Java Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Java
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City 3.13% 15.38% 26.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% 66.67% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £500 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -44.83%

All Programming Languages
Welwyn Garden City

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 Welwyn Garden City.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 34.38% 23.08% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £448 - £493
25th Percentile £488 £399 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £400 £544
Median % change year-on-year +68.96% -26.53% -22.32%
75th Percentile £763 £412 £573
90th Percentile £838 £435 £589
Hertfordshire median daily rate £500 £500 £431
% change year-on-year - +15.94% -21.59%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City.

Java job vacancy trend in Welwyn Garden City

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk