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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 1,008 2,065 4,515
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.89% 8.57% 10.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 23.44% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 1,532 3,310
10th Percentile £413 £430 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +4.89% +7.76%
75th Percentile £800 £725 £675
90th Percentile £888 £850 £763
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 38 48
10th Percentile £45.78 £48.88 £20.25
25th Percentile £61.56 £55.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.38% +14.32%
75th Percentile £74.00 £74.69 £68.19
90th Percentile £82.05 £75.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +3.15% +12.39%

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 4,999 8,808 16,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.15% 36.55% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,506 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £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 137 184 184
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

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 1 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 1 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
1 135 (13.39%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (11.11%) Apache
3 29 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.28%) Confluence
5 10 (0.99%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
7 5 (0.50%) nginx
7 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.40%) Camunda
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.20%) FileNet
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 13 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.60%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.50%) Endur
2 5 (0.50%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) RMDS
5 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.099%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 394 (39.09%) AWS
2 140 (13.89%) Azure
3 125 (12.40%) GCP
4 116 (11.51%) dbt
4 116 (11.51%) Snowflake
5 56 (5.56%) GitHub
6 38 (3.77%) Serverless
7 34 (3.37%) Amazon S3
8 29 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (2.08%) OpenShift
12 18 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (1.59%) SaaS
14 10 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (0.89%) Datadog
15 9 (0.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.79%) Firewall
2 15 (1.49%) VPN
3 12 (1.19%) Network Security
4 11 (1.09%) DNS
5 4 (0.40%) BGP
5 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) HTTP
6 3 (0.30%) 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 (0.099%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.099%) IPv4
8 1 (0.099%) LAN
8 1 (0.099%) MPLS
8 1 (0.099%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (12.00%) Amazon Athena
2 119 (11.81%) Data Lake
3 116 (11.51%) Dremio
4 114 (11.31%) Apache Arrow
5 96 (9.52%) Apache Ignite
6 60 (5.95%) MySQL
6 60 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 51 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (4.76%) MongoDB
9 41 (4.07%) Big Data
10 40 (3.97%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.47%) NoSQL
12 33 (3.27%) Oracle Database
13 31 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.29%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.29%) Flink
Development Applications
1 105 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 81 (8.04%) Git
3 74 (7.34%) Selenium
4 56 (5.56%) JIRA
5 53 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 44 (4.37%) JUnit
7 41 (4.07%) Maven
8 39 (3.87%) GitLab
9 29 (2.88%) JMeter
9 29 (2.88%) Mockito
10 23 (2.28%) Cypress.io
11 19 (1.88%) REST Assured
12 15 (1.49%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.39%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.29%) Postman
14 13 (1.29%) WebDriver
15 11 (1.09%) Subversion
15 11 (1.09%) TestNG
16 10 (0.99%) git-flow
16 10 (0.99%) SoapUI
General
1 328 (32.54%) Finance
2 230 (22.82%) Banking
3 173 (17.16%) Front Office
4 165 (16.37%) Social Skills
5 143 (14.19%) Investment Banking
6 74 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
7 65 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 17 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.39%) Marketing
10 12 (1.19%) Retail
10 12 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.69%) Back Office
11 7 (0.69%) Law
11 7 (0.69%) Police
12 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.40%) Automotive
13 4 (0.40%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 476 (47.22%) Developer
2 275 (27.28%) Java Developer
3 214 (21.23%) Senior
4 134 (13.29%) Software Engineer
5 128 (12.70%) Java Engineer
6 108 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 95 (9.42%) Lead
8 83 (8.23%) Architect
9 73 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 68 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 67 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
