Java Developer Contracts in Knutsford

Java Developer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Java Developer daily rate in Knutsford is £268, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 2 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 1.37% 3.70% 11.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 3.81% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 17
10th Percentile - £303 £430
25th Percentile - £308 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £311 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% -43.45% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £268 £311 £550
% change year-on-year -13.83% -43.45% +18.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Knutsford

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Knutsford

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer 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 Knutsford region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central