Java Contracts in the South East

Java
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 34 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 201 313 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.70% 5.60% 5.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.58% 20.27% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 197 244
10th Percentile £364 £374 £405
25th Percentile £463 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -1.87% +11.75%
75th Percentile £678 £625 £626
90th Percentile £738 £700 £675
England median daily rate £588 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -3.01% +0.96% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 15
10th Percentile £41.75 £52.00 £20.10
25th Percentile £60.31 £58.59 £33.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -2.83%
75th Percentile £66.52 £75.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £72.61 - £67.02
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% +15.04%

All Programming Languages
South East

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,212 1,544 2,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.28% 27.63% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,096 1,312
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £412 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £612 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 83 84
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.10 £19.88
Median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +57.14% -14.11%
75th Percentile £67.02 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South East

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Java in the South East

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the South East

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley -20 83 £585 +20.00% 36
Hampshire -13 72 £593 +4.96% 42
Berkshire -19 63 £594 +21.79% 21
Surrey +6 23 £600 +3.45% 28
Buckinghamshire +13 17 £580 +28.89% 12
West Sussex -14 12 £400 -33.33% 7
Middlesex +3 5 £625 +38.89%
East Sussex +4 4 £490 -2.00% 4
Oxfordshire +2 3 £350 -41.67% 3
Kent +7 2 £500 +66.67% 1
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (4.98%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.49%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) FileNet
3 2 (1.00%) JBoss
3 2 (1.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) Appian
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.40%) AWS
2 35 (17.41%) Azure
3 14 (6.97%) Serverless
4 9 (4.48%) GCP
5 8 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.48%) Azure Functions
6 7 (3.48%) GitHub
7 6 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.49%) Azure API Management
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (1.49%) Datadog
9 3 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.49%) PaaS
9 3 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.98%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (4.48%) SNMP
3 3 (1.49%) BGP
3 3 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.49%) IOS XR
3 3 (1.49%) Network Security
3 3 (1.49%) VPN
4 2 (1.00%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) Internet
5 1 (0.50%) RNC
5 1 (0.50%) SGSN
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.47%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.47%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.98%) Couchbase
3 8 (3.98%) MySQL
3 8 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.99%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.99%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.00%) CouchDB
6 2 (1.00%) DB2
6 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.00%) Impala
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.50%) GIS
7 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.50%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.50%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.92%) Selenium
3 27 (13.43%) Cucumber
3 27 (13.43%) Git
3 27 (13.43%) JIRA
4 25 (12.44%) REST Assured
5 24 (11.94%) SonarQube
6 15 (7.46%) GitLab
7 11 (5.47%) Bitbucket
8 10 (4.98%) Eclipse
9 8 (3.98%) GoogleTest
9 8 (3.98%) Robot Framework
10 5 (2.49%) JUnit
11 3 (1.49%) JMeter
11 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.50%) ERwin
12 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.50%) NUnit
12 1 (0.50%) TestNG
General
1 70 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 57 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.95%) Law
4 13 (6.47%) Police
5 11 (5.47%) Finance
6 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.49%) Electronics
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 71 (35.32%) Developer
2 46 (22.89%) Java Developer
3 32 (15.92%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.42%) Java Engineer
5 30 (14.93%) Architect
6 29 (14.43%) Senior
7 27 (13.43%) Java Architect
8 25 (12.44%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (11.44%) Java Solutions Architect
10 18 (8.96%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (4.98%) Lead
13 9 (4.48%) C++ Software Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) Network Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) Scrum Master
15 7 (3.48%) Senior Java Engineer
16 6 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
16 6 (2.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.90%) REST
2 32 (15.92%) Spring
3 31 (15.42%) Spring Boot
4 28 (13.93%) HTML
4 28 (13.93%) Kafka
5 25 (12.44%) Java EE
6 18 (8.96%) React
7 15 (7.46%) CSS
8 12 (5.97%) ARM Templates
8 12 (5.97%) Web Services
9 10 (4.98%) Node.js
10 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.99%) .NET
12 5 (2.49%) Django
12 5 (2.49%) JSON
12 5 (2.49%) RESTful
12 5 (2.49%) Symfony
12 5 (2.49%) Vert.x
12 5 (2.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.93%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.48%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.49%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Animation
6 2 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.00%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.00%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.00%) Mixed Reality
6 2 (1.00%) Photography
6 2 (1.00%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.45%) Linux
2 16 (7.96%) Windows
3 6 (2.99%) Android
4 3 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.85%) Agile
2 56 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.86%) Software Engineering
3 54 (26.87%) DevOps
4 48 (23.88%) Test Automation
5 41 (20.40%) Scrum
6 34 (16.92%) Technical Leadership
7 29 (14.43%) Microservices
8 27 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
9 26 (12.94%) Decision-Making
10 25 (12.44%) Software Architecture
10 25 (12.44%) Translating Business Requirements
11 24 (11.94%) CI/CD
12 23 (11.44%) GAP Analysis
13 19 (9.45%) TDD
14 17 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
15 16 (7.96%) Configuration Management
15 16 (7.96%) SDLC
16 14 (6.97%) Containerisation
17 13 (6.47%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.37%) Python
2 43 (21.39%) JavaScript
3 28 (13.93%) C++
4 21 (10.45%) SQL
5 19 (9.45%) PHP
6 14 (6.97%) C
7 12 (5.97%) Scala
8 10 (4.98%) C#
9 8 (3.98%) Bash
10 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.99%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.99%) Ruby
12 4 (1.99%) Perl
12 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.00%) GLSL
14 2 (1.00%) Go
14 2 (1.00%) HLSL
14 2 (1.00%) VB
14 2 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 80 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.45%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.47%) Degree
5 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.00%) CISSP
7 2 (1.00%) PhD
8 1 (0.50%) CEH
8 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) CISM
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.47%) QA
2 4 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (11.94%) Docker
2 11 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.48%) Firmware
4 5 (2.49%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.00%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 31 (15.42%) Ansible
3 23 (11.44%) Terraform
4 12 (5.97%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (5.97%) Podman
5 4 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.49%) Nagios
6 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.49%) Puppet
7 2 (1.00%) Kibana
8 1 (0.50%) Grafana
8 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (7.46%) Google
2 11 (5.47%) Oracle
3 10 (4.98%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.98%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.99%) SAP
6 5 (2.49%) Splunk
6 5 (2.49%) VMware
7 4 (1.99%) Cisco
7 4 (1.99%) Workday
8 3 (1.49%) IBM
8 3 (1.49%) New Relic
8 3 (1.49%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.00%) Informatica
9 2 (1.00%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.50%) Compaq
10 1 (0.50%) HP