Java Software Engineer Contracts

Java Software Engineer
UK

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
7 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 588 549
Rank change year-on-year +134 -39 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 136 100 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.18% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 67 257
10th Percentile £450 £483 £438
25th Percentile £516 £515 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £869 £700 £700
90th Percentile £888 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.09% -4.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 21
10th Percentile £67.50 £46.94 -
25th Percentile - £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +19.27%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £71.75 £70.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +85.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,368 52,724 84,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.55% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 36,785 59,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,898 1,484 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the UK

Java Software Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +128 120 £800 +33.33% 66
Work from Home +153 78 £800 +24.27% 64
London +118 69 £800 +23.08% 35
UK excluding London +63 51 £569 -1.09% 51
South West +22 25 £475 +1.33% 16
South East +20 17 £600 +11.11%
North West +18 4 £550 +3.29% 10
North of England +9 4 £550 -21.43% 11
East of England +9 2 £543 -5.65% 1
Scotland - 2 £400 - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 9

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, Java Software 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 job ads featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (100.00%) Java
2 135 (99.26%) Software Engineering
3 91 (66.91%) Agile
4 71 (52.21%) AWS
5 67 (49.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 65 (47.79%) Python
7 59 (43.38%) JavaScript
8 56 (41.18%) Finance
9 55 (40.44%) TypeScript
10 53 (38.97%) Banking
11 52 (38.24%) Front Office
12 47 (34.56%) Investment Banking
13 46 (33.82%) Apache
13 46 (33.82%) Amazon Athena
14 45 (33.09%) gRPC
14 45 (33.09%) Apache Airflow
14 45 (33.09%) Apache Ignite
14 45 (33.09%) Dremio
14 45 (33.09%) Protocol Buffers
14 45 (33.09%) Pandas
14 45 (33.09%) Hedge funds
14 45 (33.09%) SciPy
14 45 (33.09%) NumPy
14 45 (33.09%) Fixed Income
14 45 (33.09%) Equities
14 45 (33.09%) Asset Management
14 45 (33.09%) Derivative
14 45 (33.09%) dbt
14 45 (33.09%) Apache Arrow
15 44 (32.35%) Snowflake

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
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 46 (33.82%) Apache
2 45 (33.09%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.15%) Confluence
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 71 (52.21%) AWS
2 45 (33.09%) dbt
3 44 (32.35%) Snowflake
4 28 (20.59%) GitHub
5 19 (13.97%) GCP
6 15 (11.03%) Azure
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.94%) Miro
9 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.47%) AWS IoT
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) SNMP
1 7 (5.15%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.82%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (33.09%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (33.09%) Apache Ignite
2 45 (33.09%) Dremio
3 43 (31.62%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.94%) MySQL
5 2 (1.47%) KDB
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.74%) Big Data
6 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (28.68%) Jenkins
2 35 (25.74%) JIRA
3 27 (19.85%) GoogleTest
4 21 (15.44%) Git
5 9 (6.62%) Maven
5 9 (6.62%) SonarQube
6 8 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
7 7 (5.15%) Eclipse
7 7 (5.15%) GitLab
7 7 (5.15%) Robot Framework
7 7 (5.15%) Selenium
8 5 (3.68%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.21%) JUnit
11 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.74%) Mercurial
General
1 56 (41.18%) Finance
2 53 (38.97%) Banking
3 52 (38.24%) Front Office
4 47 (34.56%) Investment Banking
5 21 (15.44%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Law
6 6 (4.41%) Retail
7 4 (2.94%) Police
8 3 (2.21%) Aviation
9 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.74%) Automotive
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (33.09%) gRPC
1 45 (33.09%) NumPy
1 45 (33.09%) Pandas
1 45 (33.09%) Protocol Buffers
1 45 (33.09%) SciPy
2 24 (17.65%) REST
3 20 (14.71%) Qt
4 16 (11.76%) Spring
5 15 (11.03%) Spring Boot
6 13 (9.56%) CSS
7 11 (8.09%) Java EE
8 9 (6.62%) HTML
8 9 (6.62%) React
9 8 (5.88%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.15%) JSON
11 5 (3.68%) .NET
11 5 (3.68%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.68%) Kafka
11 5 (3.68%) SOAP
11 5 (3.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (49.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 45 (33.09%) Derivative
2 45 (33.09%) Equities
2 45 (33.09%) Fixed Income
2 45 (33.09%) Hedge funds
3 16 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (11.76%) Pricing Data
4 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.47%) IoT
6 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.74%) Social Media
6 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.32%) Linux
2 7 (5.15%) Windows
3 2 (1.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (99.26%) Software Engineering
2 91 (66.91%) Agile
3 45 (33.09%) Asset Management
4 37 (27.21%) Investment Management
5 34 (25.00%) DevOps
6 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
7 15 (11.03%) Line Management
8 13 (9.56%) TDD
9 12 (8.82%) Greeks
10 11 (8.09%) Microservices
10 11 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (7.35%) Analytics
11 10 (7.35%) Test Automation
12 9 (6.62%) Containerisation
13 8 (5.88%) BDD
13 8 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (5.88%) Prototyping
13 8 (5.88%) Scrum
13 8 (5.88%) Validation
14 7 (5.15%) UML
Programming Languages
1 136 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (47.79%) Python
3 59 (43.38%) JavaScript
4 55 (40.44%) TypeScript
5 32 (23.53%) C++
6 15 (11.03%) SQL
7 9 (6.62%) PHP
8 4 (2.94%) C#
8 4 (2.94%) Groovy
8 4 (2.94%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.47%) Ruby
9 2 (1.47%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.94%) Degree
4 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.71%) MISRA
2 12 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 18 (13.24%) Docker
2 7 (5.15%) Firmware
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.88%) Podman
3 7 (5.15%) Ansible
4 6 (4.41%) Terraform
5 5 (3.68%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 28 (20.59%) Google
2 7 (5.15%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.94%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.21%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.21%) Solace
4 3 (2.21%) Splunk
5 2 (1.47%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.74%) Databricks
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.74%) Reuters
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