Java Contract Job Trends in the South West

Java
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 39 31
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 -16
Contract jobs citing Java 66 126 174
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.00% 5.26% 5.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.41% 19.91% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 72 121
10th Percentile £334 £466 £431
25th Percentile £400 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £619 £576
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.52% -4.08%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £688
90th Percentile £664 £699 £748
England median daily rate £518 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -13.75% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 27
10th Percentile - £66.25 £48.32
25th Percentile £85.00 - £54.08
Median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £73.59
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 532 633 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.17% 26.43% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 358 597
10th Percentile £335 £396 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £712
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 56 84
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £45.30
25th Percentile £62.00 £62.50 £55.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +4.23% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Java job vacancy trend in the South West

Java
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the South West over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the South West

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -4 26 £438 -14.63% 34
Gloucestershire -30 18 £588 -4.86% 59
Dorset +7 11 £270 -32.50% 7
Wiltshire +7 9 £550 -3.51% 3
Devon -15 1 £160 -76.64% 5
Java
England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.03%) Alfresco
2 2 (3.03%) Camunda
2 2 (3.03%) Documentum
2 2 (3.03%) nginx
2 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (42.42%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) OpenShift
4 8 (12.12%) GCP
5 7 (10.61%) npm
6 6 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (9.09%) Serverless
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.58%) GitHub
8 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) AMQP
2 4 (6.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 10 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.58%) MySQL
3 5 (7.58%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.55%) InfluxDB
5 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.55%) ObjectStore
5 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.03%) Power BI
7 1 (1.52%) Big Data
7 1 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (24.24%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Maven
3 6 (9.09%) GitLab
4 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.55%) JUnit
6 2 (3.03%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.52%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Electronics
6 1 (1.52%) Games
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Developer
2 13 (19.70%) Senior
3 11 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Android Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Lead
5 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Android Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Architect
9 2 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) Spring
2 12 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 10 (15.15%) React
4 9 (13.64%) HTML
4 9 (13.64%) Node.js
4 9 (13.64%) REST
5 8 (12.12%) Web Services
6 7 (10.61%) Android SDK
6 7 (10.61%) AngularJS
6 7 (10.61%) CSS
6 7 (10.61%) SOAP
7 6 (9.09%) Middleware
7 6 (9.09%) OAuth
7 6 (9.09%) OAuth2
7 6 (9.09%) RESTful
7 6 (9.09%) XML
8 5 (7.58%) Spring Security
8 5 (7.58%) Vue
9 3 (4.55%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
1 7 (10.61%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.55%) PKI
4 2 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.52%) CMDB
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.52%) NHS
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Android
2 5 (7.58%) CentOS
2 5 (7.58%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.55%) Windows
5 1 (1.52%) Solaris
5 1 (1.52%) Unix
5 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Agile
2 21 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (27.27%) Microservices
4 15 (22.73%) DevOps
5 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
10 7 (10.61%) Android Development
10 7 (10.61%) Scrum
11 6 (9.09%) Benchmarking
11 6 (9.09%) Open Source
11 6 (9.09%) User Stories
12 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (7.58%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) Python
2 16 (24.24%) SQL
3 15 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.12%) Kotlin
6 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.09%) C
8 4 (6.06%) Bash
9 3 (4.55%) C++
9 3 (4.55%) Perl
9 3 (4.55%) Ruby
10 2 (3.03%) Go
11 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.52%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.52%) SOQL
11 1 (1.52%) Swift
11 1 (1.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 25 (37.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.06%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) CCA
5 1 (1.52%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) DICOM
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) HL7
3 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (30.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 12 (18.18%) Terraform
3 11 (16.67%) Ansible
4 7 (10.61%) Grafana
5 4 (6.06%) Argo
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.03%) Podman
8 1 (1.52%) Nagios
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Google
2 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 4 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.03%) OpenText
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.03%) Talend
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.52%) Genesys
5 1 (1.52%) SAP