Java Contracts in Dorset

Java
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 5 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 3.03% 6.85% 10.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.24% 28.85% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £398 £288 £384
25th Percentile - £428 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £573 £519
90th Percentile £430 £629 £598
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £48.79 £43.40
25th Percentile - £49.26 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £52.21 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year - +7.12% -
75th Percentile - £56.01 £50.77
90th Percentile - £56.05 £53.81
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +44.44%

All Programming Languages
Dorset

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 29 52 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 17.58% 23.74% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 26
10th Percentile £175 £310 £369
25th Percentile £350 £388 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.17% -1.54%
75th Percentile £519 £631 £528
90th Percentile £675 £688 £619
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile - £49.32 £43.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £49.96 £45.86
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.08 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +15.68% +61.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.95 £53.30
90th Percentile - £60.07 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £66.01 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.55% +4.00% +37.36%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Dorset

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Dorset

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Dorset

Java
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Bournemouth +3 4 £400 -36.00% 3
Java
South West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (60.00%) CockroachDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Flink
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Architectural Design
1 4 (80.00%) Community of Practice
1 4 (80.00%) Information Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Operational Stability
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft