Java Contracts in Berkshire

Java
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 64 42
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 +14
Contract jobs citing Java 60 60 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.12% 3.02% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.07% 16.09% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 53
10th Percentile - £413 £358
25th Percentile £450 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +20.26% -7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £538
90th Percentile - £688 £585
South East median daily rate £507 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -11.78% +8.49% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +27.27%

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 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Berkshire

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 May 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 +8 26 £625 - 45
Slough +6 16 £450 -23.08% 34
Wokingham -6 8 £450 -21.74%
Windsor - 5 £520 -
Bracknell +19 2 - - 2
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 9 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) Azure API Management
4 8 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (11.67%) Serverless
6 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.00%) IaaS
7 3 (5.00%) PaaS
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) ATM
1 16 (26.67%) Ethernet
1 16 (26.67%) Frame Relay
1 16 (26.67%) GPRS
1 16 (26.67%) GSM
1 16 (26.67%) LAN
1 16 (26.67%) LTE
1 16 (26.67%) MPLS
1 16 (26.67%) SAN
1 16 (26.67%) SDH
1 16 (26.67%) UMTS
1 16 (26.67%) VPN
1 16 (26.67%) WAN
1 16 (26.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.00%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (48.33%) Selenium
2 16 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 14 (23.33%) GitLab
3 14 (23.33%) JIRA
4 13 (21.67%) Cucumber
4 13 (21.67%) REST Assured
5 10 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (6.67%) Git
7 3 (5.00%) JUnit
7 3 (5.00%) Mockito
8 2 (3.33%) Burp Suite
8 2 (3.33%) JMeter
8 2 (3.33%) Metasploit
9 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.67%) DBeaver
9 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.67%) jMock
9 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 32 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.67%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (26.67%) Telecoms
4 8 (13.33%) Law
5 4 (6.67%) Police
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (25.00%) IP Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) Test Engineer
4 11 (18.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 9 (15.00%) Azure Developer
6 9 (15.00%) Java Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 5 (8.33%) IP Network Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Network Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Python Developer
8 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Applications Architect
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Consultant
9 3 (5.00%) React Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) REST
2 13 (21.67%) Java EE
3 9 (15.00%) ARM Templates
4 6 (10.00%) ADO
5 5 (8.33%) OAuth
5 5 (8.33%) React
6 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.00%) Apache Axis
7 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (5.00%) HTML
7 3 (5.00%) SOAP
7 3 (5.00%) Spring
7 3 (5.00%) Web Services
8 2 (3.33%) jQuery
8 2 (3.33%) JSON
8 2 (3.33%) Node.js
8 2 (3.33%) OpenID
8 2 (3.33%) SAML
8 2 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Linux
2 16 (26.67%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (45.00%) DevOps
2 27 (45.00%) Test Automation
3 17 (28.33%) Agile
3 17 (28.33%) Project Management
3 17 (28.33%) Test Strategy
4 16 (26.67%) Fault Management
4 16 (26.67%) Regression Testing
5 15 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (21.67%) Configuration Management
6 13 (21.67%) Software Architecture
6 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
7 11 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.33%) Microservices
9 8 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 5 (8.33%) C#
3 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.67%) Ruby
5 2 (3.33%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) C
5 2 (3.33%) C++
5 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.67%) DataWeave
6 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (26.67%) CCNP
3 16 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (26.67%) ISEB
3 16 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 16 (26.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.33%) CISSP
5 2 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) GPEN
5 2 (3.33%) GWAPT
5 2 (3.33%) OSCE
5 2 (3.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 8 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.00%) Ansible
2 9 (15.00%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (15.00%) Podman
2 9 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Kibana
3 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.67%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (26.67%) Cisco
2 16 (26.67%) Juniper
3 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle