Java Contracts in Berkshire

Java
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 52 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -26
Contract jobs citing Java 70 66 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.63% 3.74% 3.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.13% 15.87% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 42
10th Percentile £378 £368 £411
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £528 £600
90th Percentile £688 £603 £673
South East median daily rate £575 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +8.49% +0.95% +7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year - -83.83% +26.61%
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -5.51%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 366 416 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.00% 23.60% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 296 356
10th Percentile £325 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 4
10th Percentile £56.41 £22.55 £61.28
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.88 £62.06
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.45% +52.63%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £80.93
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.93 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -17.65%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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 +12 59 £625 +25.00% 14
Wokingham +4 5 £525 -8.70%
Bracknell -14 2 £406 +8.33%
Slough +7 1 £585 +56.00% 2
Maidenhead -9 1 - -
Java
South East

Java
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 3 (4.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Appian
3 1 (1.43%) JBoss
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 30 (42.86%) Azure
2 22 (31.43%) AWS
3 13 (18.57%) Serverless
4 9 (12.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (12.86%) Azure Functions
4 9 (12.86%) Entra ID
5 8 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (8.57%) GCP
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.29%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.29%) IaaS
8 3 (4.29%) PaaS
8 3 (4.29%) SaaS
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
1 3 (4.29%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
2 1 (1.43%) RNC
2 1 (1.43%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 9 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.57%) MySQL
4 4 (5.71%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.86%) DB2
6 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.43%) GIS
7 1 (1.43%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (54.29%) Selenium
2 29 (41.43%) Jenkins
3 28 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 25 (35.71%) REST Assured
5 24 (34.29%) SonarQube
6 15 (21.43%) Git
6 15 (21.43%) JIRA
7 13 (18.57%) GitLab
8 4 (5.71%) JMeter
9 3 (4.29%) Maven
9 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio
10 2 (2.86%) JUnit
11 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.43%) Mockito
11 1 (1.43%) NWDI
11 1 (1.43%) NWDS
General
1 33 (47.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (45.71%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (28.57%) Law
4 13 (18.57%) Police
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Developer
2 18 (25.71%) Java Engineer
3 14 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Senior
5 12 (17.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Lead
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Architect
9 4 (5.71%) Consultant
9 4 (5.71%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Analyst
10 3 (4.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (44.29%) REST
2 25 (35.71%) Java EE
3 16 (22.86%) React
4 12 (17.14%) ARM Templates
5 9 (12.86%) Spring Boot
6 8 (11.43%) Kafka
6 8 (11.43%) Spring
7 7 (10.00%) Web Services
8 5 (7.14%) HTML
8 5 (7.14%) Node.js
8 5 (7.14%) Symfony
9 4 (5.71%) .NET
9 4 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.71%) XML
10 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (4.29%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.86%) Apache Camel
11 2 (2.86%) Django
11 2 (2.86%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) IoT
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) DevOps
2 41 (58.57%) Test Automation
3 28 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (37.14%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (37.14%) Software Architecture
5 25 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 25 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 25 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (32.86%) Microservices
7 20 (28.57%) Agile
8 16 (22.86%) CI/CD
9 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 14 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (18.57%) Configuration Management
10 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (15.71%) Scrum
12 10 (14.29%) SDLC
13 9 (12.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (12.86%) TDD
14 7 (10.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.14%) Python
2 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.86%) PHP
4 5 (7.14%) SQL
5 4 (5.71%) C#
6 3 (4.29%) Ruby
7 2 (2.86%) C
7 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) C++
8 1 (1.43%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) R
8 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (44.29%) SC Cleared
1 31 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (1.43%) CEH
4 1 (1.43%) CISSP
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (27.14%) Docker
2 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (35.71%) Ansible
2 24 (34.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.57%) Terraform
4 12 (17.14%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (17.14%) Podman
5 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Oracle
2 5 (7.14%) Google
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) VMware
5 2 (2.86%) Adobe
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) Mapinfo
6 1 (1.43%) Nokia
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.43%) Splunk
6 1 (1.43%) TIBCO