Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Developer daily rate in Manchester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 58 85
Rank change year-on-year -6 +27 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 27 25 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.39% 2.19% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 2.33% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 20
10th Percentile £400 £431 £449
25th Percentile £416 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -30.77%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £567
90th Percentile £615 £602 £625
North West median daily rate £430 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -21.82% +22.22% -23.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,038 1,074 1,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.96% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 633 1,097
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £584
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 43 58
10th Percentile £17.17 £15.92 £15.42
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.25 £17.20
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £30.07 £44.38 £49.75
90th Percentile £53.30 £65.00 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £25.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.00% -27.71% +74.43%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Java Developer 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 Manchester region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) Microservices
2 12 (44.44%) Spring
2 12 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 9 (33.33%) TDD
3 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
4 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 8 (29.63%) BDD
4 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (25.93%) SQL
5 7 (25.93%) Virgin Media
6 6 (22.22%) Linux
6 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (18.52%) Kafka
7 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
7 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
7 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
8 4 (14.81%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (14.81%) Agile
8 4 (14.81%) JAX-RS
8 4 (14.81%) Mockito
8 4 (14.81%) Unix
9 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
9 3 (11.11%) Mac OS X
9 3 (11.11%) MySQL

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (3.70%) GitHub
2 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Mockito
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Ant
3 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.70%) Gradle
3 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.70%) NUnit
General
1 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Spring
1 12 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (14.81%) JAX-RS
4 3 (11.11%) Node.js
5 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) OAuth
5 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
5 2 (7.41%) Spring Batch
5 2 (7.41%) Spring Security
6 1 (3.70%) .NET
6 1 (3.70%) ADO.NET
6 1 (3.70%) Ajax
6 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.70%) EJB
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (3.70%) J2EE
6 1 (3.70%) JSTL
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Unix
3 3 (11.11%) Mac OS X
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Microservices
2 9 (33.33%) TDD
2 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 8 (29.63%) BDD
3 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (14.81%) Agile
7 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 3 (11.11%) Pair Programming
7 3 (11.11%) SDLC
7 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) API Design
8 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
8 2 (7.41%) Design Patterns
8 2 (7.41%) Event-Driven
8 2 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (7.41%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Clojure
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Argo
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Virgin Media
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft