Java Engineer Contracts

Java Engineer
UK

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 457 369
Rank change year-on-year +115 -88 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 232 236 629
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.41% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.44% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 176 499
10th Percentile £420 £422 £450
25th Percentile £463 £487 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £712 £700
90th Percentile £888 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 21
10th Percentile £67.50 £50.93 -
25th Percentile £69.38 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +47.73%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK

Java Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +119 196 £600 - 139
London +96 118 £719 +10.58% 83
Work from Home +123 116 £710 +10.29% 87
UK excluding London +78 90 £500 -7.41% 96
South East +57 31 £648 +18.81% 32
South West 0 20 £475 +5.56% 18
Scotland +48 14 £438 +25.00% 13
North of England +28 13 £500 -21.57% 13
East of England +9 11 £534 -3.78% 4
North West +25 10 £525 -16.00% 10
Yorkshire +15 3 £425 -17.87% 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 £600 +17.07% 9

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 232 (100.00%) Java
2 154 (66.38%) Software Engineering
3 106 (45.69%) Agile
4 85 (36.64%) AWS
5 68 (29.31%) Finance
6 65 (28.02%) Python
7 64 (27.59%) CI/CD
8 63 (27.16%) DevOps
9 60 (25.86%) REST
10 59 (25.43%) TypeScript
11 57 (24.57%) Social Skills
12 56 (24.14%) JavaScript
13 51 (21.98%) Banking
13 51 (21.98%) Jenkins
14 47 (20.26%) Spring Boot
15 46 (19.83%) Spring
15 46 (19.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (18.10%) Microservices
18 40 (17.24%) Front Office
18 40 (17.24%) Investment Banking
19 38 (16.38%) Security Cleared
19 38 (16.38%) Test Automation
20 36 (15.52%) Equities
20 36 (15.52%) Apache Airflow
21 35 (15.09%) SQL
21 35 (15.09%) Apache
21 35 (15.09%) Azure
21 35 (15.09%) SC Cleared
21 35 (15.09%) Hedge funds

Java Engineer 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 36 (15.52%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (15.09%) Apache
3 9 (3.88%) Confluence
4 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.64%) AWS
2 35 (15.09%) Azure
3 33 (14.22%) dbt
3 33 (14.22%) Snowflake
4 28 (12.07%) GitHub
5 27 (11.64%) GCP
6 7 (3.02%) Serverless
7 6 (2.59%) Cloud Run
8 5 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.72%) Datadog
9 4 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.72%) Miro
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.29%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.86%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.86%) Cloud Composer
11 2 (0.86%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.45%) Firewall
1 8 (3.45%) VPN
2 7 (3.02%) SNMP
2 7 (3.02%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.43%) MQTT
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.22%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (14.22%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (14.22%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (14.22%) Dremio
2 31 (13.36%) Data Lake
3 10 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.02%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.16%) MySQL
8 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.86%) KDB
8 2 (0.86%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.43%) Flink
9 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 51 (21.98%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.36%) JIRA
3 29 (12.50%) Selenium
4 25 (10.78%) Cucumber
4 25 (10.78%) Git
5 20 (8.62%) SonarQube
6 19 (8.19%) GoogleTest
7 16 (6.90%) REST Assured
8 13 (5.60%) Maven
9 9 (3.88%) Bitbucket
9 9 (3.88%) JUnit
10 8 (3.45%) GitLab
11 7 (3.02%) Eclipse
11 7 (3.02%) Robot Framework
12 5 (2.16%) Gradle
13 4 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.29%) Mockito
14 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (29.31%) Finance
2 57 (24.57%) Social Skills
3 51 (21.98%) Banking
4 40 (17.24%) Front Office
4 40 (17.24%) Investment Banking
5 23 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.33%) Law
7 12 (5.17%) Retail
8 9 (3.88%) Police
9 8 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.72%) Aviation
11 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.86%) Automotive
11 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.86%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.86%) REST
2 47 (20.26%) Spring Boot
3 46 (19.83%) Spring
4 33 (14.22%) gRPC
4 33 (14.22%) NumPy
4 33 (14.22%) Pandas
4 33 (14.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 33 (14.22%) SciPy
5 29 (12.50%) React
6 28 (12.07%) CSS
7 25 (10.78%) HTML
8 22 (9.48%) Java EE
9 20 (8.62%) Kafka
10 17 (7.33%) AngularJS
11 12 (5.17%) Qt
12 11 (4.74%) Node.js
13 10 (4.31%) RESTful
14 9 (3.88%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.88%) JPA
15 8 (3.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (15.52%) Equities
3 35 (15.09%) Hedge funds
4 33 (14.22%) Fixed Income
5 32 (13.79%) Derivative
6 14 (6.03%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.31%) Pricing Data
8 9 (3.88%) Algorithms
9 8 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.59%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.16%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.72%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.86%) IoT
14 1 (0.43%) Machine to Machine
14 1 (0.43%) Social Media
14 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.93%) Linux
2 9 (3.88%) Windows
3 5 (2.16%) Android
3 5 (2.16%) Unix
4 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (66.38%) Software Engineering
2 106 (45.69%) Agile
3 64 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 63 (27.16%) DevOps
5 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (18.10%) Microservices
7 38 (16.38%) Test Automation
8 34 (14.66%) Asset Management
9 28 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
9 28 (12.07%) Investment Management
10 25 (10.78%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (10.34%) Decision-Making
12 23 (9.91%) TDD
13 19 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (7.33%) Software Architecture
15 16 (6.90%) SDLC
16 15 (6.47%) Computer Science
16 15 (6.47%) Containerisation
17 12 (5.17%) API Development
17 12 (5.17%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 232 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (28.02%) Python
3 59 (25.43%) TypeScript
4 56 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 35 (15.09%) SQL
6 29 (12.50%) C++
7 9 (3.88%) Kotlin
7 9 (3.88%) PHP
8 8 (3.45%) Scala
9 5 (2.16%) C#
9 5 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.29%) Bash
10 3 (1.29%) C
10 3 (1.29%) Groovy
11 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.86%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.17%) Degree
4 11 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) QA
2 12 (5.17%) MISRA
3 10 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (12.50%) Docker
2 7 (3.02%) Firmware
3 4 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) iptables
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 25 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.33%) Ansible
3 14 (6.03%) Terraform
4 11 (4.74%) Grafana
5 8 (3.45%) Podman
6 6 (2.59%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.59%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.72%) Consul
7 4 (1.72%) Kibana
8 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (11.21%) Google
2 8 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.02%) Splunk
4 6 (2.59%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.72%) Databricks
5 4 (1.72%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.72%) New Relic
5 4 (1.72%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.29%) Oracle
7 2 (0.86%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.86%) Solace
7 2 (0.86%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.43%) Confluent
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica