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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 35 50
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 39 58 75
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.10% 5.11% 3.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.04% 18.35% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 47
10th Percentile £206 - £385
25th Percentile £358 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £483 £588
Median % change year-on-year -19.38% -17.87% +23.68%
75th Percentile £543 £501 £650
90th Percentile £596 £623 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £586
% change year-on-year +5.26% -18.98% +11.67%

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 324 316 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.43% 27.87% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 199 260
10th Percentile £306 £400 £325
25th Percentile £368 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £609
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £513
% change year-on-year +1.90% -2.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 17
10th Percentile £73.40 £34.94 £56.49
25th Percentile £80.75 £41.99 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +49.97% -11.78% -15.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £66.08 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.75 £72.81
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% -12.10% +10.91%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -32 15 £488 -13.33% 8
Wokingham -16 14 £380 -15.56%
Bracknell +6 6 £600 - 3
Windsor +7 4 £208 -58.50%
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 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 19 (48.72%) Azure
3 12 (30.77%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.56%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
1 1 (2.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.82%) Big Data
3 4 (10.26%) MySQL
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
1 5 (12.82%) Maven
2 4 (10.26%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) Subversion
3 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.56%) Gradle
5 1 (2.56%) JMeter
5 1 (2.56%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.56%) NeoLoad
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Applications Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Site Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Technical Support
4 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Software Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (10.26%) React
2 4 (10.26%) XML
3 3 (7.69%) REST
3 3 (7.69%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) PySpark
4 2 (5.13%) RESTful
4 2 (5.13%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) Mustache
5 1 (2.56%) OAuth
5 1 (2.56%) OpenID
5 1 (2.56%) Playwright
5 1 (2.56%) React Native
5 1 (2.56%) SAML
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Unix
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) VMS
4 1 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (25.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 10 (25.64%) Task Automation
4 9 (23.08%) Business Continuity
4 9 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (23.08%) High Availability
4 9 (23.08%) Release Management
5 7 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (15.38%) DevOps
6 6 (15.38%) Migration
6 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 5 (12.82%) Agile
7 5 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (12.82%) Microservices
8 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.26%) OO
8 4 (10.26%) OOP
8 4 (10.26%) Scrum
8 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) SQL
3 11 (28.21%) Go
4 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) Perl
5 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) BeanShell
6 2 (5.13%) Groovy
6 2 (5.13%) Scala
7 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) NCSC
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Ariba
3 1 (2.56%) Concur
3 1 (2.56%) Conga
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) GoCardless
3 1 (2.56%) Parasoft
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) SAP