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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 51 26
Rank change year-on-year -16 -25 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 52 120 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.94% 3.66% 6.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.38% 16.67% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 67 165
10th Percentile £388 £323 £431
25th Percentile £504 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% -1.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £675
90th Percentile £730 £688 £725
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 40
10th Percentile £65.38 £66.25 £52.38
25th Percentile £65.94 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.55
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.78% +0.85%
75th Percentile £75.31 - £70.30
90th Percentile £87.13 - £75.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +1.55%

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 420 720 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.72% 21.95% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 456 633
10th Percentile £345 £338 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £625
90th Percentile £652 £700 £713
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 119 89
10th Percentile £61.70 £52.00 £49.94
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.38 £59.80
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

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 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the South West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 July 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 +3 23 £615 +11.82% 131
Bristol -24 10 £400 -5.88% 128
Wiltshire +36 9 £550 -3.51% 19
Dorset +4 5 £475 +18.75% 47
Devon +8 1 £160 -73.33% 41
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 (5.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) Alfresco
2 2 (3.85%) Camunda
2 2 (3.85%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) Azure
3 12 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) npm
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) DNS
2 8 (15.38%) DHCP
2 8 (15.38%) HTTP
2 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.77%) Network Security
4 1 (1.92%) AMQP
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.54%) MySQL
2 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.85%) Big Data
5 2 (3.85%) Flink
5 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) Git
3 5 (9.62%) Cucumber
3 5 (9.62%) Cypress.io
3 5 (9.62%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) JUnit
5 2 (3.85%) Maven
6 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.92%) JIRA
6 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Lead
3 6 (11.54%) Java Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Test Leader
6 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.85%) Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) React Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) Spring
2 11 (21.15%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.46%) Middleware
4 6 (11.54%) React
5 5 (9.62%) HTML
5 5 (9.62%) REST
6 4 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.69%) RESTful
6 4 (7.69%) SOAP
6 4 (7.69%) XML
7 3 (5.77%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (5.77%) CSS
7 3 (5.77%) Hibernate
7 3 (5.77%) JPA
7 3 (5.77%) Kafka
7 3 (5.77%) OAuth
7 3 (5.77%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.77%) Spring Security
7 3 (5.77%) Web Services
8 2 (3.85%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) PKI
2 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Robotics
4 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (40.38%) Linux
2 14 (26.92%) Windows
3 9 (17.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (17.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.92%) CentOS
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.92%) Solaris
5 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Software Engineering
2 17 (32.69%) Agile
3 12 (23.08%) DevOps
4 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
4 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
5 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (17.31%) Service Management
6 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.62%) ETL
8 5 (9.62%) Incident Management
8 5 (9.62%) Microservices
9 4 (7.69%) Observability
9 4 (7.69%) Scrum
9 4 (7.69%) Software Testing
9 4 (7.69%) User Stories
9 4 (7.69%) Validation
10 3 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) Python
2 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (21.15%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
5 9 (17.31%) Bash
6 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.77%) Ada
7 3 (5.77%) C
8 2 (3.85%) C++
9 1 (1.92%) Go
9 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (59.62%) Security Cleared
2 23 (44.23%) DV Cleared
3 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.77%) Def Stans
1 3 (5.77%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Docker
2 10 (19.23%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (30.77%) Ansible
3 12 (23.08%) Terraform
4 11 (21.15%) Puppet
5 3 (5.77%) Automic
5 3 (5.77%) Grafana
6 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.92%) Podman
6 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) VMware
2 9 (17.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Talend
5 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) Genesys
5 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce