OpenJDK Contracts

Oracle OpenJDK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenJDK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenJDK over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 693 843
Rank change year-on-year +110 +150 -125
Contract jobs citing OpenJDK 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% 0.031% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £472
25th Percentile - £300 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile - £617 £510
90th Percentile - £652 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 £500
% change year-on-year - -40.00% +66.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenJDK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

OpenJDK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenJDK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenJDK in the UK

OpenJDK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenJDK in the UK

OpenJDK
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenJDK within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London +28 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 2

OpenJDK
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) STL
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware