Java Contracts in Bristol

Java
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 50 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -31 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 15 24 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.79% 2.27% 8.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.57% 9.38% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 60
10th Percentile £413 £270 £413
25th Percentile £469 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £338 £469
Median % change year-on-year +70.37% -28.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £688 £450 £578
90th Percentile £748 £520 £675
South West median daily rate £614 £569 £550
% change year-on-year +7.91% +3.41% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 39
10th Percentile £60.13 £65.75 £53.75
25th Percentile £64.06 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £72.60 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -5.36% +6.87% +0.77%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 175 256 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 32.59% 24.22% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 140 271
10th Percentile £336 £300 £358
25th Percentile £363 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £541 £588
90th Percentile £621 £639 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 75 64
10th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £54.13
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Bristol

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Bristol

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Bristol

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aviation
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Java EE
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (6.67%) MLOps
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (6.67%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (6.67%) SOA
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Ada
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) C++
2 1 (6.67%) Perl
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) MCITP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) Def Stans
1 10 (66.67%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle