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 £401, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 4 18 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.29% 2.18% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 2.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 0
10th Percentile £400 £244 -
25th Percentile £401 £268 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £276 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.29% - -
75th Percentile £402 £368 -
90th Percentile £402 £399 -
England median daily rate £550 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +3.29% -11.25% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,184 754 719
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.87% 91.17% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 511 428
10th Percentile £263 £200 £250
25th Percentile £402 £340 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £415 £445
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% -6.74% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £531
90th Percentile £675 £625 £611
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 70 43
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.31 £21.13 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -11.98% +32.14%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £48.00 - £54.38
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Java Developer job vacancy trend 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
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 3 October 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
Northamptonshire +2 4 £401 +38.51%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 October 2026, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) OAuth
3 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (50.00%) OpenID
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SAML
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) git-flow
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) SAML
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (25.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes