Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Java Developer
England > East of England

The median Java Developer daily rate in the East of England is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 74 102
Rank change year-on-year -27 +28 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 7 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.35% 0.63% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.70% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile £431 £454 £412
25th Percentile £463 £466 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £488 £541
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -9.80% -9.83%
75th Percentile £515 £488 £598
90th Percentile £601 £500 £600
England median daily rate £525 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -4.72% -8.17% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,872 861 1,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 90.25% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 467 845
10th Percentile £192 £225 £207
25th Percentile £335 £363 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £680 £657
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 164 508
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £21.46 £16.19
Median hourly rate £24.55 £57.50 £39.78
Median % change year-on-year -57.30% +44.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
% change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 of England.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the East of England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the East of England

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the East of England

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Essex -8 2 £510 +4.51%
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 -
Suffolk +1 1 £450 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £675 -
Norfolk - 1 £425 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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 of England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Docker
4 4 (57.14%) Kafka
4 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Python
5 3 (42.86%) AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
5 3 (42.86%) GCP
5 3 (42.86%) Git
5 3 (42.86%) GitHub
5 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (42.86%) RESTful
5 3 (42.86%) TDD
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) AI
6 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) Snyk
General
1 2 (28.57%) Automotive
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) Kafka
4 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (14.29%) Express.js
5 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
5 1 (14.29%) Node.js
5 1 (14.29%) React
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) AI
5 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Kanban
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) API Design
6 1 (14.29%) API Development
6 1 (14.29%) Application Security
6 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
6 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
6 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Checkmarx
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk