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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -24
Contract jobs citing Java 51 68 55
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.84% 4.21% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.79% 17.04% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 54 33
10th Percentile £204 £383 £413
25th Percentile £360 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £638 £650
90th Percentile £620 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £438 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -23.91% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -7.90%

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 323 399 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.34% 24.68% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 251 267
10th Percentile £363 £390 £350
25th Percentile £414 £441 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +6.02%
75th Percentile £571 £643 £638
90th Percentile £624 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £486 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -4.66% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £24.38 £50.25 -
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £47.25 £58.49 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +17.62% -35.42%
75th Percentile £61.31 £69.69 £55.31
90th Percentile £69.53 £77.39 £69.74
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -13.67%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +4 30 £525 -13.93% 35
Wokingham - 5 £478 - 7
Bracknell -7 4 £208 -46.79% 5
Windsor -6 3 £223 +11.25% 2
Slough -4 1 £650 +44.44% 269
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 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) CMS
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Drupal
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
2 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Maximo
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) AWS
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
3 9 (17.65%) GitHub
4 8 (15.69%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.88%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) AtomSphere
6 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.92%) Boomi
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) SSL
2 1 (1.96%) Broadband
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) GPRS
2 1 (1.96%) GSM
2 1 (1.96%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
1 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.96%) Big Data
3 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.88%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (5.88%) Firebug
3 2 (3.92%) Gradle
3 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) Maven
3 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.96%) Appium
4 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Billing
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.96%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Developer
2 6 (11.76%) Architect
2 6 (11.76%) Senior
3 5 (9.80%) Security Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Technical Support
4 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (7.84%) Site Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.92%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Java Web Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) REST
1 8 (15.69%) SailPoint
2 6 (11.76%) HTML
2 6 (11.76%) XML
3 5 (9.80%) CSS
3 5 (9.80%) JSON
4 4 (7.84%) Google JAX
4 4 (7.84%) JAX
4 4 (7.84%) PyTorch
4 4 (7.84%) scikit-learn
4 4 (7.84%) TensorFlow
5 3 (5.88%) jQuery
5 3 (5.88%) OAuth
5 3 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 3 (5.88%) React
5 3 (5.88%) RESTful
5 3 (5.88%) SOAP
5 3 (5.88%) Spring
6 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) CMDB
4 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) IPTV
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
1 5 (9.80%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Android
3 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) DevOps
2 20 (39.22%) CI/CD
3 17 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (19.61%) Agile
5 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (13.73%) High Availability
6 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
7 6 (11.76%) AI
7 6 (11.76%) OO
7 6 (11.76%) Release Management
7 6 (11.76%) SDLC
7 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (9.80%) Business Continuity
8 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
8 5 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (9.80%) Security Architecture
8 5 (9.80%) Task Automation
8 5 (9.80%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) Python
2 20 (39.22%) JavaScript
3 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
3 10 (19.61%) SQL
4 8 (15.69%) BeanShell
5 7 (13.73%) C#
6 6 (11.76%) Go
7 5 (9.80%) C
7 5 (9.80%) R
8 4 (7.84%) C++
9 2 (3.92%) Ada
9 2 (3.92%) Assembly Language
9 2 (3.92%) Bash
9 2 (3.92%) Groovy
9 2 (3.92%) Jython
9 2 (3.92%) MATLAB
9 2 (3.92%) Perl
9 2 (3.92%) PHP
9 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) EU AI Act
2 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.92%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) NDS
3 1 (1.96%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) NetIQ
4 1 (1.96%) OpenText
4 1 (1.96%) Pega
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media