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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -22
Contract jobs citing Java 73 64 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.73% 3.60% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.57% 15.84% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 48
10th Percentile £381 £365 £441
25th Percentile £453 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.52% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £525 £600
90th Percentile £688 £609 £658
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% +13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year - -83.83% +26.61%
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -5.45% +8.70% -3.44%

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 373 404 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.05% 22.71% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 286 368
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +10.54% +8.61%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 4
10th Percentile £56.41 £22.55 £61.28
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.88 £62.06
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.45% +52.63%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £80.93
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.93 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £56.47 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.79% +61.34% -18.24%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 +14 62 £625 +28.21% 17
Wokingham -1 5 £525 -8.70% 4
Bracknell -11 2 £406 +8.33% 3
Slough +7 1 £585 +56.00% 2
Maidenhead -11 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 3 (4.11%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Appian
3 1 (1.37%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) Azure
2 22 (30.14%) AWS
3 13 (17.81%) Serverless
4 9 (12.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (12.33%) Azure Functions
4 9 (12.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (10.96%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (10.96%) GCP
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.11%) Azure API Management
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.11%) IaaS
7 3 (4.11%) PaaS
7 3 (4.11%) SaaS
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Network Security
1 3 (4.11%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) RNC
2 1 (1.37%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
1 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.22%) MySQL
3 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.74%) DB2
5 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.37%) GIS
6 1 (1.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (52.05%) Selenium
2 29 (39.73%) Jenkins
3 28 (38.36%) Cucumber
4 25 (34.25%) REST Assured
5 24 (32.88%) SonarQube
6 17 (23.29%) Git
7 15 (20.55%) JIRA
8 13 (17.81%) GitLab
9 4 (5.48%) JMeter
10 3 (4.11%) Maven
10 3 (4.11%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.74%) JUnit
12 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
12 1 (1.37%) Mockito
12 1 (1.37%) NWDI
12 1 (1.37%) NWDS
General
1 35 (47.95%) Social Skills
2 34 (46.58%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (27.40%) Law
4 13 (17.81%) Police
5 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Developer
2 18 (24.66%) Java Engineer
3 14 (19.18%) Java Developer
4 13 (17.81%) Senior
5 12 (16.44%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Architect
7 6 (8.22%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Consultant
9 4 (5.48%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead
9 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 3 (4.11%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (42.47%) REST
2 25 (34.25%) Java EE
3 16 (21.92%) React
4 12 (16.44%) ARM Templates
5 10 (13.70%) Kafka
6 9 (12.33%) Spring Boot
7 8 (10.96%) Spring
8 7 (9.59%) Web Services
9 5 (6.85%) HTML
9 5 (6.85%) Node.js
9 5 (6.85%) Symfony
10 4 (5.48%) .NET
10 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.48%) XML
11 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (4.11%) Gherkin
11 3 (4.11%) PyTorch
11 3 (4.11%) scikit-learn
11 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.01%) DevOps
2 41 (56.16%) Test Automation
3 30 (41.10%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (36.99%) Software Engineering
5 26 (35.62%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (35.62%) Software Architecture
6 25 (34.25%) Decision-Making
6 25 (34.25%) Technical Leadership
7 24 (32.88%) Microservices
8 20 (27.40%) Agile
8 20 (27.40%) CI/CD
9 16 (21.92%) Containerisation
10 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (19.18%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (17.81%) Configuration Management
13 12 (16.44%) SDLC
14 11 (15.07%) Scrum
15 9 (12.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 8 (10.96%) Data Protection
16 8 (10.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.73%) Python
2 19 (26.03%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.33%) PHP
4 5 (6.85%) C++
5 4 (5.48%) C
5 4 (5.48%) C#
5 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.48%) SQL
6 3 (4.11%) Groovy
6 3 (4.11%) R
6 3 (4.11%) Ruby
7 2 (2.74%) Bash
7 2 (2.74%) Go
7 2 (2.74%) Scala
7 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (42.47%) SC Cleared
1 31 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) CEH
4 1 (1.37%) CISSP
4 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.11%) NIST
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
2 12 (16.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
2 25 (34.25%) Ansible
3 15 (20.55%) Terraform
4 12 (16.44%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (16.44%) Podman
5 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Google
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.11%) SAP
3 3 (4.11%) VMware
4 2 (2.74%) Adobe
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco
5 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.37%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) Mapinfo
5 1 (1.37%) Nokia
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.37%) Splunk
5 1 (1.37%) TIBCO