Java Engineer Contracts in the South West

Java Engineer
England > South West

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the South West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 139 108
Rank change year-on-year +9 -31 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 16 30 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.50% 0.83% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.90% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 33
10th Percentile £398 £413 £450
25th Percentile £400 £415 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -24.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £625
90th Percentile - £625 -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 19
10th Percentile £69.63 £60.91 -
25th Percentile - £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £75.00
90th Percentile - £73.12 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

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 2,968 3,350 3,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.46% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,513 2,535
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 267 206
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +39.78% +9.41%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.25 £69.49
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 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
Bristol +3 9 - - 13
Gloucestershire +3 2 - - 3
Devon - 2 £600 -
Dorset - 2 £398 - 1
Somerset +3 1 £450 - 3
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 16 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 14 (87.50%) Software Engineering
2 14 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 13 (81.25%) GitHub
4 11 (68.75%) C++
4 11 (68.75%) JIRA
5 10 (62.50%) DevOps
6 9 (56.25%) GoogleTest
6 9 (56.25%) Qt
6 9 (56.25%) Google
6 9 (56.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (56.25%) MISRA
7 8 (50.00%) Python
8 7 (43.75%) Linux
9 6 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (31.25%) REST
10 5 (31.25%) SDLC
11 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 3 (18.75%) Spring
12 3 (18.75%) Selenium
12 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
12 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
13 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
13 2 (12.50%) React Native
13 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
13 2 (12.50%) Terraform
13 2 (12.50%) Runbook

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 13 (81.25%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (12.50%) CockroachDB
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (68.75%) JIRA
3 9 (56.25%) GoogleTest
4 3 (18.75%) Selenium
5 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.25%) Git
6 1 (6.25%) JUnit
6 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Automotive
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Qt
2 5 (31.25%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) CSS3
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) HTML5
4 2 (12.50%) Jest
4 2 (12.50%) JPA
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) React
4 2 (12.50%) React Native
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
1 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 14 (87.50%) Software Engineering
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 2 (12.50%) BDD
5 2 (12.50%) Community of Practice
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Information Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Loose Coupling
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Operational Stability
5 2 (12.50%) Runbook
5 2 (12.50%) TDD
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) C++
3 8 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) MISRA
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Google