Java Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Java
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Java 3 18 6
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 6.82% 33.33% 6.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.27% 72.00% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - £324 £563
25th Percentile - £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -46.43% -
75th Percentile - £400 -
90th Percentile - £430 -
Suffolk median daily rate £425 £375 £700
% change year-on-year +13.33% -46.43% -

All Programming Languages
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11 25 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 25.00% 46.30% 41.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 25
10th Percentile £334 - £385
25th Percentile £384 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -28.57% -17.97%
75th Percentile £500 £425 £650
90th Percentile - £450 £700
Suffolk median daily rate £425 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -29.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Java job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring WebFlux
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Consul
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes