Java Contracts in the South West

Java
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -53 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 88 303 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.78% 8.32% 8.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.26% 28.45% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 211 210
10th Percentile £326 £450 £413
25th Percentile £519 £488 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £658
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 51 34
10th Percentile £65.75 £52.38 £48.90
25th Percentile £67.02 £60.91 £51.52
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £72.69
90th Percentile £72.60 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
South West

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 617 1,065 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.48% 29.25% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 764 774
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £629
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 99 69
10th Percentile £44.47 £49.94 £46.62
25th Percentile £54.38 £57.33 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.14 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +4.00% +37.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the South West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the South West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the South West

Java
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Gloucestershire -10 41 £575 -4.17% 30
Bristol -39 20 £300 -36.00% 42
Wiltshire -32 7 £750 +36.36% 7
Devon -18 6 £600 +9.09% 7
Dorset -1 5 £400 -23.81% 11
Somerset -7 3 - - 12
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
Java
England

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.59%) AWS
2 12 (13.64%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) GitHub
4 8 (9.09%) Serverless
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.82%) GCP
6 5 (5.68%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.14%) Apigee
8 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Network Security
2 5 (5.68%) AMQP
3 2 (2.27%) DHCP
3 2 (2.27%) DNS
3 2 (2.27%) Tactical Data Link
3 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.82%) InfluxDB
1 6 (6.82%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.41%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.14%) Flink
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (30.68%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.64%) JIRA
3 6 (6.82%) Cypress.io
3 6 (6.82%) GoogleTest
4 5 (5.68%) Git
5 3 (3.41%) GitLab
6 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.27%) git-flow
6 2 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (2.27%) Selenium
7 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 6 (6.82%) Finance
2 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.41%) Banking
3 3 (3.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.14%) Automotive
5 1 (1.14%) Electronics
5 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.14%) Law
5 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.14%) Marketing
5 1 (1.14%) Public Speaking
5 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Developer
2 20 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) Full Stack Developer
4 12 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead
9 4 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Senior
10 3 (3.41%) Site Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Full Stack Engineer
11 2 (2.27%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.82%) React
2 27 (30.68%) Spring
3 16 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 14 (15.91%) Spring Boot
5 12 (13.64%) REST
6 10 (11.36%) Node.js
7 6 (6.82%) HTML
7 6 (6.82%) Qt
8 5 (5.68%) CSS
8 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (5.68%) RESTful
8 5 (5.68%) SAML
9 4 (4.55%) GWT
9 4 (4.55%) JAX-RS
9 4 (4.55%) Restlet
10 3 (3.41%) Jest
10 3 (3.41%) JPA
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Amplify
11 2 (2.27%) Lucene
11 2 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.55%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.14%) IoT
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Unix
2 4 (4.55%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) DevOps
2 31 (35.23%) Software Engineering
3 30 (34.09%) Agile
4 28 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.59%) Full Stack Development
6 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.32%) Unit Testing
7 16 (18.18%) OO
7 16 (18.18%) SDLC
8 15 (17.05%) Software Architecture
9 14 (15.91%) OOP
9 14 (15.91%) Programme Management
9 14 (15.91%) Secure Coding
10 13 (14.77%) Change Management
10 13 (14.77%) Project Management
11 8 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 8 (9.09%) Event-Driven
12 7 (7.95%) Scrum
12 7 (7.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (6.82%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (59.09%) Python
2 30 (34.09%) C
3 25 (28.41%) JavaScript
4 18 (20.45%) SQL
5 15 (17.05%) C++
5 15 (17.05%) Go
6 12 (13.64%) C#
7 7 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.27%) R
10 2 (2.27%) Scala
11 1 (1.14%) Perl
11 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 39 (44.32%) DV Cleared
3 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.14%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.14%) OSCP
6 1 (1.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) MISRA
3 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (26.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.32%) Terraform
3 12 (13.64%) Ansible
4 11 (12.50%) Grafana
4 11 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.95%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.68%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.27%) SCCM
8 2 (2.27%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.14%) Istio
9 1 (1.14%) rkt
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.27%) IBM
3 2 (2.27%) Veeam
3 2 (2.27%) VMware
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.14%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow