Java Contracts in Berkshire

Java
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 -28
Contract jobs citing Java 59 90 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.90% 4.86% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.82% 20.36% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 57 39
10th Percentile £413 £360 £370
25th Percentile £450 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -7.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £530 £588
90th Percentile £688 £580 £676
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year - -83.83% +34.00%
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -1.72%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 373 442 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.31% 23.88% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 326 396
10th Percentile £330 £363 £351
25th Percentile £413 £427 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £578
90th Percentile £688 £689 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 5
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.55 £63.40
25th Percentile £56.65 £52.50 £64.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -6.67% +87.50%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £80.40
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.93 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £54.98 £46.85
% change year-on-year +9.27% +17.34% +15.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Reading -8 49 £594 +21.17% 15
Wokingham -1 4 £575 +6.98% 5
Slough +10 1 £585 +56.00% 2
Maidenhead -7 1 - -
Bracknell -19 1 £375 -9.96% 5
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (10.17%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Appian
3 1 (1.69%) JBoss
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Azure
3 7 (11.86%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (11.86%) Serverless
4 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.08%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.39%) Azure API Management
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.39%) IaaS
5 2 (3.39%) PaaS
5 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Network Security
1 2 (3.39%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) Internet
2 1 (1.69%) RNC
2 1 (1.69%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.78%) MySQL
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.39%) DB2
5 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.69%) GIS
6 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 32 (54.24%) Jenkins
2 27 (45.76%) Selenium
3 25 (42.37%) Cucumber
3 25 (42.37%) REST Assured
4 24 (40.68%) SonarQube
5 16 (27.12%) JIRA
6 13 (22.03%) GitLab
7 7 (11.86%) Git
8 5 (8.47%) JUnit
9 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.69%) JMeter
10 1 (1.69%) Mockito
10 1 (1.69%) NWDI
10 1 (1.69%) NWDS
General
1 31 (52.54%) Social Skills
2 26 (44.07%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (33.90%) Law
4 13 (22.03%) Police
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 18 (30.51%) Java Developer
2 18 (30.51%) Java Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Senior
4 7 (11.86%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (5.08%) DBA
8 3 (5.08%) Java Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Java Technical Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (55.93%) REST
2 25 (42.37%) Java EE
3 12 (20.34%) ARM Templates
3 12 (20.34%) Spring Boot
4 11 (18.64%) Spring
5 9 (15.25%) Kafka
5 9 (15.25%) Web Services
6 7 (11.86%) Node.js
7 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
7 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (8.47%) React
8 5 (8.47%) SOAP
8 5 (8.47%) Symfony
9 4 (6.78%) HTML
9 4 (6.78%) J2EE
9 4 (6.78%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (6.78%) RESTful
10 2 (3.39%) .NET
10 2 (3.39%) Apache Camel
10 2 (3.39%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) iPad
4 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) DevOps
2 30 (50.85%) Test Automation
3 27 (45.76%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (44.07%) Continuous Integration
5 25 (42.37%) Decision-Making
5 25 (42.37%) Software Architecture
5 25 (42.37%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (40.68%) Software Engineering
7 19 (32.20%) Microservices
8 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
9 13 (22.03%) Agile
9 13 (22.03%) Configuration Management
9 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (20.34%) TDD
11 11 (18.64%) Scrum
12 9 (15.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (15.25%) Full Stack Development
13 6 (10.17%) BDD
13 6 (10.17%) Kanban
13 6 (10.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) JavaScript
2 11 (18.64%) Python
3 8 (13.56%) PHP
4 5 (8.47%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.39%) Ruby
6 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (57.63%) SC Cleared
1 34 (57.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) CEH
3 1 (1.69%) CISSP
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (47.46%) Ansible
2 26 (44.07%) Kubernetes
3 13 (22.03%) Terraform
4 12 (20.34%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (20.34%) Podman
5 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.69%) Kibana
6 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) Adobe
3 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.39%) Google
3 2 (3.39%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco
4 1 (1.69%) Ericsson
4 1 (1.69%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) Mapinfo
4 1 (1.69%) Nokia
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.69%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) TIBCO