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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 40 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 219 292 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.88% 5.18% 5.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.24% 19.47% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 179 256
10th Percentile £365 £374 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +7.42%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £701 £675
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 16
10th Percentile £41.75 £51.25 £20.38
25th Percentile £60.31 £55.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year - +5.48% -2.95%
75th Percentile £67.02 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £74.63 - £68.38
England median hourly rate £66.01 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +0.77% +9.51%

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 1,270 1,500 2,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.51% 26.59% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,045 1,322
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £691 £650
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 86 77
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.00 £63.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
Thames Valley +3 90 £585 +20.00% 37
Hampshire -14 73 £575 +2.31% 31
Berkshire -2 70 £600 +24.68% 20
Surrey +10 28 £600 +1.69% 17
Buckinghamshire +21 17 £575 +23.66% 14
West Sussex -17 12 £400 -31.03% 15
Middlesex +4 11 £625 +38.89%
East Sussex +4 4 £490 -2.00% 12
Oxfordshire -1 3 £350 -41.67% 3
Kent +6 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 9 (4.11%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.37%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.91%) Apache
4 2 (0.91%) FileNet
4 2 (0.91%) JBoss
4 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) Appian
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.29%) AWS
2 41 (18.72%) Azure
3 18 (8.22%) Serverless
4 10 (4.57%) Azure Functions
5 9 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (4.11%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.11%) GCP
6 8 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (3.20%) GitHub
8 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.83%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.37%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.37%) Azure API Management
10 3 (1.37%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.11%) SNMP
1 9 (4.11%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.37%) BGP
3 3 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.37%) IOS XR
3 3 (1.37%) Network Security
3 3 (1.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) Internet
4 1 (0.46%) RNC
4 1 (0.46%) RS-485
4 1 (0.46%) SGSN
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.76%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.65%) Couchbase
4 8 (3.65%) MySQL
4 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.37%) Big Data
6 3 (1.37%) Impala
6 3 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.91%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.91%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.91%) DB2
7 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.91%) Redis
8 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (18.26%) Selenium
2 39 (17.81%) Jenkins
3 35 (15.98%) Git
4 31 (14.16%) Cucumber
5 27 (12.33%) JIRA
6 25 (11.42%) REST Assured
7 24 (10.96%) SonarQube
8 15 (6.85%) GitLab
9 10 (4.57%) Bitbucket
9 10 (4.57%) Eclipse
10 8 (3.65%) GoogleTest
11 7 (3.20%) Robot Framework
12 6 (2.74%) JMeter
13 5 (2.28%) JUnit
13 5 (2.28%) Maven
14 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio
15 1 (0.46%) ClearCase
15 1 (0.46%) ClearQuest
15 1 (0.46%) ERwin
15 1 (0.46%) IntelliJ
General
1 78 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.85%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.13%) Law
4 13 (5.94%) Finance
4 13 (5.94%) Police
5 6 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.28%) Marketing
7 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.37%) Aviation
8 3 (1.37%) Electronics
8 3 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.46%) Automotive
9 1 (0.46%) Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Billing
9 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (35.62%) Developer
2 49 (22.37%) Java Developer
3 34 (15.53%) Senior
4 32 (14.61%) Architect
5 31 (14.16%) Software Engineer
6 30 (13.70%) Java Engineer
7 26 (11.87%) Java Architect
7 26 (11.87%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (10.05%) Java Solutions Architect
9 17 (7.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (6.39%) Lead
12 13 (5.94%) Full Stack Developer
13 9 (4.11%) C++ Software Engineer
14 8 (3.65%) Analyst
14 8 (3.65%) Network Engineer
15 7 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
16 6 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 6 (2.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
16 6 (2.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.18%) REST
2 37 (16.89%) Spring Boot
3 33 (15.07%) Spring
4 30 (13.70%) Kafka
5 27 (12.33%) HTML
6 25 (11.42%) Java EE
7 22 (10.05%) React
8 14 (6.39%) CSS
9 12 (5.48%) ARM Templates
9 12 (5.48%) Web Services
10 10 (4.57%) Node.js
11 9 (4.11%) J2EE
12 8 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (3.20%) .NET
13 7 (3.20%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.28%) Django
14 5 (2.28%) JSON
14 5 (2.28%) RESTful
14 5 (2.28%) Symfony
14 5 (2.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.70%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.11%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.28%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Animation
6 2 (0.91%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (0.91%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.91%) Mixed Reality
6 2 (0.91%) Photography
6 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.50%) Linux
2 16 (7.31%) Windows
3 6 (2.74%) Android
4 4 (1.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.51%) Agile
2 66 (30.14%) DevOps
3 58 (26.48%) Test Automation
4 57 (26.03%) Software Engineering
5 56 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (18.72%) Scrum
7 36 (16.44%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (14.16%) Microservices
9 29 (13.24%) CI/CD
10 28 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (12.33%) Software Architecture
12 26 (11.87%) Decision-Making
13 24 (10.96%) Translating Business Requirements
14 23 (10.50%) GAP Analysis
15 21 (9.59%) Full Stack Development
16 20 (9.13%) SDLC
17 19 (8.68%) TDD
18 16 (7.31%) Configuration Management
19 14 (6.39%) Computer Science
19 14 (6.39%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.05%) Python
2 46 (21.00%) JavaScript
3 37 (16.89%) C++
4 23 (10.50%) C
4 23 (10.50%) SQL
5 20 (9.13%) PHP
6 12 (5.48%) Scala
7 10 (4.57%) C#
8 8 (3.65%) Bash
9 7 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.74%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.74%) Ruby
11 4 (1.83%) Perl
11 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.83%) VBScript
12 3 (1.37%) R
12 3 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.91%) GLSL
13 2 (0.91%) Go
13 2 (0.91%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 79 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.59%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.85%) Degree
5 9 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.91%) CISSP
7 2 (0.91%) PhD
8 1 (0.46%) CEH
8 1 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.46%) CISM
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) OCP
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.94%) QA
2 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.46%) NIST
3 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (11.42%) Docker
2 13 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.65%) Firmware
4 5 (2.28%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.91%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 32 (14.61%) Ansible
3 29 (13.24%) Terraform
4 12 (5.48%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (5.48%) Podman
5 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.37%) Nagios
6 3 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.37%) Puppet
7 2 (0.91%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) Control-M
8 1 (0.46%) Grafana
8 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (6.85%) Google
2 12 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.02%) Oracle
4 8 (3.65%) SAP
5 7 (3.20%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.28%) Splunk
6 5 (2.28%) VMware
7 4 (1.83%) Cisco
7 4 (1.83%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.83%) Workday
8 3 (1.37%) Adobe
8 3 (1.37%) IBM
8 3 (1.37%) New Relic
8 3 (1.37%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.91%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.91%) Informatica
9 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.46%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.46%) Mapinfo
10 1 (0.46%) Salesforce