Java Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Java
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 38 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Java 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.76% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.82% 10.00% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £421 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
75th Percentile £538 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £475 £485 £495
% change year-on-year -2.06% -2.02% -13.91%

All Programming Languages
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 44 10 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 25.88% 5.08% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 1 18
10th Percentile £414 - £468
25th Percentile £456 £458 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.71% +20.89%
75th Percentile £497 £473 £529
90th Percentile £615 - £541
North West median daily rate £465 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -1.85% -0.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.39
Median hourly rate - - £41.23
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £64.57 £72.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year -10.94% +49.70% +19.32%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Java job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Cumbria over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Cumbria

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. 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
Workington - 2 £525 -
Java
North West

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes