Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in Brentwood

Java Engineer
Essex > Brentwood

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Brentwood is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Brentwood 16.67% - 4.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Essex median daily rate £500 - £534
% change year-on-year - - -8.72%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 6 11 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 84.62% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 18
10th Percentile - £285 £285
25th Percentile - £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +147.93%
75th Percentile £350 - £438
90th Percentile £440 £415 £519
Essex median daily rate £375 £328 £450
% change year-on-year +14.50% -27.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.86
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.63%
Essex median hourly rate £22.04 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -37.04% +7.69% -10.34%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Brentwood

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Brentwood.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Brentwood

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentwood

For the 6 months to 14 March 2026, Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Brentwood region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Google