Java Contracts in the East of England

Java
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 46 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 -21
Contract jobs citing Java 73 75 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.75% 3.83% 6.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.68% 12.73% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 48 72
10th Percentile £363 £433 £413
25th Percentile £405 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £540 £556
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -3.01% +8.80%
75th Percentile £551 £629 £601
90th Percentile £600 £700 £711
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 21
10th Percentile £52.50 £61.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.24% +12.39%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £76.05 £77.00
England median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +1.55% +2.38%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 413 589 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.23% 30.11% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 356 456
10th Percentile £320 £313 £299
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £672
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 97 91
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Essex +6 25 £534 +1.71% 1
Hertfordshire +1 25 £375 -31.19% 12
Cambridgeshire +13 21 £496 -0.75% 26
Suffolk +8 1 £600 -14.29%
Bedfordshire -4 1 £395 -24.76% 1
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (8.22%) Alfresco
1 6 (8.22%) Appian
1 6 (8.22%) Camunda
1 6 (8.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) InVision
1 2 (2.74%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) GCP
2 6 (8.22%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (8.22%) Collibra
2 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.48%) Azure
4 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) Figma
6 1 (1.37%) AWS
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) Firewall
1 13 (17.81%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) Wireless
3 1 (1.37%) RTMP
3 1 (1.37%) RTP
3 1 (1.37%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.22%) Metadata
2 6 (8.22%) Power BI
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.37%) Big Data
3 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) JIRA
2 12 (16.44%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) JUnit
3 7 (9.59%) Mockito
4 6 (8.22%) Eclipse
4 6 (8.22%) PyCharm
5 3 (4.11%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.37%) CMake
General
1 11 (15.07%) Finance
2 8 (10.96%) Aerospace
2 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.59%) Banking
3 7 (9.59%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.11%) Automotive
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Developer
2 15 (20.55%) Architect
3 11 (15.07%) Full Stack Engineer
3 11 (15.07%) Java Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Analyst
4 9 (12.33%) Data Architect
4 9 (12.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Senior
6 7 (9.59%) Senior Java Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Data Product Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Product Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) React
2 21 (28.77%) HTML
3 19 (26.03%) CSS
4 14 (19.18%) Spring
4 14 (19.18%) Spring Boot
5 13 (17.81%) Drools
6 7 (9.59%) Quarkus
6 7 (9.59%) RESTful
7 6 (8.22%) Angular 2
7 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
7 6 (8.22%) HTML5
7 6 (8.22%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (8.22%) jBPM
7 6 (8.22%) JSON
7 6 (8.22%) REST
7 6 (8.22%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.37%) J2EE
8 1 (1.37%) JPA
8 1 (1.37%) Kafka
8 1 (1.37%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.85%) Low-Code
3 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) FMCG
6 1 (1.37%) MPEG
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.73%) Agile
2 25 (34.25%) Software Engineering
3 22 (30.14%) DevOps
4 21 (28.77%) Full Stack Development
5 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.29%) Identity Management
7 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
8 12 (16.44%) Computer Science
8 12 (16.44%) Use Case
8 12 (16.44%) Validation
8 12 (16.44%) Workflow
9 11 (15.07%) Data Science
9 11 (15.07%) Load Balancing
9 11 (15.07%) TDD
9 11 (15.07%) Verification and Validation
10 9 (12.33%) Content Development
10 9 (12.33%) Data Management
10 9 (12.33%) Scrum
11 8 (10.96%) Containerisation
11 8 (10.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) TypeScript
2 18 (24.66%) SQL
3 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
3 15 (20.55%) Python
4 6 (8.22%) Groovy
5 4 (5.48%) R
6 3 (4.11%) C#
6 3 (4.11%) C++
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) C
7 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
1 6 (8.22%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (8.22%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Google
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Pega
3 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.37%) IBM
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle
3 1 (1.37%) Sybase