Java Contracts in Manchester

Java
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Java 65 111 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 7.02% 7.32% 6.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.45% 24.67% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 90 90
10th Percentile £400 £398 £404
25th Percentile £438 £431 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -14.46% +7.25%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £638
90th Percentile £598 £650 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £495 £550
% change year-on-year -4.04% -10.00% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £69.69 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £81.75 -
90th Percentile - £82.70 -
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £68.75 £40.30
% change year-on-year +20.00% +70.62% +1.43%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Manchester

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Manchester

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Manchester

Java
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 5 (7.69%) Camunda
2 2 (3.08%) Apache
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Documentum
3 1 (1.54%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) Serverless
4 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (6.15%) Apigee
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.08%) Slack
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.54%) Kong
8 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (29.23%) Relational Database
3 9 (13.85%) MongoDB
4 6 (9.23%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.62%) MySQL
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.08%) Big Data
7 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.54%) Apache Accumulo
8 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.08%) GitLab
3 13 (20.00%) JUnit
4 11 (16.92%) Gradle
4 11 (16.92%) Mockito
5 10 (15.38%) Git
5 10 (15.38%) Liquibase
6 7 (10.77%) Cucumber
6 7 (10.77%) Jasmine
7 6 (9.23%) JIRA
8 5 (7.69%) gulp
8 5 (7.69%) Maven
8 5 (7.69%) Mocha
9 4 (6.15%) CircleCI
9 4 (6.15%) Grunt
9 4 (6.15%) Subversion
10 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
10 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
10 3 (4.62%) Selenium
11 2 (3.08%) Eclipse
General
1 24 (36.92%) Public Sector
2 15 (23.08%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Electronics
3 10 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 10 (15.38%) Marketing
3 10 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (55.38%) Developer
2 23 (35.38%) Java Developer
3 16 (24.62%) Senior
4 12 (18.46%) Software Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Java Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Azure Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Node.js Developer
8 6 (9.23%) React Developer
8 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (6.15%) Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Lead
11 3 (4.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) Node.js
2 21 (32.31%) Spring Boot
3 20 (30.77%) Kafka
3 20 (30.77%) Spring
4 14 (21.54%) OpenAPI
4 14 (21.54%) React
4 14 (21.54%) Swagger
5 9 (13.85%) RESTful
6 6 (9.23%) Express.js
7 5 (7.69%) CSS
7 5 (7.69%) HTML
7 5 (7.69%) HTML5
7 5 (7.69%) jQuery
7 5 (7.69%) Mustache
7 5 (7.69%) OAuth
7 5 (7.69%) Sass
8 4 (6.15%) Playwright
9 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.62%) AWS CDK
9 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Unix
3 3 (4.62%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.08%) Android
4 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Microservices
2 30 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 25 (38.46%) Agile
4 20 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 20 (30.77%) TDD
5 18 (27.69%) Containerisation
6 17 (26.15%) Event-Driven
6 17 (26.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 16 (24.62%) Test Automation
8 13 (20.00%) DevOps
8 13 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (18.46%) Migration
10 10 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (15.38%) Programme Management
11 9 (13.85%) User Experience
12 7 (10.77%) Event-Driven Programming
12 7 (10.77%) Front End Development
13 6 (9.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) SQL
2 15 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 10 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.85%) Python
5 5 (7.69%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) Clojure
6 3 (4.62%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.08%) C#
7 2 (3.08%) Go
7 2 (3.08%) Scala
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 5 (7.69%) WCAG
2 4 (6.15%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (43.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
5 2 (3.08%) Ansible
6 1 (1.54%) Graylog
6 1 (1.54%) Packer
6 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) SAP
1 10 (15.38%) Virgin Media
2 4 (6.15%) Google
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) ForgeRock
3 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.08%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.54%) Confluent
4 1 (1.54%) New Relic
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat