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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 47 63
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing Java 48 47 64
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.62% 4.14% 3.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.30% 14.16% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 35
10th Percentile £204 £360 £355
25th Percentile £206 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% - +19.79%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £663
90th Percentile £597 - £695
South East median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

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 361 332 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.68% 29.28% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 201 247
10th Percentile £325 £400 £329
25th Percentile £400 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £587 £638 £621
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £501
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.80% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 16
10th Percentile £72.04 £40.50 £56.21
25th Percentile £74.20 £55.87 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £84.65 £72.56 £73.13
South East median hourly rate £53.50 £59.13 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.51% +0.21% +7.27%

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 April 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 April 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
Windsor +7 13 £208 -53.89%
Reading -31 13 £488 -22.00% 12
Wokingham -28 9 £375 -16.67% 1
Bracknell -1 6 £600 - 4
Slough -4 1 £650 - 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 (6.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle BRM
2 2 (4.17%) Maximo
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) AWS
2 10 (20.83%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) GitHub
4 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.42%) GCP
5 4 (8.33%) Serverless
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.25%) SaaS
7 2 (4.17%) AtomSphere
7 2 (4.17%) Azure API Management
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.17%) Boomi
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Broadband
1 3 (6.25%) GPRS
1 3 (6.25%) GSM
2 2 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 12 (25.00%) MySQL
3 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.33%) Big Data
6 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
1 5 (10.42%) Maven
2 4 (8.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) Subversion
3 3 (6.25%) Selenium
4 2 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.08%) Appium
5 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.08%) Gradle
5 1 (2.08%) JIRA
5 1 (2.08%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (2.08%) Postman
5 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Billing
4 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Technical Support
3 5 (10.42%) Applications Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Designer
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
6 2 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Integration Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Maximo Developer
6 2 (4.17%) React Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) REST
2 6 (12.50%) Kafka
2 6 (12.50%) SOAP
2 6 (12.50%) XML
3 5 (10.42%) GraphQL
3 5 (10.42%) Node.js
3 5 (10.42%) OAuth
3 5 (10.42%) React
4 3 (6.25%) .NET
4 3 (6.25%) JSON
4 3 (6.25%) SailPoint
4 3 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.17%) HTML
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.17%) OpenID
5 2 (4.17%) SAML
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.25%) IPTV
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.08%) Linux
2 12 (25.00%) Unix
3 9 (18.75%) Windows
4 2 (4.17%) VMS
5 1 (2.08%) Android
5 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 20 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.83%) Computer Science
2 10 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (18.75%) OO
3 9 (18.75%) OOP
3 9 (18.75%) Process Improvement
4 8 (16.67%) Agile
5 7 (14.58%) DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.58%) Task Automation
6 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 6 (12.50%) Migration
6 6 (12.50%) Validation
7 5 (10.42%) Business Continuity
7 5 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.42%) High Availability
7 5 (10.42%) Release Management
7 5 (10.42%) Scrum
7 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Python
1 22 (45.83%) SQL
2 20 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (18.75%) Perl
4 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.42%) C#
5 5 (10.42%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) Bash
7 3 (6.25%) BeanShell
7 3 (6.25%) Groovy
7 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) Jython
8 2 (4.17%) PHP
8 2 (4.17%) Scala
8 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) Virgin Media