Java Engineer Contracts in Reading

Java Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Java Engineer daily rate in Reading.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 74 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 9 17 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 1.43% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 -
Berkshire median daily rate - £650 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Reading

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in Reading

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Java EE
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 9 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (100.00%) REST
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) ARM Templates
2 5 (55.56%) Podman
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Law
2 4 (44.44%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Java EE
1 9 (100.00%) REST
2 5 (55.56%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Docker Swarm
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Podman
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform