SC Cleared
11 132 (18.91%) TDD
11 132 (18.91%) Banking
12 127 (18.19%) SQL
13 120 (17.19%) Kafka
14 116 (16.62%) Software Engineering
15 115 (16.48%) Docker
16 108 (15.47%) DevOps
17 104 (14.90%) Social Skills
18 96 (13.75%) Kubernetes
19 95 (13.61%) Front Office
20 94 (13.47%) Jenkins
21 90 (12.89%) Test Automation
22 84 (12.03%) Full Stack Development
23 82 (11.75%) Scrum
24 81 (11.60%) React
25 80 (11.46%) GCP
25 80 (11.46%) SDLC
25 80 (11.46%) JUnit
26 78 (11.17%) Python

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (5.30%) Apache
2 21 (3.01%) Confluence
3 20 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.15%) JBoss
6 7 (1.00%) SAS
7 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.57%) Mule
8 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
9 2 (0.29%) WildFly
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) GemFire
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.58%) ION MarketView
2 3 (0.43%) RMDS
3 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.14%) Endur
3 1 (0.14%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 224 (32.09%) AWS
2 80 (11.46%) GCP
3 61 (8.74%) Azure
4 35 (5.01%) Serverless
5 32 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (3.72%) Amazon S3
7 19 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (2.44%) OpenShift
9 16 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (2.01%) dbt
10 14 (2.01%) GitHub
11 12 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
11 12 (1.72%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (0.57%) Cloud Run
15 4 (0.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.00%) Firewall
1 7 (1.00%) SSH
1 7 (1.00%) VPN
2 4 (0.57%) HTTP
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.14%) FTP
5 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.17%) Relational Database
3 43 (6.16%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.87%) KDB
5 26 (3.72%) Oracle Database
6 24 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.01%) Apache Arrow
9 14 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
9 14 (2.01%) Dremio
10 13 (1.86%) Flink
10 13 (1.86%) MySQL
11 12 (1.72%) Couchbase
12 11 (1.58%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (13.47%) Jenkins
2 80 (11.46%) JUnit
3 74 (10.60%) Git
4 60 (8.60%) JIRA
5 46 (6.59%) Mockito
6 42 (6.02%) Cucumber
7 39 (5.59%) Maven
8 32 (4.58%) GitLab
9 15 (2.15%) Bitbucket
10 14 (2.01%) Selenium
11 9 (1.29%) Postman
12 8 (1.15%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.15%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.00%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.00%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.86%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.86%) TestNG
15 5 (0.72%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.57%) CircleCI
16 4 (0.57%) Gradle
General
1 191 (27.36%) Finance
2 132 (18.91%) Banking
3 104 (14.90%) Social Skills
4 95 (13.61%) Front Office
5 71 (10.17%) Investment Banking
6 60 (8.60%) Public Sector
7 52 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.58%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.15%) Law
11 6 (0.86%) Automotive
12 5 (0.72%) Retail
12 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.57%) Back Office
13 4 (0.57%) Police
14 2 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.29%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (41.69%) Spring
2 244 (34.96%) Spring Boot
3 146 (20.92%) REST
4 120 (17.19%) Kafka
5 81 (11.60%) React
6 75 (10.74%) Hibernate
7 63 (9.03%) JPA
8 49 (7.02%) HTML
9 47 (6.73%) RESTful
10 41 (5.87%) CSS
10 41 (5.87%) JAX-RS
11 40 (5.73%) AngularJS
12 35 (5.01%) Node.js
13 32 (4.58%) Web Services
14 26 (3.72%) SAML
15 25 (3.58%) ActiveMQ
16 23 (3.30%) Restlet
17 22 (3.15%) FIX Protocol
17 22 (3.15%) GWT
17 22 (3.15%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.31%) Fixed Income
2 53 (7.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 51 (7.31%) Derivative
4 44 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (5.44%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.72%) Algorithms
6 26 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.15%) Equities
8 22 (3.15%) Hedge funds
9 21 (3.01%) Credit Derivative
10 20 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (2.15%) Management Information System
13 14 (2.01%) Equity Derivative
13 14 (2.01%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.43%) Cloud Native
14 10 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
16 8 (1.15%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.74%) Linux
2 55 (7.88%) Unix
3 17 (2.44%) Mac OS X
4 9 (1.29%) Windows
5 3 (0.43%) zOS
6 1 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (41.69%) Agile
2 206 (29.51%) Microservices
3 139 (19.91%) CI/CD
4 132 (18.91%) TDD
5 116 (16.62%) Software Engineering
6 108 (15.47%) DevOps
7 90 (12.89%) Test Automation
8 84 (12.03%) Full Stack Development
9 82 (11.75%) Scrum
10 80 (11.46%) SDLC
11 76 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (9.03%) Continuous Integration
12 63 (9.03%) Electronic Trading
13 58 (8.31%) Multithreading
14 56 (8.02%) Computer Science
15 54 (7.74%) Mentoring
16 52 (7.45%) Low Latency
17 49 (7.02%) BDD
18 48 (6.88%) Unit Testing
19 40 (5.73%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 698 (100.00%) Java
2 127 (18.19%) SQL
3 78 (11.17%) Python
4 72 (10.32%) JavaScript
5 57 (8.17%) TypeScript
6 44 (6.30%) Scala
7 23 (3.30%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.72%) Perl
9 16 (2.29%) C#
10 14 (2.01%) C++
11 13 (1.86%) PHP
11 13 (1.86%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.72%) Bash
12 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.57%) VBA
14 3 (0.43%) Go
15 2 (0.29%) Groovy
15 2 (0.29%) Haskell
15 2 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 149 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 136 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.02%) Degree
4 31 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.00%) PhD
8 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.58%) QA
2 10 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.72%) MiFID
4 4 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.57%) WCAG
5 3 (0.43%) MISRA
6 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 115 (16.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.14%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.14%) GridGain
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) zsh
Systems Management
1 96 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.44%) Terraform
3 19 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (2.58%) Grafana
5 16 (2.29%) Ansible
6 11 (1.58%) Kibana
7 9 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.15%) Zipkin
9 7 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.86%) Podman
11 3 (0.43%) Istio
12 2 (0.29%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.29%) Packer
13 1 (0.14%) Argo
13 1 (0.14%) Control-M
13 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (9.74%) Oracle
2 43 (6.16%) Google
3 35 (5.01%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.58%) ION Trading
5 10 (1.43%) Splunk
6 9 (1.29%) Solace
7 8 (1.15%) IBM
8 7 (1.00%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.72%) SAP
10 4 (0.57%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.57%) Tradeweb
11 3 (0.43%) Sybase
11 3 (0.43%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.29%) Adobe
12 2 (0.29%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.29%) Databricks
12 2 (0.29%) MarketAxess
12 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.29%) WSO2