Java Developer Contracts in the East Midlands

Java Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Java Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 67 70
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 18 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.51% 0.23% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 0.24% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 10
10th Percentile £260 - £543
25th Percentile £270 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £398 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% -43.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £374 £406 -
90th Percentile £409 - -
England median daily rate £530 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -11.67% -7.69% +2.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 638 820 949
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.86% 94.25% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 524 729
10th Percentile £203 £188 £213
25th Percentile £332 £310 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -8.11% +3.35%
75th Percentile £500 £553 £594
90th Percentile £593 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 90 47
10th Percentile £15.10 £11.83 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.86 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -14.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £35.13
90th Percentile £35.68 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the East Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the East Midlands

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the East Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the East Midlands

Java Developer
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 Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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 +10 18 £320 -19.62% 6
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Java Developer 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 East Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 14 (77.78%) Spring
4 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
5 12 (66.67%) Agile
5 12 (66.67%) Microservices
6 11 (61.11%) Hibernate
7 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (50.00%) HTML
7 9 (50.00%) CSS
8 8 (44.44%) JUnit
8 8 (44.44%) RESTful
9 7 (38.89%) API Development
9 7 (38.89%) Oracle
9 7 (38.89%) SQL
9 7 (38.89%) Maven
10 6 (33.33%) JIRA
10 6 (33.33%) JPA
10 6 (33.33%) Web Services
10 6 (33.33%) React
10 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
10 6 (33.33%) Git
10 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
10 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
10 6 (33.33%) DevOps
10 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
11 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
11 5 (27.78%) Confluence
11 5 (27.78%) Mockito

Java Developer Skill Set
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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (5.56%) Camunda
3 1 (5.56%) JBoss
3 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) HTTP
1 3 (16.67%) HTTPS
1 3 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JUnit
2 7 (38.89%) Maven
3 6 (33.33%) Git
3 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (33.33%) JIRA
3 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (27.78%) Mockito
4 5 (27.78%) Selenium
4 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 3 (16.67%) GitLab
5 3 (16.67%) Gradle
5 3 (16.67%) IntelliJ
5 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (11.11%) HP UFT
6 2 (11.11%) NetBeans
6 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 14 (77.78%) Spring
3 11 (61.11%) Hibernate
4 9 (50.00%) CSS
4 9 (50.00%) HTML
5 8 (44.44%) RESTful
6 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 6 (33.33%) JPA
6 6 (33.33%) React
6 6 (33.33%) Web Services
7 5 (27.78%) J2EE
7 5 (27.78%) Node.js
7 5 (27.78%) REST
8 4 (22.22%) Kafka
9 3 (16.67%) Jest
9 3 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (16.67%) RAML
9 3 (16.67%) Redux
9 3 (16.67%) SOAP
9 3 (16.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) State Machine
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (66.67%) Microservices
3 7 (38.89%) API Development
4 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
5 5 (27.78%) Scrum
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (16.67%) Open Source
7 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Pair Programming
8 2 (11.11%) Use Case
8 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Veracode
3 2 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Solace
4 1 (5.56%) Teradata