Java Contracts in Wales

Java
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 36 44 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 11 19 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.74% 3.01% 8.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.57% 12.26% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 62
10th Percentile £356 £404 £428
25th Percentile £406 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £625
90th Percentile £540 £564 £773
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +11.62%

All Programming Languages
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 Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 155 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.68% 24.56% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 124 232
10th Percentile £325 £334 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +21.39%
75th Percentile £543 £613 £625
90th Percentile £599 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
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
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Wales

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Wales

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Wales

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Wales

Java
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
South Wales +8 6 £413 -5.71% 13
West Wales +2 4 £488 -4.88% 3
North Wales - 1 - - 2
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) CA Gen
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) C++ Developer
3 1 (9.09%) CA Gen Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) React
1 2 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
2 1 (9.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) BDD
1 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.09%) ETL
2 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
2 1 (9.09%) OO
2 1 (9.09%) OOP
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CA