Java Contracts in England

Java
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 2,363 3,990 7,261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.35% 8.48% 10.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.00% 24.60% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,760 3,060 5,278
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £469 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £725
90th Percentile £864 £850 £813
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £592
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.39% +12.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 97 111
10th Percentile £45.88 £44.13 £32.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £55.00 £48.12
Median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +1.55% +2.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £74.75
90th Percentile £74.60 £75.20 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £63.38
% change year-on-year +3.05% +3.35% +10.70%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,252 16,221 25,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.25% 34.46% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,078 11,879 19,078
10th Percentile £350 £379 £387
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 401 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £27.10 £19.71
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.80 £79.19 £74.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in England

Java
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -5 1,546 £615 -5.38% 485
North of England -2 285 £507 -11.83% 132
South East -3 222 £575 +9.52% 129
North West +7 149 £498 -13.48% 99
Yorkshire +10 122 £538 -10.42% 19
South West -23 119 £550 +2.09% 123
East of England +1 73 £485 -10.10% 45
Midlands -19 68 £504 -6.71% 80
West Midlands -34 41 £550 +1.85% 60
East Midlands +2 27 £451 -23.19% 20
North East -17 14 £450 -20.35% 14
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 170 (7.19%) Apache
2 168 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 71 (3.00%) Confluence
5 15 (0.63%) nginx
6 14 (0.59%) Camunda
7 12 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.38%) CMS
10 8 (0.34%) Alfresco
10 8 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.30%) Appian
11 7 (0.30%) JBoss
11 7 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.25%) MQSeries
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.21%) WildFly
14 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.13%) Sketch
6 2 (0.085%) InVision
6 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (1.10%) ION MarketView
2 12 (0.51%) ION Anvil
3 8 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.34%) Endur
4 7 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 6 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
6 5 (0.21%) Shopify
7 4 (0.17%) RMDS
8 3 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.13%) Global One
8 3 (0.13%) Maximo
9 2 (0.085%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.085%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.085%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.085%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.042%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 766 (32.42%) AWS
2 329 (13.92%) Azure
3 274 (11.60%) GCP
4 149 (6.31%) Snowflake
5 144 (6.09%) dbt
6 133 (5.63%) GitHub
7 126 (5.33%) Serverless
8 76 (3.22%) Amazon S3
9 75 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
10 62 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
12 40 (1.69%) OpenShift
13 39 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (1.48%) Power Platform
15 30 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
16 27 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 22 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
18 21 (0.89%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.52%) Firewall
2 30 (1.27%) DNS
3 25 (1.06%) Network Security
4 22 (0.93%) VPN
5 20 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.68%) DHCP
6 16 (0.68%) HTTP
7 12 (0.51%) SSL
8 10 (0.42%) Internet
8 10 (0.42%) SSH
9 9 (0.38%) AMQP
9 9 (0.38%) SNMP
9 9 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
10 6 (0.25%) FTP
11 5 (0.21%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.21%) Wireless
12 4 (0.17%) BGP
12 4 (0.17%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.17%) VoIP
13 3 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (6.81%) Amazon Athena
2 160 (6.77%) Data Lake
3 146 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
4 143 (6.05%) Dremio
5 141 (5.97%) Apache Arrow
6 129 (5.46%) Relational Database
7 125 (5.29%) NoSQL
8 122 (5.16%) Apache Ignite
9 112 (4.74%) MongoDB
10 109 (4.61%) SQL Server
11 92 (3.89%) MySQL
12 85 (3.60%) Big Data
13 54 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
14 48 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
14 48 (2.03%) KDB
15 46 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
15 46 (1.95%) Oracle Database
16 42 (1.78%) Hadoop
17 41 (1.74%) BigQuery
18 40 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 306 (12.95%) Jenkins
2 284 (12.02%) Git
3 207 (8.76%) JIRA
4 187 (7.91%) Selenium
5 127 (5.37%) Cucumber
5 127 (5.37%) JUnit
6 81 (3.43%) GitLab
7 79 (3.34%) Maven
8 64 (2.71%) Mockito
9 50 (2.12%) Cypress.io
10 48 (2.03%) REST Assured
11 43 (1.82%) JMeter
12 40 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 34 (1.44%) Postman
14 33 (1.40%) SonarQube
15 31 (1.31%) GoogleTest
16 30 (1.27%) Gradle
17 26 (1.10%) WebDriver
18 25 (1.06%) TeamCity
19 24 (1.02%) TestNG
General
1 682 (28.86%) Finance
2 462 (19.55%) Banking
3 417 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 267 (11.30%) Front Office
5 234 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
6 222 (9.39%) Investment Banking
7 136 (5.76%) Public Sector
8 38 (1.61%) Retail
9 32 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.31%) Law
11 27 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.10%) Marketing
13 19 (0.80%) Back Office
14 17 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.63%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.59%) Police
17 12 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.42%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,039 (43.97%) Developer
2 589 (24.93%) Java Developer
3 403 (17.05%) Senior
4 271 (11.47%) Software Engineer
5 226 (9.56%) Java Engineer
6 222 (9.39%) Architect
7 197 (8.34%) Lead
8 189 (8.00%) Senior Developer
9 122 (5.16%) Senior Java Developer
10 120 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
11 115 (4.87%) Full Stack Developer
12 111 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
13 94 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 83 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
14 83 (3.51%) Software Developer
15 81 (3.43%) Python Engineer
16 77 (3.26%) Data Engineer
17 76 (3.22%) Senior Java Engineer
18 75 (3.17%) Lead Developer
19 70 (2.96%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (18.75%) Spring
2 381 (16.12%) Spring Boot
3 265 (11.21%) REST
4 261 (11.05%) React
5 233 (9.86%) Kafka
6 184 (7.79%) HTML
7 153 (6.47%) gRPC
8 141 (5.97%) NumPy
8 141 (5.97%) Pandas
8 141 (5.97%) Protocol Buffers
9 137 (5.80%) SciPy
10 135 (5.71%) CSS
11 132 (5.59%) RESTful
12 119 (5.04%) .NET
13 117 (4.95%) Web Services
14 107 (4.53%) AngularJS
15 105 (4.44%) Node.js
16 101 (4.27%) XML
17 95 (4.02%) Hibernate
18 85 (3.60%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 225 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 222 (9.39%) Fixed Income
3 204 (8.63%) Derivative
4 169 (7.15%) Hedge funds
5 154 (6.52%) Equities
6 118 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
7 94 (3.98%) Algorithms
8 73 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 67 (2.84%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
12 47 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
13 42 (1.78%) Management Information System
14 41 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.74%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.57%) Mobile App
17 36 (1.52%) Onboarding
18 32 (1.35%) Cloud Native
19 20 (0.85%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 267 (11.30%) Linux
2 168 (7.11%) Unix
3 87 (3.68%) Windows
4 83 (3.51%) Android
5 39 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 24 (1.02%) Mac OS X
8 11 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.21%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.085%) VMS
13 1 (0.042%) CentOS
13 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (37.49%) Agile
2 587 (24.84%) Software Engineering
3 529 (22.39%) DevOps
4 488 (20.65%) CI/CD
5 410 (17.35%) Test Automation
6 390 (16.50%) Microservices
7 313 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
8 253 (10.71%) TDD
9 230 (9.73%) Scrum
10 218 (9.23%) SDLC
11 210 (8.89%) Full Stack Development
12 182 (7.70%) Computer Science
13 170 (7.19%) Continuous Integration
14 157 (6.64%) BDD
15 154 (6.52%) Asset Management
16 141 (5.97%) Unit Testing
17 132 (5.59%) Containerisation
18 126 (5.33%) OO
19 122 (5.16%) Migration
20 121 (5.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 804 (34.02%) Python
2 526 (22.26%) JavaScript
3 458 (19.38%) SQL
4 272 (11.51%) TypeScript
5 247 (10.45%) C#
6 209 (8.84%) C++
7 118 (4.99%) Go
8 113 (4.78%) Scala
9 104 (4.40%) Kotlin
10 100 (4.23%) C
11 89 (3.77%) Shell Script
12 88 (3.72%) PowerShell
13 63 (2.67%) Perl
14 50 (2.12%) PHP
15 44 (1.86%) Bash
15 44 (1.86%) Groovy
16 41 (1.74%) Ruby
17 36 (1.52%) PL/SQL
18 34 (1.44%) Rust
19 17 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 326 (13.80%) SC Cleared
3 201 (8.51%) Degree
4 118 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 110 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
8 12 (0.51%) PhD
9 9 (0.38%) CISSP
9 9 (0.38%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.21%) ISEB
12 2 (0.085%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.085%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.085%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.085%) OCP
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.085%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.50%) QA
2 78 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.06%) MISRA
4 25 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 21 (0.89%) GDPR
6 15 (0.63%) SLA
7 11 (0.47%) MiFID
7 11 (0.47%) NIST
8 8 (0.34%) WCAG
9 7 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.30%) GxP
10 6 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
11 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.13%) GRC
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.085%) IFRS
System Software
1 319 (13.50%) Docker
2 65 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.10%) IAG
4 25 (1.06%) ACF2
4 25 (1.06%) RACF
5 18 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.42%) Firmware
9 8 (0.34%) HDFS
9 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.17%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.085%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.085%) vSphere
15 1 (0.042%) Apache Flume
15 1 (0.042%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 385 (16.29%) Kubernetes
2 208 (8.80%) Terraform
3 125 (5.29%) Ansible
4 91 (3.85%) Grafana
5 81 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
8 21 (0.89%) Podman
9 19 (0.80%) Kibana
10 16 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.59%) Consul
11 14 (0.59%) Puppet
12 10 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (0.42%) Opsgenie
12 10 (0.42%) SCCM
13 9 (0.38%) BladeLogic
13 9 (0.38%) Control-M
14 8 (0.34%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
15 6 (0.25%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 209 (8.84%) Oracle
2 146 (6.18%) Google
3 138 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 55 (2.33%) ION Trading
5 49 (2.07%) IBM
5 49 (2.07%) SAP
6 44 (1.86%) Splunk
7 38 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 32 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.10%) Sybase
10 22 (0.93%) Adobe
11 21 (0.89%) Salesforce
12 19 (0.80%) VMware
13 18 (0.76%) New Relic
14 17 (0.72%) Informatica
15 16 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.63%) Solace
17 14 (0.59%) Databricks
17 14 (0.59%) Virgin Media
18 13 (0.55%) MuleSoft