Java Contracts in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 259 392 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.52% 6.87% 7.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.95% 23.50% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 298 385
10th Percentile £375 £414 £400
25th Percentile £431 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £587 £648 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £577 £601 £600
% change year-on-year -3.91% +0.08% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 3
10th Percentile £45.88 £31.25 £26.85
25th Percentile £48.43 £37.80 £28.88
Median hourly rate £68.75 £54.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.31% +56.52% -20.69%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.88 £43.25
90th Percentile £82.05 £70.00 £47.15
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.25 £63.50
% change year-on-year -2.30% +2.76% +15.45%

All Programming Languages
North 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 North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,180 1,668 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.14% 29.22% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 1,231 1,728
10th Percentile £319 £350 £326
25th Percentile £400 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 28 40
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £38.32 £18.47
Median hourly rate £47.75 £48.75 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +45.52% +28.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £52.03
90th Percentile £74.97 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
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 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 +2 145 £500 -9.09% 82
Yorkshire +3 104 £525 -8.70% 33
North East -24 10 £501 -12.96% 14
Java
England

Java
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 11 (4.25%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.70%) Apache
3 7 (2.70%) Confluence
4 6 (2.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (1.54%) Mule
6 3 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.16%) IIS
6 3 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.39%) Camunda
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.39%) Site Server
Applications
1 6 (2.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.93%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.16%) Maximo
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 109 (42.08%) AWS
2 25 (9.65%) Azure
3 13 (5.02%) GCP
4 12 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (4.63%) Serverless
5 11 (4.25%) GitHub
6 10 (3.86%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (3.09%) Apigee
8 7 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.32%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.93%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (1.93%) Kong
10 5 (1.93%) SaaS
11 4 (1.54%) BrowserStack
11 4 (1.54%) CloudBees
11 4 (1.54%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.09%) HTTP
2 6 (2.32%) SSL
3 5 (1.93%) FTP
4 4 (1.54%) Firewall
5 2 (0.77%) DNS
5 2 (0.77%) LAN
5 2 (0.77%) WAN
6 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) Network Security
6 1 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.20%) MongoDB
2 23 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.11%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.02%) MySQL
4 13 (5.02%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.63%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 9 (3.47%) Big Data
8 5 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.93%) OLAP
8 5 (1.93%) OLTP
8 5 (1.93%) Oracle OLAP
8 5 (1.93%) SQLite
9 4 (1.54%) DB2
9 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.54%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.16%) Bigtable
10 3 (1.16%) Cloud Spanner
10 3 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (14.67%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.58%) Git
2 30 (11.58%) Selenium
3 25 (9.65%) JIRA
3 25 (9.65%) JUnit
4 14 (5.41%) Android Studio
4 14 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.02%) JMeter
5 13 (5.02%) Mockito
6 11 (4.25%) GitLab
7 8 (3.09%) Maven
8 7 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.70%) Postman
9 6 (2.32%) Gatling
10 5 (1.93%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.93%) Liquibase
10 5 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.54%) Gradle
11 4 (1.54%) Log4j
11 4 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.58%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.11%) Finance
4 17 (6.56%) Banking
5 8 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.54%) Retail
9 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (44.79%) Developer
2 69 (26.64%) Java Developer
3 35 (13.51%) Senior
4 25 (9.65%) Architect
5 21 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.72%) Android Developer
6 20 (7.72%) Test Engineer
7 18 (6.95%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.41%) Java Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Tester
9 13 (5.02%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.02%) Lead
10 12 (4.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 12 (4.63%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (4.25%) Full Stack Developer
11 11 (4.25%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.47%) Automation Tester
12 9 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (24.32%) Spring
2 55 (21.24%) Spring Boot
3 46 (17.76%) RESTful
4 35 (13.51%) React
4 35 (13.51%) REST
5 30 (11.58%) Web Services
6 27 (10.42%) Kafka
7 26 (10.04%) Node.js
8 25 (9.65%) Hibernate
9 23 (8.88%) JPA
10 18 (6.95%) XML
11 16 (6.18%) .NET
12 15 (5.79%) OAuth
12 15 (5.79%) OpenID
13 13 (5.02%) HTML
13 13 (5.02%) JSON
14 11 (4.25%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.09%) CSS
15 8 (3.09%) J2EE
15 8 (3.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.02%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.93%) DataPower
5 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.54%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.16%) IoT
7 3 (1.16%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.77%) Derivative
8 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.58%) Android
2 14 (5.41%) Unix
3 13 (5.02%) Linux
4 7 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.32%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.54%) Windows
7 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.77%) zOS
9 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.95%) Agile
2 65 (25.10%) Microservices
3 57 (22.01%) Test Automation
4 50 (19.31%) CI/CD
5 45 (17.37%) Software Engineering
6 40 (15.44%) DevOps
6 40 (15.44%) Scrum
7 39 (15.06%) Unit Testing
8 35 (13.51%) TDD
9 26 (10.04%) Design Patterns
9 26 (10.04%) Front End Development
10 23 (8.88%) Full Stack Development
10 23 (8.88%) Mentoring
11 21 (8.11%) Android Development
11 21 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (8.11%) SDLC
12 19 (7.34%) BDD
12 19 (7.34%) OO
13 18 (6.95%) Containerisation
14 17 (6.56%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 50 (19.31%) JavaScript
2 42 (16.22%) Python
3 24 (9.27%) TypeScript
4 23 (8.88%) Kotlin
4 23 (8.88%) SQL
5 17 (6.56%) Scala
6 15 (5.79%) C#
7 10 (3.86%) Groovy
7 10 (3.86%) PHP
8 6 (2.32%) Go
9 5 (1.93%) C
10 4 (1.54%) Perl
10 4 (1.54%) Ruby
10 4 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.39%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.56%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.86%) Degree
5 6 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.49%) QA
2 17 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.47%) WCAG
4 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.39%) GxP
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (11.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.39%) ACF2
3 1 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.39%) RACF
3 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.18%) Terraform
3 11 (4.25%) Ansible
4 9 (3.47%) Grafana
5 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.16%) Kibana
6 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) Anchore
7 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (5.41%) Oracle
2 12 (4.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.47%) Google
4 8 (3.09%) IBM
5 5 (1.93%) Informatica
5 5 (1.93%) Talend
5 5 (1.93%) TSYS
6 4 (1.54%) SAP
7 3 (1.16%) Adobe
7 3 (1.16%) Nintex
7 3 (1.16%) Pega
8 2 (0.77%) AVEVA
8 2 (0.77%) Databricks
8 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.77%) ESRI
9 1 (0.39%) Ariba
9 1 (0.39%) Brio
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.39%) Teradata
9 1 (0.39%) VMware