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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 46 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 +27 -33
Contract jobs citing Java 59 53 56
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.80% 4.02% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.20% 14.40% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 44 34
10th Percentile - £385 £336
25th Percentile £204 £398 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +5.50% +13.54%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £678
90th Percentile £617 £646 £700
South East median daily rate £423 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -26.52% +7.48% -2.73%

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 343 368 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.10% 27.90% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 226 248
10th Percentile £333 £390 £343
25th Percentile £403 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +1.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £485 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -3.96% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £39.25 - £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £53.02
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +17.66% +9.34% -19.86%
75th Percentile £82.00 £70.24 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.80 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year -10.57% +5.49% -2.83%

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 31 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 31 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 -6 25 £488 -22.00% 8
Windsor +5 13 £208 -53.89%
Wokingham -18 8 £375 - 4
Bracknell -6 4 £208 -46.79% 2
Slough -7 1 £650 +44.44% 21
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 (5.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Maximo
1 3 (5.08%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) AWS
2 12 (20.34%) Azure
3 11 (18.64%) GitHub
4 10 (16.95%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.86%) GCP
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.78%) Serverless
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.08%) SaaS
8 2 (3.39%) AtomSphere
8 2 (3.39%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.39%) Boomi
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Broadband
1 3 (5.08%) GPRS
1 3 (5.08%) GSM
1 3 (5.08%) SSL
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) Relational Database
2 12 (20.34%) MySQL
3 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (5.08%) Firebug
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Gradle
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Maven
3 2 (3.39%) Selenium
3 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.69%) Appium
4 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.69%) Postman
4 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Billing
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Marketing
5 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Technical Support
3 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Developer
4 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (5.08%) Designer
4 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (5.08%) Senior
4 3 (5.08%) Solutions Designer
4 3 (5.08%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.08%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (5.08%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Ada Developer
5 2 (3.39%) Assembler Developer
5 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Integration Developer
5 2 (3.39%) Lead
5 2 (3.39%) Maximo Developer
5 2 (3.39%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) REST
2 8 (13.56%) SailPoint
3 7 (11.86%) HTML
3 7 (11.86%) React
3 7 (11.86%) SOAP
4 6 (10.17%) Node.js
4 6 (10.17%) OAuth
4 6 (10.17%) XML
5 5 (8.47%) CSS
5 5 (8.47%) GraphQL
5 5 (8.47%) JSON
6 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.08%) .NET
7 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.08%) Spring
8 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.39%) jQuery
8 2 (3.39%) SAML
8 2 (3.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) IPTV
2 3 (5.08%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
1 12 (20.34%) Unix
1 12 (20.34%) Windows
2 3 (5.08%) Android
2 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.03%) Agile
3 13 (22.03%) Computer Science
3 13 (22.03%) DevOps
4 12 (20.34%) OO
5 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (15.25%) OOP
6 9 (15.25%) Process Improvement
7 8 (13.56%) Scrum
8 6 (10.17%) High Availability
9 5 (8.47%) API Management
9 5 (8.47%) Business Continuity
9 5 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (8.47%) Release Management
9 5 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (8.47%) Task Automation
10 4 (6.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) JavaScript
2 22 (37.29%) Python
3 19 (32.20%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) PowerShell
5 9 (15.25%) Perl
6 8 (13.56%) BeanShell
7 7 (11.86%) C#
8 5 (8.47%) Go
9 3 (5.08%) Jython
9 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.39%) Ada
10 2 (3.39%) Assembly Language
10 2 (3.39%) Bash
10 2 (3.39%) C
10 2 (3.39%) Groovy
10 2 (3.39%) MATLAB
10 2 (3.39%) PHP
10 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Degree
2 11 (18.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.69%) NDS
3 1 (1.69%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.86%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Oracle
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.69%) IBM
4 1 (1.69%) NetIQ
4 1 (1.69%) OpenText
4 1 (1.69%) Pega
4 1 (1.69%) Virgin Media