Java Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 1,000 2,159 4,508
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.79% 8.71% 10.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 23.47% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 1,592 3,292
10th Percentile £413 £436 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +9.27%
75th Percentile £784 £738 £675
90th Percentile £888 £850 £756
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 39 48
10th Percentile £47.45 £48.03 £20.25
25th Percentile £60.09 £55.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £73.50 £74.38 £66.33
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £62.88
% change year-on-year -0.76% +4.17% +25.75%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,001 9,198 16,914
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.96% 37.12% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 6,765 12,586
10th Percentile £355 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 193 190
10th Percentile £32.50 £27.83 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Java daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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.

Java hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Java hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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
1 122 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (10.30%) Apache
3 29 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.10%) Confluence
5 12 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.60%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) Camunda
8 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) FileNet
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) ThingWorx
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Teamcenter
1 5 (0.50%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 3 (0.30%) RMDS
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.10%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (38.90%) AWS
2 133 (13.30%) Azure
3 125 (12.50%) GCP
4 104 (10.40%) dbt
5 103 (10.30%) Snowflake
6 53 (5.30%) GitHub
7 39 (3.90%) Serverless
8 35 (3.50%) Amazon S3
9 25 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (1.80%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.70%) SaaS
15 16 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
18 10 (1.00%) Route 53
19 9 (0.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.80%) Firewall
2 15 (1.50%) VPN
3 13 (1.30%) Network Security
4 12 (1.20%) DNS
5 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.40%) BGP
7 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.30%) HTTP
7 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.20%) Internet
8 2 (0.20%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.10%) IPv4
9 1 (0.10%) LAN
9 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (10.90%) Amazon Athena
2 104 (10.40%) Apache Arrow
2 104 (10.40%) Data Lake
2 104 (10.40%) Dremio
3 86 (8.60%) Apache Ignite
4 60 (6.00%) MySQL
5 59 (5.90%) SQL Server
6 48 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (4.50%) Big Data
7 45 (4.50%) MongoDB
8 40 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (3.20%) NoSQL
9 32 (3.20%) Oracle Database
10 23 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 100 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 76 (7.60%) Git
3 71 (7.10%) Selenium
4 55 (5.50%) JIRA
5 53 (5.30%) Cucumber
6 43 (4.30%) JUnit
7 40 (4.00%) Maven
8 36 (3.60%) GitLab
9 31 (3.10%) Mockito
10 28 (2.80%) Cypress.io
11 27 (2.70%) JMeter
12 19 (1.90%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.50%) SonarQube
14 14 (1.40%) Postman
15 13 (1.30%) Bitbucket
15 13 (1.30%) TestNG
15 13 (1.30%) WebDriver
16 12 (1.20%) Subversion
17 10 (1.00%) SoapUI
18 9 (0.90%) Artifactory
General
1 322 (32.20%) Finance
2 212 (21.20%) Banking
3 167 (16.70%) Social Skills
4 164 (16.40%) Front Office
5 132 (13.20%) Investment Banking
6 72 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 16 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.40%) Marketing
11 13 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.10%) Retail
13 8 (0.80%) Law
14 7 (0.70%) Back Office
14 7 (0.70%) Police
15 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.40%) Automotive
18 3 (0.30%) Electronics
18 3 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 480 (48.00%) Developer
2 274 (27.40%) Java Developer
3 202 (20.20%) Senior
4 127 (12.70%) Software Engineer
5 118 (11.80%) Java Engineer
6 107 (10.70%) Senior Developer
7 92 (9.20%) Lead
8 83 (8.30%) Architect
9 66 (6.60%) Java Software Engineer
9 66 (6.60%) Senior Java Developer
10 65 (6.50%) Software Developer
11 62 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (5.10%) Python Engineer
13 48 (4.80%) Full Stack Developer
13 48 (4.80%) Senior Java Engineer
14 45 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 45 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (4.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 43 (4.30%) Lead Developer
16 35 (3.50%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (16.70%) Spring Boot
2 151 (15.10%) Spring
3 110 (11.00%) REST
4 109 (10.90%) React
5 106 (10.60%) gRPC
6 104 (10.40%) Protocol Buffers
7 96 (9.60%) Kafka
8 87 (8.70%) NumPy
8 87 (8.70%) Pandas
8 87 (8.70%) SciPy
9 81 (8.10%) Web Services
10 79 (7.90%) HTML
11 69 (6.90%) Node.js
12 60 (6.00%) AngularJS
13 59 (5.90%) CSS
13 59 (5.90%) RESTful
14 50 (5.00%) .NET
15 42 (4.20%) XML
16 40 (4.00%) SOAP
17 30 (3.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 131 (13.10%) Fixed Income
2 114 (11.40%) Hedge funds
3 111 (11.10%) Derivative
4 104 (10.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 98 (9.80%) Equities
6 51 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 24 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 20 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.80%) Clustering
11 18 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.60%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (1.50%) Equity Derivative
15 14 (1.40%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.30%) Cloud Native
17 12 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.70%) Linux
2 33 (3.30%) Unix
3 29 (2.90%) Android
4 25 (2.50%) Windows
5 12 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (34.60%) Agile
2 263 (26.30%) Software Engineering
3 210 (21.00%) DevOps
4 195 (19.50%) CI/CD
5 156 (15.60%) Microservices
6 152 (15.20%) Test Automation
7 117 (11.70%) Asset Management
8 108 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (9.70%) Full Stack Development
10 95 (9.50%) Investment Management
10 95 (9.50%) SDLC
11 83 (8.30%) TDD
12 73 (7.30%) Analytics
13 71 (7.10%) Computer Science
14 67 (6.70%) Scrum
15 53 (5.30%) BDD
16 52 (5.20%) ETL
17 50 (5.00%) Mentoring
18 49 (4.90%) Data Modelling
19 47 (4.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 315 (31.50%) Python
2 288 (28.80%) JavaScript
3 205 (20.50%) SQL
4 157 (15.70%) TypeScript
5 88 (8.80%) C#
6 60 (6.00%) C++
7 47 (4.70%) Scala
8 43 (4.30%) Go
9 41 (4.10%) Kotlin
10 30 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 28 (2.80%) PHP
12 27 (2.70%) C
12 27 (2.70%) PowerShell
13 23 (2.30%) PL/SQL
14 21 (2.10%) Bash
15 19 (1.90%) Perl
16 17 (1.70%) Ruby
17 9 (0.90%) Groovy
18 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 120 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.60%) Degree
4 43 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.10%) PhD
8 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.40%) CISSP
9 4 (0.40%) ISEB
9 4 (0.40%) SANS
10 3 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.10%) CISM
12 1 (0.10%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.10%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.00%) QA
3 31 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.00%) GDPR
5 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.70%) MiFID
6 7 (0.70%) WCAG
7 6 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.30%) GRC
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.10%) GxP
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.10%) NIST
11 1 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 134 (13.40%) Docker
2 30 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.70%) IAG
4 16 (1.60%) ACF2
4 16 (1.60%) RACF
5 9 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.10%) GridGain
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) iptables
8 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 148 (14.80%) Kubernetes
2 92 (9.20%) Terraform
3 50 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 45 (4.50%) Ansible
5 43 (4.30%) Grafana
6 16 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (1.10%) Consul
9 10 (1.00%) Kibana
10 9 (0.90%) Puppet
11 8 (0.80%) Podman
12 7 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (0.40%) BladeLogic
14 4 (0.40%) Istio
14 4 (0.40%) Nagios
14 4 (0.40%) Packer
15 3 (0.30%) Zipkin
16 2 (0.20%) logstash
16 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (10.10%) Oracle
2 48 (4.80%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.40%) Google
4 27 (2.70%) IBM
5 23 (2.30%) SAP
5 23 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 16 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.60%) Sybase
7 14 (1.40%) Splunk
8 11 (1.10%) Databricks
8 11 (1.10%) ION Trading
9 10 (1.00%) Adobe
10 9 (0.90%) AVEVA
10 9 (0.90%) SaltStack
11 7 (0.70%) Informatica
11 7 (0.70%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.60%) Confluent
12 6 (0.60%) New Relic
13 5 (0.50%) Siemens
13 5 (0.50%) TSYS