Java Contracts in West Wales

Java
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Wales 15.38% 25.00% 8.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 80.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £418 £466 £476
25th Percentile £425 £472 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -21.15%
75th Percentile £475 £545 £544
90th Percentile £483 £582 -
Wales median daily rate £454 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -9.20% -2.44% -6.82%

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 5 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 38.46% 31.25% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £276 £433 £384
25th Percentile £413 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -20.08%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £539
90th Percentile - £574 £544
Wales median daily rate £405 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -17.35% +0.51% -11.36%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in West Wales

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Daily rate trend 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 28 June 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 -2 2 £450 -10.00% 3
Java
Wales

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes