Java Contracts in Swindon

Java
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing Java 7 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 6.19% 0.82% 10.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.17% 4.76% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 15
10th Percentile £452 - £568
25th Percentile £456 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 - £688
90th Percentile - - £738
Wiltshire median daily rate £513 £570 £638
% change year-on-year -10.09% -10.59% +10.87%

All Programming Languages
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 21 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 21.24% 17.21% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 44
10th Percentile £333 £375 £452
25th Percentile £450 £403 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +10.58%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £675
90th Percentile £580 £613 £696
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -2.76%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Swindon

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Java

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 2 (28.57%) Alfresco
1 2 (28.57%) Camunda
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) JPA
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Keycloak
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Fabric
1 2 (28.57%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) SOLID
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Sprint Review
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Packer
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Talend
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) VMware