Java Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 117 155
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 23 33 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.87% 1.15% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.22% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 8
10th Percentile - £451 £433
25th Percentile £463 £481 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +10.86%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £496
90th Percentile £688 £575 £545
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +21.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,447 2,705 3,444
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.45% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,838 2,370
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 82 100
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.95 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £57.86
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -14 14 £575 +17.95% 1
Buckinghamshire +31 7 £500 -4.76% 1
Oxfordshire +3 2 £350 -41.67% 1
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) Spring Boot
3 13 (56.52%) Kafka
4 12 (52.17%) Spring
5 11 (47.83%) REST
6 10 (43.48%) Jenkins
6 10 (43.48%) TDD
7 9 (39.13%) AWS
7 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
7 9 (39.13%) Microservices
8 8 (34.78%) Docker
8 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
8 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
8 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
9 7 (30.43%) DevOps
10 6 (26.09%) Ansible
10 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
10 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
10 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (26.09%) Scala
11 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
11 5 (21.74%) Software Architecture
11 5 (21.74%) Java EE
11 5 (21.74%) JIRA
11 5 (21.74%) Selenium
11 5 (21.74%) Cucumber
11 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
11 5 (21.74%) REST Assured

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Impala
2 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) Cucumber
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) REST Assured
2 5 (21.74%) Selenium
2 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
3 4 (17.39%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) JMeter
5 1 (4.35%) Maven
5 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Law
3 4 (17.39%) Police
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) Spring Boot
2 13 (56.52%) Kafka
3 12 (52.17%) Spring
4 11 (47.83%) REST
5 5 (21.74%) Java EE
5 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (17.39%) ARM Templates
6 4 (17.39%) Symfony
6 4 (17.39%) Web Services
7 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (13.04%) Node.js
8 2 (8.70%) Apache Camel
8 2 (8.70%) GWT
8 2 (8.70%) Mustache
8 2 (8.70%) React
8 2 (8.70%) Restlet
9 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 1 (4.35%) JAX-RS
9 1 (4.35%) jQuery
9 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) TDD
2 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
5 5 (21.74%) Software Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) Configuration Management
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
6 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 4 (17.39%) SOLID
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.70%) BDD
8 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 6 (26.09%) Scala
4 4 (17.39%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (17.39%) Podman
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Control-M
4 1 (4.35%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk