Java Contracts in Basildon

Java
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basildon requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 8 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 42.11% 14.29% 28.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.14% 29.17% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £315 £561 £429
25th Percentile £318 £598 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +20.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £488 £656 £550
90th Percentile £488 £675 £633
Essex median daily rate £485 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -9.18% +1.71% -8.30%

All Programming Languages
Basildon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 73.68% 48.98% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £315 £520 £390
25th Percentile £317 £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +20.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £488 - £505
90th Percentile £488 £675 £564
Essex median daily rate £400 £485 £478
% change year-on-year -17.53% +1.57% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £65.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.77% -9.16% +7.06%
75th Percentile £45.00 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £50.00 £59.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.97% +138.00% -60.70%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Basildon

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Basildon

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Basildon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Basildon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Basildon

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Basildon

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) dbt
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
1 4 (50.00%) Tableau
2 3 (37.50%) Looker
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) NumPy
2 3 (37.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Data Security
2 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) DataOps
3 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace