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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 56 57
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -38
Contract jobs citing Java 92 101 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.43% 3.51% 3.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.94% 15.59% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 87
10th Percentile £393 £363 £417
25th Percentile £456 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £616
90th Percentile £688 £614 £719
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% +13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £68.66
25th Percentile - - £70.62
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £73.88
Median % change year-on-year - -82.40% +24.69%
75th Percentile - - £77.14
90th Percentile - - £79.10
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £63.25
% change year-on-year -5.45% +8.70% -3.44%

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 543 648 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.25% 22.52% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 470 580
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £56.47 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.79% +61.34% -18.24%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -5 73 £594 +25.00% 32
Buckinghamshire +15 16 £538 +2.38% 6
Oxfordshire -4 3 £350 -41.67% 9
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 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.26%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Appian
4 1 (1.09%) JBoss
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.78%) Azure
2 30 (32.61%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Serverless
4 10 (10.87%) GCP
5 9 (9.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (9.78%) Azure Functions
5 9 (9.78%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.26%) PaaS
9 3 (3.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) Network Security
1 3 (3.26%) VPN
2 1 (1.09%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) Internet
2 1 (1.09%) RNC
2 1 (1.09%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 9 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.52%) MySQL
5 4 (4.35%) Impala
5 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.26%) Apache Hive
6 3 (3.26%) Big Data
6 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.17%) DB2
7 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.09%) GIS
8 1 (1.09%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.09%) Redis
8 1 (1.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (42.39%) Selenium
2 32 (34.78%) Jenkins
3 29 (31.52%) Cucumber
4 25 (27.17%) REST Assured
5 24 (26.09%) SonarQube
6 20 (21.74%) Git
7 17 (18.48%) JIRA
8 13 (14.13%) GitLab
9 5 (5.43%) JMeter
9 5 (5.43%) Maven
10 3 (3.26%) JUnit
10 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.09%) ERwin
11 1 (1.09%) Mockito
11 1 (1.09%) NWDI
11 1 (1.09%) NWDS
11 1 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 36 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (38.04%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.74%) Law
4 13 (14.13%) Police
5 4 (4.35%) Finance
5 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (43.48%) Developer
2 23 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Java Engineer
4 17 (18.48%) Senior
5 12 (13.04%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Architect
7 7 (7.61%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Lead
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Java Architect
10 4 (4.35%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) REST
2 25 (27.17%) Java EE
3 20 (21.74%) Kafka
4 19 (20.65%) Spring Boot
5 16 (17.39%) React
6 15 (16.30%) Spring
7 12 (13.04%) ARM Templates
8 8 (8.70%) Web Services
9 6 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.43%) HTML
10 5 (5.43%) Node.js
10 5 (5.43%) Symfony
10 5 (5.43%) XML
11 4 (4.35%) .NET
12 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (3.26%) Gherkin
12 3 (3.26%) Google JAX
12 3 (3.26%) scikit-learn
12 3 (3.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) IoT
5 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.26%) DevOps
2 42 (45.65%) Test Automation
3 30 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (31.52%) Microservices
5 28 (30.43%) Software Engineering
6 26 (28.26%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (28.26%) Decision-Making
6 26 (28.26%) Software Architecture
7 25 (27.17%) Technical Leadership
8 23 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 21 (22.83%) Agile
10 16 (17.39%) Containerisation
11 15 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (15.22%) Full Stack Development
13 13 (14.13%) Configuration Management
14 12 (13.04%) SDLC
15 11 (11.96%) Scrum
16 9 (9.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 9 (9.78%) TDD
17 8 (8.70%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.87%) Python
2 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.13%) Scala
4 11 (11.96%) SQL
5 9 (9.78%) PHP
6 6 (6.52%) C++
7 5 (5.43%) C
8 4 (4.35%) C#
8 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.35%) R
9 3 (3.26%) Go
9 3 (3.26%) Groovy
9 3 (3.26%) Ruby
10 2 (2.17%) Bash
10 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.09%) Rust
11 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (33.70%) SC Cleared
1 31 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.26%) Degree
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.09%) CEH
5 1 (1.09%) CISSP
5 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (22.83%) Docker
2 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 25 (27.17%) Ansible
3 18 (19.57%) Terraform
4 12 (13.04%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (13.04%) Podman
5 4 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.17%) Control-M
7 1 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (9.78%) Google
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.35%) SAP
4 3 (3.26%) VMware
5 2 (2.17%) Adobe
5 2 (2.17%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.09%) IBM
6 1 (1.09%) Mapinfo
6 1 (1.09%) Nokia
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.09%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) TIBCO