Java Software Engineer Contracts in the North West

Java Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the North West is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 154 175
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.12% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £535 - £528
25th Percentile £550 £625 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £665 - £723
England median daily rate £700 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +20.69% -3.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,627 3,049 3,869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 94.63% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 2,194 2,839
10th Percentile £283 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 140 178
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.85% +12.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £65.08 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the North West

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the North West

Java Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Software Engineer in the North West

Java Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester +18 5 £600 -7.69% 6
Java Software Engineer
England

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Java Software Engineer 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 West region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
3 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) React
4 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (40.00%) Retail
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
5 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (20.00%) Kafka
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (20.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) Runbook
5 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA