Senior Java Developer Contracts in Reading

Senior Java Developer
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 Senior Java Developer daily rate in Reading.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 88 84
Rank change year-on-year +30 -4 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £663 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +29.81% -
75th Percentile - £688 £553
90th Percentile - - £566
Berkshire median daily rate - £675 £520
% change year-on-year - +29.81% -

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%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Reading

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Process Management
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Docker

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) WireMock
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Process Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk