Java Architect Contracts

Java Architect
UK

The median Java Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 660 799
Rank change year-on-year +149 +139 -166
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 68 34 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.059% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.063% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 21 43
10th Percentile £563 £519 £511
25th Percentile £657 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £775 £825 £763
90th Percentile £888 £1,088 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £583 £600
% change year-on-year +24.46% -2.92% +17.65%

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Architect over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Architect in the UK

Java Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +151 67 £725 +16.00% 14
London +116 38 £725 - 7
UK excluding London +73 28 £725 +24.46% 10
South East +43 27 £725 +31.82% 1
Work from Home +119 20 £825 +10.00% 4
North of England +30 1 £700 -6.67% 6
North West +16 1 £700 -6.67% 1

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Java Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.71%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
3 26 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (32.35%) Translating Business Requirements
4 22 (32.35%) Product Ownership
4 22 (32.35%) GAP Analysis
5 20 (29.41%) GCP
6 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
6 19 (27.94%) DV Cleared
7 18 (26.47%) Python
8 17 (25.00%) Agile
8 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 17 (25.00%) TypeScript
9 16 (23.53%) Finance
10 15 (22.06%) Apache Airflow
11 14 (20.59%) Banking
11 14 (20.59%) Front Office
11 14 (20.59%) Fixed Income
12 13 (19.12%) Equities
12 13 (19.12%) Asset Management
12 13 (19.12%) Investment Banking
12 13 (19.12%) Apache
12 13 (19.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (19.12%) Protocol Buffers
12 13 (19.12%) Hedge funds
12 13 (19.12%) SciPy
12 13 (19.12%) NumPy

Java Architect 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 15 (22.06%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (19.12%) Apache
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.94%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.94%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) AWS
2 20 (29.41%) GCP
3 13 (19.12%) dbt
4 12 (17.65%) Snowflake
5 6 (8.82%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (8.82%) GitHub
5 6 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (5.88%) Azure
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.47%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) Amazon Athena
1 13 (19.12%) Apache Arrow
1 13 (19.12%) Apache Ignite
1 13 (19.12%) Dremio
2 12 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 7 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.82%) BigQuery
4 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.82%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.41%) DB2
6 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.41%) GitLab
2 3 (4.41%) REST Assured
2 3 (4.41%) Selenium
2 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.47%) Git
3 1 (1.47%) Maven
General
1 26 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 14 (20.59%) Banking
3 14 (20.59%) Front Office
4 13 (19.12%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) gRPC
1 13 (19.12%) NumPy
1 13 (19.12%) Pandas
1 13 (19.12%) Protocol Buffers
1 13 (19.12%) SciPy
2 10 (14.71%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.82%) OAuth
3 6 (8.82%) REST
4 5 (7.35%) React
4 5 (7.35%) Spring
5 4 (5.88%) .NET
5 4 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.88%) CSS
6 3 (4.41%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.41%) Java EE
7 2 (2.94%) J2EE
7 2 (2.94%) SOAP
7 2 (2.94%) Web Services
8 1 (1.47%) EJB
8 1 (1.47%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.35%) Product Ownership
2 14 (20.59%) Fixed Income
3 13 (19.12%) Derivative
3 13 (19.12%) Equities
3 13 (19.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (19.12%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (32.35%) GAP Analysis
2 22 (32.35%) Translating Business Requirements
3 17 (25.00%) Agile
3 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 13 (19.12%) Asset Management
5 12 (17.65%) Line Management
6 11 (16.18%) Microservices
7 9 (13.24%) DevOps
8 8 (11.76%) Investment Management
9 7 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.29%) Workflow
10 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
10 6 (8.82%) Data Governance
10 6 (8.82%) Data Modelling
11 5 (7.35%) Analytics
12 4 (5.88%) Business Analysis
12 4 (5.88%) Machine Learning
12 4 (5.88%) Migration
12 4 (5.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (26.47%) Python
4 17 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.29%) SQL
6 6 (8.82%) C#
7 4 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.94%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.24%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (4.41%) Podman
4 1 (1.47%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Oracle
2 6 (8.82%) Google
3 2 (2.94%) IBM
3 2 (2.94%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.47%) TIBCO