Java Contract Job Trends in Luton

Java
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 5.16% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £556 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £81.00 - -

All Programming Languages
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33 8 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 21.29% 10.39% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 13
10th Percentile £485 - £363
25th Percentile £500 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile - £590 -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - £57.36 -
25th Percentile £62.97 £61.35 -
Median hourly rate £68.21 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.60 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £68.21 £68.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.31% +29.52% +14.13%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Java job vacancy trend in Luton

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure AKS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leader
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
1 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Programming
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
2 1 (12.50%) mParticle