Java Contracts in Milton Keynes

Java
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 12 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 6.32% 4.83% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 15.32% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 21
10th Percentile £197 £470 £363
25th Percentile £313 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £575 £405
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% +41.98% -25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile £613 £815 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £380 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -33.91% +9.52% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 69 111 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 36.32% 31.53% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 80 126
10th Percentile £304 £400 £325
25th Percentile £325 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £575
90th Percentile £593 £625 £644
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £386 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -24.74% -1.44% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £23.70 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.01 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £52.50 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -36.91%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Milton Keynes

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Milton Keynes

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Milton Keynes

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Milton Keynes

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (16.67%) Camunda
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Java Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (8.33%) GIS Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
2 5 (41.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (25.00%) Kafka
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
5 2 (16.67%) OpenJDK
6 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (8.33%) JPA
6 1 (8.33%) Spring
6 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (16.67%) BDD
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 2 (16.67%) Open Source
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Apex Code
2 2 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Magik
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) MuleSoft
1 5 (41.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (8.33%) Sparx