Java Contracts in Essex

Java
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 5 7 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 15 25 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 18.75% 11.26% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 26.04% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 11
10th Percentile £315 £456 £450
25th Percentile £321 £493 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% +1.71% -8.30%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £570
90th Percentile £493 £675 £630
East of England median daily rate £490 £490 £539
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.42% -7.69% +15.04%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 96 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 45.00% 43.24% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 51 46
10th Percentile £315 £275 £209
25th Percentile £318 £388 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £478
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +1.57% -1.55%
75th Percentile £486 £569 £529
90th Percentile £488 £600 £585
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 3
10th Percentile £32.00 - £19.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £59.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +138.00% -60.70%
75th Percentile £200.00 £80.00 £46.63
90th Percentile - - £58.10
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Essex

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Essex

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Essex

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Essex

Java
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Essex 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
Basildon +5 8 £485 -19.17% 29
Epping - 4 - -
Brentwood +5 1 £468 -
Java
East of England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) dbt
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) BigQuery
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
1 4 (26.67%) Tableau
2 3 (20.00%) Looker
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Support Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Implementation Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Support
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Support Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DBA
5 1 (6.67%) Java Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) PySpark
1 4 (26.67%) React
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) NumPy
2 3 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) TDD
4 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (26.67%) Data Security
6 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (26.67%) System Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Open Source
7 3 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft