Java Software Developer Contracts

Java Software Developer
UK

The median Java Software Developer daily rate in the UK is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 652 648
Rank change year-on-year +100 -4 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 32 45 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.081% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.086% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 180
10th Percentile £476 £375 £438
25th Percentile £628 £510 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £888 £725 £650
90th Percentile - £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £491 £600
% change year-on-year +6.87% -18.13% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.42 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.42 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Java Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Developer in the UK

Java Software Developer
Top 12 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +72 28 £825 +37.50% 7
Work from Home +124 26 £825 +17.86% 8
London +78 21 £825 +17.86% 2
UK excluding London +21 9 £525 +6.87% 8
North of England +13 2 £475 -20.83% 1
East of England +6 2 £543 +4.33%
South West +1 2 - - 2
Scotland +49 1 £463 - 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £425 -26.09%
North West +13 1 £525 -16.00% 1
South East +10 1 £675 +92.86%
Northern Ireland - 1 £650 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Java Software 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 Java Software Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (75.00%) Agile
3 22 (68.75%) Software Engineering
3 22 (68.75%) JavaScript
3 22 (68.75%) Python
4 21 (65.63%) AWS
4 21 (65.63%) TypeScript
4 21 (65.63%) Finance
5 20 (62.50%) Banking
5 20 (62.50%) GCP
6 19 (59.38%) Pandas
6 19 (59.38%) Protocol Buffers
6 19 (59.38%) Hedge funds
6 19 (59.38%) SciPy
6 19 (59.38%) NumPy
6 19 (59.38%) Derivative
6 19 (59.38%) Investment Banking
6 19 (59.38%) Asset Management
6 19 (59.38%) Fixed Income
6 19 (59.38%) Equities
6 19 (59.38%) Front Office
6 19 (59.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (59.38%) Apache
6 19 (59.38%) gRPC
6 19 (59.38%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (59.38%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (59.38%) Apache Ignite
6 19 (59.38%) Dremio
6 19 (59.38%) dbt
6 19 (59.38%) Apache Arrow

Java Software 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 19 (59.38%) Apache
1 19 (59.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) AWS
2 20 (62.50%) GCP
3 19 (59.38%) dbt
4 17 (53.13%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) Azure
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (59.38%) Amazon Athena
1 19 (59.38%) Apache Arrow
1 19 (59.38%) Apache Ignite
1 19 (59.38%) Dremio
2 17 (53.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) JMeter
2 1 (3.13%) Maven
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 21 (65.63%) Finance
2 20 (62.50%) Banking
3 19 (59.38%) Front Office
3 19 (59.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) gRPC
1 19 (59.38%) NumPy
1 19 (59.38%) Pandas
1 19 (59.38%) Protocol Buffers
1 19 (59.38%) SciPy
2 4 (12.50%) React
2 4 (12.50%) Spring
2 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (9.38%) REST
4 2 (6.25%) PySpark
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) J2EE
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) OAuth
5 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (59.38%) Derivative
1 19 (59.38%) Equities
1 19 (59.38%) Fixed Income
1 19 (59.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 19 (59.38%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Agile
2 22 (68.75%) Software Engineering
3 19 (59.38%) Asset Management
4 17 (53.13%) Line Management
5 9 (28.13%) Investment Management
6 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) TDD
8 3 (9.38%) Analytics
8 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
8 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
9 2 (6.25%) Data Architecture
9 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (6.25%) Kanban
9 2 (6.25%) Microservices
9 2 (6.25%) Migration
9 2 (6.25%) Pair Programming
9 2 (6.25%) Product Management
10 1 (3.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 22 (68.75%) Python
3 21 (65.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Ruby
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Kibana
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Bloomberg
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle
1 2 (6.25%) Reuters
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) Google
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