Java
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 2,716 4,900 8,903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.39% 8.66% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.23% 25.14% 28.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,018 3,681 6,373
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £722 £738 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% +2.38% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 103 123
10th Percentile £45.88 £42.01 £33.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.75 £48.12
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +3.56% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.73 £70.94
90th Percentile £74.65 £75.40 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.01 £65.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year +1.55% +2.77% +26.50%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,796 19,488 31,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 34.46% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,117 14,032 23,058
10th Percentile £350 £388 £386
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 504 442 495
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.14 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.85 £78.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +26.56%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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 -7 2,299 £593 -1.58% 1,071
London -5 1,516 £615 -5.38% 540
Work from Home -9 1,014 £600 - 675
UK excluding London -5 930 £510 -5.12% 652
North of England -6 266 £510 -11.30% 131
South East -11 213 £575 +9.52% 121
Scotland -7 181 £463 -5.42% 86
North West -2 136 £500 -9.09% 91
Yorkshire +6 119 £525 -8.70% 26
South West -30 110 £550 - 115
East of England +17 72 £495 -8.16% 48
Midlands -10 67 £495 -10.00% 95
West Midlands -24 44 £525 -4.55% 66
East Midlands +2 23 £453 -22.98% 29
Northern Ireland 0 17 £588 - 44
North East -22 11 £501 -11.42% 15
Wales +18 10 £488 -2.50% 16

Java
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
1 164 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
2 161 (5.93%) Apache
3 92 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 81 (2.98%) Confluence
5 16 (0.59%) Camunda
5 16 (0.59%) SAS
6 15 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 14 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.52%) nginx
8 11 (0.41%) JBoss
8 11 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.33%) CMS
10 8 (0.29%) Alfresco
10 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.26%) Appian
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.26%) SharePoint
12 6 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.22%) MQSeries
13 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.037%) Sketch
6 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (0.85%) ION MarketView
2 13 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.44%) ION Anvil
4 8 (0.29%) Endur
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
5 7 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
6 6 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
7 5 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.18%) Shopify
8 4 (0.15%) RMDS
9 3 (0.11%) Global One
9 3 (0.11%) Maximo
9 3 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.074%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.074%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.037%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 908 (33.43%) AWS
2 400 (14.73%) Azure
3 277 (10.20%) GCP
4 149 (5.49%) GitHub
5 140 (5.15%) Snowflake
6 138 (5.08%) Serverless
7 123 (4.53%) dbt
8 113 (4.16%) Amazon S3
9 90 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
12 56 (2.06%) OpenShift
13 47 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (1.66%) Power Platform
15 42 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (1.07%) SaaS
20 21 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.36%) Firewall
2 31 (1.14%) DNS
3 30 (1.10%) Network Security
4 24 (0.88%) VPN
5 20 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 19 (0.70%) DHCP
6 19 (0.70%) HTTP
7 13 (0.48%) Internet
8 11 (0.41%) SSL
9 10 (0.37%) SNMP
9 10 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
9 10 (0.37%) SSH
10 7 (0.26%) AMQP
11 6 (0.22%) FTP
11 6 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.18%) iSCSI
12 5 (0.18%) SAN
13 4 (0.15%) BGP
13 4 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (5.67%) Relational Database
3 140 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
4 139 (5.12%) Data Lake
5 129 (4.75%) NoSQL
5 129 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 122 (4.49%) Dremio
6 122 (4.49%) MongoDB
6 122 (4.49%) MySQL
7 121 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
8 103 (3.79%) Apache Ignite
9 91 (3.35%) Big Data
10 67 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
11 65 (2.39%) Oracle Database
12 55 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
13 51 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
13 51 (1.88%) KDB
14 45 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
15 41 (1.51%) Hadoop
16 37 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 337 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 303 (11.16%) Git
3 228 (8.39%) JIRA
4 208 (7.66%) Selenium
5 156 (5.74%) Cucumber
6 148 (5.45%) JUnit
7 103 (3.79%) Maven
8 86 (3.17%) GitLab
9 72 (2.65%) Mockito
10 64 (2.36%) Cypress.io
11 53 (1.95%) JMeter
11 53 (1.95%) REST Assured
12 41 (1.51%) Bitbucket
13 39 (1.44%) Postman
13 39 (1.44%) SonarQube
14 36 (1.33%) WebDriver
15 33 (1.22%) Gradle
16 30 (1.10%) TestNG
17 27 (0.99%) Subversion
18 26 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 713 (26.25%) Finance
2 501 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 450 (16.57%) Banking
4 256 (9.43%) Front Office
5 248 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
6 210 (7.73%) Investment Banking
7 193 (7.11%) Public Sector
8 50 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 35 (1.29%) Retail
11 32 (1.18%) Law
12 29 (1.07%) Marketing
13 28 (1.03%) Back Office
14 24 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.52%) Police
18 12 (0.44%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,255 (46.21%) Developer
2 704 (25.92%) Java Developer
3 425 (15.65%) Senior
4 274 (10.09%) Software Engineer
5 247 (9.09%) Architect
6 243 (8.95%) Java Engineer
7 208 (7.66%) Senior Developer
8 204 (7.51%) Lead
9 157 (5.78%) Full Stack Developer
10 130 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
11 118 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
12 114 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
13 104 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
14 98 (3.61%) Software Developer
15 96 (3.53%) Data Engineer
16 81 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
17 77 (2.84%) Analyst
18 76 (2.80%) Python Engineer
19 73 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
20 70 (2.58%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 569 (20.95%) Spring
2 488 (17.97%) Spring Boot
3 353 (13.00%) REST
4 322 (11.86%) React
5 283 (10.42%) Kafka
6 234 (8.62%) HTML
7 182 (6.70%) CSS
8 156 (5.74%) Node.js
8 156 (5.74%) RESTful
9 154 (5.67%) Web Services
10 151 (5.56%) AngularJS
11 135 (4.97%) .NET
12 131 (4.82%) gRPC
13 122 (4.49%) Protocol Buffers
14 120 (4.42%) NumPy
14 120 (4.42%) Pandas
15 119 (4.38%) XML
16 116 (4.27%) SciPy
17 102 (3.76%) SOAP
18 101 (3.72%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 204 (7.51%) Fixed Income
2 190 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 179 (6.59%) Derivative
4 147 (5.41%) Hedge funds
5 144 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
6 136 (5.01%) Equities
7 102 (3.76%) Algorithms
8 86 (3.17%) Data Structures
9 79 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 67 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
11 59 (2.17%) Public Cloud
12 56 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
12 56 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
13 48 (1.77%) Onboarding
14 47 (1.73%) Management Information System
15 46 (1.69%) Cloud Native
15 46 (1.69%) Mobile App
16 40 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
16 40 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 288 (10.60%) Linux
2 183 (6.74%) Unix
3 95 (3.50%) Windows
4 84 (3.09%) Android
5 39 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 30 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 24 (0.88%) Mac OS X
8 16 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.18%) zOS
10 4 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.074%) CentOS
12 2 (0.074%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.074%) VMS
12 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.037%) AIX
13 1 (0.037%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.037%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (35.71%) Agile
2 619 (22.79%) Software Engineering
3 574 (21.13%) DevOps
4 564 (20.77%) CI/CD
5 489 (18.00%) Microservices
6 458 (16.86%) Test Automation
7 359 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (10.42%) TDD
9 276 (10.16%) Full Stack Development
10 261 (9.61%) Scrum
11 259 (9.54%) SDLC
12 231 (8.51%) Computer Science
13 169 (6.22%) Unit Testing
14 168 (6.19%) BDD
14 168 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
15 149 (5.49%) OO
16 148 (5.45%) Analytics
17 145 (5.34%) Containerisation
18 139 (5.12%) Asset Management
19 138 (5.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 857 (31.55%) Python
2 586 (21.58%) JavaScript
3 581 (21.39%) SQL
4 296 (10.90%) TypeScript
5 282 (10.38%) C#
6 199 (7.33%) C++
7 145 (5.34%) Scala
8 120 (4.42%) Kotlin
9 116 (4.27%) Go
10 102 (3.76%) C
11 92 (3.39%) Shell Script
12 84 (3.09%) PowerShell
13 74 (2.72%) Perl
14 56 (2.06%) PHP
15 51 (1.88%) Bash
16 48 (1.77%) Ruby
17 42 (1.55%) PL/SQL
18 37 (1.36%) Groovy
19 33 (1.22%) Rust
20 20 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 523 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 386 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 242 (8.91%) Degree
4 138 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 133 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.55%) PhD
8 14 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 12 (0.44%) CISSP
10 9 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.26%) ISEB
12 6 (0.22%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.11%) SANS
15 2 (0.074%) CCNP
15 2 (0.074%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.074%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (5.52%) QA
2 80 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 52 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 22 (0.81%) GDPR
6 17 (0.63%) MISRA
7 15 (0.55%) SLA
8 13 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 11 (0.41%) MiFID
10 10 (0.37%) NIST
10 10 (0.37%) WCAG
11 7 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.26%) GxP
12 5 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
12 5 (0.18%) GRC
13 4 (0.15%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.11%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 2 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 382 (14.06%) Docker
2 77 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.47%) IAG
4 38 (1.40%) ACF2
4 38 (1.40%) RACF
5 21 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.37%) Firmware
9 9 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.29%) HDFS
10 8 (0.29%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.22%) NFS
12 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.15%) GPFS
13 4 (0.15%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.11%) OpenIDM
15 2 (0.074%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 414 (15.24%) Kubernetes
2 223 (8.21%) Terraform
3 115 (4.23%) Ansible
4 110 (4.05%) Grafana
5 89 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (0.99%) Kibana
8 24 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (0.77%) Podman
10 18 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 17 (0.63%) Puppet
12 14 (0.52%) Consul
13 10 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.37%) Opsgenie
13 10 (0.37%) SCCM
14 9 (0.33%) BladeLogic
14 9 (0.33%) Istio
14 9 (0.33%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.29%) Zipkin
16 7 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 269 (9.90%) Oracle
2 152 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 147 (5.41%) Google
4 67 (2.47%) SAP
5 65 (2.39%) IBM
6 51 (1.88%) ION Trading
6 51 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 48 (1.77%) Splunk
8 39 (1.44%) Sybase
9 33 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 33 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 30 (1.10%) Adobe
10 30 (1.10%) Databricks
11 21 (0.77%) VMware
12 19 (0.70%) CyberArk
13 18 (0.66%) Informatica
13 18 (0.66%) New Relic
14 17 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.55%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.52%) Solace