Java Contracts in Lancashire

Java
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 30 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 9 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.64% 2.09% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.14% 9.09% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £628 £378 £448
25th Percentile £631 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -15.09% -7.34%
75th Percentile £644 £500 £534
90th Percentile £648 £523 £618
North West median daily rate £495 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - - £28.88
25th Percentile - £37.80 £33.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £40.59 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% +2.17% -9.19%
75th Percentile £48.43 £43.39 £42.62
90th Percentile - - £46.25
North West median hourly rate £68.75 £40.30 £39.73
% change year-on-year +70.62% +1.43% -9.71%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 55 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 14.43% 23.01% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 61
10th Percentile £506 £269 £363
25th Percentile £534 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £38.45 £23.85 £26.85
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.80 £37.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -4.49% +29.77%
75th Percentile £48.11 £52.99 £44.68
90th Percentile £48.43 £55.03 £51.11
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £39.73
% change year-on-year +19.32% +2.16% +24.16%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Lancashire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Lancashire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Lancashire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Blackpool +13 3 £625 +66.67%
Preston +6 1 £650 - 1
Java
North West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
1 3 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) JDBC
2 3 (33.33%) JPA
2 3 (33.33%) JWT
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) WebSockets
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (55.56%) DevSecOps
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Kanban
5 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 3 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) API Management
7 1 (11.11%) Analytics
7 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 1 (11.11%) Information Retrieval
7 1 (11.11%) Open Source
7 1 (11.11%) Product Management
7 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft