Java Contracts in Knutsford

Java
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 4 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 35 17 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 23.97% 15.74% 18.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.95% 36.96% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 27
10th Percentile £357 - £431
25th Percentile £358 £311 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -19.09% +14.11%
75th Percentile £457 £489 £575
90th Percentile £499 - £620
Cheshire median daily rate £398 £489 £550
% change year-on-year -18.71% -11.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 73 46 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 50.00% 42.59% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 41 72
10th Percentile £344 £376 £325
25th Percentile £358 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +35.47%
75th Percentile £488 £583 £575
90th Percentile £520 £606 £617
Cheshire median daily rate £410 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Knutsford

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Knutsford

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Knutsford

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) JBoss
1 6 (17.14%) WebSphere
2 4 (11.43%) Confluence
3 3 (8.57%) CICS
3 3 (8.57%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.71%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Apache
5 1 (2.86%) Camunda
5 1 (2.86%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
2 6 (17.14%) Serverless
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.71%) HTTP
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) DB2
2 4 (11.43%) DynamoDB
2 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.86%) JIRA
3 7 (20.00%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (14.29%) Selenium
5 4 (11.43%) JUnit
5 4 (11.43%) TeamCity
6 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
6 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (8.57%) SonarQube
6 3 (8.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (5.71%) GitLab
7 2 (5.71%) Gradle
7 2 (5.71%) HP UFT
7 2 (5.71%) IntelliJ
7 2 (5.71%) Maven
7 2 (5.71%) NetBeans
7 2 (5.71%) SOAtest
7 2 (5.71%) Subversion
8 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
General
1 9 (25.71%) Banking
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.29%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Scrum Master
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Architect
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Scrum Master
6 2 (5.71%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Test Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Applications Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) Spring Boot
2 11 (31.43%) Kafka
3 8 (22.86%) RESTful
3 8 (22.86%) Spring
3 8 (22.86%) Web Services
4 7 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 6 (17.14%) HTML
5 6 (17.14%) J2EE
5 6 (17.14%) SOAP
6 5 (14.29%) CSS
6 5 (14.29%) React
7 4 (11.43%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (11.43%) HTML5
7 4 (11.43%) REST
8 3 (8.57%) Hibernate
8 3 (8.57%) jQuery
8 3 (8.57%) OAuth
8 3 (8.57%) OpenID
8 3 (8.57%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
3 5 (14.29%) PKI
3 5 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 4 (11.43%) Mainframe
5 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
5 3 (8.57%) Taxonomies
5 3 (8.57%) VSAM
6 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (5.71%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
2 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Agile
2 19 (54.29%) Microservices
3 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
4 15 (42.86%) Scrum
5 13 (37.14%) SDLC
6 9 (25.71%) Budget Control
6 9 (25.71%) DevOps
7 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
7 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
7 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (20.00%) Migration
9 6 (17.14%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
10 5 (14.29%) API Development
10 5 (14.29%) Backlog Management
10 5 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 5 (14.29%) DevSecOps
10 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (17.14%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) COBOL
4 3 (8.57%) JCL
4 3 (8.57%) Perl
4 3 (8.57%) REXX
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Progress Chef
2 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Kibana
3 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.71%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) ForgeRock
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
3 3 (8.57%) Cloudera
3 3 (8.57%) Ping Identity
3 3 (8.57%) Splunk
4 2 (5.71%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.71%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.71%) Informatica
4 2 (5.71%) Parasoft
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.86%) VMware