Java Contracts in Reading

Java
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 37 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -38
Contract jobs citing Java 50 51 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.22% 4.93% 2.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.36% 18.55% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 17
10th Percentile £413 £450 £394
25th Percentile £463 £454 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £490 £490
Median % change year-on-year +27.55% - +8.89%
75th Percentile £681 £556 £638
90th Percentile £698 £619 £720
Berkshire median daily rate £586 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +20.26% -7.14% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 288 275 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.30% 26.60% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 216 254
10th Percentile £363 £369 £353
25th Percentile £425 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £613
90th Percentile £688 £709 £654
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £525 £493
% change year-on-year +2.38% +6.60% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.95
% change year-on-year -12.00% -4.04% +88.26%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Reading

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Reading

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Reading

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Reading

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (12.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.00%) Appian
3 1 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) Serverless
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
1 1 (2.00%) RNC
1 1 (2.00%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.00%) DB2
4 2 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.00%) GIS
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 32 (64.00%) Jenkins
2 28 (56.00%) Selenium
3 25 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 24 (48.00%) REST Assured
4 24 (48.00%) SonarQube
5 15 (30.00%) JIRA
6 13 (26.00%) GitLab
7 8 (16.00%) Git
8 5 (10.00%) JUnit
9 1 (2.00%) JMeter
9 1 (2.00%) Mockito
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (40.00%) Law
4 13 (26.00%) Police
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Developer
2 18 (36.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (34.00%) Java Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Senior
5 7 (14.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Java Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (64.00%) REST
2 25 (50.00%) Java EE
3 12 (24.00%) ARM Templates
3 12 (24.00%) Spring Boot
4 11 (22.00%) Spring
5 7 (14.00%) Kafka
5 7 (14.00%) Web Services
6 6 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (12.00%) Node.js
7 5 (10.00%) Symfony
8 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (8.00%) React
8 4 (8.00%) RESTful
8 4 (8.00%) SOAP
9 3 (6.00%) HTML
9 3 (6.00%) J2EE
10 2 (4.00%) Apache Camel
10 2 (4.00%) Mustache
11 1 (2.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) DevOps
2 30 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 26 (52.00%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 25 (50.00%) Software Architecture
4 25 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (46.00%) Software Engineering
6 15 (30.00%) Microservices
7 13 (26.00%) Configuration Management
7 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
8 12 (24.00%) TDD
9 11 (22.00%) Agile
10 10 (20.00%) Scrum
11 9 (18.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 7 (14.00%) Full Stack Development
13 6 (12.00%) BDD
13 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
14 5 (10.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) PHP
4 4 (8.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) SC Cleared
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) CEH
2 1 (2.00%) CISSP
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Ansible
2 20 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (26.00%) Terraform
4 12 (24.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (24.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Adobe
2 2 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco
3 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.00%) IBM
3 1 (2.00%) Mapinfo
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) Nokia
3 1 (2.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) TIBCO