Java Contracts in Cheltenham

Java
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Java 11 33 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 14.47% 12.84% 23.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.00% 35.11% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 35
10th Percentile £525 £513 £503
25th Percentile £541 £519 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £699 £630 £700
90th Percentile £726 £676 £790
Gloucestershire median daily rate £625 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 20 94 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 26.32% 36.58% 48.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 55 55
10th Percentile £525 £513 £451
25th Percentile £550 £525 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -13.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £681 £656 £713
90th Percentile £722 £712 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £24.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £58.25
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +56.98%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Cheltenham

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Cheltenham

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Java

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) AMQP
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Flink
1 2 (18.18%) InfluxDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
1 4 (36.36%) Test Leader
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) React
1 3 (27.27%) Vue
2 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (18.18%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 1 (9.09%) Epics
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.09%) Release Management
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) C
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (27.27%) Grafana
5 2 (18.18%) Podman
6 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) VMware