Java Contracts in Dorset

Java
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 23 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Java 5 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 4.85% 2.78% 4.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.16% 11.36% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £317 £398 £288
25th Percentile £371 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -25.58% +19.44%
75th Percentile £498 - £547
90th Percentile £504 £430 £550
South West median daily rate £600 £543 £543
% change year-on-year +10.60% - +3.33%

All Programming Languages
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38 44 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 36.89% 24.44% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 37
10th Percentile £331 £236 £348
25th Percentile £425 £399 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -16.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £58.25 £52.74
25th Percentile - £59.38 -
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +9.02% +17.62%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £59.80
90th Percentile - - £60.34
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Dorset over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 26 June 2025. 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 +5 4 £475 +18.75% 13
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) User Stories
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle