Java Contracts

Java
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 27 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 2,618 2,945 8,879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.26% 6.30% 11.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.66% 20.27% 29.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,170 6,353
10th Percentile £375 £400 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £725
90th Percentile £863 £810 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 72 170
10th Percentile £36.93 £44.73 £47.38
25th Percentile £42.94 £50.56 £57.50
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +14.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,555 14,527 30,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 31.09% 37.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,420 10,352 21,779
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.35% -2.91% +9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 444 508
10th Percentile £22.00 £32.10 £25.50
25th Percentile £39.63 £47.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.36 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% +0.59% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.79
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +39.78%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 17 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the UK

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java over the 6 months to 17 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the UK

Java
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 6 months to 17 November 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 0 2,241 £600 +4.35% 843
London +5 1,561 £625 +4.17% 444
Work from Home +3 934 £597 +3.83% 791
UK excluding London +6 831 £475 -9.52% 512
North of England +12 221 £450 -14.29% 142
Scotland +3 178 £425 -10.53% 48
South East -3 156 £550 +4.76% 101
South West -1 126 £613 +6.52% 87
North West +7 110 £402 -23.38% 76
Yorkshire +12 91 £500 -8.05% 36
Midlands +16 87 £500 - 41
West Midlands +15 54 £550 +10.00% 27
East of England +18 44 £413 -17.50% 39
East Midlands -4 33 £356 -28.80% 14
North East +5 20 £425 -14.79% 31
Northern Ireland +4 17 £475 -32.14% 55
Wales +10 12 £463 -5.13% 8

Java
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
1 165 (6.30%) Apache
2 160 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (3.97%) Confluence
4 91 (3.48%) Apache Spark
5 48 (1.83%) CMS
6 23 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 21 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 21 (0.80%) SAS
8 14 (0.53%) JBoss
9 13 (0.50%) Camunda
10 12 (0.46%) MQSeries
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
11 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
12 8 (0.31%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
13 7 (0.27%) Drupal
13 7 (0.27%) nginx
14 6 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.15%) Sketch
5 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.076%) InVision
6 1 (0.038%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
2 15 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (0.46%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 12 (0.46%) Oracle iProcurement
4 12 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 11 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
6 10 (0.38%) Misys Opics
7 9 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
8 8 (0.31%) Endur
8 8 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
9 6 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.23%) Shopify
10 5 (0.19%) SAP PSCD
10 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (0.15%) Global One
11 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
12 3 (0.11%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (39.34%) AWS
2 481 (18.37%) Azure
3 357 (13.64%) GCP
4 188 (7.18%) Serverless
5 174 (6.65%) GitHub
6 162 (6.19%) dbt
7 149 (5.69%) Snowflake
8 128 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
9 127 (4.85%) OpenShift
10 125 (4.77%) Amazon S3
11 117 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
12 91 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
13 81 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
14 62 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
16 50 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
17 42 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 35 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
20 34 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.60%) HTTP
2 22 (0.84%) Internet
3 16 (0.61%) SSL
4 15 (0.57%) Firewall
4 15 (0.57%) FIX Connectivity
5 12 (0.46%) Network Security
5 12 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.42%) SMTP
7 8 (0.31%) DNS
8 7 (0.27%) FTP
9 6 (0.23%) IMAP
9 6 (0.23%) POP3
10 5 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (0.19%) iSCSI
10 5 (0.19%) SSH
10 5 (0.19%) VPN
11 4 (0.15%) AMQP
11 4 (0.15%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.15%) Wireless
11 4 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (6.42%) Amazon Athena
3 166 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 163 (6.23%) Data Lake
5 162 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 139 (5.31%) Dremio
7 135 (5.16%) Relational Database
8 120 (4.58%) Apache Ignite
9 119 (4.55%) Apache Arrow
10 112 (4.28%) MySQL
11 94 (3.59%) Big Data
12 84 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
13 82 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
14 76 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
15 75 (2.86%) Hadoop
16 73 (2.79%) SQL Server
17 72 (2.75%) DB2
18 66 (2.52%) Oracle Database
19 62 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
20 58 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 375 (14.32%) Jenkins
2 339 (12.95%) Git
3 182 (6.95%) JIRA
4 150 (5.73%) Maven
5 137 (5.23%) Selenium
6 135 (5.16%) GitLab
7 111 (4.24%) JUnit
8 105 (4.01%) Cucumber
9 71 (2.71%) Bitbucket
10 48 (1.83%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.83%) Gradle
11 40 (1.53%) Artifactory
12 39 (1.49%) Postman
13 35 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 35 (1.34%) IntelliJ
13 35 (1.34%) JMeter
13 35 (1.34%) TeamCity
14 27 (1.03%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.92%) REST Assured
16 22 (0.84%) Liquibase
General
1 775 (29.60%) Finance
2 556 (21.24%) Banking
3 483 (18.45%) Social Skills
4 298 (11.38%) Front Office
5 276 (10.54%) Investment Banking
6 222 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 205 (7.83%) Public Sector
8 55 (2.10%) Retail
9 50 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 26 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (0.92%) Marketing
12 23 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (0.69%) Military
13 18 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 16 (0.61%) Back Office
15 12 (0.46%) General Ledger
16 11 (0.42%) Law
16 11 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.42%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,185 (45.26%) Developer
2 697 (26.62%) Java Developer
3 407 (15.55%) Senior
4 262 (10.01%) Software Engineer
5 244 (9.32%) Architect
6 207 (7.91%) Java Engineer
7 193 (7.37%) Lead
8 186 (7.10%) Senior Developer
9 150 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 126 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 119 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 118 (4.51%) Data Engineer
13 116 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
14 115 (4.39%) Java Software Engineer
15 112 (4.28%) Python Engineer
16 93 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
17 88 (3.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 87 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
19 75 (2.86%) AWS Software Engineer
20 70 (2.67%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (19.71%) Spring
2 427 (16.31%) Spring Boot
3 312 (11.92%) Kafka
4 274 (10.47%) REST
5 270 (10.31%) React
6 235 (8.98%) AngularJS
7 202 (7.72%) HTML
8 176 (6.72%) RESTful
9 166 (6.34%) CSS
10 144 (5.50%) Pandas
11 143 (5.46%) NumPy
12 141 (5.39%) SciPy
13 126 (4.81%) gRPC
13 126 (4.81%) Node.js
14 117 (4.47%) Web Services
15 116 (4.43%) Protocol Buffers
16 102 (3.90%) XML
17 101 (3.86%) .NET
18 92 (3.51%) SOAP
19 88 (3.36%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 222 (8.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 201 (7.68%) Equities
3 197 (7.52%) Derivative
4 160 (6.11%) Fixed Income
5 130 (4.97%) Hedge funds
6 101 (3.86%) Algorithms
7 88 (3.36%) Data Structures
8 79 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 67 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
10 64 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 60 (2.29%) Cloud Native
12 59 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
13 51 (1.95%) Public Cloud
14 48 (1.83%) Mobile App
15 42 (1.60%) Replication
16 38 (1.45%) Onboarding
17 36 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
18 35 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
19 32 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
20 31 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 356 (13.60%) Linux
2 226 (8.63%) Unix
3 101 (3.86%) Android
4 100 (3.82%) Windows
5 37 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 32 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.50%) Solaris
8 12 (0.46%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.23%) CentOS
9 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.15%) VMS
12 3 (0.11%) zOS
13 2 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.076%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (32.58%) Agile
2 743 (28.38%) CI/CD
3 601 (22.96%) Software Engineering
4 581 (22.19%) DevOps
5 482 (18.41%) Microservices
6 350 (13.37%) Test Automation
7 323 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
8 273 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 250 (9.55%) TDD
10 218 (8.33%) SDLC
11 217 (8.29%) Computer Science
12 215 (8.21%) Continuous Integration
13 206 (7.87%) Containerisation
14 192 (7.33%) Scrum
15 187 (7.14%) OO
16 176 (6.72%) Migration
17 175 (6.68%) Design Patterns
18 174 (6.65%) Asset Management
19 169 (6.46%) Unit Testing
20 155 (5.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 942 (35.98%) Python
2 659 (25.17%) SQL
3 578 (22.08%) JavaScript
4 281 (10.73%) TypeScript
5 163 (6.23%) C++
6 151 (5.77%) Go
7 146 (5.58%) Kotlin
8 138 (5.27%) C#
9 136 (5.19%) Scala
10 103 (3.93%) Perl
11 97 (3.71%) Bash
12 94 (3.59%) PowerShell
13 88 (3.36%) C
14 85 (3.25%) Shell Script
15 78 (2.98%) PL/SQL
16 43 (1.64%) Ruby
17 39 (1.49%) Groovy
18 37 (1.41%) R
19 18 (0.69%) PHP
20 15 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 430 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 292 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 231 (8.82%) Degree
4 149 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 60 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 53 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 21 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 15 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.53%) CISSP
10 14 (0.53%) PhD
11 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.38%) CEH
13 9 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.31%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.31%) OSCP
15 7 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
16 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 5 (0.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.04%) QA
2 69 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 19 (0.73%) MISRA
5 15 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 12 (0.46%) GDPR
7 9 (0.34%) WCAG
8 6 (0.23%) HL7
8 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.19%) SEPA
10 4 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.15%) SLA
11 3 (0.11%) NCSC
12 2 (0.076%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.076%) MiFID
13 1 (0.038%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.038%) GAAP
13 1 (0.038%) IFRS
System Software
1 422 (16.12%) Docker
2 35 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) HDFS
5 8 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Lustre
7 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 3 (0.11%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.076%) Firmware
9 2 (0.076%) GPFS
9 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.076%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.038%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.038%) IAG
10 1 (0.038%) RACF
10 1 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 509 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 259 (9.89%) Terraform
3 133 (5.08%) Ansible
4 97 (3.71%) Grafana
5 68 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.84%) Argo
7 18 (0.69%) Istio
7 18 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 18 (0.69%) Puppet
8 16 (0.61%) Kibana
9 15 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.53%) Podman
11 12 (0.46%) logstash
12 11 (0.42%) Control-M
13 6 (0.23%) Bosun
13 6 (0.23%) Consul
13 6 (0.23%) Packer
14 4 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.15%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 278 (10.62%) Oracle
2 170 (6.49%) Google
3 142 (5.42%) Microsoft
4 78 (2.98%) Splunk
5 66 (2.52%) SAP
6 62 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 61 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 52 (1.99%) IBM
9 38 (1.45%) Databricks
9 38 (1.45%) VMware
10 30 (1.15%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.11%) TIBCO
12 28 (1.07%) Bloomberg
13 27 (1.03%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.99%) Solace
15 25 (0.95%) Confluent
15 25 (0.95%) Virgin Media
16 24 (0.92%) CyberArk
17 23 (0.88%) Sybase
18 22 (0.84%) Adobe