Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Java Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Liverpool is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.05% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 261 144 174
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 97.96% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 88 75
10th Percentile £150 £184 £157
25th Percentile £213 £350 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% +15.15% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £575
90th Percentile £656 £714 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £438 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +1.15% +8.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile £17.30 - £15.99
25th Percentile £20.87 £12.21 £17.44
Median hourly rate £24.72 £14.76 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year +67.54% -18.53% -7.13%
75th Percentile - £17.44 £23.53
90th Percentile £37.64 - £28.91
Merseyside median hourly rate £24.72 £17.37 £18.12
% change year-on-year +42.31% -4.14% -7.08%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Liverpool.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Liverpool

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Java Engineer 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 Liverpool region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Java Engineer jobs