Java Contracts in Manchester

Java
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 111 116 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 7.24% 6.11% 9.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.50% 20.32% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 89 198
10th Percentile £398 £403 £400
25th Percentile £431 £485 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £583 £541
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +7.71% +13.95%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £632
90th Percentile £639 £700 £679
North West median daily rate £495 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.77% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £67.00 - -
25th Percentile £69.69 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £81.75 - -
90th Percentile £82.70 - -
North West median hourly rate £68.75 £40.30 £39.73
% change year-on-year +70.62% +1.43% -9.71%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 453 571 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.55% 30.10% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 445 835
10th Percentile £338 £343 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.80%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 12
10th Percentile - £39.10 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +192.87% -54.47%
75th Percentile £81.00 £48.75 £39.38
90th Percentile £82.90 £59.10 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Manchester

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in Manchester

Java
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Salford +2 6 £425 -35.85%
Stockport -1 1 £550 -21.43%
Oldham - 1 £450 -
Java
North West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.45%) AWS
2 8 (7.21%) Azure
3 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.60%) Serverless
5 3 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.70%) GCP
5 3 (2.70%) GitHub
5 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.80%) SaaS
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.90%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.90%) Figma
7 1 (0.90%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.90%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) DNS
2 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
1 9 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.21%) MySQL
2 8 (7.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.50%) SQLite
4 4 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.70%) HBase
5 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.80%) Power BI
6 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.90%) Big Data
7 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (19.82%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.61%) Android Studio
2 14 (12.61%) Git
3 13 (11.71%) Cucumber
3 13 (11.71%) JUnit
4 10 (9.01%) Mockito
5 7 (6.31%) GitLab
5 7 (6.31%) Selenium
6 5 (4.50%) Gatling
6 5 (4.50%) Maven
7 4 (3.60%) Postman
8 3 (2.70%) Gradle
8 3 (2.70%) JIRA
8 3 (2.70%) JMeter
9 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.80%) Mocha
9 2 (1.80%) TestCafe
9 2 (1.80%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.90%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.90%) Pa11y
General
1 17 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.60%) Banking
4 3 (2.70%) Finance
4 3 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (54.05%) Developer
2 33 (29.73%) Java Developer
3 25 (22.52%) Senior
4 19 (17.12%) Android Developer
5 14 (12.61%) Senior Developer
6 12 (10.81%) Java Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Lead
10 4 (3.60%) Senior Android Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Tester
11 3 (2.70%) Backend Developer
11 3 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.53%) RESTful
2 27 (24.32%) Spring
3 26 (23.42%) Spring Boot
4 17 (15.32%) REST
5 16 (14.41%) React
6 14 (12.61%) Hibernate
6 14 (12.61%) JPA
7 13 (11.71%) Web Services
8 11 (9.91%) OAuth
8 11 (9.91%) OAuth2
8 11 (9.91%) OpenID
9 10 (9.01%) Node.js
10 9 (8.11%) Kafka
11 8 (7.21%) Spring Security
12 6 (5.41%) XML
13 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.60%) Playwright
15 3 (2.70%) .NET
15 3 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
15 3 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (7.21%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.80%) Derivative
3 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.90%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.90%) IoT
4 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.92%) Android
2 5 (4.50%) Unix
3 2 (1.80%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.64%) Agile
2 25 (22.52%) Unit Testing
3 23 (20.72%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.72%) Microservices
4 22 (19.82%) Test Automation
5 20 (18.02%) Software Engineering
6 19 (17.12%) Android Development
7 18 (16.22%) Front End Development
8 17 (15.32%) Design Patterns
9 15 (13.51%) TDD
10 14 (12.61%) DevOps
11 12 (10.81%) Scrum
12 10 (9.01%) Observability
13 9 (8.11%) Mentoring
14 8 (7.21%) BDD
14 8 (7.21%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (7.21%) Full Stack Development
14 8 (7.21%) Mobile Development
15 7 (6.31%) Architectural Patterns
15 7 (6.31%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) Kotlin
2 12 (10.81%) Python
3 9 (8.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.21%) PHP
4 8 (7.21%) Scala
4 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.41%) SQL
6 2 (1.80%) C#
6 2 (1.80%) Go
6 2 (1.80%) Groovy
6 2 (1.80%) Perl
6 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.90%) C
7 1 (0.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.60%) Degree
5 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 5 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (9.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
3 3 (2.70%) Grafana
4 2 (1.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (1.80%) Google
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
2 1 (0.90%) Confluent
2 1 (0.90%) New Relic
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle