Java Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Java
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -36
Contract jobs citing Java 26 17 32
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.23% 2.28% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 7.98% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 20
10th Percentile £350 £400 £401
25th Percentile £355 £431 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -6.42% +11.95%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £719
90th Percentile £650 £675 £755
South West median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - £64.00 £66.25
25th Percentile - £66.25 -
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South West median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -0.76%

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 208 213 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 25.87% 28.51% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 90 185
10th Percentile £310 £355 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £624
90th Percentile £639 £676 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 54 40
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £55.88
25th Percentile - £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Java job vacancy trend in Bristol

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Bristol

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Kong
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.85%) Sentry
6 1 (3.85%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Android Developer
3 8 (30.77%) Senior
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Android Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Lead
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Software Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Contracts Manager
8 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Java Technical Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Android SDK
2 5 (19.23%) Node.js
2 5 (19.23%) React
3 4 (15.38%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.54%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (11.54%) Vue
5 2 (7.69%) Next.js
5 2 (7.69%) REST
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.85%) CSS3
6 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.85%) JAX-RS
6 1 (3.85%) JWT
6 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Mobile App
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Android Development
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (30.77%) Benchmarking
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) Open Source
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Microservices
5 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (15.38%) MVVM
6 4 (15.38%) SOLID
6 4 (15.38%) Web Development
7 3 (11.54%) Application Security
7 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
7 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
7 3 (11.54%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Kotlin
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Ruby
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.85%) SOQL
5 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Argo
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce