Java Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 60 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -32
Contract jobs citing Java 69 64 83
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 3.41% 3.04% 3.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.13% 12.10% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 50
10th Percentile £204 £387 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £575 £493
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% +16.75% -6.19%
75th Percentile £574 £650 £624
90th Percentile £620 £671 £689
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £528
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.69% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £28.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +71.05% -55.29% -1.92%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 456 529 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.54% 25.12% 21.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 335 421
10th Percentile £340 £382 £350
25th Percentile £408 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £565 £638 £619
90th Percentile £610 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.05% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 12
10th Percentile £34.13 £34.02 £33.93
25th Percentile £57.19 £52.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £52.15
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +8.82% -9.31%
75th Percentile £81.50 £69.69 £58.96
90th Percentile £84.20 £77.39 £69.04
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.41
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.87% -4.32%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Java job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Java
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java

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 13 December 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
Berkshire 0 57 £444 -1.39% 59
Buckinghamshire +5 10 £325 -49.51% 19
Oxfordshire -11 2 £500 - 14
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.25%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) Drupal
3 1 (1.45%) IIS
3 1 (1.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Maximo
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) AWS
1 19 (27.54%) Azure
2 17 (24.64%) GitHub
3 12 (17.39%) GCP
4 10 (14.49%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 4 (5.80%) Serverless
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.90%) AtomSphere
9 2 (2.90%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.90%) Boomi
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) Broadband
1 3 (4.35%) GPRS
1 3 (4.35%) GSM
1 3 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.45%) HTTP
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) MySQL
2 8 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.59%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 6 (8.70%) Selenium
3 4 (5.80%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (4.35%) Firebug
4 3 (4.35%) JUnit
4 3 (4.35%) Storybook
5 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.90%) Gradle
5 2 (2.90%) Maven
5 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.90%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.45%) Appium
6 1 (1.45%) MSTest
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
6 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.25%) Finance
5 4 (5.80%) Billing
5 4 (5.80%) Marketing
6 3 (4.35%) Electronics
6 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Developer
2 7 (10.14%) Architect
2 7 (10.14%) Technical Support
3 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (8.70%) Senior
4 5 (7.25%) Security Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Site Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Developer
6 3 (4.35%) Designer
6 3 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) C# Developer
7 2 (2.90%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) React
1 12 (17.39%) REST
2 11 (15.94%) HTML
3 9 (13.04%) CSS
4 8 (11.59%) SailPoint
5 7 (10.14%) JSON
5 7 (10.14%) RESTful
5 7 (10.14%) SOAP
5 7 (10.14%) XML
6 6 (8.70%) OAuth
6 6 (8.70%) Spring
7 5 (7.25%) GraphQL
7 5 (7.25%) Node.js
7 5 (7.25%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.80%) Google JAX
8 4 (5.80%) JAX
8 4 (5.80%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.80%) scikit-learn
8 4 (5.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.25%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.35%) IPTV
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Unix
3 2 (2.90%) Android
3 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) CI/CD
2 25 (36.23%) DevOps
3 22 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (21.74%) Agile
5 11 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (14.49%) AI
7 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 8 (11.59%) OO
8 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
8 8 (11.59%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.14%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (10.14%) High Availability
10 6 (8.70%) Release Management
10 6 (8.70%) SDLC
10 6 (8.70%) Secure Coding
10 6 (8.70%) Security Architecture
10 6 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (7.25%) Business Continuity
11 5 (7.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.13%) JavaScript
2 24 (34.78%) Python
3 20 (28.99%) SQL
4 11 (15.94%) C#
5 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
6 8 (11.59%) BeanShell
7 6 (8.70%) C
7 6 (8.70%) Go
8 4 (5.80%) C++
8 4 (5.80%) Perl
8 4 (5.80%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.80%) R
9 3 (4.35%) Jython
9 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.90%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.90%) Bash
10 2 (2.90%) Groovy
10 2 (2.90%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.90%) PHP
10 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.49%) Degree
4 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.45%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) GDPR
2 4 (5.80%) EU AI Act
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) NDS
3 1 (1.45%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Oracle
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.35%) SAP
4 2 (2.90%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) NetIQ
5 1 (1.45%) OpenText
5 1 (1.45%) Pega
5 1 (1.45%) Virgin Media