Java Contracts in Hertfordshire

Java
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 33 53 50
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 -30
Contract jobs citing Java 12 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.74% 2.40% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.76% 10.64% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £445 £356 £333
25th Percentile £465 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +30.67% -37.50% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £388 £638
90th Percentile £613 £408 £740
East of England median daily rate £490 £490 £539
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £40.91 - -
25th Percentile £47.56 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -7.69% +16.07%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £69.38
90th Percentile - - £73.75
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
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 102 188 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.78% 22.54% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 101
10th Percentile £399 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £506 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £676
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 108 84
10th Percentile £49.77 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £60.69 £61.25 £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £90.00 £77.00
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Hertfordshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Hertfordshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Hertfordshire

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in Hertfordshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +25 5 - - 35
Java
East of England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Wireless
2 4 (33.33%) SpaceWire
3 2 (16.67%) 3GPP
3 2 (16.67%) 4G
3 2 (16.67%) 5G
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Avionics
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Electrical Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Programmer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
3 2 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CAN bus
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Unix
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (33.33%) OO
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
3 3 (25.00%) System Testing
3 3 (25.00%) TestOps
4 2 (16.67%) API Development
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) OOP
5 1 (8.33%) QA Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) C
3 4 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) C++
3 4 (33.33%) Tcl
4 3 (25.00%) VBA
5 2 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) Twitter