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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 197 323 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.57% 5.70% 5.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.23% 20.48% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 203 250
10th Percentile £363 £375 £405
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -0.47% +11.05%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £705 £675
England median daily rate £576 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.79% +0.83% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 14
10th Percentile £40.00 £52.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.59 £27.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £67.02 £75.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £73.40 - £65.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +18.18%

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 1,214 1,577 2,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.00% 27.81% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,117 1,311
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £614 £588
90th Percentile £686 £694 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 89 86
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +57.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -22 82 £585 +20.00% 31
Hampshire -13 73 £593 +3.04% 39
Berkshire -18 62 £588 +20.51% 19
Surrey +3 22 £600 +9.09% 29
Buckinghamshire +9 17 £580 +28.89% 9
West Sussex -15 12 £400 -33.33% 3
East Sussex +6 4 £490 -2.00% 5
Oxfordshire 0 3 £350 -41.67% 3
Kent +4 2 £500 +66.67%
Middlesex +1 2 - -
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 (5.08%) Confluence
2 4 (2.03%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) FileNet
4 2 (1.02%) JBoss
4 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.51%) Appian
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.29%) AWS
2 33 (16.75%) Azure
3 14 (7.11%) Serverless
4 9 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.06%) GCP
6 7 (3.55%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.55%) GitHub
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.05%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.52%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (1.52%) Datadog
10 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.08%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (4.57%) SNMP
3 3 (1.52%) BGP
3 3 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.52%) IOS XR
3 3 (1.52%) Network Security
3 3 (1.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) NFC
4 1 (0.51%) PPP
4 1 (0.51%) RNC
4 1 (0.51%) SGSN
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.60%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.09%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.06%) Couchbase
4 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.55%) MySQL
6 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.02%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.02%) DB2
8 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.02%) Impala
9 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.51%) Big Data
9 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.51%) Redis
9 1 (0.51%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 39 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.75%) Selenium
3 28 (14.21%) Git
3 28 (14.21%) JIRA
4 27 (13.71%) Cucumber
5 25 (12.69%) REST Assured
6 24 (12.18%) SonarQube
7 15 (7.61%) GitLab
8 12 (6.09%) Bitbucket
9 11 (5.58%) Eclipse
10 9 (4.57%) GoogleTest
11 8 (4.06%) Robot Framework
12 6 (3.05%) JUnit
13 4 (2.03%) Visual Studio
14 3 (1.52%) JMeter
15 2 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
16 1 (0.51%) Appium
16 1 (0.51%) NWDI
16 1 (0.51%) NWDS
16 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 72 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 58 (29.44%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.15%) Law
4 13 (6.60%) Police
5 10 (5.08%) Finance
6 6 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.52%) Electronics
9 2 (1.02%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (35.53%) Developer
2 47 (23.86%) Java Developer
3 33 (16.75%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.74%) Java Engineer
5 30 (15.23%) Architect
6 28 (14.21%) Java Architect
6 28 (14.21%) Senior
7 25 (12.69%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (12.18%) Java Solutions Architect
9 18 (9.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (8.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (4.06%) Lead
12 8 (4.06%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 7 (3.55%) Scrum Master
13 7 (3.55%) Senior Java Engineer
14 6 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.83%) REST
2 33 (16.75%) Spring
3 29 (14.72%) Spring Boot
4 28 (14.21%) Kafka
5 27 (13.71%) HTML
6 25 (12.69%) Java EE
7 17 (8.63%) React
8 14 (7.11%) CSS
9 13 (6.60%) Web Services
10 12 (6.09%) ARM Templates
11 11 (5.58%) Node.js
12 8 (4.06%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (3.05%) JSON
14 6 (3.05%) RESTful
15 5 (2.54%) .NET
15 5 (2.54%) Symfony
15 5 (2.54%) Vert.x
15 5 (2.54%) XML
16 4 (2.03%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.72%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.57%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.03%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.02%) Animation
5 2 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.02%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (1.02%) Photography
5 2 (1.02%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.51%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.66%) Linux
2 16 (8.12%) Windows
3 6 (3.05%) Android
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.46%) Agile
2 59 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (28.93%) Software Engineering
4 50 (25.38%) DevOps
5 46 (23.35%) Test Automation
6 42 (21.32%) Scrum
7 35 (17.77%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (14.72%) Microservices
9 28 (14.21%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (13.71%) Decision-Making
11 26 (13.20%) Translating Business Requirements
12 25 (12.69%) Software Architecture
13 24 (12.18%) GAP Analysis
14 23 (11.68%) CI/CD
15 20 (10.15%) TDD
16 17 (8.63%) Full Stack Development
17 16 (8.12%) Configuration Management
18 15 (7.61%) Kanban
19 14 (7.11%) Containerisation
20 13 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (23.35%) Python
2 44 (22.34%) JavaScript
3 26 (13.20%) C++
4 21 (10.66%) SQL
5 19 (9.64%) PHP
6 12 (6.09%) Scala
7 11 (5.58%) C#
8 9 (4.57%) C
9 8 (4.06%) Bash
10 6 (3.05%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.05%) Ruby
11 4 (2.03%) Perl
11 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.02%) GLSL
13 2 (1.02%) Go
13 2 (1.02%) HLSL
14 1 (0.51%) R
14 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (41.12%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.15%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.08%) Degree
5 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) PhD
9 1 (0.51%) CEH
9 1 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.08%) QA
2 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (12.69%) Docker
2 10 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.57%) Firmware
4 5 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.02%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (17.26%) Kubernetes
2 32 (16.24%) Ansible
3 20 (10.15%) Terraform
4 12 (6.09%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.09%) Podman
5 4 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.52%) Nagios
6 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.52%) Puppet
7 2 (1.02%) Kibana
8 1 (0.51%) Grafana
8 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (7.61%) Google
2 9 (4.57%) Oracle
3 8 (4.06%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.06%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.54%) Splunk
4 5 (2.54%) VMware
5 4 (2.03%) Cisco
5 4 (2.03%) SAP
5 4 (2.03%) Workday
6 3 (1.52%) IBM
6 3 (1.52%) New Relic
6 3 (1.52%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.02%) Adobe
7 2 (1.02%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.02%) Informatica
7 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.51%) HP
8 1 (0.51%) Mapinfo