Java Contracts in South Wales

Java
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 35 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Java 5 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.10% 1.23% 1.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.47% 4.49% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile £428 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £431 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £483 £543 £538
90th Percentile - £577 £645
Wales median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.40% - -4.76%

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 59 89 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.79% 27.30% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 68 86
10th Percentile £218 £347 £338
25th Percentile £327 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £496 £550 £638
90th Percentile £561 £591 £663
Wales median daily rate £425 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £27.40 £15.57 £17.18
25th Percentile £34.00 £17.96 £17.48
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.24 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +122.39% +7.55% -5.50%
75th Percentile - £22.11 £19.81
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £37.13 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year +83.47% +7.55% -5.50%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Java in South Wales

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 1 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
Cardiff +5 5 £455 +25.52% 166
Java
Wales

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) JBoss
1 3 (60.00%) nginx
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Memcached
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) LXC
2 1 (20.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) IBM