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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 48 76
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing Java 61 57 44
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.12% 4.16% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.89% 15.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 25
10th Percentile £204 £386 £340
25th Percentile £267 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £585 £565
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% +3.54% +17.71%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £688
90th Percentile £620 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £413 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -28.26% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +84.21% -56.15% -

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 323 375 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.82% 27.39% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 227 234
10th Percentile £336 £390 £350
25th Percentile £406 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £567 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £483 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -4.33% -3.81% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £47.44 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.25 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +7.47% -19.91%
75th Percentile £82.00 £67.93 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.56 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.25 £59.00
% change year-on-year -3.93% -2.97% -1.67%

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 15 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 15 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 -4 26 £488 -22.00% 5
Windsor +2 12 £208 -36.15%
Wokingham -20 9 £410 - 3
Bracknell -9 4 £208 -46.79%
Slough -7 1 £650 +44.44% 80
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 (4.92%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Drupal
2 1 (1.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Maximo
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.51%) AWS
2 16 (26.23%) Azure
3 11 (18.03%) GCP
3 11 (18.03%) GitHub
4 10 (16.39%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.56%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.92%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) AtomSphere
7 2 (3.28%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.28%) Boomi
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Broadband
1 3 (4.92%) GPRS
1 3 (4.92%) GSM
1 3 (4.92%) SSL
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Relational Database
2 11 (18.03%) MySQL
3 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.92%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (4.92%) Firebug
2 3 (4.92%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) Gradle
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Maven
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
3 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.64%) Appium
4 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.64%) Postman
4 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Billing
5 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) Technical Support
3 5 (8.20%) Senior
3 5 (8.20%) Site Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Designer
5 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (4.92%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (4.92%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Assembler Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Integration Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Maximo Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) REST
2 8 (13.11%) SailPoint
3 7 (11.48%) HTML
3 7 (11.48%) SOAP
4 6 (9.84%) OAuth
4 6 (9.84%) React
4 6 (9.84%) XML
5 5 (8.20%) CSS
5 5 (8.20%) GraphQL
5 5 (8.20%) JSON
5 5 (8.20%) Node.js
6 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.56%) Spring
7 3 (4.92%) .NET
7 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.28%) SAML
8 2 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.92%) IPTV
2 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
1 11 (18.03%) Unix
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Android
2 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) CI/CD
2 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.95%) Agile
3 14 (22.95%) DevOps
4 12 (19.67%) OO
5 11 (18.03%) Computer Science
5 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (16.39%) High Availability
7 9 (14.75%) Release Management
7 9 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (13.11%) Business Continuity
8 8 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (13.11%) OOP
8 8 (13.11%) Scrum
8 8 (13.11%) Task Automation
9 7 (11.48%) Process Improvement
10 5 (8.20%) API Management
10 5 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (8.20%) Software Engineering
11 4 (6.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) JavaScript
2 25 (40.98%) Python
3 18 (29.51%) SQL
4 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 9 (14.75%) Go
6 8 (13.11%) BeanShell
6 8 (13.11%) C#
6 8 (13.11%) Perl
7 3 (4.92%) Jython
7 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.28%) Ada
8 2 (3.28%) Assembly Language
8 2 (3.28%) Bash
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) Groovy
8 2 (3.28%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.28%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) Degree
3 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
4 9 (14.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.92%) Docker
3 1 (1.64%) NDS
3 1 (1.64%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Oracle
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) NetIQ
4 1 (1.64%) OpenText
4 1 (1.64%) Pega
4 1 (1.64%) Virgin Media