Java Developer Contracts in the South West

Java Developer
England > South West

The median Java Developer daily rate in the South West is £338 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 144 106 91
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 8 62 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 1.71% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 1.85% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 56 72
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £300 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £403 £588 £625
90th Percentile £495 £631 -
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £71.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.40% -
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,964 3,354 3,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 92.50% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,517 2,538
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 267 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.62 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +9.94%
75th Percentile £70.96 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.43
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 West

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +3 6 £300 -33.33% 4
Dorset - 2 £400 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

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 West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (75.00%) GCP
4 5 (62.50%) REST
4 5 (62.50%) SAML
4 5 (62.50%) Google
5 4 (50.00%) GWT
5 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (50.00%) Restlet
5 4 (50.00%) JAX-RS
5 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (50.00%) Insider Threat
5 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
6 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
6 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (12.50%) JPA
7 1 (12.50%) RESTful
7 1 (12.50%) AWS
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) Banking
7 1 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (12.50%) CI/CD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) CockroachDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (62.50%) REST
2 5 (62.50%) SAML
3 4 (50.00%) GWT
3 4 (50.00%) JAX-RS
3 4 (50.00%) Restlet
4 1 (12.50%) JPA
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft