Java Contracts in Suffolk

Java
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 19 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 2.70% 1.64% 4.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.76% 10.00% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 7
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +47.37%
East of England median daily rate £490 £490 £539
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -2.00%

All Programming Languages
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 10 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 22.97% 16.39% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 36
10th Percentile - £290 £313
25th Percentile £200 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% -21.43% +43.59%
75th Percentile £392 £638 -
90th Percentile £536 £650 -
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.56
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.54%
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Suffolk

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Java in Suffolk

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Suffolk

Java
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich -1 2 - - 30
Java
East of England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) logstash
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google