Java Contracts in the South West

Java
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 122 236 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.73% 7.07% 8.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.86% 25.76% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 162 204
10th Percentile £319 £416 £419
25th Percentile £450 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £625
90th Percentile £706 £723 £671
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 33
10th Percentile £66.64 £52.50 £49.37
25th Percentile - £60.91 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +85.71%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.26 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.69% +0.77% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 683 916 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.91% 27.43% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 642 753
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 87 67
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £46.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.35 £54.10
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the South West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the South West over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the South West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the South West

Java
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Gloucestershire -4 49 £563 -13.46% 36
Bristol -20 46 £400 -11.11% 57
Wiltshire -28 9 £625 +8.70% 13
Dorset 0 5 £400 -24.71% 11
Devon -6 4 £600 -17.24% 4
Somerset -8 4 £450 -28.94% 12
Cornwall - 1 - -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (32.79%) AWS
2 30 (24.59%) GitHub
3 15 (12.30%) Azure
4 10 (8.20%) Serverless
5 9 (7.38%) GCP
6 8 (6.56%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.74%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.82%) Apigee
9 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.82%) IaaS
9 1 (0.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) Network Security
2 6 (4.92%) AMQP
3 3 (2.46%) DNS
4 2 (1.64%) DHCP
4 2 (1.64%) Tactical Data Link
4 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.82%) Firewall
5 1 (0.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (5.74%) InfluxDB
1 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.46%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.64%) Big Data
5 2 (1.64%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.82%) Flink
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (44.26%) Jenkins
2 30 (24.59%) JIRA
3 23 (18.85%) GoogleTest
4 8 (6.56%) Git
4 8 (6.56%) Maven
5 6 (4.92%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.92%) GitLab
5 6 (4.92%) Selenium
6 5 (4.10%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.10%) JUnit
7 2 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.82%) git-flow
8 1 (0.82%) Gradle
8 1 (0.82%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 9 (7.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (3.28%) Finance
2 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (2.46%) Banking
3 3 (2.46%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.82%) Automotive
4 1 (0.82%) Electronics
4 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.82%) Law
4 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.82%) Marketing
4 1 (0.82%) Public Speaking
4 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (35.25%) Developer
2 42 (34.43%) Software Engineer
3 28 (22.95%) Java Engineer
4 24 (19.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 22 (18.03%) Java Developer
6 15 (12.30%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) Full Stack Developer
8 11 (9.02%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Tester
11 4 (3.28%) C++ Developer
11 4 (3.28%) C++/Java Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Lead
11 4 (3.28%) Site Engineer
12 3 (2.46%) Automation Tester
12 3 (2.46%) Azure Developer
13 2 (1.64%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.33%) Spring
2 25 (20.49%) Qt
3 23 (18.85%) React
4 22 (18.03%) Spring Boot
5 20 (16.39%) REST
6 17 (13.93%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.38%) SAML
8 7 (5.74%) GWT
8 7 (5.74%) JAX-RS
8 7 (5.74%) Node.js
8 7 (5.74%) Restlet
9 6 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.10%) HTML
10 5 (4.10%) RESTful
11 4 (3.28%) CSS
11 4 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.46%) .NET
12 3 (2.46%) Jest
12 3 (2.46%) JPA
12 3 (2.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.13%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (20.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.28%) Insider Threat
4 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.82%) IoT
5 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (36.07%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
3 4 (3.28%) Unix
4 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.82%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) DevOps
2 56 (45.90%) Agile
2 56 (45.90%) CI/CD
3 55 (45.08%) Software Engineering
4 16 (13.11%) SDLC
5 15 (12.30%) Full Stack Development
6 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
6 14 (11.48%) Unit Testing
7 13 (10.66%) OO
8 12 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.02%) OOP
9 11 (9.02%) Programme Management
9 11 (9.02%) Secure Coding
9 11 (9.02%) Software Architecture
10 10 (8.20%) Change Management
10 10 (8.20%) Project Management
10 10 (8.20%) Scrum
11 9 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (7.38%) Event-Driven
11 9 (7.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (55.74%) Python
2 34 (27.87%) C++
3 28 (22.95%) C
4 21 (17.21%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.75%) SQL
6 17 (13.93%) Go
7 14 (11.48%) C#
8 7 (5.74%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.46%) Bash
10 3 (2.46%) Perl
10 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.46%) Rust
11 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.64%) R
11 2 (1.64%) Scala
12 1 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 67 (54.92%) Security Cleared
2 48 (39.34%) DV Cleared
3 19 (15.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.10%) Degree
5 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.64%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.82%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.82%) OSCP
6 1 (0.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.49%) MISRA
2 14 (11.48%) QA
3 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (24.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (22.13%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.03%) Terraform
3 17 (13.93%) Ansible
4 13 (10.66%) Grafana
4 13 (10.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.56%) Progress Chef
6 7 (5.74%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (4.92%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.64%) SCCM
8 2 (1.64%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.82%) Istio
9 1 (0.82%) rkt
Vendors
1 33 (27.05%) Google
2 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) VMware
3 2 (1.64%) IBM
3 2 (1.64%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.64%) Veeam
4 1 (0.82%) Databricks
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle
4 1 (0.82%) SAP
4 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow