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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 42 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 140 230 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.48% 4.05% 4.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.20% 17.65% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 164 177
10th Percentile £313 £365 £374
25th Percentile £396 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £625
90th Percentile £631 £738 £702
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 22
10th Percentile £41.17 £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% +4.74%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.39 £73.74
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +1.16%

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 814 1,303 1,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.06% 22.96% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 894 1,040
10th Percentile £336 £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 £612
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 86 80
10th Percentile £36.38 £35.00 £20.47
25th Percentile £46.93 £46.25 £44.11
Median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £55.62
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +12.37% +23.59%
75th Percentile £59.78 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.52 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +7 69 £450 -22.41% 320
Berkshire +7 55 £483 -17.70% 224
Hampshire +3 34 £548 -12.40% 131
West Sussex +13 17 £469 +17.25% 46
Surrey +4 15 £475 -20.83% 81
Buckinghamshire +8 12 £380 -33.91% 44
East Sussex -3 4 £319 -34.95% 40
Oxfordshire +1 2 - - 54
Kent +1 1 £600 +20.00% 30
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 (5.71%) NetWeaver
2 7 (5.00%) Confluence
3 6 (4.29%) SAP EP
4 5 (3.57%) Apache
4 5 (3.57%) CMS
5 4 (2.86%) Anypoint
5 4 (2.86%) Drupal
5 4 (2.86%) Mule
5 4 (2.86%) Mule ESB
5 4 (2.86%) WordPress
6 3 (2.14%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.43%) Camunda
7 2 (1.43%) JBoss
7 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.71%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.71%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) SAP CRM
2 3 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.71%) Maximo
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.14%) Azure
2 36 (25.71%) AWS
3 9 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (5.71%) GitHub
5 7 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.00%) Serverless
6 6 (4.29%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.57%) PaaS
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.86%) Azure API Management
8 4 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.86%) GCP
8 4 (2.86%) SaaS
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.71%) ATM
1 15 (10.71%) Ethernet
1 15 (10.71%) Frame Relay
1 15 (10.71%) GPRS
1 15 (10.71%) GSM
1 15 (10.71%) LAN
1 15 (10.71%) LTE
1 15 (10.71%) MPLS
1 15 (10.71%) SAN
1 15 (10.71%) SDH
1 15 (10.71%) UMTS
1 15 (10.71%) VPN
1 15 (10.71%) WAN
1 15 (10.71%) Wireshark
2 5 (3.57%) NFC
2 5 (3.57%) PPP
3 4 (2.86%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.86%) Internet
4 3 (2.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) MySQL
1 10 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.14%) Big Data
6 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.43%) Metadata
6 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.43%) NewSQL
6 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.43%) Sybase IQ
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.71%) GIS
7 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (23.57%) JIRA
2 31 (22.14%) Jenkins
3 29 (20.71%) Selenium
4 22 (15.71%) Git
5 17 (12.14%) Cucumber
5 17 (12.14%) GitLab
6 13 (9.29%) REST Assured
7 10 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 7 (5.00%) Eclipse
9 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.57%) JUnit
9 5 (3.57%) Valgrind
10 4 (2.86%) Postman
10 4 (2.86%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.14%) Maven
11 3 (2.14%) Mockito
11 3 (2.14%) Toad
12 2 (1.43%) IntelliJ
12 2 (1.43%) JMeter
12 2 (1.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.71%) Law
6 7 (5.00%) Finance
7 6 (4.29%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Banking
9 4 (2.86%) Billing
9 4 (2.86%) Police
10 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.43%) Automotive
12 1 (0.71%) Military
12 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (29.29%) Developer
2 22 (15.71%) Architect
3 20 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 19 (13.57%) Test Engineer
5 17 (12.14%) Senior
6 14 (10.00%) IP Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Consultant
10 6 (4.29%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Network Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) SAP Architect
10 6 (4.29%) SAP Technical Architect
10 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Development Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.00%) REST
2 21 (15.00%) Web Services
3 20 (14.29%) React
4 17 (12.14%) XML
5 15 (10.71%) Java EE
6 14 (10.00%) JSON
7 12 (8.57%) HTML
7 12 (8.57%) RESTful
7 12 (8.57%) SOAP
7 12 (8.57%) Spring Boot
8 11 (7.86%) Spring
9 10 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 10 (7.14%) CSS
10 9 (6.43%) ARM Templates
10 9 (6.43%) Hibernate
11 8 (5.71%) Middleware
12 7 (5.00%) jQuery
13 6 (4.29%) SAP Fiori
13 6 (4.29%) SAP PI
13 6 (4.29%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.43%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.00%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.57%) Smartcard
6 4 (2.86%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.14%) FPGA
7 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.14%) Verilog
7 3 (2.14%) VHDL
8 2 (1.43%) CMDB
8 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.43%) Replication
9 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.86%) Linux
2 21 (15.00%) Unix
3 6 (4.29%) Windows
4 5 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.57%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (26.43%) Test Automation
3 36 (25.71%) Agile
4 35 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 31 (22.14%) DevOps
6 26 (18.57%) Software Engineering
7 20 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (12.86%) Project Management
9 18 (12.86%) Test Strategy
10 17 (12.14%) Microservices
11 16 (11.43%) Migration
12 15 (10.71%) Containerisation
12 15 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (10.71%) Fault Management
12 15 (10.71%) Regression Testing
13 14 (10.00%) Scrum
14 13 (9.29%) Design Patterns
14 13 (9.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.00%) Python
2 39 (27.86%) SQL
3 36 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.29%) C#
5 12 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 11 (7.86%) C++
7 10 (7.14%) ABAP
8 5 (3.57%) Apex Code
8 5 (3.57%) Scala
9 4 (2.86%) Bash
9 4 (2.86%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.86%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.86%) Perl
9 4 (2.86%) PHP
10 3 (2.14%) Ruby
10 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.71%) Jython
11 1 (0.71%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 40 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.86%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (12.86%) ISEB
3 18 (12.86%) ISTQB
3 18 (12.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 15 (10.71%) CCNP
5 12 (8.57%) Degree
6 8 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.14%) CCNA
10 3 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.43%) CISSP
11 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.71%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) QA
2 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.14%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.43%) NCSC
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.14%) Firmware
4 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (16.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.43%) Ansible
3 12 (8.57%) Terraform
4 9 (6.43%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.43%) Podman
5 4 (2.86%) CloudHub
5 4 (2.86%) Grafana
6 2 (1.43%) Kibana
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.43%) SAP
3 15 (10.71%) Cisco
3 15 (10.71%) Juniper
4 13 (9.29%) Oracle
5 9 (6.43%) MuleSoft
5 9 (6.43%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.29%) Ariba
8 4 (2.86%) Adobe
8 4 (2.86%) Splunk
8 4 (2.86%) Zend
9 3 (2.14%) Algorithmics
9 3 (2.14%) Intel
9 3 (2.14%) webMethods
10 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.43%) Sybase
11 1 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.71%) Databricks