Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Java Engineer
England > East Midlands

As of 23 March 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Java Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.098% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.88%
75th Percentile - - £394
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.04%

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 907 466 700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.01% 91.02% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 316 476
10th Percentile £187 £200 £160
25th Percentile £359 £337 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 19 77
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.58 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.19 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.66% +36.49% -5.52%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.33 £24.25
90th Percentile £30.25 £37.00 £33.95
England median hourly rate £38.63 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.37% +7.69% -23.53%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Java Engineer job vacancy trend 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 23 March 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 March 2026, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

Java Engineer 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 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA