Java Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Java
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Java 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.44% 2.56% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.34% 8.70% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £342 £483 £449
25th Percentile £386 £494 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £548 £650 -
90th Percentile £591 £740 £575
East of England median daily rate £525 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +31.25% -15.79% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 87 92 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.58% 29.39% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 59 51
10th Percentile £279 £313 £440
25th Percentile £396 £342 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £575
90th Percentile £621 £588 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 11
10th Percentile - £35.38 £25.18
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.25 £43.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -25.57% +45.56%
75th Percentile £44.00 £56.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £48.08 £61.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.17% +6.15%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Java job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Cambridgeshire

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 7 January 2026. 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
Cambridge -6 6 £469 -12.79% 8
Peterborough 0 3 - - 7
Java
East of England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Junior
2 3 (33.33%) Junior Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Junior Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Support Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Research Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Research Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
1 3 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CUDA
1 1 (11.11%) Grid Computing
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) C
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) Ruby
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Go
5 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) GPFS
2 1 (11.11%) Lustre
2 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Consul
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Salt
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
1 3 (33.33%) Workday