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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 52 63
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Java 65 64 50
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.30% 3.86% 2.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.25% 17.58% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 31
10th Percentile £276 £389 £413
25th Percentile £370 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £650
90th Percentile £620 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% -9.43% +1.43%

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 321 364 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 26.18% 21.97% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 237 281
10th Percentile £359 £374 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £650
90th Percentile £620 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £496 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -3.17% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - £47.44 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +17.62% -37.84%
75th Percentile £20.25 £70.98 £55.31
90th Percentile - £78.66 £59.44
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -8.33%

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 October 2025.

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 October 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
Reading +16 40 £500 -19.35% 15
Slough +3 8 £450 - 1
Bracknell -6 4 £208 -46.79% 4
Wokingham -8 4 £478 +0.53% 1
Windsor - 2 £361 - 1
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 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.54%) CMS
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) Drupal
1 1 (1.54%) nginx
1 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Maximo
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.08%) AWS
2 25 (38.46%) Azure
3 8 (12.31%) GCP
4 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.69%) GitHub
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.54%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Datadog
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.31%) ATM
1 8 (12.31%) Ethernet
1 8 (12.31%) Frame Relay
1 8 (12.31%) GPRS
1 8 (12.31%) GSM
1 8 (12.31%) LAN
1 8 (12.31%) LTE
1 8 (12.31%) MPLS
1 8 (12.31%) SAN
1 8 (12.31%) SDH
1 8 (12.31%) UMTS
1 8 (12.31%) VPN
1 8 (12.31%) WAN
1 8 (12.31%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
2 1 (1.54%) SSL
2 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.62%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.08%) JIRA
2 15 (23.08%) Selenium
3 14 (21.54%) Cucumber
4 13 (20.00%) GitLab
4 13 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 10 (15.38%) SonarQube
6 9 (13.85%) Git
7 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.62%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (4.62%) Firebug
7 3 (4.62%) JUnit
7 3 (4.62%) Maven
7 3 (4.62%) Mockito
8 2 (3.08%) Gradle
8 2 (3.08%) JMeter
8 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.54%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.54%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.54%) jMock
General
1 36 (55.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.31%) Law
4 8 (12.31%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.15%) Police
6 2 (3.08%) Billing
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.54%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Developer
2 10 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.85%) Java Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) IP Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Test Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 5 (7.69%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Support
8 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) REST
2 13 (20.00%) Java EE
3 9 (13.85%) ARM Templates
4 8 (12.31%) HTML
5 6 (9.23%) Spring
5 6 (9.23%) XML
6 5 (7.69%) CSS
6 5 (7.69%) jQuery
6 5 (7.69%) JSON
6 5 (7.69%) SailPoint
6 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.69%) Web Services
7 4 (6.15%) Google JAX
7 4 (6.15%) JAX
7 4 (6.15%) PyTorch
7 4 (6.15%) RESTful
7 4 (6.15%) scikit-learn
7 4 (6.15%) TensorFlow
8 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.31%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.62%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.08%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.00%) Linux
2 9 (13.85%) Unix
3 4 (6.15%) Windows
4 2 (3.08%) Android
4 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) DevOps
2 25 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (29.23%) Software Engineering
4 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
5 16 (24.62%) Test Automation
6 15 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (21.54%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.00%) Software Architecture
9 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
10 11 (16.92%) Agile
10 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
10 11 (16.92%) Project Management
11 10 (15.38%) Test Strategy
12 8 (12.31%) Fault Management
12 8 (12.31%) Regression Testing
13 7 (10.77%) High Availability
13 7 (10.77%) SDLC
14 6 (9.23%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) Python
2 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.31%) SQL
4 6 (9.23%) Go
5 5 (7.69%) BeanShell
5 5 (7.69%) C
5 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.69%) R
6 4 (6.15%) C++
7 3 (4.62%) C#
7 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.08%) Ada
8 2 (3.08%) Assembly Language
8 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.54%) Jython
9 1 (1.54%) Perl
9 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) CCNP
3 8 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (12.31%) ISEB
3 8 (12.31%) ISTQB
3 8 (12.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (4.62%) Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (6.15%) EU AI Act
2 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.08%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) NDS
3 1 (1.54%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 1 (1.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.00%) Terraform
3 9 (13.85%) Ansible
3 9 (13.85%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (13.85%) Podman
4 2 (3.08%) Kibana
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Cisco
2 8 (12.31%) Juniper
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.54%) NetIQ
5 1 (1.54%) OpenText
5 1 (1.54%) Pega
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) SAP