Java Developer Contracts in the South East

Java Developer
England > South East

The median Java Developer daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 132 182
Rank change year-on-year -17 +50 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 51 84 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.89% 1.48% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.57% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 56
10th Percentile £380 £374 £460
25th Percentile £434 £413 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £679 £693 £656
England median daily rate £600 £661 £625
% change year-on-year -9.26% +5.80% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 11
10th Percentile - £66.63 £46.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £71.25 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +12.65% -3.44%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.27
90th Percentile - - £68.75
England median hourly rate £61.88 £72.50 £64.13
% change year-on-year -14.66% +13.06% +1.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the South East

Java Developer
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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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 23 £500 -1.96% 6
Berkshire -14 14 £575 +17.95% 4
Hampshire -20 10 £525 +5.00% 7
West Sussex -2 8 £381 +1.87%
Buckinghamshire +27 7 £500 -4.76% 1
Surrey +10 5 £650 -7.14% 3
East Sussex - 3 £490 - 2
Oxfordshire 0 2 £350 -41.67% 1
Middlesex - 2 - -
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 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 South East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (49.02%) Spring
3 23 (45.10%) Kafka
4 21 (41.18%) AWS
5 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
5 18 (35.29%) Spring Boot
6 15 (29.41%) TDD
7 14 (27.45%) Agile
7 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
7 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
8 13 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
9 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
9 12 (23.53%) Microservices
9 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
10 11 (21.57%) REST
10 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
11 10 (19.61%) Scrum
11 10 (19.61%) DevOps
12 9 (17.65%) Docker
12 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
12 9 (17.65%) Scala
12 9 (17.65%) PHP
12 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (17.65%) Serverless
13 8 (15.69%) Couchbase
14 7 (13.73%) Ansible
14 7 (13.73%) Git
14 7 (13.73%) SQL
14 7 (13.73%) Finance

Java Developer Skill Set
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 3 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) AWS
2 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
2 9 (17.65%) Serverless
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (9.80%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.88%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.69%) Couchbase
3 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.92%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.92%) Big Data
5 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.92%) Impala
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.73%) Git
3 6 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 6 (11.76%) GitLab
3 6 (11.76%) JIRA
4 5 (9.80%) REST Assured
4 5 (9.80%) Selenium
4 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.88%) JUnit
6 2 (3.92%) JMeter
6 2 (3.92%) Maven
7 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.96%) Mockito
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Law
4 4 (7.84%) Police
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (49.02%) Spring
2 23 (45.10%) Kafka
3 18 (35.29%) Spring Boot
4 11 (21.57%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) HTML
5 6 (11.76%) Node.js
5 6 (11.76%) Web Services
6 5 (9.80%) Java EE
6 5 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (9.80%) Vert.x
7 4 (7.84%) ARM Templates
7 4 (7.84%) React
7 4 (7.84%) Symfony
8 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.88%) SAML
9 2 (3.92%) Apache Camel
9 2 (3.92%) GWT
9 2 (3.92%) Mustache
9 2 (3.92%) OpenID
9 2 (3.92%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
2 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
1 3 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) TDD
2 14 (27.45%) Agile
3 12 (23.53%) Microservices
4 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
5 10 (19.61%) DevOps
5 10 (19.61%) Scrum
6 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
8 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
8 5 (9.80%) Event-Driven
8 5 (9.80%) High Availability
8 5 (9.80%) Software Architecture
8 5 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (7.84%) BDD
9 4 (7.84%) Containerisation
9 4 (7.84%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (7.84%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 9 (17.65%) PHP
3 9 (17.65%) Scala
4 7 (13.73%) SQL
5 6 (11.76%) Python
6 1 (1.96%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) OCP
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.73%) Ansible
3 4 (7.84%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (7.84%) Podman
3 4 (7.84%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) Control-M
4 2 (3.92%) Kibana
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Google
2 2 (3.92%) Splunk
3 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat