Java Contracts in the East Midlands

Java
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 42 48
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 34 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.34% 3.10% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.36% 12.70% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 34
10th Percentile £257 £391 £381
25th Percentile £304 £419 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £451 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% -16.05% +7.50%
75th Percentile £526 £517 £644
90th Percentile £545 £536 £700
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 129 189 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.07% 24.45% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 137 266
10th Percentile £311 £283 £273
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.66 £20.39
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 £26.48
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £20.38 £31.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £21.95 £40.71 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 27 £357 -23.96% 14
Nottinghamshire +14 7 £545 +23.86% 25
Java
England

Java
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 5 (14.71%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.76%) Confluence
3 2 (5.88%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.94%) Apache
4 1 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Exstream
2 2 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Serverless
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (8.82%) Azure
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) Apigee
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.94%) IaaS
6 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Big Data
1 5 (14.71%) Hadoop
2 4 (11.76%) Apache Hive
2 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 4 (11.76%) HBase
2 4 (11.76%) Impala
2 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Aerospike
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) Selenium
3 7 (20.59%) Cucumber
4 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 5 (14.71%) Maven
5 4 (11.76%) GitLab
5 4 (11.76%) JUnit
6 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
6 3 (8.82%) IntelliJ
7 2 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (5.88%) Gradle
7 2 (5.88%) HP UFT
7 2 (5.88%) Introscope
7 2 (5.88%) LoadRunner
7 2 (5.88%) Mockito
7 2 (5.88%) NetBeans
7 2 (5.88%) REST Assured
7 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 9 (26.47%) Banking
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Test Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Junior
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) HTML
1 10 (29.41%) Kafka
2 9 (26.47%) Spring Boot
3 6 (17.65%) CSS
3 6 (17.65%) Hibernate
3 6 (17.65%) Spring
4 5 (14.71%) RESTful
5 4 (11.76%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.76%) J2EE
5 4 (11.76%) jQuery
5 4 (11.76%) Node.js
5 4 (11.76%) Web Services
6 3 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (8.82%) REST
7 2 (5.88%) Ajax
7 2 (5.88%) HTML5
7 2 (5.88%) OpenID
7 2 (5.88%) Spring Integration
7 2 (5.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) AIX
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
1 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 11 (32.35%) Microservices
4 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 6 (17.65%) Data Transformation
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) ETL
6 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
6 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (14.71%) SDLC
7 4 (11.76%) API Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Event-Driven
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
8 3 (8.82%) Budget Control
8 3 (8.82%) Data Governance
8 3 (8.82%) Open Source
8 3 (8.82%) Project Planning
8 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) Python
1 6 (17.65%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (14.71%) Scala
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) C
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) HDFS
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) CA Wily
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
1 2 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) OpenText
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
2 3 (8.82%) Veracode
3 2 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft