Java Contracts in the North West

Java
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 33 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 145 164 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.33% 5.39% 8.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.90% 18.51% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 124 248
10th Percentile £375 £407 £400
25th Percentile £431 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £574 £625 £634
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £585 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -3.31% +0.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 10
10th Percentile £45.88 £27.03 £31.58
25th Percentile £48.43 £33.95 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.30 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -46.27% +64.84%
75th Percentile £74.50 £43.39 £80.13
90th Percentile £82.20 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £66.01 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% +0.77% +12.07%

All Programming Languages
North 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 North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 662 886 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.36% 29.13% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 659 1,088
10th Percentile £325 £326 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £539 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £543 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -3.98% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 39
10th Percentile £38.08 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.64
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -12.04% +75.00%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +6 101 £505 -12.17% 79
Cheshire -1 37 £463 -15.91% 6
Lancashire +8 6 £650 +23.81% 6
Cumbria - 1 £575 -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 9 (6.21%) Apache
1 9 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.52%) Confluence
3 6 (4.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.76%) Mule
6 3 (2.07%) IIS
7 1 (0.69%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.69%) Camunda
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.07%) Maximo
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.21%) AWS
2 20 (13.79%) Azure
3 9 (6.21%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.52%) Serverless
5 7 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (4.83%) Apigee
5 7 (4.83%) Kong
6 6 (4.14%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.45%) SaaS
8 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.07%) GCP
9 3 (2.07%) GitHub
9 3 (2.07%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.07%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) FTP
1 5 (3.45%) HTTP
2 3 (2.07%) SSL
3 1 (0.69%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.90%) MySQL
3 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.83%) Big Data
4 7 (4.83%) OLAP
4 7 (4.83%) OLTP
5 6 (4.14%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.45%) SQLite
7 4 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.07%) DB2
8 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.07%) HBase
8 3 (2.07%) Power BI
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (15.17%) JIRA
2 20 (13.79%) Git
2 20 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.97%) Android Studio
4 12 (8.28%) JUnit
5 9 (6.21%) Mockito
6 8 (5.52%) Selenium
7 7 (4.83%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.14%) GitLab
9 4 (2.76%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.76%) JMeter
9 4 (2.76%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.76%) Log4j
9 4 (2.76%) Maven
9 4 (2.76%) Postman
10 3 (2.07%) Gatling
10 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.07%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.38%) Gradle
11 2 (1.38%) TestCafe
General
1 23 (15.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.17%) Finance
3 20 (13.79%) Banking
4 18 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (48.28%) Developer
2 36 (24.83%) Java Developer
3 21 (14.48%) Senior
4 18 (12.41%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.72%) Android Developer
6 12 (8.28%) Architect
6 12 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 10 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.45%) Lead
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (35.17%) Spring
2 42 (28.97%) Spring Boot
3 25 (17.24%) RESTful
4 24 (16.55%) React
4 24 (16.55%) REST
5 19 (13.10%) Kafka
6 18 (12.41%) Hibernate
7 17 (11.72%) JPA
8 16 (11.03%) Web Services
9 14 (9.66%) Node.js
10 13 (8.97%) .NET
10 13 (8.97%) XML
11 10 (6.90%) HTML
12 9 (6.21%) JSON
13 8 (5.52%) CSS
13 8 (5.52%) SOAP
13 8 (5.52%) Spring Security
14 7 (4.83%) AngularJS
14 7 (4.83%) IBM Integration Bus
14 7 (4.83%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.21%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.52%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.83%) DataPower
4 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.07%) Derivative
7 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.55%) Android
2 9 (6.21%) Unix
3 7 (4.83%) Linux
4 5 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.07%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.07%) Agile
2 44 (30.34%) Microservices
3 33 (22.76%) Software Engineering
4 30 (20.69%) Design Patterns
5 29 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 28 (19.31%) CI/CD
6 28 (19.31%) Unit Testing
7 27 (18.62%) OO
8 24 (16.55%) DevOps
9 19 (13.10%) Scrum
10 18 (12.41%) Front End Development
11 17 (11.72%) Android Development
12 14 (9.66%) Containerisation
12 14 (9.66%) SDLC
12 14 (9.66%) TDD
13 13 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (8.97%) Low Latency
13 13 (8.97%) Software Testing
14 12 (8.28%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (8.28%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.24%) Python
2 21 (14.48%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.10%) Kotlin
4 14 (9.66%) SQL
5 13 (8.97%) C#
6 12 (8.28%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.90%) PHP
8 7 (4.83%) Scala
9 5 (3.45%) C
10 4 (2.76%) Groovy
10 4 (2.76%) Perl
11 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.69%) Go
13 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 34 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.14%) Degree
5 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) QA
2 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.69%) GxP
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.14%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (4.14%) Terraform
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (2.07%) Grafana
4 2 (1.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (8.97%) Oracle
2 10 (6.90%) IBM
3 7 (4.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.83%) TSYS
4 5 (3.45%) Informatica
4 5 (3.45%) Talend
5 3 (2.07%) Nintex
5 3 (2.07%) Pega
5 3 (2.07%) SAP
6 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) Google
6 1 (0.69%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.69%) Teradata