Java Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Java Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £305, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 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
29 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 8 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.79% - 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £303 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.67%
75th Percentile £308 - £564
90th Percentile - - £638
North West median daily rate £305 - £440
% change year-on-year - - -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00

All DemandTrendContract 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 931 1,159 1,609
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 95.94% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 734 1,180
10th Percentile £300 £316 £300
25th Percentile £389 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 46 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.56 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £20.68 £34.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% +74.36% +14.44%
75th Percentile £35.44 £60.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.88 £73.00 £67.60
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -28.14% +14.20% +34.71%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Manchester

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Java Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) JUnit
3 6 (75.00%) Gradle
3 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (62.50%) React
4 5 (62.50%) Liquibase
4 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
4 5 (62.50%) Docker
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Kafka
4 5 (62.50%) Mockito
4 5 (62.50%) SAP
4 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (62.50%) Electronics
4 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
4 5 (62.50%) Finance
4 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing

Java Software Engineer 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Gradle
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) JUnit
2 5 (62.50%) Liquibase
2 5 (62.50%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (12.50%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (62.50%) Electronics
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 5 (62.50%) Marketing
2 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (62.50%) Kafka
3 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
3 5 (62.50%) React
3 5 (62.50%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) JavaFX
4 1 (12.50%) Swing
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
4 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 5 (62.50%) Programme Management
4 5 (62.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) UML
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
8 Java Software Engineer jobs in the North West