Java Contracts in the East Midlands

Java
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 36 50
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 82 32 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.37% 3.70% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.81% 14.22% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 22 29
10th Percentile £236 £389 £369
25th Percentile £272 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £362 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.41% -12.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £427 £564 £700
90th Percentile £482 £600 -
England median daily rate £534 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.08% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £21.73 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.96% +225.58%
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.55
% change year-on-year -25.93% +2.97% +2.33%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 206 225 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.57% 26.04% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 157 250
10th Percentile £268 £297 £309
25th Percentile £346 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.45% -4.17%
75th Percentile £475 £530 £538
90th Percentile £531 £600 £650
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £18.26 £14.15 £26.48
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.92 £38.24
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -52.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £21.25 £28.44 £61.88
90th Percentile £22.30 £40.33 £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +17.37%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Northamptonshire +17 76 £358 -21.96% 17
Nottinghamshire 0 4 £515 -4.19% 8
Derbyshire +8 2 £463 - 5
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (7.32%) Apache Spark
1 6 (7.32%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) CICS
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.22%) Camunda
4 1 (1.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.12%) AWS
2 16 (19.51%) GCP
3 10 (12.20%) Azure
4 8 (9.76%) Serverless
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.22%) Apigee
8 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.22%) IaaS
8 1 (1.22%) Kong
8 1 (1.22%) PaaS
8 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) HTTP
2 3 (3.66%) HTTPS
2 3 (3.66%) SSL
3 2 (2.44%) DMZ
3 2 (2.44%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.32%) Hadoop
3 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.10%) Big Data
4 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.88%) Apache Hive
5 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.88%) HBase
5 4 (4.88%) Impala
5 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.66%) DB2
7 1 (1.22%) Aerospike
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (31.71%) Jenkins
2 22 (26.83%) Selenium
3 20 (24.39%) Cucumber
4 14 (17.07%) Git
4 14 (17.07%) Maven
5 9 (10.98%) JUnit
6 8 (9.76%) JIRA
6 8 (9.76%) SonarQube
7 7 (8.54%) IntelliJ
8 6 (7.32%) Bitbucket
8 6 (7.32%) GitLab
8 6 (7.32%) Mockito
8 6 (7.32%) REST Assured
8 6 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (6.10%) Gradle
9 5 (6.10%) Postman
10 4 (4.88%) Subversion
11 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (3.66%) Eclipse
11 3 (3.66%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.39%) Banking
3 18 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (19.51%) Finance
5 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Developer
2 18 (21.95%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.29%) Automation Tester
3 15 (18.29%) Tester
4 11 (13.41%) Architect
5 7 (8.54%) Junior
5 7 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.32%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Identity Management Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Junior Automation Tester
7 5 (6.10%) Junior Tester
8 4 (4.88%) Angular Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior
8 4 (4.88%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) AWS Architect
10 2 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (35.37%) Spring
2 25 (30.49%) Hibernate
3 21 (25.61%) HTML
4 20 (24.39%) Spring Boot
5 17 (20.73%) RESTful
6 14 (17.07%) jQuery
6 14 (17.07%) LDAP
6 14 (17.07%) OAuth
6 14 (17.07%) OpenID
7 13 (15.85%) CSS
7 13 (15.85%) Kafka
7 13 (15.85%) SAML
8 12 (14.63%) REST
9 10 (12.20%) AngularJS
10 9 (10.98%) Web Services
11 8 (9.76%) React
12 7 (8.54%) DOM
12 7 (8.54%) J2EE
12 7 (8.54%) JPA
13 6 (7.32%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (7.32%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (6.10%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.66%) State Machine
5 3 (3.66%) VSAM
6 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Life Science
7 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Unix
2 3 (3.66%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (40.24%) CI/CD
3 30 (36.59%) Agile
4 27 (32.93%) Test Automation
5 24 (29.27%) Microservices
6 15 (18.29%) Containerisation
7 14 (17.07%) DevOps
8 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (13.41%) ETL
9 11 (13.41%) RBAC
10 10 (12.20%) API Development
10 10 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (10.98%) API Testing
12 8 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (9.76%) Design Patterns
12 8 (9.76%) DevSecOps
13 7 (8.54%) Scrum
13 7 (8.54%) SDLC
13 7 (8.54%) TDD
14 6 (7.32%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) SQL
2 12 (14.63%) Python
3 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.10%) Scala
6 3 (3.66%) COBOL
6 3 (3.66%) JCL
6 3 (3.66%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.22%) Bash
8 1 (1.22%) C
8 1 (1.22%) C#
8 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Degree
1 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) GDPR
2 10 (12.20%) HIPAA
3 6 (7.32%) QA
4 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.44%) NIST
6 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (23.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) HDFS
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.44%) Puppet
4 1 (1.22%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) IBM
3 11 (13.41%) Oracle
3 11 (13.41%) Ping Identity
4 5 (6.10%) Veracode
5 2 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (1.22%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.22%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.22%) Cognos
6 1 (1.22%) Google
6 1 (1.22%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.22%) HP
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) Solace
6 1 (1.22%) Teradata
6 1 (1.22%) VMware