Java Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Java
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 34 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 4 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.69% 3.57% 3.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 13.82% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 30
10th Percentile £545 - £252
25th Percentile £556 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +28.89% -14.69%
75th Percentile £644 £622 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £507 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -11.78% +8.49% +0.95%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 50 123 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 21.19% 25.84% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 91 166
10th Percentile £305 £388 £252
25th Percentile £344 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £568 £575
90th Percentile £613 £610 £675
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 1
10th Percentile £51.38 £22.61 -
25th Percentile £51.56 £29.89 £41.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% +286.36%
75th Percentile £56.56 £51.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.13 £54.25 -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Buckinghamshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Buckinghamshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Buckinghamshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Buckinghamshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes 0 4 £575 -0.86% 45
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (50.00%) Camunda
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Java Technical Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) GIS Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (50.00%) OpenJDK
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Magik
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (25.00%) Sparx