Java Developer Contracts in the North of England

Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 106 102
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 69 118 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.47% 2.07% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 2.17% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 99 130
10th Percentile £324 £478 £441
25th Percentile £401 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +12.47%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 £720 £688
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% - -
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.75% +13.46% +4.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West +23 37 £525 -4.55% 8
Yorkshire +1 29 £550 -10.20% 3
North East -4 3 £450 -37.50% 1
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 North of England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (57.97%) Agile
2 40 (57.97%) Spring
3 35 (50.72%) AWS
4 34 (49.28%) Spring Boot
5 32 (46.38%) Microservices
6 29 (42.03%) Security Cleared
7 27 (39.13%) SC Cleared
7 27 (39.13%) REST
8 25 (36.23%) Hibernate
9 20 (28.99%) JPA
9 20 (28.99%) Front End Development
9 20 (28.99%) Public Sector
10 18 (26.09%) Scrum
11 17 (24.64%) Unit Testing
11 17 (24.64%) Docker
11 17 (24.64%) Git
11 17 (24.64%) CI/CD
12 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
12 16 (23.19%) JUnit
13 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
14 14 (20.29%) React
14 14 (20.29%) DevOps
14 14 (20.29%) TypeScript
15 13 (18.84%) Relational Database
15 13 (18.84%) High Availability
16 12 (17.39%) DV Cleared
16 12 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (17.39%) TDD
16 12 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 4 (5.80%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) AWS
2 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.90%) Azure
3 2 (2.90%) GCP
3 2 (2.90%) Serverless
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Relational Database
2 12 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.59%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.45%) DB2
6 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Git
2 16 (23.19%) JUnit
3 11 (15.94%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.59%) GitLab
5 4 (5.80%) Liquibase
5 4 (5.80%) Log4j
6 3 (4.35%) JIRA
6 3 (4.35%) Maven
6 3 (4.35%) Mockito
7 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.45%) JMeter
8 1 (1.45%) Selenium
8 1 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 20 (28.99%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Finance
5 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (57.97%) Spring
2 34 (49.28%) Spring Boot
3 27 (39.13%) REST
4 25 (36.23%) Hibernate
5 20 (28.99%) JPA
6 14 (20.29%) React
7 9 (13.04%) RESTful
8 8 (11.59%) Node.js
8 8 (11.59%) Spring Security
9 6 (8.70%) Kafka
9 6 (8.70%) Web Services
10 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.90%) CSS
10 2 (2.90%) HTML
10 2 (2.90%) J2EE
10 2 (2.90%) OAuth
10 2 (2.90%) OpenID
10 2 (2.90%) WireMock
11 1 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) Derivative
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.45%) iSeries
4 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
1 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.97%) Agile
2 32 (46.38%) Microservices
3 20 (28.99%) Front End Development
4 18 (26.09%) Scrum
5 17 (24.64%) CI/CD
5 17 (24.64%) Unit Testing
6 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 14 (20.29%) DevOps
8 13 (18.84%) High Availability
9 12 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (17.39%) TDD
10 10 (14.49%) Software Engineering
11 8 (11.59%) Observability
11 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.14%) Design Patterns
13 6 (8.70%) Coaching
14 5 (7.25%) Full Stack Development
14 5 (7.25%) SDLC
14 5 (7.25%) Test Automation
15 4 (5.80%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (20.29%) TypeScript
3 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.80%) SQL
5 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (42.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.35%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.35%) WCAG
3 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Google