Java Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £710 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 371 325
Rank change year-on-year +156 -46 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 129 93 324
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.38% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.40% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 71 255
10th Percentile £444 £500 £438
25th Percentile £500 £550 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £708
90th Percentile £888 £788 £739
UK median daily rate £594 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.52 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £42.10 £61.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.80 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.46% -24.73% -14.19%
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.10 £65.25
90th Percentile - £53.84 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -7.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,614 23,092 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,191 16,381 30,896
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 531 571
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +37.60% +64.39%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.23 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Engineer.

Java Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Java Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Engineer.

Java Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 129 (100.00%) Java
2 93 (72.09%) Software Engineering
3 67 (51.94%) Agile
4 66 (51.16%) AWS
5 60 (46.51%) Finance
6 53 (41.09%) TypeScript
7 49 (37.98%) Python
7 49 (37.98%) Banking
8 48 (37.21%) JavaScript
9 46 (35.66%) Hedge funds
10 45 (34.88%) Apache Airflow
10 45 (34.88%) Front Office
11 42 (32.56%) Apache
12 41 (31.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (31.78%) Fixed Income
12 41 (31.78%) Equities
12 41 (31.78%) Asset Management
12 41 (31.78%) Investment Banking
12 41 (31.78%) Derivative
12 41 (31.78%) gRPC
12 41 (31.78%) Pandas
12 41 (31.78%) SciPy
12 41 (31.78%) NumPy
12 41 (31.78%) Protocol Buffers
12 41 (31.78%) Apache Arrow
12 41 (31.78%) dbt
12 41 (31.78%) Amazon Athena
12 41 (31.78%) Apache Ignite
12 41 (31.78%) Dremio
13 40 (31.01%) Snowflake

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (34.88%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (32.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 66 (51.16%) AWS
2 41 (31.78%) dbt
3 40 (31.01%) Snowflake
4 20 (15.50%) GCP
5 19 (14.73%) Azure
6 7 (5.43%) GitHub
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.55%) AWS IoT
8 2 (1.55%) Datadog
8 2 (1.55%) Miro
8 2 (1.55%) Serverless
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.78%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) Firewall
1 7 (5.43%) VPN
2 1 (0.78%) MQTT
2 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.78%) Amazon Athena
1 41 (31.78%) Apache Arrow
1 41 (31.78%) Apache Ignite
1 41 (31.78%) Dremio
2 39 (30.23%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.33%) Flink
5 3 (2.33%) MySQL
5 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.78%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.78%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.53%) Selenium
3 10 (7.75%) Cucumber
4 9 (6.98%) Git
4 9 (6.98%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.20%) JIRA
6 7 (5.43%) Maven
7 6 (4.65%) GitLab
8 5 (3.88%) JUnit
8 5 (3.88%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.33%) Mockito
11 2 (1.55%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.55%) JMeter
12 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
General
1 60 (46.51%) Finance
2 49 (37.98%) Banking
3 45 (34.88%) Front Office
4 41 (31.78%) Investment Banking
5 31 (24.03%) Social Skills
6 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Law
7 4 (3.10%) Police
8 3 (2.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Aviation
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) gRPC
1 41 (31.78%) NumPy
1 41 (31.78%) Pandas
1 41 (31.78%) Protocol Buffers
1 41 (31.78%) SciPy
2 23 (17.83%) REST
3 18 (13.95%) React
3 18 (13.95%) Spring Boot
4 16 (12.40%) Spring
5 14 (10.85%) Kafka
6 11 (8.53%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.98%) HTML
8 8 (6.20%) CSS
8 8 (6.20%) Java EE
9 6 (4.65%) RESTful
10 5 (3.88%) ARM Templates
10 5 (3.88%) Web Services
11 4 (3.10%) JSON
11 4 (3.10%) JWT
11 4 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (35.66%) Hedge funds
2 41 (31.78%) Derivative
2 41 (31.78%) Equities
2 41 (31.78%) Fixed Income
2 41 (31.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (10.85%) Pricing Data
4 7 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.55%) IoT
8 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.78%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.78%) Social Media
8 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.98%) Linux
2 2 (1.55%) Android
2 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (72.09%) Software Engineering
2 67 (51.94%) Agile
3 41 (31.78%) Asset Management
4 34 (26.36%) Investment Management
5 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
5 24 (18.60%) DevOps
6 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (13.95%) Microservices
8 17 (13.18%) Full Stack Development
9 16 (12.40%) Test Automation
10 14 (10.85%) Line Management
11 13 (10.08%) TDD
12 11 (8.53%) Greeks
13 9 (6.98%) Containerisation
14 7 (5.43%) API Development
14 7 (5.43%) ETL
14 7 (5.43%) Identity Management
14 7 (5.43%) Load Balancing
15 6 (4.65%) Analytics
15 6 (4.65%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 129 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (41.09%) TypeScript
3 49 (37.98%) Python
4 48 (37.21%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.63%) SQL
6 7 (5.43%) C++
7 6 (4.65%) PHP
8 4 (3.10%) Scala
8 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.55%) Bash
9 2 (1.55%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) C
10 1 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
1 13 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.10%) Degree
3 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.33%) QA
3 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (14.73%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) iptables
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) zsh
Systems Management
1 18 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.98%) Terraform
3 7 (5.43%) Grafana
4 6 (4.65%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (3.88%) Ansible
5 5 (3.88%) Podman
5 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.10%) Consul
7 2 (1.55%) Kibana
7 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.10%) Google
2 4 (3.10%) ION Trading
2 4 (3.10%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.55%) Databricks
3 2 (1.55%) New Relic
4 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.78%) Confluent
4 1 (0.78%) Informatica
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle