Java Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Java
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff 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 29 25 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 6 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.41% 3.88% 3.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.17% 14.52% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £438 £168 £207
25th Percentile £456 £210 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £498
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.06% +4.74%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £693
90th Percentile £497 £594 £744
South Wales median daily rate £475 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +8.57% -16.67% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 62 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 23.69% 26.72% 35.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 48 62
10th Percentile £305 £165 £194
25th Percentile £375 £245 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -10.53%
75th Percentile £515 £545 £538
90th Percentile £603 £558 £620
South Wales median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -19.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.20
25th Percentile - £51.25 £23.63
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +101.92% +44.44%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £39.88
90th Percentile - - £48.20
South Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.25
% change year-on-year +48.26% -60.52% +184.72%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Java job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) PySpark
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) API Design
4 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Test Management
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle