Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Java Developer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.60% - 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile £606 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £409 £441 £400
% change year-on-year -7.26% +10.25% -30.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 290 258 374
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.57% 93.48% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 203 246
10th Percentile £220 £164 £300
25th Percentile £380 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -3.30%
75th Percentile £575 £636 £688
90th Percentile £675 £738 £750
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 40
10th Percentile £13.21 £27.20 £15.35
25th Percentile £31.25 £36.00 £15.86
Median hourly rate £33.17 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.97% +62.50% -42.86%
75th Percentile £51.21 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.44 £74.00 £73.88
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £64.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -10.16% +33.33% -26.15%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 1 - - 2
Java Developer
South West

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 31 March 2026, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Vue

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform