Java Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Java
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -55 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Java 23 56 70
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.27% 4.76% 4.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.74% 18.30% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 52
10th Percentile £319 £358 £390
25th Percentile £363 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -16.28% +10.26%
75th Percentile £553 £533 £650
90th Percentile £600 £575 £688
South East median daily rate £511 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +9.89% -15.41% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £28.50
75th Percentile - - £29.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -9.43%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 297 306 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.44% 26.02% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 187 240
10th Percentile £327 £362 £363
25th Percentile £407 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £685 £650 £663
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 8
10th Percentile £61.74 - £47.44
25th Percentile £66.55 - £57.84
Median hourly rate £71.43 - £63.93
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.04%
75th Percentile £83.31 - £75.53
90th Percentile £85.05 - £80.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +26.06%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Java job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Berkshire

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Java

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 6 September 2026. 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 -42 14 £448 -10.50% 14
Wokingham -13 6 £389 -14.74% 5
Bracknell - 2 £525 - 5
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) AWS
3 9 (39.13%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
1 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Big Data
2 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JMeter
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Burp Suite
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) Gradle
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) LoadRunner
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) NeoLoad
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Site Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Java Software Architect
5 1 (4.35%) OSS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) OSS Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) PySpark
1 2 (8.70%) React
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) SailPoint
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) High Availability
4 5 (21.74%) Release Management
4 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) Business Continuity
5 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (17.39%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (13.04%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Go
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) BeanShell
5 2 (8.70%) Scala
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) Ariba
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Concur
2 1 (4.35%) Conga
2 1 (4.35%) Cramer
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) GoCardless
2 1 (4.35%) NetCracker
2 1 (4.35%) Nokia
2 1 (4.35%) Parasoft
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) SAP