Java Contracts in Wales

Java
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 33 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing Java 8 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.73% 2.78% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.67% 9.65% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 18
10th Percentile £421 £356 £404
25th Percentile £433 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £460 £525 £538
90th Percentile £463 £540 £564
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 75 114 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.60% 28.86% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 87 124
10th Percentile £225 £340 £363
25th Percentile £355 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £613
90th Percentile £588 £599 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.53 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £47.63 £39.56 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Wales

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Java in Wales

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Wales

Java
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales +4 4 - - 25
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
West Wales -3 1 £425 -12.82% 4
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
1 3 (37.50%) nginx
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 2 (25.00%) NetWeaver
3 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Adabas
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) EDI
2 2 (25.00%) IDoc
2 2 (25.00%) JDBC
2 2 (25.00%) JMS
2 2 (25.00%) SAP PI
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) ABAP
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Natural
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
1 3 (37.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) IBM