Java Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 1,021 2,009 4,555
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.96% 8.42% 10.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.26% 23.04% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 1,503 3,358
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +4.18% +9.17%
75th Percentile £825 £725 £675
90th Percentile £888 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £592
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.39% +12.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 41 47
10th Percentile £45.78 £50.00 £20.15
25th Percentile £61.56 £55.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £73.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £75.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £63.38
% change year-on-year +3.05% +3.35% +10.70%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,040 8,719 16,856
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.35% 36.53% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 6,429 12,573
10th Percentile £350 £384 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 190 183
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.07 £20.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Java daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Java hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 148 (14.50%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (12.34%) Apache
3 32 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.25%) Confluence
5 10 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.49%) CMS
7 5 (0.49%) nginx
7 5 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.39%) Camunda
8 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.20%) FileNet
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.49%) Endur
2 5 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.29%) RMDS
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.098%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 409 (40.06%) AWS
2 143 (14.01%) Azure
3 134 (13.12%) GCP
4 130 (12.73%) Snowflake
5 129 (12.63%) dbt
6 56 (5.48%) GitHub
7 36 (3.53%) Serverless
8 32 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 30 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (2.06%) OpenShift
12 20 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.47%) SaaS
17 12 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
18 9 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (0.88%) Datadog
18 9 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.86%) Firewall
2 15 (1.47%) VPN
3 13 (1.27%) Network Security
4 11 (1.08%) DNS
5 4 (0.39%) BGP
5 4 (0.39%) HTTP
5 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.29%) DHCP
6 3 (0.29%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.098%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.098%) FTP
8 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.098%) LAN
8 1 (0.098%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (13.12%) Amazon Athena
2 132 (12.93%) Data Lake
3 129 (12.63%) Dremio
4 127 (12.44%) Apache Arrow
5 108 (10.58%) Apache Ignite
6 60 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 59 (5.78%) MySQL
8 52 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
9 47 (4.60%) MongoDB
10 44 (4.31%) Big Data
11 41 (4.02%) Relational Database
12 35 (3.43%) NoSQL
13 34 (3.33%) Oracle Database
14 31 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
15 23 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
17 13 (1.27%) BigQuery
17 13 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 103 (10.09%) Jenkins
2 81 (7.93%) Git
3 71 (6.95%) Selenium
4 56 (5.48%) JIRA
5 51 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 43 (4.21%) JUnit
7 38 (3.72%) GitLab
7 38 (3.72%) Maven
8 28 (2.74%) Mockito
9 27 (2.64%) JMeter
10 22 (2.15%) Cypress.io
11 18 (1.76%) REST Assured
12 14 (1.37%) SonarQube
13 13 (1.27%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.27%) Postman
14 12 (1.18%) WebDriver
15 11 (1.08%) git-flow
15 11 (1.08%) Subversion
16 10 (0.98%) TestNG
17 9 (0.88%) Artifactory
General
1 341 (33.40%) Finance
2 243 (23.80%) Banking
3 186 (18.22%) Front Office
4 165 (16.16%) Social Skills
5 153 (14.99%) Investment Banking
6 72 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.17%) Public Sector
8 17 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.47%) Marketing
10 14 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.37%) Retail
11 12 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.69%) Back Office
12 7 (0.69%) Law
12 7 (0.69%) Police
13 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.49%) Automotive
15 4 (0.39%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 478 (46.82%) Developer
2 278 (27.23%) Java Developer
3 221 (21.65%) Senior
4 143 (14.01%) Software Engineer
5 133 (13.03%) Java Engineer
6 109 (10.68%) Senior Developer
7 102 (9.99%) Lead
8 87 (8.52%) Architect
9 77 (7.54%) Java Software Engineer
10 73 (7.15%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (6.66%) Senior Java Developer
11 68 (6.66%) Software Developer
12 65 (6.37%) Python Engineer
13 59 (5.78%) Senior Java Engineer
14 58 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
16 50 (4.90%) Lead Developer
17 48 (4.70%) Full Stack Developer
18 46 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
19 43 (4.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.75%) Spring Boot
2 157 (15.38%) Spring
3 128 (12.54%) gRPC
4 126 (12.34%) Protocol Buffers
5 112 (10.97%) NumPy
5 112 (10.97%) Pandas
5 112 (10.97%) SciPy
6 111 (10.87%) REST
7 108 (10.58%) React
8 102 (9.99%) Kafka
9 81 (7.93%) HTML
10 74 (7.25%) Web Services
11 61 (5.97%) CSS
11 61 (5.97%) RESTful
12 59 (5.78%) Node.js
13 57 (5.58%) AngularJS
14 49 (4.80%) .NET
15 43 (4.21%) XML
16 40 (3.92%) SOAP
17 30 (2.94%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 153 (14.99%) Fixed Income
2 139 (13.61%) Hedge funds
3 137 (13.42%) Derivative
4 131 (12.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 123 (12.05%) Equities
6 55 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.84%) Algorithms
9 24 (2.35%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.96%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.76%) Clustering
12 18 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.76%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.57%) Pricing Data
15 15 (1.47%) Credit Derivative
15 15 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
16 13 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.44%) Linux
2 31 (3.04%) Unix
3 29 (2.84%) Android
4 23 (2.25%) Windows
5 12 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.29%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.098%) CentOS
8 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (36.63%) Agile
2 294 (28.80%) Software Engineering
3 229 (22.43%) DevOps
4 195 (19.10%) CI/CD
5 158 (15.48%) Test Automation
6 157 (15.38%) Microservices
7 137 (13.42%) Asset Management
8 110 (10.77%) Investment Management
9 109 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (9.99%) Full Stack Development
11 94 (9.21%) SDLC
12 86 (8.42%) TDD
13 70 (6.86%) Analytics
14 69 (6.76%) Scrum
15 68 (6.66%) Computer Science
16 51 (5.00%) Unit Testing
17 50 (4.90%) BDD
18 49 (4.80%) Mentoring
19 48 (4.70%) Containerisation
20 47 (4.60%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 336 (32.91%) Python
2 311 (30.46%) JavaScript
3 200 (19.59%) SQL
4 175 (17.14%) TypeScript
5 79 (7.74%) C#
6 64 (6.27%) C++
7 50 (4.90%) Go
8 49 (4.80%) Scala
9 41 (4.02%) Kotlin
10 33 (3.23%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.74%) C
11 28 (2.74%) PHP
12 26 (2.55%) PowerShell
13 23 (2.25%) Bash
14 20 (1.96%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.76%) Perl
16 16 (1.57%) Ruby
17 12 (1.18%) Groovy
18 7 (0.69%) Rust
18 7 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 141 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 114 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.84%) Degree
4 43 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.78%) PhD
8 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.29%) CISSP
9 3 (0.29%) ISEB
9 3 (0.29%) SANS
10 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.098%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.098%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.098%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.82%) QA
3 28 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.78%) GDPR
6 7 (0.69%) MiFID
7 6 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.59%) WCAG
8 4 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.29%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.098%) COPPA
11 1 (0.098%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.098%) GxP
11 1 (0.098%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.098%) NIST
11 1 (0.098%) SEPA
System Software
1 139 (13.61%) Docker
2 28 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.67%) IAG
4 16 (1.57%) ACF2
4 16 (1.57%) RACF
5 11 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.098%) Firmware
8 1 (0.098%) GridGain
8 1 (0.098%) HDFS
8 1 (0.098%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.098%) iptables
8 1 (0.098%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.098%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 157 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 95 (9.30%) Terraform
3 52 (5.09%) Prometheus
4 47 (4.60%) Ansible
5 46 (4.51%) Grafana
6 16 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.27%) Consul
7 13 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.08%) Puppet
9 9 (0.88%) Kibana
9 9 (0.88%) Podman
10 7 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (0.39%) BladeLogic
12 4 (0.39%) Nagios
13 3 (0.29%) Istio
13 3 (0.29%) Packer
13 3 (0.29%) Zipkin
14 2 (0.20%) Argo
14 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 98 (9.60%) Oracle
2 49 (4.80%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.41%) Google
4 24 (2.35%) IBM
5 21 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 17 (1.67%) Sybase
7 15 (1.47%) SAP
7 15 (1.47%) Splunk
8 12 (1.18%) Databricks
9 11 (1.08%) ION Trading
9 11 (1.08%) SaltStack
10 10 (0.98%) Adobe
11 9 (0.88%) AVEVA
12 8 (0.78%) Confluent
13 7 (0.69%) Informatica
14 6 (0.59%) New Relic
14 6 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.59%) Siemens
15 5 (0.49%) TSYS