Java Contracts in the South East

Java
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 43 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 152 233 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.68% 4.07% 5.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.57% 17.88% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 166 181
10th Percentile £313 £364 £374
25th Percentile £396 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £586 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +11.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £638
90th Percentile £626 £738 £706
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.12% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 22
10th Percentile £43.71 £35.00 £51.38
25th Percentile - £58.75 £55.90
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -1.89% +7.51%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.39 £73.74
90th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +2.25%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 865 1,303 1,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.62% 22.79% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 894 1,056
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £699
England median daily rate £521 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 83 80
10th Percentile £37.60 £35.12 £21.53
25th Percentile £47.62 £46.25 £45.38
Median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £55.62
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +12.37% +18.71%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.52 £77.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

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 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 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
Thames Valley +6 71 £458 -20.43% 383
Berkshire +5 57 £500 -14.53% 277
Hampshire +6 41 £575 -8.00% 145
West Sussex +14 18 £468 +17.00% 58
Surrey +2 16 £475 -20.83% 117
Buckinghamshire +4 12 £380 -33.91% 57
East Sussex -2 4 £319 -34.95% 51
Oxfordshire +2 2 - - 51
Kent +2 1 £600 +20.00% 49
Middlesex -1 1 - - 9
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 8 (5.26%) NetWeaver
2 7 (4.61%) Confluence
3 6 (3.95%) SAP EP
4 5 (3.29%) Apache
4 5 (3.29%) CMS
5 4 (2.63%) Anypoint
5 4 (2.63%) Drupal
5 4 (2.63%) Mule
5 4 (2.63%) Mule ESB
5 4 (2.63%) WordPress
6 3 (1.97%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.32%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.32%) Camunda
7 2 (1.32%) JBoss
7 2 (1.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.66%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.66%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 6 (3.95%) SAP CRM
2 3 (1.97%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.66%) Maximo
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.61%) Azure
2 36 (23.68%) AWS
3 10 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (5.92%) GitHub
5 8 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.61%) Serverless
7 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.95%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.29%) PaaS
8 5 (3.29%) SaaS
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.63%) GCP
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.97%) Azure API Management
10 3 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.97%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.21%) ATM
1 14 (9.21%) Ethernet
1 14 (9.21%) Frame Relay
1 14 (9.21%) GPRS
1 14 (9.21%) GSM
1 14 (9.21%) LAN
1 14 (9.21%) LTE
1 14 (9.21%) MPLS
1 14 (9.21%) SAN
1 14 (9.21%) SDH
1 14 (9.21%) UMTS
1 14 (9.21%) VPN
1 14 (9.21%) WAN
1 14 (9.21%) Wireshark
2 5 (3.29%) NFC
2 5 (3.29%) PPP
3 4 (2.63%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.63%) Internet
4 3 (1.97%) Firewall
5 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) MySQL
1 11 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (7.24%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.97%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.32%) Metadata
7 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.32%) NewSQL
7 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.32%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.66%) GIS
8 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (23.03%) Jenkins
2 34 (22.37%) JIRA
3 29 (19.08%) Git
3 29 (19.08%) Selenium
4 19 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 18 (11.84%) GitLab
6 13 (8.55%) REST Assured
7 10 (6.58%) SonarQube
8 8 (5.26%) Eclipse
9 5 (3.29%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.29%) JUnit
9 5 (3.29%) Postman
9 5 (3.29%) Valgrind
9 5 (3.29%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.97%) Maven
10 3 (1.97%) Mockito
10 3 (1.97%) Toad
11 2 (1.32%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.32%) JMeter
11 2 (1.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 11 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.26%) Law
6 7 (4.61%) Finance
7 6 (3.95%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.29%) Banking
9 4 (2.63%) Billing
9 4 (2.63%) Police
10 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.66%) Military
12 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.32%) Developer
2 30 (19.74%) Architect
3 20 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 19 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 18 (11.84%) Senior
6 14 (9.21%) Java Developer
7 13 (8.55%) IP Engineer
8 10 (6.58%) Java Architect
8 10 (6.58%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Java Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.26%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.61%) Security Architect
12 6 (3.95%) Consultant
12 6 (3.95%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) SAP Architect
12 6 (3.95%) SAP Technical Architect
12 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (25.00%) REST
2 23 (15.13%) React
3 21 (13.82%) Web Services
4 17 (11.18%) XML
5 15 (9.87%) Java EE
6 14 (9.21%) JSON
7 13 (8.55%) RESTful
7 13 (8.55%) Spring Boot
8 12 (7.89%) HTML
8 12 (7.89%) SOAP
8 12 (7.89%) Spring
9 11 (7.24%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.24%) CSS
10 9 (5.92%) ARM Templates
10 9 (5.92%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.92%) Middleware
11 7 (4.61%) jQuery
11 7 (4.61%) Kafka
12 6 (3.95%) SAP Fiori
12 6 (3.95%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.76%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (7.89%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.29%) Smartcard
7 4 (2.63%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.97%) FPGA
8 3 (1.97%) Verilog
8 3 (1.97%) VHDL
9 2 (1.32%) CMDB
9 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.32%) Replication
9 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.05%) Linux
2 21 (13.82%) Unix
3 7 (4.61%) Windows
4 5 (3.29%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (28.95%) CI/CD
3 38 (25.00%) Agile
3 38 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 35 (23.03%) DevOps
5 30 (19.74%) Software Engineering
6 21 (13.82%) Configuration Management
7 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (11.84%) Microservices
9 18 (11.84%) Test Strategy
10 17 (11.18%) Migration
10 17 (11.18%) Project Management
11 16 (10.53%) Containerisation
11 16 (10.53%) Scrum
12 15 (9.87%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (9.21%) Fault Management
13 14 (9.21%) Regression Testing
14 13 (8.55%) Software Architecture
14 13 (8.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.13%) Python
2 40 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 40 (26.32%) SQL
3 22 (14.47%) C#
4 15 (9.87%) C++
5 13 (8.55%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.58%) ABAP
7 5 (3.29%) Apex Code
7 5 (3.29%) Perl
7 5 (3.29%) R
7 5 (3.29%) Scala
8 4 (2.63%) Bash
8 4 (2.63%) C
8 4 (2.63%) DataWeave
8 4 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.63%) PHP
9 3 (1.97%) Ruby
9 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.97%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.66%) Go
Qualifications
1 58 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.18%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (11.18%) ISEB
3 17 (11.18%) ISTQB
3 17 (11.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 14 (9.21%) CCNP
5 12 (7.89%) Degree
6 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (4.61%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.97%) CCNA
11 3 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.32%) CISSP
12 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.66%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 7 (4.61%) GDPR
3 6 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.63%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.97%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.32%) NCSC
6 2 (1.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.97%) Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.66%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.18%) Ansible
3 12 (7.89%) Terraform
4 9 (5.92%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.92%) Podman
5 4 (2.63%) CloudHub
5 4 (2.63%) Grafana
6 2 (1.32%) Kibana
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) SAP
3 14 (9.21%) Cisco
3 14 (9.21%) Juniper
3 14 (9.21%) Oracle
4 10 (6.58%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.92%) MuleSoft
6 7 (4.61%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.95%) Ariba
8 5 (3.29%) Splunk
9 4 (2.63%) Adobe
9 4 (2.63%) Zend
10 3 (1.97%) Algorithmics
10 3 (1.97%) Intel
10 3 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.97%) webMethods
11 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.32%) Sybase
12 1 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
12 1 (0.66%) Databricks