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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 85 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 38 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.73% 0.40% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 0.46% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 5 5
10th Percentile £463 £470 -
25th Percentile £493 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £488 £395
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +23.54% -39.53%
75th Percentile £558 £489 £400
90th Percentile £600 £502 £520
England median daily rate £550 £530 £623
% change year-on-year +3.77% -14.86% -4.23%

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 1,977 1,083 1,387
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 85.75% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 491 591
10th Percentile £208 £186 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £566
90th Percentile £694 £680 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 249 436
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.11 £20.00 £21.37
Median hourly rate £47.00 £43.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -9.47% +79.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £67.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -2 18 £530 +8.61% 3
Suffolk - 15 £495 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £475 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £555 -
Norfolk - 1 £425 -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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 38 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (86.84%) Software Engineering
3 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
4 19 (50.00%) Agile
4 19 (50.00%) Microservices
5 17 (44.74%) GCP
5 17 (44.74%) TDD
6 16 (42.11%) DevOps
6 16 (42.11%) Spring Boot
7 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (34.21%) Spring
8 12 (31.58%) Git
8 12 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
9 10 (26.32%) GitLab
9 10 (26.32%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (23.68%) Ansible
10 9 (23.68%) Azure
10 9 (23.68%) Gradle
10 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
11 8 (21.05%) AWS
11 8 (21.05%) Google Ads
11 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
11 8 (21.05%) User Stories
12 7 (18.42%) Firewall
12 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
12 7 (18.42%) Load Balancing
12 7 (18.42%) OAuth
12 7 (18.42%) SDLC
12 7 (18.42%) VPN

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 17 (44.74%) GCP
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) AWS
3 8 (21.05%) Google Ads
4 4 (10.53%) Apple Pay
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (18.42%) Firewall
2 7 (18.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Git
2 10 (26.32%) GitLab
3 9 (23.68%) Gradle
4 3 (7.89%) JUnit
4 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (47.37%) Finance
2 15 (39.47%) Banking
3 9 (23.68%) Manufacturing
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Automotive
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Spring Boot
2 13 (34.21%) Spring
3 7 (18.42%) OAuth
4 6 (15.79%) OpenID
5 4 (10.53%) Kafka
6 2 (5.26%) REST
6 2 (5.26%) RxJava
7 1 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.63%) JWT
7 1 (2.63%) Node.js
7 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.63%) RESTful
7 1 (2.63%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.63%) Spring Security
7 1 (2.63%) Thymeleaf
7 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) Software Engineering
2 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 19 (50.00%) Microservices
4 17 (44.74%) TDD
5 16 (42.11%) DevOps
6 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
9 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
10 8 (21.05%) User Stories
11 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
11 7 (18.42%) Load Balancing
11 7 (18.42%) SDLC
12 6 (15.79%) Customer Experience
12 6 (15.79%) High Availability
12 6 (15.79%) Web Development
13 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Engineering
13 5 (13.16%) Secure Coding
14 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Ansible
2 6 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Checkmarx
1 3 (7.89%) Google