Java Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Java
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 32 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing Java 8 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.62% 0.51% 5.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.81% 2.94% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £468 - £402
25th Percentile £488 £393 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £395 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% -21.00% +166.67%
75th Percentile £540 £398 £538
90th Percentile £591 - £585
East of England median daily rate £489 £395 £538
% change year-on-year +23.87% -26.51% -2.27%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 54 34 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 24.43% 17.17% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 27
10th Percentile £241 £363 £376
25th Percentile £454 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £588
90th Percentile £655 £575 £600
East of England median daily rate £503 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +18.24% -12.82% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 0
10th Percentile £47.63 £59.08 -
25th Percentile £61.63 £62.25 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.75 -
90th Percentile £89.80 £70.30 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Bedfordshire

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Bedfordshire

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 August 2025. 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
Luton - 3 - - 1
Dunstable +3 2 £600 +51.90%
Java
East of England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (25.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (25.00%) Mule
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) JWT
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (25.00%) MUnit
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CentOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) API Design
1 2 (25.00%) API Development
1 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 2 (25.00%) OO
1 2 (25.00%) OOD
1 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Conversational AI
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) PHP
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) DataWeave
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) CloudHub
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Salt
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) mParticle
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Vertica