Java Engineer Contracts in England

Java Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in England is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 463 349
Rank change year-on-year +130 -114 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 211 177 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.37% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.39% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 142 438
10th Percentile £431 £419 £450
25th Percentile £500 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £619 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -1.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £850 £723 £703
90th Percentile £888 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 21
10th Percentile £69.25 £46.57 -
25th Percentile - £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.75
90th Percentile - £70.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in England

Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +117 130 £750 +15.38% 62
South East +30 30 £625 +15.74% 9
South West +9 24 £475 +5.56% 22
North of England +26 13 £500 -25.93% 13
East of England +13 11 £534 -3.78% 3
North West +19 10 £525 -1.41% 11
Yorkshire +22 3 £425 -12.37% 1
Java Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 job ads across the England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 211 (100.00%) Java
2 143 (67.77%) Software Engineering
3 100 (47.39%) Agile
4 79 (37.44%) AWS
5 75 (35.55%) Python
6 71 (33.65%) Finance
7 61 (28.91%) DevOps
7 61 (28.91%) JavaScript
8 58 (27.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 56 (26.54%) Banking
9 56 (26.54%) TypeScript
10 54 (25.59%) CI/CD
11 50 (23.70%) Jenkins
12 47 (22.27%) Investment Banking
12 47 (22.27%) Front Office
13 45 (21.33%) Hedge funds
14 44 (20.85%) REST
14 44 (20.85%) Equities
14 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
15 42 (19.91%) Apache
16 41 (19.43%) Asset Management
16 41 (19.43%) Derivative
17 40 (18.96%) Fixed Income
17 40 (18.96%) Protocol Buffers
17 40 (18.96%) Pandas
17 40 (18.96%) SciPy
17 40 (18.96%) NumPy
17 40 (18.96%) dbt
17 40 (18.96%) Apache Arrow
17 40 (18.96%) gRPC

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 42 (19.91%) Apache
2 40 (18.96%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.79%) Confluence
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.44%) AWS
2 40 (18.96%) dbt
3 39 (18.48%) Snowflake
4 31 (14.69%) GitHub
5 30 (14.22%) Azure
6 27 (12.80%) GCP
7 7 (3.32%) Cloud Run
8 5 (2.37%) Datadog
8 5 (2.37%) Serverless
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.90%) Miro
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.42%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (1.42%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (1.42%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.95%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) Firewall
1 8 (3.79%) VPN
2 7 (3.32%) SNMP
2 7 (3.32%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.47%) MQTT
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.96%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (18.96%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (18.96%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (18.96%) Dremio
2 39 (18.48%) Data Lake
3 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.79%) BigQuery
4 8 (3.79%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.42%) MySQL
8 3 (1.42%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.95%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.95%) KDB
10 1 (0.47%) Big Data
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.47%) HBase
Development Applications
1 50 (23.70%) Jenkins
2 33 (15.64%) JIRA
3 29 (13.74%) Selenium
4 23 (10.90%) GoogleTest
5 22 (10.43%) Cucumber
6 17 (8.06%) Git
7 16 (7.58%) REST Assured
7 16 (7.58%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.27%) Bitbucket
8 9 (4.27%) GitLab
8 9 (4.27%) Maven
9 7 (3.32%) Eclipse
9 7 (3.32%) Gradle
9 7 (3.32%) Robot Framework
10 5 (2.37%) JUnit
11 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.95%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.95%) JMeter
General
1 71 (33.65%) Finance
2 56 (26.54%) Banking
3 47 (22.27%) Front Office
3 47 (22.27%) Investment Banking
4 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
5 23 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (8.06%) Law
7 13 (6.16%) Retail
8 9 (4.27%) Police
9 4 (1.90%) Aviation
10 2 (0.95%) Automotive
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.85%) REST
2 40 (18.96%) gRPC
2 40 (18.96%) NumPy
2 40 (18.96%) Pandas
2 40 (18.96%) Protocol Buffers
2 40 (18.96%) SciPy
3 31 (14.69%) Spring Boot
4 29 (13.74%) Spring
5 28 (13.27%) React
6 22 (10.43%) Java EE
7 21 (9.95%) CSS
8 18 (8.53%) HTML
9 16 (7.58%) Qt
10 14 (6.64%) Kafka
11 9 (4.27%) Node.js
12 8 (3.79%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.79%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.79%) RESTful
13 7 (3.32%) .NET
14 5 (2.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (27.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 45 (21.33%) Hedge funds
3 44 (20.85%) Equities
4 41 (19.43%) Derivative
5 40 (18.96%) Fixed Income
6 14 (6.64%) Pricing Data
7 12 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.79%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.37%) Legacy Code
11 5 (2.37%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
14 1 (0.47%) OTC Derivatives
14 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
14 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.17%) Linux
2 9 (4.27%) Windows
3 6 (2.84%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Android
5 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (67.77%) Software Engineering
2 100 (47.39%) Agile
3 61 (28.91%) DevOps
4 54 (25.59%) CI/CD
5 41 (19.43%) Asset Management
6 37 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (16.11%) Investment Management
8 33 (15.64%) Test Automation
9 31 (14.69%) Microservices
10 25 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (9.95%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (9.00%) TDD
12 19 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (8.53%) Decision-Making
14 17 (8.06%) Software Architecture
15 13 (6.16%) Line Management
16 12 (5.69%) API Development
16 12 (5.69%) Computer Science
17 11 (5.21%) Containerisation
17 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 211 (100.00%) Java
2 75 (35.55%) Python
3 61 (28.91%) JavaScript
4 56 (26.54%) TypeScript
5 34 (16.11%) C++
6 25 (11.85%) SQL
7 9 (4.27%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.37%) C#
8 5 (2.37%) PHP
8 5 (2.37%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.37%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.90%) Groovy
9 4 (1.90%) Scala
10 3 (1.42%) Bash
10 3 (1.42%) C
11 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.95%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.21%) Degree
4 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.58%) MISRA
2 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.69%) QA
3 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (8.06%) Docker
2 7 (3.32%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) iptables
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) zsh
Systems Management
1 18 (8.53%) Ansible
1 18 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.69%) Terraform
3 11 (5.21%) Grafana
4 8 (3.79%) Podman
5 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.84%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (1.90%) Consul
7 4 (1.90%) Kibana
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (13.74%) Google
2 8 (3.79%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.32%) Splunk
4 6 (2.84%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.37%) New Relic
6 4 (1.90%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.90%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.42%) Solace
8 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.95%) Confluent
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.47%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle