Java Software Engineer Contracts in the South East

Java Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the South East is £624 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 218 258
Rank change year-on-year +37 +40 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 18 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £333 - £479
25th Percentile £517 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £540 £535
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% +0.93% +39.14%
75th Percentile £666 £580 £600
90th Percentile £690 £607 £641
England median daily rate £725 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +25.00% -3.33% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the South East

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the South East

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Software Engineer in the South East

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the South East

Java Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Hampshire - 10 £648 - 2
Thames Valley - 6 £650 - 1
Berkshire - 6 £650 -
Surrey +2 2 £438 -18.98% 1
Java Software Engineer
England

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Java Software Engineer 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 South East region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Java
1 18 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (72.22%) JIRA
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) Azure
5 7 (38.89%) AWS
5 7 (38.89%) Confluence
5 7 (38.89%) Git
5 7 (38.89%) Atlassian
5 7 (38.89%) Bitbucket
5 7 (38.89%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (38.89%) Robot Framework
5 7 (38.89%) REST
5 7 (38.89%) GoogleTest
5 7 (38.89%) Firmware
5 7 (38.89%) Validation
5 7 (38.89%) Google
5 7 (38.89%) SysML
5 7 (38.89%) Eclipse
5 7 (38.89%) SNMP
5 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
5 7 (38.89%) C++
5 7 (38.89%) HTML
5 7 (38.89%) CSS
5 7 (38.89%) Windows
5 7 (38.89%) Linux

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (38.89%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) SNMP
1 7 (38.89%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) JIRA
2 7 (38.89%) Bitbucket
2 7 (38.89%) Eclipse
2 7 (38.89%) Git
2 7 (38.89%) GoogleTest
2 7 (38.89%) Robot Framework
3 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 6 (33.33%) GitLab
3 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (33.33%) Selenium
4 5 (27.78%) REST Assured
4 5 (27.78%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Law
4 4 (22.22%) Police
5 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) CSS
1 7 (38.89%) HTML
1 7 (38.89%) REST
2 6 (33.33%) Java EE
3 5 (27.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) Prototyping
4 7 (38.89%) SysML
4 7 (38.89%) UML
4 7 (38.89%) Validation
4 7 (38.89%) Verification and Validation
5 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
5 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) C++
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Firmware
2 5 (27.78%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 5 (27.78%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Atlassian
1 7 (38.89%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft