Full Stack Java Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 575 683
Rank change year-on-year +59 +108 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Java Developer 63 119 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 102 130
10th Percentile £398 £440 £449
25th Percentile £442 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £517 £713 £700
90th Percentile £708 £763 £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% +4.00% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
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% +4.19%

Full Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Java Developer.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Java Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Java Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full Stack Java Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +58 46 £475 -22.45% 10
London +45 37 £469 -23.47% 5
UK excluding London +58 22 £483 -2.33% 8
Work from Home +92 20 £479 -8.76% 7
Scotland +45 13 £500 +4.28% 2
East of England - 4 £459 -
North of England +31 3 £400 -37.25% 1
Yorkshire +21 3 £400 -27.27%
South East +18 2 - - 2

Full Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Full Stack Java Developer 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 Full Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) Java
1 63 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 37 (58.73%) AWS
3 31 (49.21%) Agile
4 27 (42.86%) React
5 26 (41.27%) Security Cleared
6 25 (39.68%) SC Cleared
7 22 (34.92%) Spring
7 22 (34.92%) CI/CD
8 20 (31.75%) AngularJS
9 18 (28.57%) HTML
10 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
10 17 (26.98%) CSS
10 17 (26.98%) Apache
11 15 (23.81%) SQL
11 15 (23.81%) Spring Boot
12 14 (22.22%) Kafka
13 13 (20.63%) REST
13 13 (20.63%) Microservices
13 13 (20.63%) IT Strategy
13 13 (20.63%) Technology Strategy
14 12 (19.05%) Flink
14 12 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (19.05%) Node.js
14 12 (19.05%) TypeScript
14 12 (19.05%) TDD
15 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
15 10 (15.87%) User Experience
16 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
16 9 (14.29%) Test Automation

Full Stack Java Developer 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 17 (26.98%) Apache
2 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) JBoss
3 2 (3.17%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.17%) WildFly
4 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (58.73%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
3 7 (11.11%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) Serverless
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.35%) npm
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
1 3 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (1.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) Flink
2 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.76%) Big Data
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.17%) MySQL
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.59%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.59%) KDB
7 1 (1.59%) Power BI
7 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) Cypress.io
2 5 (7.94%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 4 (6.35%) JUnit
4 2 (3.17%) Maven
4 2 (3.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.17%) Subversion
5 1 (1.59%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) Mockito
5 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.59%) Spock
5 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Automotive
6 2 (3.17%) Front Office
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (42.86%) React
2 22 (34.92%) Spring
3 20 (31.75%) AngularJS
4 18 (28.57%) HTML
5 17 (26.98%) CSS
6 15 (23.81%) Spring Boot
7 14 (22.22%) Kafka
8 13 (20.63%) REST
9 12 (19.05%) Node.js
10 6 (9.52%) RESTful
11 5 (7.94%) Hibernate
11 5 (7.94%) JPA
12 4 (6.35%) .NET
12 4 (6.35%) XML
13 3 (4.76%) HTML5
13 3 (4.76%) jQuery
14 2 (3.17%) CSS3
14 2 (3.17%) Jest
14 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
14 2 (3.17%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) AIX
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 31 (49.21%) Agile
3 22 (34.92%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.63%) IT Strategy
4 13 (20.63%) Microservices
4 13 (20.63%) Technology Strategy
5 12 (19.05%) TDD
6 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
6 10 (15.87%) User Experience
7 9 (14.29%) Scrum
7 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.70%) Code Quality
8 8 (12.70%) DevOps
8 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.11%) SDLC
10 5 (7.94%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.94%) UX Design
11 4 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (6.35%) Kanban
11 4 (6.35%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
3 15 (23.81%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.29%) Python
6 3 (4.76%) C#
7 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.59%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (41.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
4 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Grafana
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Kibana
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Oracle
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.59%) Databricks
3 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.59%) Google
3 1 (1.59%) IBM
3 1 (1.59%) Splunk
3 1 (1.59%) Sybase
3 1 (1.59%) VMware