Java Contracts in South Wales

Java
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 43 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -22 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 6 14 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.77% 2.70% 8.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.25% 10.45% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 56
10th Percentile - £401 £441
25th Percentile £356 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -16.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £625
90th Percentile £569 £598 £775
Wales median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 96 134 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 28.32% 25.82% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 105 213
10th Percentile £325 £318 £365
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £625
90th Percentile £600 £663 £685
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +21.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 £18.45
25th Percentile £16.98 £17.48 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%
75th Percentile £24.96 £19.81 £22.88
90th Percentile £39.56 £19.91 £25.00
Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
% change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in South Wales

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South Wales 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
Cardiff +3 5 £388 -10.14% 9
Newport +4 1 £500 +25.00% 1
Java
Wales

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) BDD
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared