Java Developer Contracts in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 129 165
Rank change year-on-year -26 +36 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 46 93 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 1.60% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.69% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 63
10th Percentile £382 £450 £432
25th Percentile £463 £481 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +23.99%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £650
90th Percentile £688 £644 £660
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.88
25th Percentile - £70.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +25.00% -2.83%
75th Percentile - - £63.81
90th Percentile - - £65.51
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.75% +22.92% -2.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,108 5,493 7,428
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.56% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 3,830 5,033
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.56
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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 -14 25 £500 - 4
Berkshire -20 18 £525 +7.69% 2
Hampshire -12 9 £525 -11.58% 5
West Sussex -2 7 £375 -31.82% 1
Buckinghamshire +27 6 £500 -9.09% 2
East Sussex +9 3 £490 - 1
Middlesex - 2 - -
Oxfordshire 0 1 - -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 46 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (52.17%) Spring
3 20 (43.48%) Kafka
3 20 (43.48%) Spring Boot
4 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
4 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
5 16 (34.78%) AWS
5 16 (34.78%) Agile
5 16 (34.78%) TDD
6 15 (32.61%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
7 13 (28.26%) Scrum
7 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
7 13 (28.26%) REST
7 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
8 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
8 12 (26.09%) Microservices
9 11 (23.91%) Docker
10 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
11 9 (19.57%) PHP
11 9 (19.57%) Web Services
11 9 (19.57%) DevOps
11 9 (19.57%) Ansible
11 9 (19.57%) Node.js
11 9 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (15.22%) Full Stack Development
12 7 (15.22%) BDD
12 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
12 7 (15.22%) Couchbase
12 7 (15.22%) Serverless

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 6 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) JBoss
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (15.22%) Serverless
3 5 (10.87%) Azure
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.22%) Couchbase
2 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) GitLab
3 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
3 5 (10.87%) JUnit
3 5 (10.87%) REST Assured
3 5 (10.87%) Selenium
3 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.70%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) JMeter
5 1 (2.17%) Mockito
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Law
4 4 (8.70%) Police
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (52.17%) Spring
2 20 (43.48%) Kafka
2 20 (43.48%) Spring Boot
3 13 (28.26%) REST
4 9 (19.57%) Node.js
4 9 (19.57%) Web Services
5 6 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (13.04%) HTML
6 5 (10.87%) Java EE
6 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
7 4 (8.70%) React
7 4 (8.70%) RESTful
7 4 (8.70%) SOAP
7 4 (8.70%) Symfony
7 4 (8.70%) Vert.x
8 3 (6.52%) J2EE
8 3 (6.52%) SAML
9 2 (4.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Agile
1 16 (34.78%) TDD
2 13 (28.26%) Scrum
3 12 (26.09%) Microservices
4 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
5 9 (19.57%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) BDD
6 7 (15.22%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (15.22%) Kanban
6 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.87%) Software Architecture
8 5 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.70%) Configuration Management
9 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven
9 4 (8.70%) High Availability
9 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (8.70%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
3 9 (19.57%) PHP
4 7 (15.22%) Scala
5 4 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.57%) Ansible
3 4 (8.70%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (8.70%) Podman
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Kibana
4 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.17%) Google
2 1 (2.17%) Splunk