Java Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Java
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Java 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 9.09% - 4.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.67% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £638 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15 18 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 34.09% 62.07% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 4
10th Percentile £433 £455 £255
25th Percentile £463 £500 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +20.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £486
90th Percentile £638 £560 £506
Wales median daily rate £475 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -3.80% +16.18% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.50 £20.24 £52.50
% change year-on-year +50.73% -61.46% +191.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Java job vacancy trend in West Wales

Java
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in West Wales over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in West Wales

Java
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
Swansea - 4 £625 - 4
Java
Wales

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes