Java Contracts in Cheshire

Java
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 31 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing Java 38 27 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.46% 5.36% 9.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.57% 20.93% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 39
10th Percentile £357 £311 £417
25th Percentile £361 £419 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -11.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £477 £515 £586
90th Percentile £526 - £638
North West median daily rate £475 £495 £550
% change year-on-year -4.04% -10.00% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.17
25th Percentile - - £26.81
Median hourly rate - - £31.21
75th Percentile - - £35.60
90th Percentile - - £38.24
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £68.75 £40.30
% change year-on-year +20.00% +70.62% +1.43%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Cheshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Cheshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Cheshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Cheshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford +5 35 £398 -10.67% 12
Macclesfield +10 1 £625 +22.55%
Chester - 1 - - 46
Java
North West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (18.42%) JBoss
1 7 (18.42%) WebSphere
2 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 4 (10.53%) Tomcat
3 3 (7.89%) CICS
3 3 (7.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (2.63%) Camunda
4 1 (2.63%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (15.79%) OpenShift
2 6 (15.79%) Serverless
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.63%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.26%) HTTP
3 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) DB2
2 4 (10.53%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.63%) MySQL
5 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.05%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) JIRA
3 5 (13.16%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (13.16%) Selenium
4 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.53%) JUnit
4 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
5 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.26%) GitLab
6 2 (5.26%) Gradle
6 2 (5.26%) HP UFT
6 2 (5.26%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.26%) Maven
6 2 (5.26%) NetBeans
6 2 (5.26%) SOAtest
6 2 (5.26%) Subversion
7 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
General
1 10 (26.32%) Banking
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Scrum Master
2 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Architect
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Java Scrum Master
6 2 (5.26%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Test Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) Spring Boot
2 11 (28.95%) Kafka
3 9 (23.68%) Spring
3 9 (23.68%) Web Services
4 8 (21.05%) J2EE
4 8 (21.05%) RESTful
5 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
5 7 (18.42%) SOAP
6 6 (15.79%) HTML
7 5 (13.16%) CSS
7 5 (13.16%) React
7 5 (13.16%) REST
8 4 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (10.53%) HTML5
8 4 (10.53%) JSP
8 4 (10.53%) Servlets
9 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
9 3 (7.89%) OAuth
9 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.79%) Private Cloud
2 6 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 5 (13.16%) PKI
4 4 (10.53%) Mainframe
5 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies
5 3 (7.89%) VSAM
6 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Agile
2 21 (55.26%) Microservices
3 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 16 (42.11%) Scrum
4 14 (36.84%) SDLC
5 10 (26.32%) Budget Control
6 9 (23.68%) DevOps
7 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (18.42%) Migration
9 6 (15.79%) API Development
9 6 (15.79%) Backlog Management
9 6 (15.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
10 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (15.79%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
4 3 (7.89%) COBOL
4 3 (7.89%) JCL
4 3 (7.89%) Perl
4 3 (7.89%) REXX
5 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Progress Chef
2 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Kibana
3 3 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 1 (2.63%) Grafana
5 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) ForgeRock
3 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
4 3 (7.89%) Cloudera
4 3 (7.89%) Ping Identity
4 3 (7.89%) Splunk
5 2 (5.26%) Ab Initio
5 2 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (5.26%) Informatica
5 2 (5.26%) Parasoft
6 1 (2.63%) Adobe
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.63%) VMware