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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 112 238 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.44% 7.00% 8.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.59% 25.45% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 163 206
10th Percentile £311 £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 £722 £675
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 42 33
10th Percentile £66.33 £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% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £66.01 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +0.77% +9.51%

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 675 935 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.74% 27.48% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 657 754
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.40%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £649
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 66
10th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £46.87
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.18 £54.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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 2 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 2 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 -5 45 £563 -13.46% 41
Bristol -21 42 £400 -11.11% 56
Wiltshire -28 6 £750 +30.43% 15
Dorset +3 5 £400 -24.71% 11
Somerset -6 4 £450 -28.94% 11
Devon -8 4 £600 -17.24% 3
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 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.82%) AWS
2 24 (21.43%) GitHub
3 15 (13.39%) Azure
4 9 (8.04%) GCP
4 9 (8.04%) Serverless
5 8 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.89%) Apigee
8 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.89%) IaaS
8 1 (0.89%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) Network Security
2 6 (5.36%) AMQP
3 3 (2.68%) DNS
4 2 (1.79%) DHCP
4 2 (1.79%) Tactical Data Link
4 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (6.25%) InfluxDB
1 7 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.68%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.79%) Big Data
5 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.89%) Flink
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (41.96%) Jenkins
2 24 (21.43%) JIRA
3 17 (15.18%) GoogleTest
4 7 (6.25%) Git
4 7 (6.25%) Maven
5 6 (5.36%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.36%) Selenium
6 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.57%) JUnit
7 3 (2.68%) GitLab
8 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.89%) git-flow
9 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.89%) webpack
General
1 6 (5.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (3.57%) Finance
2 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (2.68%) Banking
3 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.89%) Automotive
4 1 (0.89%) Electronics
4 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.89%) Law
4 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.89%) Marketing
4 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (0.89%) Public Speaking
4 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (37.50%) Developer
2 37 (33.04%) Software Engineer
3 24 (21.43%) Java Engineer
4 20 (17.86%) Java Developer
4 20 (17.86%) Java Software Engineer
5 14 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
6 13 (11.61%) C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Lead
10 4 (3.57%) Site Engineer
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Developer
12 2 (1.79%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (1.79%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Developer
12 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (1.79%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (33.93%) Spring
2 24 (21.43%) React
3 22 (19.64%) Spring Boot
4 20 (17.86%) REST
5 19 (16.96%) Qt
6 18 (16.07%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.04%) SAML
8 7 (6.25%) GWT
8 7 (6.25%) JAX-RS
8 7 (6.25%) Node.js
8 7 (6.25%) Restlet
9 6 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.46%) HTML
10 5 (4.46%) RESTful
11 4 (3.57%) CSS
11 4 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.68%) .NET
12 3 (2.68%) Jest
12 3 (2.68%) JPA
12 3 (2.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (16.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.57%) Insider Threat
4 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) IoT
5 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.14%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Unix
2 4 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.89%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.43%) DevOps
2 48 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 47 (41.96%) Agile
3 47 (41.96%) CI/CD
4 16 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 16 (14.29%) SDLC
5 15 (13.39%) Unit Testing
6 14 (12.50%) OO
7 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.71%) OOP
8 12 (10.71%) Programme Management
8 12 (10.71%) Secure Coding
8 12 (10.71%) Software Architecture
9 11 (9.82%) Change Management
9 11 (9.82%) Project Management
10 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
11 9 (8.04%) Event-Driven
11 9 (8.04%) TDD
12 8 (7.14%) Data Modelling
12 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (55.36%) Python
2 28 (25.00%) C
2 28 (25.00%) C++
3 21 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 17 (15.18%) Go
4 17 (15.18%) SQL
5 10 (8.93%) C#
6 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.68%) Perl
8 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.79%) Bash
9 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.79%) R
9 2 (1.79%) Rust
9 2 (1.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 44 (39.29%) DV Cleared
3 17 (15.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.46%) Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.89%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.89%) OSCP
6 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.96%) MISRA
2 12 (10.71%) QA
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (24.11%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.96%) Terraform
3 14 (12.50%) Ansible
4 13 (11.61%) Grafana
4 13 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (5.36%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.79%) SCCM
8 2 (1.79%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.89%) Istio
9 1 (0.89%) rkt
Vendors
1 27 (24.11%) Google
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.79%) IBM
3 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.79%) Veeam
3 2 (1.79%) VMware
4 1 (0.89%) Databricks
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle
4 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.89%) SAP
4 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow