Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Java Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 0.25% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £481 -
25th Percentile £308 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% - -
75th Percentile £323 £591 -
90th Percentile - £604 -
England median daily rate £675 £800 £590
% change year-on-year -15.63% +35.71% -5.68%

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 722 741 800
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 93.32% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 447 577
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £331 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £573 £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 65 52 47
10th Percentile £15.54 £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 £25.96 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the East Midlands

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 3 £315 -
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) SAML
2 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Ping Identity
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile

Java Engineer 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) SAML
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Ping Identity