Java Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 297 366 376
Rank change year-on-year +69 +10 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 105 64 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.30% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 89
10th Percentile £399 £413 £430
25th Percentile £418 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +24.68%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 21
10th Percentile £68.00 £56.18 -
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% -11.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the UK excluding London

Java Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +11 33 £475 +5.56% 23
South East +35 30 £625 +15.74% 5
Scotland +58 16 £435 +24.29% 9
North of England +14 13 £500 -25.93% 12
East of England +10 11 £534 -3.78% 1
North West +18 10 £525 -1.41% 10
Yorkshire +15 3 £425 -12.37% 1
Midlands +17 1 £500 +5.26% 3
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 9
Java Engineer
UK

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 90 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 59 (56.19%) Agile
4 55 (52.38%) DevOps
5 50 (47.62%) Jenkins
6 49 (46.67%) CI/CD
7 41 (39.05%) JIRA
8 36 (34.29%) C++
9 32 (30.48%) Google
9 32 (30.48%) REST
10 31 (29.52%) GoogleTest
11 30 (28.57%) GitHub
12 28 (26.67%) Linux
13 27 (25.71%) Security Cleared
13 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (23.81%) SC Cleared
14 25 (23.81%) Test Automation
14 25 (23.81%) AWS
14 25 (23.81%) Python
15 24 (22.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (22.86%) Qt
15 24 (22.86%) MISRA
16 23 (21.90%) Selenium
16 23 (21.90%) HTML
17 22 (20.95%) CSS
17 22 (20.95%) Cucumber
17 22 (20.95%) Decision-Making
17 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
18 21 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
19 20 (19.05%) Linux Command Line

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (7.62%) Confluence
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.57%) GitHub
2 25 (23.81%) AWS
3 16 (15.24%) Azure
4 3 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (2.86%) Serverless
5 2 (1.90%) GCP
5 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) Firewall
1 8 (7.62%) VPN
2 7 (6.67%) SNMP
2 7 (6.67%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.86%) MySQL
2 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.90%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.95%) Big Data
4 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.95%) HBase
4 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.95%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 50 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 41 (39.05%) JIRA
3 31 (29.52%) GoogleTest
4 23 (21.90%) Selenium
5 22 (20.95%) Cucumber
6 16 (15.24%) REST Assured
6 16 (15.24%) SonarQube
7 10 (9.52%) Git
8 9 (8.57%) Bitbucket
9 7 (6.67%) Eclipse
9 7 (6.67%) Robot Framework
10 6 (5.71%) GitLab
10 6 (5.71%) JUnit
11 3 (2.86%) Mockito
12 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.90%) JMeter
12 2 (1.90%) Maven
13 1 (0.95%) Gradle
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.19%) Law
4 9 (8.57%) Police
5 8 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.76%) Finance
7 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.95%) Automotive
8 1 (0.95%) Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.48%) REST
2 24 (22.86%) Qt
3 23 (21.90%) HTML
4 22 (20.95%) CSS
5 18 (17.14%) Java EE
6 17 (16.19%) Spring Boot
7 16 (15.24%) React
8 14 (13.33%) Spring
9 9 (8.57%) AngularJS
10 8 (7.62%) JPA
11 5 (4.76%) ARM Templates
12 4 (3.81%) Kafka
13 3 (2.86%) J2EE
13 3 (2.86%) Node.js
13 3 (2.86%) RESTful
14 2 (1.90%) CSS3
14 2 (1.90%) HTML5
14 2 (1.90%) Jest
14 2 (1.90%) React Native
14 2 (1.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.67%) Linux
2 8 (7.62%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Android
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 59 (56.19%) Agile
3 55 (52.38%) DevOps
4 49 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 22 (20.95%) Decision-Making
8 21 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
10 19 (18.10%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (16.19%) Software Architecture
12 11 (10.48%) Microservices
12 11 (10.48%) SDLC
13 9 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 8 (7.62%) Containerisation
14 8 (7.62%) Identity Management
14 8 (7.62%) Load Balancing
14 8 (7.62%) Prototyping
14 8 (7.62%) Scrum
14 8 (7.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 105 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (34.29%) C++
3 25 (23.81%) Python
4 15 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.52%) SQL
6 4 (3.81%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.81%) PHP
6 4 (3.81%) Scala
7 2 (1.90%) C
8 1 (0.95%) Bash
8 1 (0.95%) Groovy
8 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.86%) MISRA
2 3 (2.86%) QA
3 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) Docker
2 7 (6.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) zsh
Systems Management
1 16 (15.24%) Ansible
2 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (4.76%) Podman
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (30.48%) Google
2 8 (7.62%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.90%) Databricks
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft