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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 45 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 59 68 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.01% 3.97% 3.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.47% 18.63% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 53 34
10th Percentile £331 £390 £419
25th Percentile £403 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £647
90th Percentile £602 £688 £696
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -

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 303 365 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 25.72% 21.30% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 245 286
10th Percentile £361 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £620 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £50.25 £48.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £55.87 £48.73
Median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £52.90
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +10.58% -38.67%
75th Percentile £20.25 £74.87 £62.39
90th Percentile - £79.50 £71.85
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% -6.57%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +11 33 £500 -20.00% 14
Slough +5 10 £450 - 23
Wokingham -4 6 £456 -3.95%
Windsor - 2 £361 - 2
Bracknell -8 1 £208 -46.79% 1
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 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.69%) CMS
1 1 (1.69%) Drupal
1 1 (1.69%) nginx
1 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) AWS
2 24 (40.68%) Azure
3 7 (11.86%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.08%) Serverless
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) ATM
1 10 (16.95%) Ethernet
1 10 (16.95%) Frame Relay
1 10 (16.95%) GPRS
1 10 (16.95%) GSM
1 10 (16.95%) LAN
1 10 (16.95%) LTE
1 10 (16.95%) MPLS
1 10 (16.95%) SAN
1 10 (16.95%) SDH
1 10 (16.95%) UMTS
1 10 (16.95%) VPN
1 10 (16.95%) WAN
1 10 (16.95%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) SSL
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.69%) Big Data
5 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Jenkins
2 15 (25.42%) Selenium
3 14 (23.73%) JIRA
4 13 (22.03%) Cucumber
4 13 (22.03%) GitLab
4 13 (22.03%) REST Assured
5 10 (16.95%) SonarQube
6 7 (11.86%) Git
7 3 (5.08%) JUnit
7 3 (5.08%) Maven
7 3 (5.08%) Mockito
8 2 (3.39%) Gradle
8 2 (3.39%) JMeter
8 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.69%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.69%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.69%) Firebug
9 1 (1.69%) jMock
General
1 37 (62.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Telecoms
4 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
5 8 (13.56%) Law
6 4 (6.78%) Police
7 2 (3.39%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) IP Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Java Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Java Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Software Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Security Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Senior
6 5 (8.47%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Network Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Consultant
7 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Applications Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.39%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) REST
2 13 (22.03%) Java EE
3 9 (15.25%) ARM Templates
4 6 (10.17%) HTML
5 5 (8.47%) Spring
6 4 (6.78%) Google JAX
6 4 (6.78%) JAX
6 4 (6.78%) jQuery
6 4 (6.78%) JSON
6 4 (6.78%) PyTorch
6 4 (6.78%) RESTful
6 4 (6.78%) scikit-learn
6 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.78%) TensorFlow
6 4 (6.78%) Web Services
6 4 (6.78%) XML
7 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.08%) Apache Axis
7 3 (5.08%) CSS
7 3 (5.08%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (15.25%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.39%) CMDB
4 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Linux
2 11 (18.64%) Unix
3 7 (11.86%) Windows
4 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.69%) Android
6 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (42.37%) DevOps
3 18 (30.51%) Software Engineering
4 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.12%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (25.42%) Test Automation
6 14 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (22.03%) Configuration Management
7 13 (22.03%) Project Management
7 13 (22.03%) Software Architecture
8 12 (20.34%) Containerisation
8 12 (20.34%) Test Strategy
9 10 (16.95%) Decision-Making
9 10 (16.95%) Fault Management
9 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (16.95%) Regression Testing
10 9 (15.25%) Agile
11 7 (11.86%) High Availability
11 7 (11.86%) Microservices
11 7 (11.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) Python
2 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.25%) SQL
4 6 (10.17%) C#
4 6 (10.17%) Go
5 5 (8.47%) C
5 5 (8.47%) R
6 4 (6.78%) C++
7 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.39%) Ada
8 2 (3.39%) Assembly Language
8 2 (3.39%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.39%) Ruby
9 1 (1.69%) Perl
9 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (49.15%) Security Cleared
2 26 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) CCNP
3 10 (16.95%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (16.95%) ISEB
3 10 (16.95%) ISTQB
3 10 (16.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (5.08%) Degree
5 2 (3.39%) CISSP
5 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.47%) GDPR
3 4 (6.78%) EU AI Act
4 2 (3.39%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (25.42%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) NDS
3 1 (1.69%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 1 (1.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (38.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.95%) Terraform
3 9 (15.25%) Ansible
3 9 (15.25%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (15.25%) Podman
4 2 (3.39%) Kibana
4 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) Cisco
2 10 (16.95%) Juniper
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.69%) NetIQ
5 1 (1.69%) OpenText
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) SAP