Java Developer Contracts in Manchester

Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Developer daily rate in Manchester is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 98 59
Rank change year-on-year +31 -39 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 30 17 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.08% 0.93% 3.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 0.97% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 68
10th Percentile £418 £485 £471
25th Percentile £506 £534 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £588
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +8.51% +23.68%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £689
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,378 1,759 2,557
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.69% 96.28% 97.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 1,305 1,990
10th Percentile £313 £313 £229
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £586 £594 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 45 66
10th Percentile £12.02 £15.08 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.76 £27.70 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +52.91% +11.61%
75th Percentile £64.38 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £30.76 £24.10
% change year-on-year -12.21% +27.61% +33.04%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer 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 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Salford +2 1 £425 -39.29% 1
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (76.67%) Spring
3 21 (70.00%) Agile
4 20 (66.67%) Spring Boot
5 19 (63.33%) AWS
6 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
7 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
8 15 (50.00%) Microservices
8 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
9 14 (46.67%) Front End Development
9 14 (46.67%) JPA
9 14 (46.67%) REST
9 14 (46.67%) Hibernate
10 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
10 9 (30.00%) JUnit
10 9 (30.00%) Jenkins
10 9 (30.00%) Git
11 8 (26.67%) Spring Security
11 8 (26.67%) Observability
12 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
12 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
12 7 (23.33%) DevOps
12 7 (23.33%) Unit Testing
12 7 (23.33%) High Availability
13 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
13 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
13 6 (20.00%) TDD
13 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (20.00%) Scrum
13 6 (20.00%) Mentoring

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
2 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
1 9 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (30.00%) JUnit
2 6 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (10.00%) Maven
4 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (76.67%) Spring
2 20 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 14 (46.67%) Hibernate
3 14 (46.67%) JPA
3 14 (46.67%) REST
4 8 (26.67%) Spring Security
5 6 (20.00%) React
6 5 (16.67%) RESTful
7 4 (13.33%) Node.js
8 2 (6.67%) Kafka
8 2 (6.67%) WireMock
9 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (3.33%) JMS
9 1 (3.33%) OAuth
9 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
9 1 (3.33%) OpenID
9 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.67%) Derivative
1 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) Microservices
3 14 (46.67%) Front End Development
4 8 (26.67%) Observability
5 7 (23.33%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) High Availability
5 7 (23.33%) Unit Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (20.00%) Scrum
6 6 (20.00%) TDD
7 4 (13.33%) Low Latency
7 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (10.00%) OO
8 3 (10.00%) OOP
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft