Java Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Java
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Java 8 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.22% 2.50% 2.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.30% 10.11% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £438 £168 £207
25th Percentile £456 £210 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £469
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £630
90th Percentile £497 £594 £736
Wales median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 89 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 23.89% 24.72% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 53 73
10th Percentile £257 £162 £196
25th Percentile £369 £210 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% - -18.07%
75th Percentile £532 £544 £563
90th Percentile £651 £570 £669
Wales median daily rate £475 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -3.80% +16.18% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 7
10th Percentile £26.42 £16.19 £23.72
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.12 £36.43
Median hourly rate £31.25 £20.24 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.44% -61.46% +191.67%
75th Percentile £72.19 £22.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £26.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.50 £20.24 £52.50
% change year-on-year +50.73% -61.46% +191.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Java job vacancy trend in South Wales

Java
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Cardiff -2 6 £475 +8.57% 10
Gwent - 2 - - 1
Java
Wales

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Dutch Language
2 2 (25.00%) French Language
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
3 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) API Design
4 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) CRM
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) OOP
5 2 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce