Java Contracts in Berkshire

Java
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 56 76 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.83% 3.86% 3.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.45% 20.99% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 36
10th Percentile - £389 £369
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £456
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +28.49% -13.10%
75th Percentile £510 £650 £506
90th Percentile £588 £688 £601
South East median daily rate £475 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -1.89% +7.51%

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 321 362 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.70% 18.39% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 248 299
10th Percentile £400 £331 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 9
10th Percentile £34.94 £56.41 £19.92
25th Percentile £41.99 £56.65 £56.88
Median hourly rate £54.35 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -12.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £66.08 £65.18 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.75 £74.38 £79.63
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +20.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Java in Berkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Berkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Berkshire

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 2 July 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 -3 23 £525 -16.00% 79
Slough +6 14 £450 -23.08% 165
Wokingham -4 8 £450 -14.29% 1
Windsor - 5 £538 - 1
Bracknell +9 2 - - 9
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 2 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 20 (35.71%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) Azure API Management
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (7.14%) Serverless
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
5 3 (5.36%) PaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.57%) GCP
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.00%) ATM
1 14 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 14 (25.00%) Frame Relay
1 14 (25.00%) GPRS
1 14 (25.00%) GSM
1 14 (25.00%) LAN
1 14 (25.00%) LTE
1 14 (25.00%) MPLS
1 14 (25.00%) SAN
1 14 (25.00%) SDH
1 14 (25.00%) UMTS
1 14 (25.00%) VPN
1 14 (25.00%) WAN
1 14 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.14%) MySQL
2 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (41.07%) Selenium
2 16 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 14 (25.00%) GitLab
3 14 (25.00%) JIRA
4 13 (23.21%) Cucumber
4 13 (23.21%) REST Assured
5 10 (17.86%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.14%) Git
7 3 (5.36%) JUnit
7 3 (5.36%) Mockito
8 2 (3.57%) JMeter
8 2 (3.57%) Maven
9 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.79%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.79%) DBeaver
9 1 (1.79%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.79%) Gradle
9 1 (1.79%) jMock
9 1 (1.79%) Metasploit
General
1 31 (55.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 8 (14.29%) Law
5 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.14%) Police
7 2 (3.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) IP Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) Java Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Java Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Architect
7 5 (8.93%) IP Network Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Network Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Security Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Applications Architect
9 3 (5.36%) AWS Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Network Consultant
10 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) REST
2 13 (23.21%) Java EE
3 9 (16.07%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.93%) OAuth
5 4 (7.14%) HTML
5 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.36%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (5.36%) Apache Axis
6 3 (5.36%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.36%) jQuery
6 3 (5.36%) JSON
6 3 (5.36%) SOAP
6 3 (5.36%) Spring
6 3 (5.36%) Web Services
7 2 (3.57%) ADO
7 2 (3.57%) CSS
7 2 (3.57%) React
7 2 (3.57%) SAML
7 2 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) CMDB
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Linux
2 14 (25.00%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (42.86%) DevOps
3 23 (41.07%) Test Automation
4 16 (28.57%) Project Management
4 16 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 15 (26.79%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (26.79%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (25.00%) Fault Management
6 14 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 14 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 13 (23.21%) Configuration Management
7 13 (23.21%) Software Architecture
8 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
9 10 (17.86%) Agile
9 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
9 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
11 6 (10.71%) Exploratory Testing
11 6 (10.71%) Functional Testing
11 6 (10.71%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.93%) C#
5 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.36%) C++
6 3 (5.36%) R
6 3 (5.36%) Ruby
7 2 (3.57%) Bash
7 2 (3.57%) C
7 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.00%) CCNP
3 14 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (25.00%) ISEB
3 14 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 14 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.57%) CISSP
5 2 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) GPEN
6 1 (1.79%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.79%) OSCE
6 1 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.36%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.07%) Ansible
2 9 (16.07%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (16.07%) Podman
2 9 (16.07%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) Kibana
3 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Cisco
2 14 (25.00%) Juniper
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.79%) SAP