Java Contracts in the East of England

Java
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing Java 34 70 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.62% 3.67% 2.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.77% 16.71% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 44 33
10th Percentile £320 £363 £450
25th Percentile £462 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £700
90th Percentile £650 £600 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £40.91 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £47.56 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -7.69% +15.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.63 £69.38
90th Percentile - £77.95 £73.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 247 419 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 21.95% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 183 344
10th Percentile £315 £308 £289
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £635 £684
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 145 99
10th Percentile £32.65 £52.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £59.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Essex +2 15 £485 -9.18% 12
Hertfordshire +20 12 £490 +30.67% 26
Cambridgeshire -8 4 £600 +20.91% 61
Suffolk -6 2 - - 3
Bedfordshire +2 1 - - 10
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (11.76%) Apache
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.94%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) GCP
2 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) dbt
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
3 3 (8.82%) Vertex AI
4 2 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Wireless
2 4 (11.76%) SpaceWire
3 2 (5.88%) 3GPP
3 2 (5.88%) 4G
3 2 (5.88%) 5G
4 1 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
1 4 (11.76%) Power BI
1 4 (11.76%) Tableau
2 3 (8.82%) Looker
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Metadata
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) Selenium
1 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Automotive
4 1 (2.94%) Aviation
4 1 (2.94%) Avionics
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Java Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Implementation Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Implementation Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Support
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Support Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Electrical Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Programmer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) REST
2 6 (17.65%) Kafka
3 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 4 (11.76%) PySpark
3 4 (11.76%) React
4 3 (8.82%) NumPy
4 3 (8.82%) Pandas
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.88%) Swagger
6 1 (2.94%) JTAPI
6 1 (2.94%) Spring
6 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) CAN bus
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (32.35%) TDD
3 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 9 (26.47%) Containerisation
4 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
5 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
6 7 (20.59%) System Testing
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.71%) Microservices
8 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.76%) Data Governance
8 4 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (11.76%) Data Security
8 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (11.76%) OO
8 4 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
8 4 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) C
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) C#
3 4 (11.76%) C++
3 4 (11.76%) Go
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Tcl
4 3 (8.82%) VBA
5 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
2 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) logstash
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) EMC
3 1 (2.94%) Avaya
3 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) MKS
3 1 (2.94%) Twitter
3 1 (2.94%) Verint