Java Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Java
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Java 190 71 107
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 11.45% 7.63% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.98% 23.67% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 46 88
10th Percentile £409 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £427 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +6.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £557 £563 £575
90th Percentile £584 £600 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £492 £495
% change year-on-year -3.46% -0.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 7
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £76.25 £69.69
Median hourly rate £66.00 £82.50 £71.87
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.79% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £81.75
90th Percentile £80.65 - £82.70
North West median hourly rate £66.57 £82.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year -19.31% +20.00% +70.62%

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 528 300 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.83% 32.22% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 228 359
10th Percentile £346 £375 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £551 £541 £538
90th Percentile £628 £625 £613
North West median daily rate £463 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 2 13
10th Percentile - £68.38 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £69.69 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £76.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +8.93% +64.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £84.69 £81.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.13 £82.90
North West median hourly rate £69.00 £72.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.70% +19.32%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Java job vacancy trend in Manchester

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Manchester

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in Manchester

Java
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Bolton - 1 - -
Java
North West

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.32%) Apache
2 7 (3.68%) Apache Geronimo
2 7 (3.68%) Apache ServiceMix
2 7 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.68%) Red Hat Fuse
2 7 (3.68%) Tomcat
2 7 (3.68%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.89%) AWS
2 43 (22.63%) Azure
3 18 (9.47%) Serverless
4 14 (7.37%) GCP
4 14 (7.37%) GitHub
5 13 (6.84%) Amazon S3
6 11 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.68%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.11%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.58%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.05%) Firebase
12 2 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.89%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.37%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 8 (4.21%) MySQL
6 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.11%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) Ataccama
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.53%) DTS
8 1 (0.53%) Metadata
8 1 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (16.84%) GitLab
2 18 (9.47%) Git
3 16 (8.42%) Gradle
4 13 (6.84%) Selenium
5 12 (6.32%) IntelliJ
6 9 (4.74%) Mockito
7 8 (4.21%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.21%) JUnit
7 8 (4.21%) Mocha
8 7 (3.68%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.68%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.68%) Jenkins
9 5 (2.63%) Postman
10 4 (2.11%) JIRA
11 3 (1.58%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.58%) JMeter
11 3 (1.58%) Maven
11 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.05%) fastlane
12 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
General
1 55 (28.95%) Public Sector
2 34 (17.89%) Finance
3 17 (8.95%) Social Skills
4 5 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (0.53%) Automotive
5 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (54.74%) Developer
2 61 (32.11%) Java Developer
3 41 (21.58%) Software Engineer
4 33 (17.37%) Senior
5 25 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (12.11%) Java Engineer
6 23 (12.11%) Lead
7 19 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 18 (9.47%) Backend Developer
9 16 (8.42%) Senior Developer
10 15 (7.89%) Lead Developer
11 11 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (5.79%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.26%) Mobile Developer
13 9 (4.74%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (4.21%) Angular Developer
14 8 (4.21%) Azure Developer
14 8 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (4.21%) Java Mobile Developer
14 8 (4.21%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (46.32%) Spring
2 84 (44.21%) Spring Boot
3 29 (15.26%) Node.js
4 27 (14.21%) React
5 25 (13.16%) AngularJS
5 25 (13.16%) Kafka
5 25 (13.16%) REST
5 25 (13.16%) RESTful
6 16 (8.42%) Playwright
7 13 (6.84%) GraphQL
7 13 (6.84%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (5.79%) HTML
8 11 (5.79%) Jest
9 10 (5.26%) CSS
10 8 (4.21%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (4.21%) JAX-RS
10 8 (4.21%) Middleware
10 8 (4.21%) Nunjucks
10 8 (4.21%) OAuth
10 8 (4.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.42%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.53%) NHS
7 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.00%) Linux
2 10 (5.26%) Unix
3 8 (4.21%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.05%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.05%) VMS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.05%) Microservices
2 67 (35.26%) Agile
3 53 (27.89%) CI/CD
3 53 (27.89%) DevOps
3 53 (27.89%) Test Automation
4 52 (27.37%) Software Engineering
5 47 (24.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (24.21%) TDD
7 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.74%) BDD
8 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (12.11%) Event-Driven
10 20 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (10.00%) API Design
11 19 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.95%) Containerisation
13 16 (8.42%) Code Quality
14 15 (7.89%) Observability
14 15 (7.89%) Pair Programming
14 15 (7.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.84%) JavaScript
1 32 (16.84%) Kotlin
2 29 (15.26%) Python
2 29 (15.26%) TypeScript
3 23 (12.11%) SQL
4 7 (3.68%) Rust
5 5 (2.63%) Go
6 4 (2.11%) C#
6 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.58%) Bash
8 2 (1.05%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.05%) Swift
9 1 (0.53%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.53%) C
9 1 (0.53%) C++
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.53%) R
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.42%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.74%) QA
3 7 (3.68%) WCAG
4 4 (2.11%) GDPR
4 4 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.63%) Grafana
3 16 (8.42%) Terraform
4 7 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle
3 9 (4.74%) Virgin Media
4 7 (3.68%) TIBCO
5 4 (2.11%) Confluent
5 4 (2.11%) Splunk
6 3 (1.58%) Adobe
6 3 (1.58%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.58%) SAP
7 2 (1.05%) Google
7 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Veracode
8 1 (0.53%) Workday