Java Software Engineer Contracts

Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 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 458 577 557
Rank change year-on-year +119 -20 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 113 110 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.20% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 74 248
10th Percentile £450 £473 £438
25th Percentile £489 £514 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £697 £688
90th Percentile £888 £738 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £594 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.17% +33.33%
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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software 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 +121 99 £800 +35.59% 108
Work from Home +118 65 £800 +26.73% 65
London +114 56 £800 +33.33% 70
UK excluding London +56 42 £594 +3.26% 73
South East +44 18 £624 +14.45% 20
South West +4 16 £475 +1.33% 16
North West +21 4 £550 -12.00% 8
North of England +21 4 £550 -16.98% 10
East of England +4 2 £543 -5.65% 2
Scotland +41 1 - - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 8

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

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

1 113 (100.00%) Java
2 112 (99.12%) Software Engineering
3 71 (62.83%) Agile
4 57 (50.44%) AWS
5 46 (40.71%) JavaScript
5 46 (40.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 44 (38.94%) Python
7 43 (38.05%) Finance
8 42 (37.17%) TypeScript
9 40 (35.40%) Front Office
9 40 (35.40%) Banking
10 35 (30.97%) Investment Banking
11 34 (30.09%) Apache
12 33 (29.20%) Asset Management
12 33 (29.20%) SciPy
12 33 (29.20%) NumPy
12 33 (29.20%) Protocol Buffers
12 33 (29.20%) Pandas
12 33 (29.20%) gRPC
12 33 (29.20%) Apache Airflow
12 33 (29.20%) Amazon Athena
12 33 (29.20%) Apache Ignite
12 33 (29.20%) Dremio
12 33 (29.20%) dbt
12 33 (29.20%) Apache Arrow
13 32 (28.32%) Hedge funds
13 32 (28.32%) Derivative
13 32 (28.32%) Fixed Income
13 32 (28.32%) Equities
14 31 (27.43%) Snowflake

Java Software 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 34 (30.09%) Apache
2 33 (29.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.19%) Confluence
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 57 (50.44%) AWS
2 33 (29.20%) dbt
3 31 (27.43%) Snowflake
4 19 (16.81%) GitHub
5 16 (14.16%) Azure
5 16 (14.16%) GCP
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.54%) Miro
7 3 (2.65%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.77%) AWS IoT
8 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) SNMP
1 7 (6.19%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.88%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (29.20%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (29.20%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (29.20%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (29.20%) Dremio
2 30 (26.55%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.54%) MySQL
4 2 (1.77%) KDB
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (26.55%) Jenkins
2 27 (23.89%) JIRA
3 21 (18.58%) Git
4 19 (16.81%) GoogleTest
5 9 (7.96%) Maven
5 9 (7.96%) SonarQube
6 8 (7.08%) Cucumber
7 7 (6.19%) Bitbucket
7 7 (6.19%) Eclipse
7 7 (6.19%) Robot Framework
7 7 (6.19%) Selenium
8 6 (5.31%) GitLab
9 5 (4.42%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.77%) JUnit
12 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.88%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (38.05%) Finance
2 40 (35.40%) Banking
2 40 (35.40%) Front Office
3 35 (30.97%) Investment Banking
4 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Law
5 6 (5.31%) Retail
6 4 (3.54%) Police
7 3 (2.65%) Aviation
8 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.88%) Automotive
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (29.20%) gRPC
1 33 (29.20%) NumPy
1 33 (29.20%) Pandas
1 33 (29.20%) Protocol Buffers
1 33 (29.20%) SciPy
2 23 (20.35%) REST
3 17 (15.04%) Spring
4 15 (13.27%) Spring Boot
5 13 (11.50%) CSS
6 12 (10.62%) Qt
7 11 (9.73%) Java EE
8 9 (7.96%) HTML
8 9 (7.96%) React
9 8 (7.08%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.19%) JSON
11 5 (4.42%) ARM Templates
11 5 (4.42%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.42%) Kafka
11 5 (4.42%) SOAP
11 5 (4.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (40.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 32 (28.32%) Derivative
2 32 (28.32%) Equities
2 32 (28.32%) Fixed Income
2 32 (28.32%) Hedge funds
3 10 (8.85%) Pricing Data
4 8 (7.08%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.54%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) Social Media
7 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.58%) Linux
2 7 (6.19%) Windows
3 2 (1.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (99.12%) Software Engineering
2 71 (62.83%) Agile
3 33 (29.20%) Asset Management
4 28 (24.78%) Investment Management
5 26 (23.01%) DevOps
6 23 (20.35%) CI/CD
7 14 (12.39%) TDD
8 12 (10.62%) Microservices
8 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.73%) Analytics
9 11 (9.73%) Line Management
10 10 (8.85%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.96%) BDD
11 9 (7.96%) Containerisation
11 9 (7.96%) Greeks
12 8 (7.08%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.08%) Prototyping
12 8 (7.08%) Scrum
12 8 (7.08%) Validation
13 7 (6.19%) UML
Programming Languages
1 113 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (40.71%) JavaScript
3 44 (38.94%) Python
4 42 (37.17%) TypeScript
5 22 (19.47%) C++
6 13 (11.50%) SQL
7 9 (7.96%) PHP
8 4 (3.54%) C#
8 4 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.65%) Groovy
10 2 (1.77%) Ruby
10 2 (1.77%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) Bash
11 1 (0.88%) C
11 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) Degree
4 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) MISRA
2 9 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.54%) QA
System Software
1 17 (15.04%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (9.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.08%) Podman
3 6 (5.31%) Ansible
3 6 (5.31%) Terraform
4 5 (4.42%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (17.70%) Google
2 7 (6.19%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.54%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.65%) Splunk
5 2 (1.77%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.77%) Solace
5 2 (1.77%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft
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