12 64 (6.35%) Software Developer
13 59 (5.85%) Python Engineer
14 55 (5.46%) Senior Java Engineer
15 53 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 47 (4.66%) Full Stack Developer
16 47 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (4.46%) Lead Developer
18 41 (4.07%) Python Software Engineer
19 40 (3.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (17.06%) Spring Boot
2 155 (15.38%) Spring
3 116 (11.51%) gRPC
4 114 (11.31%) Protocol Buffers
5 112 (11.11%) REST
6 111 (11.01%) React
7 100 (9.92%) Kafka
8 99 (9.82%) NumPy
8 99 (9.82%) Pandas
8 99 (9.82%) SciPy
9 82 (8.13%) HTML
10 76 (7.54%) Web Services
11 65 (6.45%) Node.js
12 62 (6.15%) CSS
12 62 (6.15%) RESTful
13 57 (5.65%) AngularJS
14 47 (4.66%) .NET
15 41 (4.07%) XML
16 40 (3.97%) SOAP
17 30 (2.98%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 142 (14.09%) Fixed Income
2 128 (12.70%) Hedge funds
3 124 (12.30%) Derivative
4 117 (11.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 110 (10.91%) Equities
6 54 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.78%) Algorithms
9 26 (2.58%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.79%) Clustering
11 18 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
15 14 (1.39%) Pricing Data
15 14 (1.39%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.54%) Linux
2 31 (3.08%) Unix
3 28 (2.78%) Android
4 23 (2.28%) Windows
5 12 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.099%) CentOS
8 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (35.81%) Agile
2 275 (27.28%) Software Engineering
3 224 (22.22%) DevOps
4 195 (19.35%) CI/CD
5 159 (15.77%) Microservices
6 158 (15.67%) Test Automation
7 126 (12.50%) Asset Management
8 110 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (10.42%) Investment Management
10 103 (10.22%) Full Stack Development
11 93 (9.23%) SDLC
12 85 (8.43%) TDD
13 70 (6.94%) Analytics
14 69 (6.85%) Scrum
15 67 (6.65%) Computer Science
16 51 (5.06%) BDD
17 49 (4.86%) Unit Testing
18 47 (4.66%) Containerisation
18 47 (4.66%) Mentoring
19 46 (4.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 325 (32.24%) Python
2 299 (29.66%) JavaScript
3 194 (19.25%) SQL
4 166 (16.47%) TypeScript
5 81 (8.04%) C#
6 63 (6.25%) C++
7 49 (4.86%) Go
8 46 (4.56%) Scala
9 41 (4.07%) Kotlin
10 33 (3.27%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.78%) C
11 28 (2.78%) PHP
12 26 (2.58%) PowerShell
13 23 (2.28%) Bash
14 21 (2.08%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.79%) Perl
16 16 (1.59%) Ruby
17 12 (1.19%) Groovy
18 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 115 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.94%) Degree
4 41 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.89%) PhD
8 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.30%) CISSP
10 3 (0.30%) ISEB
10 3 (0.30%) SANS
11 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.099%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.099%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.87%) QA
3 29 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.89%) GDPR
4 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.69%) MiFID
5 7 (0.69%) WCAG
6 6 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 3 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.30%) SLA
9 2 (0.20%) GRC
9 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.099%) COPPA
10 1 (0.099%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.099%) GxP
10 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.099%) NIST
10 1 (0.099%) SEPA
System Software
1 139 (13.79%) Docker
2 28 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.69%) IAG
4 16 (1.59%) ACF2
4 16 (1.59%) RACF
5 11 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.099%) GridGain
8 1 (0.099%) HDFS
8 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.099%) iptables
8 1 (0.099%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.099%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 157 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.23%) Terraform
3 52 (5.16%) Prometheus
4 47 (4.66%) Ansible
5 46 (4.56%) Grafana
6 16 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.29%) Consul
7 13 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.09%) Puppet
9 9 (0.89%) Kibana
10 8 (0.79%) Podman
11 7 (0.69%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (0.40%) BladeLogic
13 4 (0.40%) Nagios
14 3 (0.30%) Istio
14 3 (0.30%) Packer
14 3 (0.30%) Zipkin
15 2 (0.20%) Argo
15 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (9.82%) Oracle
2 50 (4.96%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.37%) Google
4 25 (2.48%) IBM
5 21 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.79%) SAP
7 17 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.69%) Sybase
8 15 (1.49%) Splunk
9 11 (1.09%) Databricks
9 11 (1.09%) ION Trading
9 11 (1.09%) SaltStack
10 10 (0.99%) Adobe
11 9 (0.89%) AVEVA
12 8 (0.79%) Confluent
13 7 (0.69%) Informatica
13 7 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.60%) New Relic
14 6 (0.60%) Siemens
15 5 (0.50%) TSYS