Java Developer Contracts in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 157 130
Rank change year-on-year +11 -27 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 13 48 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.86% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.93% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 53
10th Percentile £479 £363 £450
25th Percentile £500 £444 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £501 £631 £575
90th Percentile £579 £688 £644
England median daily rate £550 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.13 £73.75
% change year-on-year +35.06% -34.75% +19.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +27 10 £501 +0.10% 4
Berkshire +23 10 £501 -4.67% 3
Surrey +19 3 £638 -1.92% 2
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (84.62%) AWS
3 10 (76.92%) REST
4 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
5 7 (53.85%) Docker
5 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
5 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
6 6 (46.15%) Java EE
6 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
6 6 (46.15%) Azure
7 5 (38.46%) GitLab
7 5 (38.46%) React
7 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
7 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
7 5 (38.46%) DevOps
7 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
7 5 (38.46%) Selenium
7 5 (38.46%) JIRA
7 5 (38.46%) Agile
7 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
7 5 (38.46%) Web Services
7 5 (38.46%) Python
7 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
7 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
7 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code

Java Developer Skill Set
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 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
3 3 (23.08%) MySQL
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) GitLab
2 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
3 4 (30.77%) REST Assured
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) JUnit
4 3 (23.08%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) Mockito
5 2 (15.38%) JMeter
6 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (7.69%) DbUnit
6 1 (7.69%) jMock
6 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Law
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) REST
2 6 (46.15%) Java EE
3 5 (38.46%) React
3 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
3 5 (38.46%) Web Services
4 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
4 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) JSON
4 4 (30.77%) SOAP
4 4 (30.77%) Spring
4 4 (30.77%) XML
5 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (15.38%) Apache Camel
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
6 2 (15.38%) jQuery
6 2 (15.38%) Node.js
6 2 (15.38%) OAuth
6 2 (15.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) BDD
3 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Software Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) API Integration
5 2 (15.38%) API Management
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) OCP
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (30.77%) Podman
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Kibana
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP