Java Contracts in Gloucester

Java
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 20 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Java 3 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 3.30% 11.90% 19.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.54% 26.32% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 20
10th Percentile - £561 £520
25th Percentile £608 £634 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £681 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +13.54% +9.09%
75th Percentile £711 £706 £675
90th Percentile £765 - £701
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.17% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 38 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 28.57% 45.24% 63.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 72
10th Percentile £370 £385 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +24.57% -16.67%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £556
90th Percentile £740 £706 £669
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £528
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £72.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -6.21% -7.05% +115.17%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Gloucester

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Gloucester

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Gloucester

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Gloucester

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware