Java Contracts in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 52 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -32
Contract jobs citing Java 90 103 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.41% 3.60% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.11% 15.65% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 63 79
10th Percentile £393 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £600
90th Percentile £688 £614 £688
South East median daily rate £575 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +8.49% +0.95% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £68.66
25th Percentile - - £70.62
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £73.88
Median % change year-on-year - -82.40% +24.69%
75th Percentile - - £77.14
90th Percentile - - £79.10
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -5.51%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 526 658 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.95% 22.99% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 478 570
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £606 £587
90th Percentile £650 £682 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -3 70 £600 +24.68% 21
Buckinghamshire +20 17 £575 +23.66% 17
Oxfordshire +1 3 £350 -41.67% 4
Java
South East

Java
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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Appian
3 1 (1.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.67%) Azure
2 29 (32.22%) AWS
3 14 (15.56%) Serverless
4 9 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 9 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (8.89%) GCP
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.33%) IaaS
8 3 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.33%) PaaS
8 3 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Network Security
1 3 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.11%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) Internet
2 1 (1.11%) RNC
2 1 (1.11%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.67%) MySQL
5 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.33%) Impala
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.22%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.22%) Big Data
7 2 (2.22%) DB2
7 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.11%) GIS
8 1 (1.11%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.11%) Redis
8 1 (1.11%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.11%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 39 (43.33%) Selenium
2 31 (34.44%) Jenkins
3 29 (32.22%) Cucumber
4 25 (27.78%) REST Assured
5 24 (26.67%) SonarQube
6 17 (18.89%) Git
6 17 (18.89%) JIRA
7 13 (14.44%) GitLab
8 5 (5.56%) JMeter
9 4 (4.44%) Maven
10 3 (3.33%) JUnit
10 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.11%) Appium
11 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.11%) ERwin
11 1 (1.11%) NWDI
11 1 (1.11%) NWDS
11 1 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 33 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.22%) Law
4 13 (14.44%) Police
5 4 (4.44%) Finance
5 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.22%) Retail
7 1 (1.11%) Automotive
7 1 (1.11%) Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (45.56%) Developer
2 23 (25.56%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 16 (17.78%) Senior
5 12 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Lead
7 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Java Technical Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.89%) REST
2 25 (27.78%) Java EE
3 20 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 18 (20.00%) Kafka
5 16 (17.78%) React
6 15 (16.67%) Spring
7 12 (13.33%) ARM Templates
8 8 (8.89%) Web Services
9 7 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.56%) HTML
10 5 (5.56%) Node.js
10 5 (5.56%) Symfony
10 5 (5.56%) XML
11 4 (4.44%) .NET
12 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (3.33%) Gherkin
13 2 (2.22%) Apache Camel
13 2 (2.22%) Mustache
13 2 (2.22%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Unix
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.11%) DevOps
2 42 (46.67%) Test Automation
3 28 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (30.00%) Microservices
5 26 (28.89%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (28.89%) Decision-Making
5 26 (28.89%) Software Architecture
5 26 (28.89%) Software Engineering
6 25 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (24.44%) Agile
8 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
9 14 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.56%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (14.44%) Configuration Management
10 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (13.33%) Scrum
12 11 (12.22%) TDD
13 10 (11.11%) SDLC
14 9 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 8 (8.89%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) Python
2 18 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (12.22%) SQL
4 10 (11.11%) Scala
5 9 (10.00%) PHP
6 4 (4.44%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) C
7 3 (3.33%) Ruby
8 2 (2.22%) C++
8 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.22%) R
8 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) Groovy
9 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.11%) Rust
9 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (34.44%) SC Cleared
1 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) CEH
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (23.33%) Docker
2 12 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (27.78%) Ansible
3 16 (17.78%) Terraform
4 12 (13.33%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (13.33%) Podman
5 4 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.11%) Control-M
6 1 (1.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) Oracle
2 7 (7.78%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) SAP
4 3 (3.33%) VMware
5 2 (2.22%) Adobe
5 2 (2.22%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.22%) Informatica
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.11%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) Mapinfo
6 1 (1.11%) Nokia
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Splunk
6 1 (1.11%) TIBCO