Java Developer Contracts in Manchester

Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Developer daily rate in Manchester is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 91
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 16 30 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.70% 2.06% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 2.17% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 14
10th Percentile £400 £418 £482
25th Percentile £458 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -14.29% -2.00%
75th Percentile £548 £609 £672
90th Percentile £558 £653 £700
North West median daily rate £460 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £83.00 -

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 871 1,384 1,728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 95.19% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 934 1,286
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -5.51% -4.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 81 48
10th Percentile - £12.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £13.00 £14.13 £16.79
Median hourly rate £21.71 £31.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% +55.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £60.94 £62.50 £35.63
90th Percentile £77.25 £74.50 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £29.01 £32.90 £29.30
% change year-on-year -11.81% +12.27% +17.20%

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 3 July 2025.

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 16 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (62.50%) Kafka
3 10 (62.50%) Microservices
4 9 (56.25%) Relational Database
4 9 (56.25%) Docker
4 9 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (56.25%) Spring
5 8 (50.00%) Agile
5 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
6 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
6 7 (43.75%) TDD
7 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
7 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
7 6 (37.50%) AWS
7 6 (37.50%) Finance
7 6 (37.50%) JUnit
8 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
8 5 (31.25%) Swagger
8 5 (31.25%) React
8 5 (31.25%) Gradle
8 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
8 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
8 5 (31.25%) DevOps
8 5 (31.25%) Liquibase
8 5 (31.25%) GitLab

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (56.25%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JUnit
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 5 (31.25%) Gradle
2 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) Liquibase
2 5 (31.25%) Mockito
3 1 (6.25%) Ant
3 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.25%) NUnit
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Electronics
2 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
2 5 (31.25%) Marketing
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Kafka
2 9 (56.25%) Spring
3 8 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (31.25%) OpenAPI
4 5 (31.25%) React
4 5 (31.25%) Swagger
5 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (12.50%) Express.js
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) ADO.NET
6 1 (6.25%) Ajax
6 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.25%) HTML
6 1 (6.25%) J2EE
6 1 (6.25%) Java EE
6 1 (6.25%) JSTL
6 1 (6.25%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Microservices
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
4 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (43.75%) TDD
5 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 5 (31.25%) Build Automation
6 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
6 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (31.25%) Migration
6 5 (31.25%) Programme Management
7 3 (18.75%) SDLC
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Programming
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 4 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (18.75%) Clojure
6 1 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Virgin Media
57 Java Developer jobs in the North West