Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £750, 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 209 368 328
Rank change year-on-year +159 -40 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 136 89 324
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 0.37% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.39% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 70 255
10th Percentile £450 £500 £438
25th Percentile £506 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £850 £769 £708
90th Percentile £888 £788 £739
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.52 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £42.10 £61.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.80 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.46% -24.73% -14.19%
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.10 £65.25
90th Percentile - £53.84 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -11.77%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 136 (100.00%) Java
2 100 (73.53%) Software Engineering
3 74 (54.41%) AWS
4 72 (52.94%) Agile
5 67 (49.26%) Finance
6 60 (44.12%) TypeScript
7 56 (41.18%) Python
7 56 (41.18%) Banking
8 55 (40.44%) JavaScript
9 54 (39.71%) Hedge funds
10 52 (38.24%) Apache Airflow
10 52 (38.24%) Front Office
11 49 (36.03%) Apache
12 48 (35.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 48 (35.29%) Fixed Income
12 48 (35.29%) Equities
12 48 (35.29%) Asset Management
12 48 (35.29%) Investment Banking
12 48 (35.29%) Derivative
12 48 (35.29%) gRPC
12 48 (35.29%) SciPy
12 48 (35.29%) NumPy
12 48 (35.29%) Pandas
12 48 (35.29%) Protocol Buffers
12 48 (35.29%) Apache Arrow
12 48 (35.29%) dbt
12 48 (35.29%) Amazon Athena
12 48 (35.29%) Apache Ignite
12 48 (35.29%) Dremio
13 47 (34.56%) Snowflake

Java Engineer 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 52 (38.24%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (36.03%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 74 (54.41%) AWS
2 48 (35.29%) dbt
3 47 (34.56%) Snowflake
4 23 (16.91%) GCP
5 19 (13.97%) Azure
6 7 (5.15%) GitHub
7 4 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.47%) AWS IoT
9 2 (1.47%) Datadog
9 2 (1.47%) Miro
9 2 (1.47%) Serverless
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.74%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) Firewall
1 7 (5.15%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) MQTT
2 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.29%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (35.29%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (35.29%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (35.29%) Dremio
2 46 (33.82%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.21%) Flink
5 3 (2.21%) MySQL
5 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.09%) Selenium
3 10 (7.35%) Cucumber
4 8 (5.88%) Git
4 8 (5.88%) JIRA
4 8 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.41%) GitLab
5 6 (4.41%) JUnit
5 6 (4.41%) Maven
6 5 (3.68%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.21%) Mockito
7 3 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.47%) HP UFT
8 2 (1.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.74%) Gradle
9 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
General
1 67 (49.26%) Finance
2 56 (41.18%) Banking
3 52 (38.24%) Front Office
4 48 (35.29%) Investment Banking
5 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Law
7 4 (2.94%) Police
8 3 (2.21%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (35.29%) gRPC
1 48 (35.29%) NumPy
1 48 (35.29%) Pandas
1 48 (35.29%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (35.29%) SciPy
2 21 (15.44%) REST
3 19 (13.97%) React
4 18 (13.24%) Spring Boot
5 16 (11.76%) Spring
6 13 (9.56%) Kafka
7 11 (8.09%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.62%) HTML
9 8 (5.88%) CSS
9 8 (5.88%) Java EE
10 6 (4.41%) RESTful
11 5 (3.68%) ARM Templates
12 4 (2.94%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.94%) Node.js
12 4 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (39.71%) Hedge funds
2 48 (35.29%) Derivative
2 48 (35.29%) Equities
2 48 (35.29%) Fixed Income
2 48 (35.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (11.76%) Pricing Data
4 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.68%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.47%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.74%) Social Media
8 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Android
2 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (73.53%) Software Engineering
2 72 (52.94%) Agile
3 48 (35.29%) Asset Management
4 38 (27.94%) Investment Management
5 24 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.65%) DevOps
6 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
8 17 (12.50%) Line Management
8 17 (12.50%) Microservices
9 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 14 (10.29%) TDD
11 13 (9.56%) Greeks
12 10 (7.35%) Containerisation
13 7 (5.15%) API Development
13 7 (5.15%) ETL
13 7 (5.15%) Identity Management
13 7 (5.15%) Load Balancing
14 6 (4.41%) Computer Science
14 6 (4.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 136 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (44.12%) TypeScript
3 56 (41.18%) Python
4 55 (40.44%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.76%) SQL
6 8 (5.88%) C++
7 6 (4.41%) PHP
8 4 (2.94%) Scala
8 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.47%) Bash
9 2 (1.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (9.56%) SC Cleared
1 13 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) iptables
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) zsh
Systems Management
1 18 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.35%) Terraform
3 7 (5.15%) Grafana
4 6 (4.41%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (3.68%) Ansible
5 5 (3.68%) Podman
5 5 (3.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.94%) Consul
7 2 (1.47%) Kibana
7 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.94%) Google
2 4 (2.94%) ION Trading
2 4 (2.94%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.47%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.47%) Databricks
3 2 (1.47%) New Relic
3 2 (1.47%) Reuters
4 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.74%) Confluent
4 1 (0.74%) Informatica
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle