Java Developer Contracts in Brentwood

Java Developer
Essex > Brentwood

The median Java Developer daily rate in Brentwood is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brentwood 11.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £476 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £488 £541 £543
% change year-on-year -9.80% -0.37% -5.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Brentwood

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brentwood. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Brentwood with a recognized job title 7 33 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 77.78% 97.06% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 2
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile - £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £120
Median % change year-on-year - +233.33% -27.27%
75th Percentile £428 £450 -
90th Percentile £457 £545 -
Essex median daily rate £400 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -12.57% +1.67% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - £12.86 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year - -81.67% -
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
% change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Brentwood.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Brentwood

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Brentwood

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Brentwood

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Brentwood

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Brentwood region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes