Java Contracts in Reading

Java
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing Java 26 50 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.36% 4.19% 4.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.76% 17.30% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 39
10th Percentile £500 £413 £450
25th Percentile £584 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +27.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £681 £556
90th Percentile - £698 £619
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £586 £488
% change year-on-year -14.71% +20.26% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Reading

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Reading

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Reading

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Reading

Java
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 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (34.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 9 (34.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Azure API Management
5 6 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (19.23%) Serverless
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Functions
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (76.92%) Selenium
2 13 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (38.46%) Cucumber
3 10 (38.46%) GitLab
3 10 (38.46%) JIRA
3 10 (38.46%) REST Assured
4 7 (26.92%) SonarQube
5 4 (15.38%) Git
6 3 (11.54%) JUnit
6 3 (11.54%) Mockito
7 2 (7.69%) Burp Suite
7 2 (7.69%) JMeter
7 2 (7.69%) Metasploit
8 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (3.85%) DbUnit
8 1 (3.85%) jMock
8 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 12 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Law
4 4 (15.38%) Police
5 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Azure Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Java Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (7.69%) React Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) REST
2 10 (38.46%) Java EE
3 6 (23.08%) ADO
3 6 (23.08%) ARM Templates
4 3 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
4 3 (11.54%) React
4 3 (11.54%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.54%) Web Services
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Camel
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) jQuery
5 2 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (7.69%) WireMock
5 2 (7.69%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) Apache Axis
6 1 (3.85%) SOAP
6 1 (3.85%) Spring Batch
6 1 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) Test Automation
3 13 (50.00%) Agile
4 11 (42.31%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (38.46%) Configuration Management
5 10 (38.46%) Software Architecture
5 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 10 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
7 7 (26.92%) Decision-Making
8 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (23.08%) Microservices
9 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
9 5 (19.23%) SDLC
10 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (11.54%) BDD
11 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (11.54%) Product Backlog
11 3 (11.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) C
2 2 (7.69%) C++
2 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.69%) Ruby
2 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) GPEN
2 2 (7.69%) GWAPT
2 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.69%) OSCE
2 2 (7.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (23.08%) Podman
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) Jaspersoft