Java Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Java
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 14 11 34
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 7.41% 12.22% 13.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.67% 45.83% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 25
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile - £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £690 £676
90th Percentile £650 £724 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £625 £581
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.53% -10.58%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 24 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 15.87% 26.67% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 55
10th Percentile £516 £525 £505
25th Percentile £535 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £676
90th Percentile £650 £710 £696
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +3.57% -10.26%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Java job vacancy trend 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
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 & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Azure
3 9 (64.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) GitLab
2 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
2 9 (64.29%) Software Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) Containerisation
3 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 10 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (64.29%) DevSecOps
4 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (64.29%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (64.29%) Software Delivery
4 9 (64.29%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
7 1 (7.14%) Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (7.14%) Workflow
7 1 (7.14%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (64.29%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Nagios
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft