Java Contracts in Liverpool

Java
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 3.79% 0.66% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.16% 4.76% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile £300 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £595
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.18%
75th Percentile £625 - £622
90th Percentile - - £644
Merseyside median daily rate £375 - £551
% change year-on-year - - +0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
Merseyside median hourly rate - £36.00 -

All Programming Languages
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38 21 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 28.79% 13.91% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 9 42
10th Percentile £311 £369 £326
25th Percentile £396 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £494 £538
90th Percentile £775 £527 £646
Merseyside median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.39
25th Percentile - - £32.83
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £38.60
Median % change year-on-year - -6.74% -
75th Percentile - - £44.33
90th Percentile - - £47.73
Merseyside median hourly rate - £36.00 £38.60
% change year-on-year - -6.74% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Liverpool

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Liverpool

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Liverpool over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Liverpool

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Liverpool

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 10g
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) HP UFT
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (20.00%) E-Business Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle