Java Developer Contracts in Reading

Java Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Java Developer daily rate in Reading is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 46 92
Rank change year-on-year -41 +46 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 15 34 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.29% 3.40% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 3.55% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 4
10th Percentile - £450 £468
25th Percentile £463 £453 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £485
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +0.52% +2.11%
75th Percentile £688 £530 £495
90th Percentile - £563 -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £488 £480
% change year-on-year +17.95% +1.56% +7.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,080 958 1,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 95.70% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 643 859
10th Percentile £213 £363 £185
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £492
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +11.90% +3.47%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 23 7
10th Percentile £35.70 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -26.76%
75th Percentile £73.50 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.15 £56.89 £19.25
% change year-on-year +3.98% +195.51% -8.55%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Reading

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Reading

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Reading

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (66.67%) REST
2 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (60.00%) Docker
3 9 (60.00%) Microservices
3 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (60.00%) TDD
3 9 (60.00%) Spring
4 7 (46.67%) Ansible
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 6 (40.00%) Kafka
5 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 5 (33.33%) REST Assured
6 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
6 5 (33.33%) Serverless
6 5 (33.33%) Selenium
6 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 5 (33.33%) Java EE

Java Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 5 (33.33%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) GitLab
3 4 (26.67%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) JUnit
5 1 (6.67%) JMeter
5 1 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Law
3 4 (26.67%) Police
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) REST
2 9 (60.00%) Spring
2 9 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (40.00%) Kafka
4 5 (33.33%) Java EE
4 5 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (26.67%) ARM Templates
5 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (26.67%) Node.js
5 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (26.67%) Symfony
6 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
6 2 (13.33%) Mustache
6 2 (13.33%) React
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 2 (13.33%) SOAP
7 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.67%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Microservices
1 9 (60.00%) TDD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) SOLID
6 3 (20.00%) BDD
6 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (20.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (26.67%) Podman
3 4 (26.67%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk