Java Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Java
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 2 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 1.80% 8.82% 13.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.57% 30.00% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £608 £525
25th Percentile £538 £659 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £723 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +7.04% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £734 £706
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £563 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -8.54% -1.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.98 - -
Median hourly rate £67.35 - -
75th Percentile £70.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.35 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -0.23% - -

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 56 30 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 50.45% 29.41% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 26
10th Percentile £400 £374 £263
25th Percentile £491 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £583 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +13.66% +28.13%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £684
90th Percentile £743 - £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £51.21 - -
75th Percentile £52.61 - -
90th Percentile £60.69 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £58.57 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.23% -10.00% +36.36%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Java job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher