Java Engineer Contracts in the South West

Java Engineer
England > South West

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the South West is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 143 137
Rank change year-on-year +45 -6 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 13 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.44% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.47% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 13
10th Percentile £507 £398 £413
25th Percentile £508 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -1.10% -24.17%
75th Percentile £533 £600 £556
90th Percentile £536 - £625
England median daily rate £688 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +14.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £59.75 £68.88 £60.91
25th Percentile £63.13 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile - - £73.12
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the South West

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the South West

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the South West

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +21 9 - - 3
Gloucestershire +17 2 £525 - 2
Dorset +3 1 - -
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
3 9 (69.23%) Middleware
3 9 (69.23%) Ada
3 9 (69.23%) IEC 61508
3 9 (69.23%) Def Stans
4 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 3 (23.08%) Spring
6 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
6 3 (23.08%) AWS
6 3 (23.08%) Terraform
7 2 (15.38%) Git
7 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
7 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
7 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (15.38%) Ansible
7 2 (15.38%) Docker
8 1 (7.69%) DevOps
8 1 (7.69%) Microservices
8 1 (7.69%) JPA
8 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
8 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (7.69%) Node.js
8 1 (7.69%) REST
8 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
8 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 1 (7.69%) Relational Database

Java Engineer 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 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) JPA
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Software Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
2 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (7.69%) Microservices
2 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
2 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) Ada
3 1 (7.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) Def Stans
1 9 (69.23%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle