Java Developer Contracts in Berkshire

Java Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Berkshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 80 128
Rank change year-on-year -22 +48 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 18 35 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.91% 1.93% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 2.03% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 4
10th Percentile £458 £450 £468
25th Percentile £463 £453 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% +7.26%
75th Percentile £678 £530 £489
90th Percentile £688 £563 £493
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +23.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,866 1,723 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 94.88% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 1,107 1,469
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £381 £415 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 42
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £34.38
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £79.18
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Reading -24 18 £525 +7.69% 2
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Java Developer 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 across the Berkshire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (66.67%) REST
2 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (61.11%) Docker
3 11 (61.11%) Microservices
3 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
3 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
3 11 (61.11%) AWS
3 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 11 (61.11%) TDD
3 11 (61.11%) Spring
3 11 (61.11%) Spring Boot
4 9 (50.00%) DevOps
4 9 (50.00%) Ansible
5 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (38.89%) Scrum
6 7 (38.89%) Web Services
6 7 (38.89%) Relational Database
6 7 (38.89%) Agile
6 7 (38.89%) Serverless
6 7 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (33.33%) Git
7 6 (33.33%) Node.js
7 6 (33.33%) OpenStack

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (38.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) Git
3 5 (27.78%) Cucumber
3 5 (27.78%) JUnit
3 5 (27.78%) REST Assured
3 5 (27.78%) Selenium
3 5 (27.78%) SonarQube
4 4 (22.22%) GitLab
4 4 (22.22%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) JMeter
5 1 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Law
3 4 (22.22%) Police
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) REST
2 11 (61.11%) Spring
2 11 (61.11%) Spring Boot
3 7 (38.89%) Web Services
4 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (33.33%) Kafka
4 6 (33.33%) Node.js
5 5 (27.78%) Java EE
6 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
6 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
6 4 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (22.22%) RESTful
6 4 (22.22%) SOAP
6 4 (22.22%) Symfony
7 3 (16.67%) J2EE
8 2 (11.11%) Apache Camel
8 2 (11.11%) Mustache
8 2 (11.11%) React
9 1 (5.56%) Angular 2
9 1 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Microservices
1 11 (61.11%) TDD
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) BDD
5 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
5 5 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (27.78%) Kanban
5 5 (27.78%) Software Architecture
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (22.22%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Ansible
3 4 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (22.22%) Podman
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.56%) Splunk