Java Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, 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 117 99 73
Rank change year-on-year -18 -26 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 277 561 1,454
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.88% 2.35% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.47% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 464 1,136
10th Percentile £413 £430 £413
25th Percentile £469 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +2.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £838 £750 £700
90th Percentile £888 £863 £788
UK median daily rate £564 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -13.27% +7.44% +8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 23
10th Percentile £39.80 £67.75 £45.25
25th Percentile £47.00 £70.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £59.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £78.20 - £69.75
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -22.41% +14.62% +10.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
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 Developer.

Java Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Java Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
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 Developer.

Java Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Java Developer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 277 (100.00%) Java
2 98 (35.38%) AWS
3 95 (34.30%) Agile
4 92 (33.21%) Spring Boot
5 87 (31.41%) Spring
6 77 (27.80%) Finance
7 71 (25.63%) Banking
8 65 (23.47%) Software Engineering
9 64 (23.10%) Front Office
10 56 (20.22%) Microservices
11 53 (19.13%) SQL
12 52 (18.77%) Investment Banking
13 50 (18.05%) CI/CD
14 49 (17.69%) GCP
15 48 (17.33%) JavaScript
16 47 (16.97%) Security Cleared
17 44 (15.88%) REST
18 42 (15.16%) DevOps
19 41 (14.80%) SC Cleared
20 40 (14.44%) SDLC
21 38 (13.72%) Python
22 37 (13.36%) TDD
22 37 (13.36%) Derivative
23 36 (13.00%) Fixed Income
24 33 (11.91%) Full Stack Development
25 32 (11.55%) Kafka
26 31 (11.19%) Jenkins
27 29 (10.47%) Docker
27 29 (10.47%) Apache
28 28 (10.11%) Oracle

Java Developer Skill Set
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 29 (10.47%) Apache
2 19 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) GemFire
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.36%) Mule
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 98 (35.38%) AWS
2 49 (17.69%) GCP
3 25 (9.03%) Azure
4 19 (6.86%) dbt
5 17 (6.14%) Snowflake
6 9 (3.25%) Serverless
7 8 (2.89%) GitHub
8 7 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.17%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.81%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.44%) npm
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) Firewall
1 3 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.22%) Apache Arrow
2 19 (6.86%) Amazon Athena
2 19 (6.86%) Apache Ignite
2 19 (6.86%) Dremio
2 19 (6.86%) Oracle Database
3 17 (6.14%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.89%) MySQL
7 7 (2.53%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.81%) Big Data
8 5 (1.81%) Flink
8 5 (1.81%) KDB
8 5 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 31 (11.19%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.58%) JUnit
3 19 (6.86%) Maven
4 18 (6.50%) Mockito
5 17 (6.14%) Cucumber
6 16 (5.78%) GitLab
7 9 (3.25%) Git
8 8 (2.89%) JIRA
9 7 (2.53%) Selenium
10 5 (1.81%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.81%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.08%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.08%) Subversion
12 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.72%) JMeter
13 1 (0.36%) EasyMock
13 1 (0.36%) jMock
13 1 (0.36%) Log4j
13 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.36%) TestNG
General
1 77 (27.80%) Finance
2 71 (25.63%) Banking
3 64 (23.10%) Front Office
4 52 (18.77%) Investment Banking
5 24 (8.66%) Social Skills
6 10 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.44%) Automotive
9 3 (1.08%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Police
9 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (33.21%) Spring Boot
2 87 (31.41%) Spring
3 44 (15.88%) REST
4 32 (11.55%) Kafka
5 23 (8.30%) React
6 22 (7.94%) Hibernate
7 21 (7.58%) JPA
8 19 (6.86%) gRPC
8 19 (6.86%) NumPy
8 19 (6.86%) Pandas
8 19 (6.86%) Protocol Buffers
8 19 (6.86%) SciPy
9 18 (6.50%) HTML
10 14 (5.05%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.05%) SAML
11 13 (4.69%) CSS
12 12 (4.33%) JAX-RS
12 12 (4.33%) RESTful
13 11 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (3.97%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.36%) Derivative
2 36 (13.00%) Fixed Income
3 27 (9.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (9.03%) Equities
5 21 (7.58%) Hedge funds
6 18 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (5.05%) Credit Derivative
8 13 (4.69%) Equity Derivative
9 12 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (3.97%) Management Information System
11 9 (3.25%) Data Structures
12 8 (2.89%) Algorithms
13 7 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
16 2 (0.72%) Insider Threat
16 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
17 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.97%) Unix
2 10 (3.61%) Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.30%) Agile
2 65 (23.47%) Software Engineering
3 56 (20.22%) Microservices
4 50 (18.05%) CI/CD
5 42 (15.16%) DevOps
6 40 (14.44%) SDLC
7 37 (13.36%) TDD
8 33 (11.91%) Full Stack Development
9 24 (8.66%) Electronic Trading
10 23 (8.30%) Test Automation
11 19 (6.86%) Asset Management
12 18 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (6.50%) Scrum
13 17 (6.14%) Line Management
13 17 (6.14%) Low Latency
13 17 (6.14%) Multithreading
14 16 (5.78%) Computer Science
15 14 (5.05%) BDD
16 13 (4.69%) Machine Learning
16 13 (4.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 277 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (19.13%) SQL
3 48 (17.33%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.72%) Python
5 28 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.14%) Scala
7 10 (3.61%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.53%) C#
8 7 (2.53%) PHP
8 7 (2.53%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.08%) Bash
10 3 (1.08%) C++
11 2 (0.72%) Go
11 2 (0.72%) Perl
11 2 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) VBA
12 1 (0.36%) Bicep
12 1 (0.36%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 47 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.03%) Degree
4 9 (3.25%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.17%) PhD
7 5 (1.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.44%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (1.44%) MiFID
3 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.72%) QA
4 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (10.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) GridGain
3 1 (0.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 26 (9.39%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.33%) Terraform
3 9 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.53%) Ansible
4 7 (2.53%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (1.81%) Grafana
6 3 (1.08%) Kibana
6 3 (1.08%) Podman
6 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Istio
7 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (10.11%) Oracle
2 20 (7.22%) Google
3 7 (2.53%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.17%) ION Trading
5 5 (1.81%) IBM
6 4 (1.44%) Solace
7 3 (1.08%) Splunk
8 2 (0.72%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.72%) Reuters
8 2 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.72%) SAP
9 1 (0.36%) Apiary
9 1 (0.36%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.36%) Databricks
9 1 (0.36%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.36%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.36%) Wallstreet Suite