Java Contracts in Chester

Java
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 4.05% - 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £688 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £388
75th Percentile £763 - £400
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £384 £445 £550
% change year-on-year -13.71% -19.09% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
Cheshire median hourly rate - - £31.21

All Programming Languages
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15 3 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 20.27% 5.66% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £548 £557 £375
25th Percentile £581 £565 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £577 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% +15.40% +17.65%
75th Percentile £667 £594 £600
90th Percentile £724 £603 £658
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £445 £550
% change year-on-year -9.66% -19.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.65%
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.91%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Chester

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Chester

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Chester

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (66.67%) Mule
1 2 (66.67%) Mule ESB
2 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk