Java Contracts in Kent

Java
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 31 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 0.98% 0.91% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.53% 4.76% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £540
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -44.44% -
South East median daily rate £575 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +8.49% +0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.02 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -6.78%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 42 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 9.31% 19.18% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 57
10th Percentile - £328 £345
25th Percentile £375 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +29.03%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £588
90th Percentile £575 £772 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £51.98 £46.94 £36.87
25th Percentile £53.82 £50.38 £39.31
Median hourly rate £58.91 £56.24 £44.73
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +25.74% +11.81%
75th Percentile £63.98 £56.41 £48.92
90th Percentile £65.80 £56.45 £50.62
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.16%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Kent

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Kent

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Kent

Java
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Kent 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
Faversham - 1 £500 -
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL