Java Software Engineer Contracts in England

Java Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in England is £800, 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 422 558 508
Rank change year-on-year +136 -50 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 128 78 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.18% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 57 250
10th Percentile £450 £474 £438
25th Percentile £563 £520 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £875 £700 £700
90th Percentile £888 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £800 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +30.61% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 21
10th Percentile £68.00 £44.95 -
25th Percentile - £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -
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% -12.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £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% +16.28%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in England

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +119 72 £800 +23.08% 37
South West +15 29 £475 +1.33% 16
South East +23 17 £600 +11.11%
North West +14 4 £550 +3.29% 8
North of England +7 4 £550 -21.43% 9
East of England +5 2 £543 -5.65% 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Java Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 127 (99.22%) Software Engineering
3 92 (71.88%) Agile
4 74 (57.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 72 (56.25%) Python
6 69 (53.91%) AWS
7 62 (48.44%) JavaScript
8 55 (42.97%) Front Office
9 54 (42.19%) Finance
9 54 (42.19%) TypeScript
10 52 (40.63%) Banking
11 50 (39.06%) Investment Banking
12 49 (38.28%) Apache
12 49 (38.28%) Amazon Athena
13 48 (37.50%) gRPC
13 48 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
13 48 (37.50%) Apache Ignite
13 48 (37.50%) dbt
13 48 (37.50%) Dremio
13 48 (37.50%) Apache Arrow
13 48 (37.50%) Pandas
13 48 (37.50%) Hedge funds
13 48 (37.50%) SciPy
13 48 (37.50%) NumPy
13 48 (37.50%) Protocol Buffers
13 48 (37.50%) Equities
13 48 (37.50%) Fixed Income
13 48 (37.50%) Asset Management
13 48 (37.50%) Derivative
14 47 (36.72%) Snowflake

Java Software 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 49 (38.28%) Apache
2 48 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.47%) Confluence
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 69 (53.91%) AWS
2 48 (37.50%) dbt
3 47 (36.72%) Snowflake
4 28 (21.88%) GitHub
5 21 (16.41%) GCP
6 15 (11.72%) Azure
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.13%) Miro
8 3 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.34%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) SNMP
1 7 (5.47%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (38.28%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (37.50%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (37.50%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (37.50%) Dremio
3 46 (35.94%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.56%) KDB
4 2 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.78%) Big Data
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (30.47%) Jenkins
1 39 (30.47%) JIRA
2 31 (24.22%) GoogleTest
3 14 (10.94%) Git
4 8 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.47%) Bitbucket
5 7 (5.47%) Eclipse
5 7 (5.47%) GitLab
5 7 (5.47%) Robot Framework
5 7 (5.47%) Selenium
6 5 (3.91%) Maven
6 5 (3.91%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.91%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.34%) JUnit
8 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
General
1 55 (42.97%) Front Office
2 54 (42.19%) Finance
3 52 (40.63%) Banking
4 50 (39.06%) Investment Banking
5 12 (9.38%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.69%) Law
6 6 (4.69%) Retail
7 4 (3.13%) Police
8 3 (2.34%) Aviation
9 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.78%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (37.50%) gRPC
1 48 (37.50%) NumPy
1 48 (37.50%) Pandas
1 48 (37.50%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (37.50%) SciPy
2 24 (18.75%) Qt
3 16 (12.50%) REST
4 12 (9.38%) CSS
4 12 (9.38%) Java EE
5 10 (7.81%) Spring
6 9 (7.03%) Spring Boot
7 8 (6.25%) HTML
7 8 (6.25%) React
8 5 (3.91%) .NET
8 5 (3.91%) ARM Templates
8 5 (3.91%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.91%) SOAP
9 4 (3.13%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 74 (57.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (37.50%) Derivative
2 48 (37.50%) Equities
2 48 (37.50%) Fixed Income
2 48 (37.50%) Hedge funds
3 20 (15.63%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (12.50%) Pricing Data
5 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.44%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Windows
3 2 (1.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (99.22%) Software Engineering
2 92 (71.88%) Agile
3 48 (37.50%) Asset Management
4 38 (29.69%) Investment Management
5 34 (26.56%) DevOps
6 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
7 17 (13.28%) Line Management
8 13 (10.16%) Greeks
9 10 (7.81%) TDD
10 8 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (6.25%) Microservices
10 8 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.25%) Prototyping
10 8 (6.25%) Scrum
10 8 (6.25%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.25%) Validation
11 7 (5.47%) API Development
11 7 (5.47%) Containerisation
11 7 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (5.47%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (56.25%) Python
3 62 (48.44%) JavaScript
4 54 (42.19%) TypeScript
5 35 (27.34%) C++
6 14 (10.94%) SQL
7 5 (3.91%) PHP
8 4 (3.13%) C#
8 4 (3.13%) Groovy
8 4 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.56%) Ruby
9 2 (1.56%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) Bash
10 1 (0.78%) C
10 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.75%) MISRA
2 13 (10.16%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) Docker
2 7 (5.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 8 (6.25%) Podman
2 7 (5.47%) Ansible
3 6 (4.69%) Terraform
4 5 (3.91%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 32 (25.00%) Google
2 7 (5.47%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.13%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.13%) ION Trading
4 3 (2.34%) Solace
4 3 (2.34%) Splunk
5 2 (1.56%) Reuters
5 2 (1.56%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.78%) Databricks
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
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