Java Contracts in Wiltshire

Java
South West > Wiltshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 80 58
Rank change year-on-year +36 -22 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 9 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.01% 0.76% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.47% 5.83% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 25
10th Percentile £454 - £502
25th Percentile £481 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +14.09%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £608
90th Percentile £619 £745 £714
South West median daily rate £600 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +10.60% -1.36% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 120 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.20% 13.09% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 93 142
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £503 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% +5.83%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £623
90th Percentile £652 £700 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.50
25th Percentile £21.25 - £49.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.46%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £100.00
90th Percentile - - £107.50
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Wiltshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Wiltshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Wiltshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Wiltshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Swindon +7 7 £550 - 18
Corsham +35 1 £575 -19.01%
Java
South West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (22.22%) Alfresco
1 2 (22.22%) Camunda
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
3 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Applications Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) XML
2 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) JPA
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) Keycloak
3 2 (22.22%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) LDAP
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Fabric
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
1 3 (33.33%) SOLID
1 3 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Observability
2 2 (22.22%) Sprint Review
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) BDD
3 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Talend
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat