Java Contracts in the South West

Java
England > South West

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 69 20
Rank change year-on-year +24 -49 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 71 94 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.23% 2.94% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.81% 15.04% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 72 205
10th Percentile £423 £340 £450
25th Percentile £553 £469 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% +3.41% +4.76%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £723 £700
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 49
10th Percentile £60.88 £66.25 £52.38
25th Percentile £65.00 £68.51 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £71.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Gloucestershire +12 36 £615 +6.96% 56
Bristol +10 15 £575 +70.37% 47
Dorset +11 12 £441 +10.25% 19
Wiltshire +27 2 £613 -18.33% 3
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 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.85%) AWS
2 18 (25.35%) Azure
3 16 (22.54%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.63%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.41%) GCP
6 1 (1.41%) IaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Matillion
6 1 (1.41%) PaaS
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.54%) DNS
2 15 (21.13%) DHCP
2 15 (21.13%) HTTP
2 15 (21.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.23%) Big Data
3 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.23%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.82%) Flink
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.41%) MySQL
5 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.86%) JIRA
3 6 (8.45%) GitLab
4 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.63%) Git
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.04%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Aerospace
4 2 (2.82%) Law
5 1 (1.41%) Aviation
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Software Engineer
2 16 (22.54%) Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Java Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Test Leader
8 3 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (2.82%) React Developer
9 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Tester
10 1 (1.41%) Junior
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) Middleware
2 11 (15.49%) Spring
2 11 (15.49%) Spring Boot
3 8 (11.27%) React
4 3 (4.23%) JavaFX
5 2 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.82%) CSS
5 2 (2.82%) CSS3
5 2 (2.82%) HTML
5 2 (2.82%) HTML5
5 2 (2.82%) Jest
5 2 (2.82%) Kafka
5 2 (2.82%) Redux
5 2 (2.82%) REST
6 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.41%) OpenTracing
6 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.41%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.41%) PKI
3 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (40.85%) Linux
2 21 (29.58%) Windows
3 15 (21.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (21.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.03%) Software Engineering
2 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
3 17 (23.94%) Containerisation
3 17 (23.94%) DevOps
4 16 (22.54%) Agile
5 15 (21.13%) Service Management
6 8 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (9.86%) Test Automation
8 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (8.45%) Incident Management
8 6 (8.45%) Microservices
8 6 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.45%) Project Delivery
9 5 (7.04%) ETL
9 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (7.04%) Process Improvement
9 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning
10 4 (5.63%) Software Testing
10 4 (5.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) Python
2 16 (22.54%) Bash
2 16 (22.54%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.08%) Ada
3 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.68%) SQL
5 5 (7.04%) C++
6 4 (5.63%) C
7 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.82%) C#
9 1 (1.41%) Perl
9 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.41%) Ruby
9 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (60.56%) Security Cleared
2 30 (42.25%) DV Cleared
3 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.82%) Degree
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) MCITP
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) Def Stans
1 10 (14.08%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
2 16 (22.54%) Hyper-V
3 15 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (38.03%) Kubernetes
2 22 (30.99%) Terraform
3 21 (29.58%) Ansible
4 18 (25.35%) Puppet
5 3 (4.23%) Automic
5 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.82%) Grafana
7 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.41%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) VMware
2 15 (21.13%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.86%) Oracle
4 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft