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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -32
Contract jobs citing Java 61 48 58
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.38% 3.83% 2.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.68% 13.08% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 31
10th Percentile - £390 £350
25th Percentile £204 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.04% +1.74% +19.79%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £644
90th Percentile £600 £648 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -21.74% +2.00% +4.64%

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 389 367 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.54% 29.27% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 220 249
10th Percentile £332 £390 £346
25th Percentile £403 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £535
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% +0.75% +1.90%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 17
10th Percentile £54.63 £45.62 £52.10
25th Percentile £72.55 £55.87 £56.25
Median hourly rate £79.15 £56.75 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +39.48% -5.65% -14.09%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.43 £70.25 £68.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.59% -2.30% +7.37%

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 March 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 7 March 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 -17 23 £550 -12.00% 7
Windsor +5 13 £208 -53.89%
Wokingham -30 9 £375 -25.00%
Bracknell 0 8 £304 -22.12% 2
Slough -6 1 £650 - 4
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%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Maximo
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) AWS
2 12 (19.67%) Azure
3 11 (18.03%) GitHub
4 10 (16.39%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.48%) GCP
6 4 (6.56%) Serverless
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.92%) SaaS
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.28%) AtomSphere
8 2 (3.28%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.28%) Boomi
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
9 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 15 (24.59%) Relational Database
2 12 (19.67%) MySQL
3 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.64%) Big Data
6 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
1 5 (8.20%) Maven
2 4 (6.56%) Eclipse
2 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.56%) Subversion
3 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.92%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (4.92%) Firebug
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) Appium
5 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.64%) GitLab
5 1 (1.64%) Gradle
5 1 (1.64%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.64%) Postman
5 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Billing
4 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Technical Support
3 5 (8.20%) Applications Developer
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%) Senior
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%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Integration Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Lead
6 2 (3.28%) React Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) REST
2 9 (14.75%) XML
3 8 (13.11%) SailPoint
4 7 (11.48%) Node.js
4 7 (11.48%) React
5 6 (9.84%) SOAP
6 5 (8.20%) GraphQL
6 5 (8.20%) HTML
6 5 (8.20%) OAuth
7 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.56%) CSS
7 4 (6.56%) JSON
7 4 (6.56%) Kafka
8 3 (4.92%) .NET
8 3 (4.92%) Spring
8 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.92%) Web Services
9 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
9 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.92%) IPTV
3 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Linux
2 12 (19.67%) Unix
3 10 (16.39%) Windows
4 3 (4.92%) Android
4 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) CI/CD
1 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (19.67%) Agile
2 12 (19.67%) DevOps
2 12 (19.67%) OO
3 10 (16.39%) Computer Science
3 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (14.75%) OOP
4 9 (14.75%) Process Improvement
5 8 (13.11%) Scrum
6 6 (9.84%) Migration
6 6 (9.84%) Task Automation
7 5 (8.20%) API Management
7 5 (8.20%) Business Continuity
7 5 (8.20%) Data Modelling
7 5 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (8.20%) Software Engineering
7 5 (8.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) JavaScript
2 23 (37.70%) SQL
3 22 (36.07%) Python
4 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
5 9 (14.75%) Perl
6 8 (13.11%) BeanShell
7 5 (8.20%) C#
7 5 (8.20%) Go
8 3 (4.92%) Bash
8 3 (4.92%) Groovy
8 3 (4.92%) Jython
8 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.28%) PHP
9 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.64%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.64%) Scala
10 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Degree
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.64%) NDS
3 1 (1.64%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Oracle
2 4 (6.56%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) NetIQ
5 1 (1.64%) OpenText
5 1 (1.64%) Virgin Media