Java Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work 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 262 408 478
Rank change year-on-year +146 +70 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 79 49 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.22% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 38 130
10th Percentile £455 £504 £438
25th Percentile £678 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% +7.29% +11.63%
75th Percentile £888 £725 £713
90th Percentile - £750 £750
UK median daily rate £800 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +30.61% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.80 £61.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -36.08% -14.19%
75th Percentile £72.50 £43.39 £65.25
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Java Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software 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 Software Engineer.

Java Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Java Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software 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 Software Engineer.

Java Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Java
1 79 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 59 (74.68%) AWS
3 56 (70.89%) Agile
4 53 (67.09%) Finance
5 52 (65.82%) Front Office
5 52 (65.82%) Banking
5 52 (65.82%) TypeScript
6 49 (62.03%) JavaScript
6 49 (62.03%) Apache
6 49 (62.03%) Python
7 48 (60.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 48 (60.76%) Fixed Income
7 48 (60.76%) Equities
7 48 (60.76%) Asset Management
7 48 (60.76%) Derivative
7 48 (60.76%) Investment Banking
7 48 (60.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 48 (60.76%) Pandas
7 48 (60.76%) Hedge funds
7 48 (60.76%) SciPy
7 48 (60.76%) NumPy
7 48 (60.76%) gRPC
7 48 (60.76%) Apache Airflow
7 48 (60.76%) Amazon Athena
7 48 (60.76%) Apache Ignite
7 48 (60.76%) Dremio
7 48 (60.76%) dbt
7 48 (60.76%) Apache Arrow
8 46 (58.23%) Snowflake

Java Software 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 49 (62.03%) Apache
2 48 (60.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 59 (74.68%) AWS
2 48 (60.76%) dbt
3 46 (58.23%) Snowflake
4 20 (25.32%) GCP
5 7 (8.86%) Azure
6 4 (5.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.53%) AWS IoT
7 2 (2.53%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (60.76%) Amazon Athena
1 48 (60.76%) Apache Arrow
1 48 (60.76%) Apache Ignite
1 48 (60.76%) Dremio
2 46 (58.23%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.80%) MySQL
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.13%) SonarQube
3 7 (8.86%) Git
4 6 (7.59%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.33%) GitLab
5 5 (6.33%) JIRA
5 5 (6.33%) REST Assured
5 5 (6.33%) Selenium
6 3 (3.80%) Maven
6 3 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.27%) JUnit
General
1 53 (67.09%) Finance
2 52 (65.82%) Banking
2 52 (65.82%) Front Office
3 48 (60.76%) Investment Banking
4 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Law
6 4 (5.06%) Police
7 3 (3.80%) Retail
8 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (60.76%) gRPC
1 48 (60.76%) NumPy
1 48 (60.76%) Pandas
1 48 (60.76%) Protocol Buffers
1 48 (60.76%) SciPy
2 13 (16.46%) REST
3 8 (10.13%) Java EE
4 7 (8.86%) Spring
4 7 (8.86%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.33%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.80%) JSON
7 3 (3.80%) JWT
7 3 (3.80%) Kafka
7 3 (3.80%) React
7 3 (3.80%) SOAP
7 3 (3.80%) Web Services
8 2 (2.53%) Node.js
8 2 (2.53%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 48 (60.76%) Derivative
1 48 (60.76%) Equities
1 48 (60.76%) Fixed Income
1 48 (60.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 48 (60.76%) Hedge funds
2 16 (20.25%) Pricing Data
3 2 (2.53%) IoT
4 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Android
2 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 56 (70.89%) Agile
3 48 (60.76%) Asset Management
4 38 (48.10%) Investment Management
5 17 (21.52%) Line Management
6 13 (16.46%) Greeks
7 10 (12.66%) TDD
8 9 (11.39%) Test Automation
9 8 (10.13%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.86%) DevOps
11 6 (7.59%) BDD
11 6 (7.59%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (7.59%) Microservices
12 5 (6.33%) Analytics
12 5 (6.33%) API Development
12 5 (6.33%) Configuration Management
12 5 (6.33%) Decision-Making
12 5 (6.33%) Software Architecture
12 5 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (65.82%) TypeScript
3 49 (62.03%) JavaScript
3 49 (62.03%) Python
4 6 (7.59%) PHP
5 5 (6.33%) SQL
6 2 (2.53%) Ruby
6 2 (2.53%) Scala
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
1 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Ansible
2 5 (6.33%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (6.33%) Podman
2 5 (6.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.06%) ION Trading
2 2 (2.53%) Bloomberg
2 2 (2.53%) Reuters
3 1 (1.27%) Google
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft