Java Contracts in the East of England

Java
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 61 34
Rank change year-on-year +18 -27 -22
Contract jobs citing Java 70 64 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.70% 3.20% 6.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.37% 10.76% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 72
10th Percentile £363 £450 £413
25th Percentile £405 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £543 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% +1.02% +5.39%
75th Percentile £560 £691 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £655
England median daily rate £576 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.79% +0.83% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 18
10th Percentile £52.50 - £45.13
25th Percentile £56.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £64.69
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +0.48% +14.49%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £76.29
90th Percentile £71.25 £76.05 £77.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 403 595 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.32% 29.75% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 342 455
10th Percentile £314 £301 £296
25th Percentile £405 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £686 £638
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 101 87
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.53 £77.00 £67.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
Essex +8 25 £534 -0.93% 2
Cambridgeshire +16 22 £496 -0.75% 31
Hertfordshire +1 21 £375 -33.04% 13
Suffolk +3 1 £600 -14.29% 1
Bedfordshire -3 1 £395 -26.51% 3
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (8.57%) Alfresco
1 6 (8.57%) Appian
1 6 (8.57%) Camunda
1 6 (8.57%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.43%) GCP
2 6 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (8.57%) Collibra
2 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.71%) Azure
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.86%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Firewall
1 13 (18.57%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) RTMP
2 1 (1.43%) RTP
2 1 (1.43%) RTSP
2 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.57%) Metadata
2 6 (8.57%) Power BI
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (21.43%) JIRA
2 12 (17.14%) Git
3 7 (10.00%) JUnit
3 7 (10.00%) Mockito
4 6 (8.57%) Eclipse
4 6 (8.57%) PyCharm
5 2 (2.86%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.43%) CMake
6 1 (1.43%) Maven
General
1 10 (14.29%) Finance
1 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Banking
2 7 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.57%) Aerospace
3 6 (8.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (4.29%) Automotive
5 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.43%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Developer
2 14 (20.00%) Architect
3 11 (15.71%) Full Stack Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Java Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) Full Stack Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Data Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Java Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.71%) Data Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Data Product Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Product Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.86%) React
2 19 (27.14%) CSS
2 19 (27.14%) HTML
3 13 (18.57%) Drools
3 13 (18.57%) Spring
3 13 (18.57%) Spring Boot
4 8 (11.43%) REST
5 7 (10.00%) Quarkus
5 7 (10.00%) RESTful
6 6 (8.57%) Angular 2
6 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.57%) HTML5
6 6 (8.57%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (8.57%) jBPM
6 6 (8.57%) JSON
6 6 (8.57%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.43%) FFmpeg
7 1 (1.43%) GStreamer
7 1 (1.43%) JPA
7 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.14%) Low-Code
3 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) MPEG
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) Agile
2 24 (34.29%) Software Engineering
3 22 (31.43%) DevOps
4 21 (30.00%) Full Stack Development
5 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (24.29%) Identity Management
7 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
8 12 (17.14%) Workflow
9 11 (15.71%) Data Science
9 11 (15.71%) Load Balancing
10 10 (14.29%) TDD
10 10 (14.29%) Use Case
10 10 (14.29%) Validation
11 9 (12.86%) Scrum
11 9 (12.86%) Verification and Validation
12 8 (11.43%) Content Development
12 8 (11.43%) Data Management
12 8 (11.43%) Microservices
13 7 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) TypeScript
2 19 (27.14%) SQL
3 15 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 15 (21.43%) Python
4 6 (8.57%) Groovy
5 4 (5.71%) R
6 3 (4.29%) C++
7 2 (2.86%) C#
8 1 (1.43%) Bash
8 1 (1.43%) C
8 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.43%) Scala
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Degree
2 12 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) GDPR
1 6 (8.57%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (8.57%) GxP
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) Google
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Pega
3 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.43%) IBM
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle