Java Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 1,014 2,044 4,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.96% 8.50% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.38% 23.26% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 1,519 3,334
10th Percentile £413 £428 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +4.89% +8.59%
75th Percentile £825 £725 £675
90th Percentile £888 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 38 46
10th Percentile £45.78 £48.88 £20.25
25th Percentile £61.56 £55.00 £47.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.38% +14.32%
75th Percentile £74.00 £73.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £82.05 £75.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +3.15% +10.92%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,976 8,787 16,937
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.18% 36.56% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,604 6,493 12,644
10th Percentile £350 £387 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 182 185
10th Percentile £27.25 £31.18 £20.75
25th Percentile £43.50 £51.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Java daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Java hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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
1 146 (14.40%) Apache Airflow
2 122 (12.03%) Apache
3 29 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.27%) Confluence
5 10 (0.99%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.49%) CMS
7 5 (0.49%) nginx
7 5 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.39%) Camunda
8 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.49%) Endur
2 5 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) RMDS
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.099%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (39.55%) AWS
2 142 (14.00%) Azure
3 132 (13.02%) GCP
4 127 (12.52%) dbt
5 126 (12.43%) Snowflake
6 56 (5.52%) GitHub
7 37 (3.65%) Serverless
8 33 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 30 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (2.07%) OpenShift
12 19 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (1.58%) SaaS
15 15 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.89%) Datadog
17 9 (0.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.78%) Firewall
2 15 (1.48%) VPN
3 12 (1.18%) Network Security
4 11 (1.08%) DNS
5 4 (0.39%) BGP
5 4 (0.39%) HTTP
5 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.099%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.099%) FTP
8 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.099%) LAN
8 1 (0.099%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (13.02%) Amazon Athena
2 130 (12.82%) Data Lake
3 127 (12.52%) Dremio
4 124 (12.23%) Apache Arrow
5 106 (10.45%) Apache Ignite
6 59 (5.82%) MySQL
6 59 (5.82%) SQL Server
7 51 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (4.64%) MongoDB
9 41 (4.04%) Big Data
10 40 (3.94%) Relational Database
11 35 (3.45%) NoSQL
12 34 (3.35%) Oracle Database
13 31 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.28%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 104 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 81 (7.99%) Git
3 72 (7.10%) Selenium
4 56 (5.52%) JIRA
5 52 (5.13%) Cucumber
6 44 (4.34%) JUnit
7 40 (3.94%) Maven
8 39 (3.85%) GitLab
9 29 (2.86%) Mockito
10 28 (2.76%) JMeter
11 22 (2.17%) Cypress.io
12 18 (1.78%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.48%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.28%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.28%) Postman
15 12 (1.18%) WebDriver
16 11 (1.08%) git-flow
16 11 (1.08%) Subversion
17 10 (0.99%) TestNG
18 9 (0.89%) Artifactory
General
1 337 (33.23%) Finance
2 240 (23.67%) Banking
3 183 (18.05%) Front Office
4 165 (16.27%) Social Skills
5 151 (14.89%) Investment Banking
6 72 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
7 64 (6.31%) Public Sector
8 17 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.48%) Marketing
10 14 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.28%) Retail
12 12 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.69%) Back Office
13 7 (0.69%) Law
13 7 (0.69%) Police
14 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.39%) Automotive
15 4 (0.39%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (46.84%) Developer
2 274 (27.02%) Java Developer
3 218 (21.50%) Senior
4 139 (13.71%) Software Engineer
5 131 (12.92%) Java Engineer
6 109 (10.75%) Senior Developer
7 100 (9.86%) Lead
8 87 (8.58%) Architect
9 76 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
10 71 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
11 68 (6.71%) Software Developer
12 63 (6.21%) Python Engineer
13 56 (5.52%) Senior Java Engineer
14 55 (5.42%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
16 49 (4.83%) Lead Developer
17 45 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
18 44 (4.34%) Python Software Engineer
19 43 (4.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.86%) Spring Boot
2 155 (15.29%) Spring
3 126 (12.43%) gRPC
4 124 (12.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 111 (10.95%) REST
6 110 (10.85%) NumPy
6 110 (10.85%) Pandas
6 110 (10.85%) React
6 110 (10.85%) SciPy
7 100 (9.86%) Kafka
8 83 (8.19%) HTML
9 75 (7.40%) Web Services
10 63 (6.21%) CSS
11 61 (6.02%) Node.js
11 61 (6.02%) RESTful
12 57 (5.62%) AngularJS
13 47 (4.64%) .NET
14 42 (4.14%) XML
15 40 (3.94%) SOAP
16 30 (2.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 150 (14.79%) Fixed Income
2 138 (13.61%) Hedge funds
3 134 (13.21%) Derivative
4 127 (12.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 120 (11.83%) Equities
6 54 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 26 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.87%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.78%) Clustering
11 18 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.58%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (1.48%) Equity Derivative
15 14 (1.38%) Pricing Data
16 13 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.50%) Linux
2 31 (3.06%) Unix
3 28 (2.76%) Android
4 23 (2.27%) Windows
5 12 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.099%) CentOS
8 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (36.69%) Agile
2 287 (28.30%) Software Engineering
3 225 (22.19%) DevOps
4 194 (19.13%) CI/CD
5 157 (15.48%) Microservices
5 157 (15.48%) Test Automation
6 136 (13.41%) Asset Management
7 109 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (10.65%) Investment Management
9 101 (9.96%) Full Stack Development
10 94 (9.27%) SDLC
11 85 (8.38%) TDD
12 69 (6.80%) Analytics
12 69 (6.80%) Scrum
13 66 (6.51%) Computer Science
14 51 (5.03%) Unit Testing
15 49 (4.83%) BDD
16 48 (4.73%) Containerisation
17 47 (4.64%) Mentoring
17 47 (4.64%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 332 (32.74%) Python
2 309 (30.47%) JavaScript
3 198 (19.53%) SQL
4 176 (17.36%) TypeScript
5 79 (7.79%) C#
6 61 (6.02%) C++
7 50 (4.93%) Go
8 46 (4.54%) Scala
9 40 (3.94%) Kotlin
10 33 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.76%) PHP
12 27 (2.66%) C
13 26 (2.56%) PowerShell
14 23 (2.27%) Bash
15 20 (1.97%) PL/SQL
16 18 (1.78%) Perl
17 16 (1.58%) Ruby
18 12 (1.18%) Groovy
19 7 (0.69%) Rust
19 7 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 140 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 112 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.69%) Degree
4 41 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.79%) PhD
8 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.30%) CISSP
9 3 (0.30%) ISEB
9 3 (0.30%) SANS
10 2 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.099%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.099%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 39 (3.85%) QA
3 29 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.79%) GDPR
6 7 (0.69%) MiFID
6 7 (0.69%) WCAG
7 6 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.20%) GRC
10 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.099%) COPPA
11 1 (0.099%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.099%) GxP
11 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.099%) NIST
11 1 (0.099%) SEPA
System Software
1 139 (13.71%) Docker
2 28 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.68%) IAG
4 16 (1.58%) ACF2
4 16 (1.58%) RACF
5 11 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.099%) GridGain
8 1 (0.099%) HDFS
8 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.099%) iptables
8 1 (0.099%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.099%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 157 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 92 (9.07%) Terraform
3 52 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 47 (4.64%) Ansible
5 46 (4.54%) Grafana
6 16 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.28%) Consul
7 13 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.08%) Puppet
9 9 (0.89%) Kibana
9 9 (0.89%) Podman
10 7 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (0.39%) BladeLogic
12 4 (0.39%) Nagios
13 3 (0.30%) Istio
13 3 (0.30%) Packer
13 3 (0.30%) Zipkin
14 2 (0.20%) Argo
14 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 98 (9.66%) Oracle
2 49 (4.83%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.34%) Google
4 25 (2.47%) IBM
5 21 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.68%) Dynatrace
6 17 (1.68%) Sybase
7 16 (1.58%) SAP
8 15 (1.48%) Splunk
9 11 (1.08%) Databricks
9 11 (1.08%) ION Trading
9 11 (1.08%) SaltStack
10 10 (0.99%) Adobe
11 9 (0.89%) AVEVA
12 8 (0.79%) Confluent
13 7 (0.69%) Informatica
14 6 (0.59%) New Relic
14 6 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.59%) Siemens
15 5 (0.49%) TSYS