Java Contracts in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 43 52
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing Java 80 125 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.99% 4.32% 3.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.07% 17.86% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 85 78
10th Percentile £413 £345 £399
25th Percentile £463 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -12.38% +13.82%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £619
90th Percentile £688 £613 £688
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year - -83.83% +34.00%
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -5.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 531 700 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.84% 24.20% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 523 583
10th Percentile £352 £328 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £606 £580
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +69.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +9.35% +26.68% +2.15%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Berkshire -15 60 £585 +23.16% 20
Buckinghamshire +12 17 £580 +28.89% 9
Oxfordshire -1 3 £350 -41.67% 2
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (7.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Appian
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) AWS
2 23 (28.75%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) Serverless
4 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.25%) GCP
8 3 (3.75%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.75%) IaaS
8 3 (3.75%) PaaS
8 3 (3.75%) SaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Network Security
1 3 (3.75%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) RNC
2 1 (1.25%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (13.75%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.00%) MySQL
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.50%) DB2
5 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Impala
5 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.25%) Big Data
6 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.25%) GIS
6 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.25%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.25%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.25%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 33 (41.25%) Jenkins
2 30 (37.50%) Selenium
3 26 (32.50%) Cucumber
4 25 (31.25%) REST Assured
5 24 (30.00%) SonarQube
6 17 (21.25%) JIRA
7 13 (16.25%) GitLab
8 9 (11.25%) Git
9 6 (7.50%) JUnit
10 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.50%) JMeter
12 1 (1.25%) Appium
12 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
12 1 (1.25%) ERwin
12 1 (1.25%) Mockito
12 1 (1.25%) NWDI
12 1 (1.25%) NWDS
12 1 (1.25%) TestNG
General
1 31 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (25.00%) Law
4 13 (16.25%) Police
5 4 (5.00%) Finance
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Automotive
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (41.25%) Developer
2 26 (32.50%) Java Developer
3 18 (22.50%) Java Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Lead
7 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Java Architect
9 4 (5.00%) Java Technical Architect
9 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (46.25%) REST
2 25 (31.25%) Java EE
3 23 (28.75%) Spring Boot
4 17 (21.25%) Kafka
4 17 (21.25%) Spring
5 12 (15.00%) ARM Templates
6 11 (13.75%) Web Services
7 7 (8.75%) Node.js
7 7 (8.75%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (8.75%) React
8 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (6.25%) SOAP
9 5 (6.25%) Symfony
10 4 (5.00%) HTML
10 4 (5.00%) RESTful
11 3 (3.75%) .NET
11 3 (3.75%) J2EE
12 2 (2.50%) CSS
12 2 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) IoT
4 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.25%) DevOps
2 33 (41.25%) Test Automation
3 27 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (32.50%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (32.50%) Decision-Making
5 25 (31.25%) Software Architecture
5 25 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 25 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (30.00%) Microservices
7 15 (18.75%) Agile
8 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 14 (17.50%) TDD
9 13 (16.25%) Configuration Management
9 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (15.00%) Scrum
11 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
11 9 (11.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 9 (11.25%) Full Stack Development
12 7 (8.75%) Migration
13 6 (7.50%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 16 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.50%) Scala
3 10 (12.50%) SQL
4 9 (11.25%) PHP
5 4 (5.00%) C#
6 3 (3.75%) Ruby
7 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.25%) C
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) R
8 1 (1.25%) Rust
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (42.50%) SC Cleared
1 34 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) CEH
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (30.00%) Docker
2 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (35.00%) Ansible
1 28 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.00%) Terraform
3 12 (15.00%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (15.00%) Podman
4 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle
2 4 (5.00%) Google
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.75%) VMware
4 2 (2.50%) Adobe
4 2 (2.50%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.50%) Informatica
4 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco
5 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.25%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.25%) IBM
5 1 (1.25%) Mapinfo
5 1 (1.25%) Nokia
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) TIBCO