Java Contracts in Gloucestershire

Java
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 33 45 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.84% 10.25% 14.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.59% 32.85% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 43
10th Percentile £581 £519 £478
25th Percentile £608 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -13.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £728 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £706 £760
South West median daily rate £615 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +11.82% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile £66.25 - £76.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -10.26% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +0.77%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 74 137 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 28.79% 31.21% 47.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 103 125
10th Percentile £293 £363 £318
25th Percentile £434 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% +3.77% +2.17%
75th Percentile £680 £638 £675
90th Percentile £775 £706 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £66.25 £70.50 £70.50
25th Percentile £67.19 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £72.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.05% +115.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.50 £85.20
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +9.17%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Gloucestershire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Gloucestershire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Gloucestershire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Gloucestershire

Java
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 within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cheltenham +13 19 £615 +11.82% 10
Filton +5 3 - -
Gloucester -4 3 £615 -10.55% 19
Java
South West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) OpenShift
3 16 (48.48%) Azure
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) DHCP
1 15 (45.45%) DNS
1 15 (45.45%) HTTP
1 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Big Data
2 2 (6.06%) Flink
2 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
2 4 (12.12%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Test Leader
4 3 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (9.09%) Spring
1 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.06%) React
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) Vue
3 1 (3.03%) JPA
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 24 (72.73%) Linux
2 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (45.45%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Containerisation
2 13 (39.39%) DevOps
3 12 (36.36%) Service Management
3 12 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 9 (27.27%) Agile
5 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Validation
9 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis
9 2 (6.06%) Data Engineering
9 2 (6.06%) Data Science
9 2 (6.06%) ETL
9 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning
9 2 (6.06%) Predictive Modelling
10 1 (3.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) Python
2 16 (48.48%) Bash
2 16 (48.48%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) C
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 26 (78.79%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Docker
2 15 (45.45%) Hyper-V
3 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (54.55%) Ansible
3 17 (51.52%) Terraform
4 15 (45.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Podman
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 15 (45.45%) VMware
2 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle