Java Contracts in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 58 53
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 67 90 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.54% 3.42% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.09% 17.08% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 57 62
10th Percentile - £393 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +20.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £559
90th Percentile £638 £688 £614
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 - £13.00
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.70% +12.50%

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 392 527 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.58% 20.01% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 359 473
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £608 £600
90th Percentile £700 £650 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 30 20
10th Percentile £25.55 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £35.50 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £58.12 £58.40 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +2.67% -15.57%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £71.40 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Berkshire +16 60 £500 -16.67% 29
Buckinghamshire +1 5 £575 - 12
Oxfordshire +1 2 - - 15
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 3 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.99%) Camunda
3 1 (1.49%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) CATIA
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 24 (35.82%) AWS
3 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.45%) Azure API Management
4 7 (10.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (8.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (7.46%) PaaS
6 5 (7.46%) Serverless
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.97%) SaaS
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 3 (4.48%) IaaS
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.88%) ATM
1 16 (23.88%) Ethernet
1 16 (23.88%) Frame Relay
1 16 (23.88%) GPRS
1 16 (23.88%) GSM
1 16 (23.88%) LAN
1 16 (23.88%) LTE
1 16 (23.88%) MPLS
1 16 (23.88%) SAN
1 16 (23.88%) SDH
1 16 (23.88%) UMTS
1 16 (23.88%) VPN
1 16 (23.88%) WAN
1 16 (23.88%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.49%) GPON
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.97%) MySQL
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.49%) Big Data
6 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.49%) GIS
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (40.30%) Selenium
2 18 (26.87%) Jenkins
3 16 (23.88%) JIRA
4 14 (20.90%) GitLab
5 13 (19.40%) Cucumber
5 13 (19.40%) REST Assured
6 10 (14.93%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.48%) JUnit
7 3 (4.48%) Mockito
8 2 (2.99%) Git
8 2 (2.99%) JMeter
8 2 (2.99%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.49%) DBeaver
9 1 (1.49%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.49%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.49%) jMock
9 1 (1.49%) Maven
9 1 (1.49%) Metasploit
General
1 33 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (25.37%) Telecoms
4 8 (11.94%) Law
5 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Police
7 2 (2.99%) Billing
8 1 (1.49%) Automotive
8 1 (1.49%) Military
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Developer
2 15 (22.39%) IP Engineer
3 14 (20.90%) Test Engineer
4 11 (16.42%) Java Developer
5 9 (13.43%) Java Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) Architect
6 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Developer
8 5 (7.46%) IP Network Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Consultant
9 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) Applications Architect
10 3 (4.48%) AWS Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Security Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) REST
2 13 (19.40%) Java EE
3 9 (13.43%) ARM Templates
4 7 (10.45%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.46%) ADO
5 5 (7.46%) OAuth
6 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
6 4 (5.97%) HTML
6 4 (5.97%) React
6 4 (5.97%) Spring
7 3 (4.48%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.48%) Apache Axis
7 3 (4.48%) Kafka
7 3 (4.48%) SOAP
7 3 (4.48%) Web Services
7 3 (4.48%) XML
8 2 (2.99%) JPA
8 2 (2.99%) jQuery
8 2 (2.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (10.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.96%) Algorithms
4 5 (7.46%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.99%) CMDB
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.87%) Linux
2 16 (23.88%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) Windows
3 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (52.24%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (40.30%) DevOps
3 26 (38.81%) Test Automation
4 18 (26.87%) Project Management
4 18 (26.87%) Test Strategy
5 16 (23.88%) Fault Management
5 16 (23.88%) Regression Testing
5 16 (23.88%) Technical Leadership
6 15 (22.39%) Agile
6 15 (22.39%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
8 13 (19.40%) Configuration Management
8 13 (19.40%) Software Architecture
9 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
9 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (14.93%) Microservices
10 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
11 8 (11.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.30%) Python
2 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (13.43%) SQL
3 5 (7.46%) C#
4 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.48%) Ruby
6 2 (2.99%) Bash
6 2 (2.99%) C++
6 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.49%) C
7 1 (1.49%) DataWeave
7 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.49%) Magik
7 1 (1.49%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 16 (23.88%) CCNP
3 16 (23.88%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (23.88%) ISEB
3 16 (23.88%) ISTQB
3 16 (23.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (10.45%) Degree
5 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.99%) CISSP
6 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) GPEN
7 1 (1.49%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.49%) OSCE
7 1 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.99%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Kubernetes
1 11 (16.42%) Terraform
2 9 (13.43%) Ansible
2 9 (13.43%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (13.43%) Podman
3 2 (2.99%) Kibana
3 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.49%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.88%) Cisco
2 16 (23.88%) Juniper
3 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle
3 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.99%) Splunk
4 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.49%) SAP
4 1 (1.49%) Sparx