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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 48 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 -40
Contract jobs citing Java 60 54 46
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.02% 3.74% 2.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.96% 14.03% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 27
10th Percentile £204 £386 £378
25th Percentile £290 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% -0.86% +17.17%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £688
90th Percentile £620 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £528
% change year-on-year - -14.69% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% -56.15% -

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 334 385 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.36% 26.68% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 238 247
10th Percentile £336 £390 £350
25th Percentile £409 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% +1.80%
75th Percentile £560 £651 £638
90th Percentile £620 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +1.22% -19.91%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.31% -4.17%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +3 30 £488 -22.00% 7
Windsor +1 11 £208 -36.15% 2
Wokingham - 5 £478 - 4
Bracknell -9 4 £208 -46.79%
Slough -6 1 £650 +44.44% 3
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 3 (5.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Drupal
2 1 (1.67%) nginx
2 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Maximo
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) AWS
2 14 (23.33%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) GitHub
4 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 8 (13.33%) GCP
6 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.67%) Serverless
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.00%) SaaS
8 2 (3.33%) AtomSphere
8 2 (3.33%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.33%) Boomi
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Broadband
1 3 (5.00%) GPRS
1 3 (5.00%) GSM
1 3 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 10 (16.67%) MySQL
3 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.67%) Big Data
5 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (5.00%) Firebug
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) Gradle
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) Maven
3 2 (3.33%) Selenium
3 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.67%) Appium
4 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (6.67%) Architect
4 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Designer
5 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) REST
2 8 (13.33%) SailPoint
3 7 (11.67%) HTML
3 7 (11.67%) SOAP
4 6 (10.00%) OAuth
4 6 (10.00%) React
4 6 (10.00%) XML
5 5 (8.33%) CSS
5 5 (8.33%) GraphQL
5 5 (8.33%) JSON
5 5 (8.33%) Node.js
6 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.67%) Spring
7 3 (5.00%) .NET
7 3 (5.00%) Kafka
7 3 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.33%) SAML
8 2 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.00%) IPTV
4 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Linux
1 10 (16.67%) Unix
1 10 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Android
2 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (28.33%) DevOps
4 14 (23.33%) Agile
5 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.33%) OO
6 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (13.33%) Scrum
8 7 (11.67%) High Availability
8 7 (11.67%) OOP
8 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 6 (10.00%) Release Management
9 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (8.33%) API Management
10 5 (8.33%) Business Continuity
10 5 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.33%) SDLC
10 5 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 24 (40.00%) Python
3 18 (30.00%) SQL
4 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 8 (13.33%) BeanShell
5 8 (13.33%) C#
6 7 (11.67%) Perl
7 6 (10.00%) Go
8 4 (6.67%) C
9 3 (5.00%) Jython
9 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.33%) Ada
10 2 (3.33%) Assembly Language
10 2 (3.33%) Bash
10 2 (3.33%) C++
10 2 (3.33%) Groovy
10 2 (3.33%) MATLAB
10 2 (3.33%) PHP
10 2 (3.33%) R
10 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) EU AI Act
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.67%) NDS
3 1 (1.67%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Oracle
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) Databricks
4 1 (1.67%) IBM
4 1 (1.67%) NetIQ
4 1 (1.67%) OpenText
4 1 (1.67%) Pega
4 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media