Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Java Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Java Developer daily rate in the East Midlands is £303, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 18 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.29% - 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% - 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 8
10th Percentile £260 - £598
25th Percentile £270 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.66%
75th Percentile £370 - -
90th Percentile £407 - -
England median daily rate £530 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -15.20% -3.85% -

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 719 732 812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 93.37% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 440 586
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £331 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £500 £566 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 52 47
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.71 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.98% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.10 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the East Midlands

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 17 September 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 £308 -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 12 (66.67%) Microservices
4 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 10 (55.56%) SQL
6 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
6 9 (50.00%) Agile
6 9 (50.00%) RESTful
6 9 (50.00%) SonarQube
7 8 (44.44%) Design Patterns
7 8 (44.44%) Git
8 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
8 7 (38.89%) Oracle
8 7 (38.89%) HTML
8 7 (38.89%) CSS
8 7 (38.89%) REST
8 7 (38.89%) DevOps
9 6 (33.33%) React
9 6 (33.33%) RAML
9 6 (33.33%) JUnit
9 6 (33.33%) JPA
10 5 (27.78%) Mockito
10 5 (27.78%) TDD
10 5 (27.78%) Banking
10 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
10 5 (27.78%) Maven
10 5 (27.78%) J2EE
10 5 (27.78%) Finance
10 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus

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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (11.11%) Mule
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 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
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 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 2 (11.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 6 (33.33%) JUnit
4 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
4 5 (27.78%) Maven
4 5 (27.78%) Mockito
4 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (22.22%) JIRA
6 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
6 3 (16.67%) GitLab
6 3 (16.67%) Selenium
6 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
7 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (5.56%) Gradle
8 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
General
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 14 (77.78%) Spring
3 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 9 (50.00%) RESTful
4 7 (38.89%) CSS
4 7 (38.89%) HTML
4 7 (38.89%) REST
5 6 (33.33%) JPA
5 6 (33.33%) RAML
5 6 (33.33%) React
6 5 (27.78%) J2EE
6 5 (27.78%) Kafka
6 5 (27.78%) Spring Batch
7 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
7 4 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
7 4 (22.22%) Web Services
8 3 (16.67%) Jest
8 3 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (16.67%) Redux
8 3 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) State Machine
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 12 (66.67%) Microservices
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Design Patterns
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) API Development
5 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 3 (16.67%) Veracode
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Solace
4 1 (5.56%) Teradata