Java Contracts in the South East

Java
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 190 338 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.42% 5.79% 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.82% 20.83% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 214 260
10th Percentile £368 £400 £386
25th Percentile £463 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £623 £625
90th Percentile £738 £704 £675
England median daily rate £575 £601 £600
% change year-on-year -4.25% +0.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 16
10th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £59.26 £39.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.81% -1.72%
75th Percentile £67.02 £75.00 £63.81
90th Percentile £73.40 - £67.77
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
South East

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,201 1,623 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.64% 27.81% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 1,153 1,366
10th Percentile £325 £333 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 93 89
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.73
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.97% +8.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £75.00 £65.51
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Java in the South East

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the South East

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -19 79 £585 +27.17% 40
Hampshire -13 73 £593 +4.50% 41
Berkshire -20 60 £586 +20.26% 22
Surrey -7 20 £600 +9.09% 36
Buckinghamshire +10 17 £580 +28.89% 14
West Sussex -17 11 £394 -34.42% 8
East Sussex +4 3 £490 -6.67% 3
Kent +4 2 £500 +66.67% 3
Middlesex +2 2 - -
Oxfordshire +2 2 - - 4
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) FileNet
4 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Appian
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.00%) AWS
2 29 (15.26%) Azure
3 11 (5.79%) Serverless
4 9 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.16%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.16%) GitHub
7 5 (2.63%) GCP
8 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.58%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.58%) Datadog
9 3 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.58%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.05%) IaaS
10 2 (1.05%) PaaS
10 2 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.26%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (4.74%) SNMP
3 3 (1.58%) BGP
3 3 (1.58%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.58%) IOS XR
4 2 (1.05%) Network Security
4 2 (1.05%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) Internet
5 1 (0.53%) NFC
5 1 (0.53%) PPP
5 1 (0.53%) RNC
5 1 (0.53%) SGSN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.37%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.21%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.68%) Couchbase
5 6 (3.16%) MySQL
6 4 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.05%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.05%) DB2
8 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Impala
8 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) GIS
9 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.53%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.53%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 40 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.79%) Selenium
3 28 (14.74%) JIRA
4 26 (13.68%) Cucumber
5 25 (13.16%) Git
5 25 (13.16%) REST Assured
6 24 (12.63%) SonarQube
7 15 (7.89%) GitLab
8 11 (5.79%) Bitbucket
8 11 (5.79%) Eclipse
9 9 (4.74%) GoogleTest
10 8 (4.21%) Robot Framework
11 7 (3.68%) JUnit
12 3 (1.58%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.05%) JMeter
13 2 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
14 1 (0.53%) Appium
14 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.53%) TestNG
14 1 (0.53%) TestRail
General
1 71 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 55 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.53%) Law
4 13 (6.84%) Police
5 10 (5.26%) Finance
6 6 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.58%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.58%) Electronics
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Automotive
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (33.68%) Developer
2 46 (24.21%) Java Developer
3 33 (17.37%) Software Engineer
4 30 (15.79%) Architect
4 30 (15.79%) Java Engineer
5 28 (14.74%) Java Architect
5 28 (14.74%) Senior
6 25 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (12.63%) Java Solutions Architect
8 18 (9.47%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (5.26%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (4.74%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (4.21%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Scrum Master
14 6 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Lead
14 6 (3.16%) Senior Java Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.63%) REST
2 33 (17.37%) Spring
3 28 (14.74%) Spring Boot
4 26 (13.68%) HTML
4 26 (13.68%) Kafka
5 25 (13.16%) Java EE
6 14 (7.37%) CSS
6 14 (7.37%) Web Services
7 13 (6.84%) React
8 12 (6.32%) ARM Templates
8 12 (6.32%) Node.js
9 10 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.21%) RESTful
11 7 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.63%) JSON
13 5 (2.63%) SOAP
13 5 (2.63%) Symfony
14 4 (2.11%) DirectX
14 4 (2.11%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.74%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.11%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.58%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.58%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Animation
6 2 (1.05%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.05%) Mixed Reality
6 2 (1.05%) Photography
6 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) iPad
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.00%) Linux
2 16 (8.42%) Windows
3 6 (3.16%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.53%) Agile
1 58 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (29.47%) Software Engineering
3 45 (23.68%) DevOps
4 43 (22.63%) Scrum
5 42 (22.11%) Test Automation
6 35 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
7 28 (14.74%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (14.21%) Decision-Making
8 27 (14.21%) Translating Business Requirements
9 26 (13.68%) Microservices
10 25 (13.16%) Software Architecture
11 24 (12.63%) GAP Analysis
12 20 (10.53%) TDD
13 18 (9.47%) Kanban
14 17 (8.95%) CI/CD
14 17 (8.95%) Full Stack Development
15 16 (8.42%) Configuration Management
16 15 (7.89%) BDD
17 14 (7.37%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.21%) JavaScript
2 38 (20.00%) Python
3 26 (13.68%) C++
4 20 (10.53%) SQL
5 18 (9.47%) PHP
6 12 (6.32%) Scala
7 10 (5.26%) C#
8 8 (4.21%) Bash
8 8 (4.21%) C
9 6 (3.16%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.63%) Ruby
11 4 (2.11%) Perl
11 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.05%) GLSL
13 2 (1.05%) Go
13 2 (1.05%) HLSL
14 1 (0.53%) Rust
14 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (43.68%) Security Cleared
2 57 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.74%) Degree
5 7 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.05%) PhD
9 1 (0.53%) CEH
9 1 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.79%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (13.68%) Docker
2 9 (4.74%) Firmware
3 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.05%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (17.89%) Ansible
2 33 (17.37%) Kubernetes
3 20 (10.53%) Terraform
4 12 (6.32%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.32%) Podman
5 3 (1.58%) Nagios
5 3 (1.58%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.58%) Puppet
5 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (6.32%) Google
2 8 (4.21%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.68%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.16%) Oracle
5 4 (2.11%) Cisco
5 4 (2.11%) Splunk
5 4 (2.11%) VMware
5 4 (2.11%) Workday
6 3 (1.58%) IBM
6 3 (1.58%) New Relic
6 3 (1.58%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe
7 2 (1.05%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.05%) Informatica
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.05%) SAP
8 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.53%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.53%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.53%) Sparx