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 £270, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 58 57
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 11 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.28% 0.15% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 0.16% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £218 - £571
25th Percentile £260 £513 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £280 £538 -
90th Percentile £328 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -7.41%

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 788 610 711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.28% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 354 500
10th Percentile £171 £250 £200
25th Percentile £348 £340 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £533 £575
90th Percentile £632 £626 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 32 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.01 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.92 £24.09 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +34.24% +5.56%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.26 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.58 £54.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 December 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 10 December 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 -2 9 £270 -48.57% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 7 (63.64%) Spring
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) SonarQube
5 5 (45.45%) RESTful
5 5 (45.45%) SQL
5 5 (45.45%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket
6 4 (36.36%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (36.36%) Git
6 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
6 4 (36.36%) J2EE
6 4 (36.36%) Kafka
6 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
6 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
7 3 (27.27%) AWS
7 3 (27.27%) Checkmarx
7 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
7 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
7 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
7 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (27.27%) JIRA
7 3 (27.27%) Maven

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) Mule
2 1 (9.09%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) MariaDB
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) SonarQube
2 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket
2 4 (36.36%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Maven
3 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 2 (18.18%) Mockito
4 2 (18.18%) Selenium
5 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
5 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
2 7 (63.64%) Spring
3 5 (45.45%) RESTful
4 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
4 4 (36.36%) J2EE
4 4 (36.36%) Kafka
5 3 (27.27%) RAML
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (27.27%) Swagger
6 2 (18.18%) CSS
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 2 (18.18%) Jest
6 2 (18.18%) JPA
6 2 (18.18%) Node.js
6 2 (18.18%) React
6 2 (18.18%) Redux
6 2 (18.18%) REST
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) Spring Batch
7 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
5 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
6 2 (18.18%) API Development
6 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
7 1 (9.09%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Checkmarx
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Veracode