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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Java 106 74 97
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 9.36% 6.47% 6.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.29% 24.42% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 51 71
10th Percentile £316 £383 £413
25th Percentile £400 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £625
90th Percentile £635 £600 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £530
% change year-on-year - -15.09% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £81.50 £36.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +126.39% -42.40% +39.88%

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 350 303 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 30.92% 26.51% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 208 398
10th Percentile £313 £362 £325
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £488
% change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile £22.81 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.62 £82.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.16% +26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £26.43 £100.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

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 13 December 2025.

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
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 13 December 2025. 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
Cheadle - 6 £588 - 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 2 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.94%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.17%) AWS
2 21 (19.81%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) GCP
4 13 (12.26%) Serverless
5 11 (10.38%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (6.60%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (6.60%) GitHub
8 7 (6.60%) SaaS
9 6 (5.66%) Apigee
9 6 (5.66%) Datadog
10 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.72%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (4.72%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (4.72%) Loggly
10 5 (4.72%) Route 53
11 4 (3.77%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.32%) DynamoDB
2 12 (11.32%) MongoDB
2 12 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.43%) MySQL
4 7 (6.60%) Redis
4 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.66%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.94%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.94%) ObjectStore
8 1 (0.94%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.38%) Git
2 11 (10.38%) GitLab
3 6 (5.66%) Gradle
3 6 (5.66%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.72%) Maven
4 5 (4.72%) Mockito
4 5 (4.72%) SonarLint
5 4 (3.77%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.77%) JIRA
5 4 (3.77%) JUnit
5 4 (3.77%) Selenium
6 3 (2.83%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.89%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.89%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.89%) Postman
8 1 (0.94%) Gatling
General
1 39 (36.79%) Public Sector
2 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.87%) Finance
4 6 (5.66%) Banking
5 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Military
6 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Electronics
6 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.89%) Marketing
6 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.94%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (44.34%) Developer
2 27 (25.47%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Architect
4 14 (13.21%) Lead
4 14 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior
6 12 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (10.38%) Technical Architect
8 10 (9.43%) Java Architect
8 10 (9.43%) Java Technical Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Backend Developer
10 6 (5.66%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.77%) AWS Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Java Engineer
13 3 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (2.83%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (34.91%) Spring Boot
2 32 (30.19%) Spring
3 25 (23.58%) Kafka
4 18 (16.98%) RESTful
5 12 (11.32%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.49%) Node.js
7 8 (7.55%) HTML
7 8 (7.55%) REST
8 7 (6.60%) J2EE
8 7 (6.60%) OAuth
8 7 (6.60%) OAuth2
8 7 (6.60%) React
9 6 (5.66%) Dropwizard
9 6 (5.66%) JWT
9 6 (5.66%) Micronaut
9 6 (5.66%) Playwright
10 5 (4.72%) Celery
10 5 (4.72%) HTML5
10 5 (4.72%) JAX-RS
10 5 (4.72%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Onboarding
2 10 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.55%) Mobile App
3 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.66%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
3 3 (2.83%) Mac OS X
3 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Windows
4 2 (1.89%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (43.40%) Microservices
2 35 (33.02%) Agile
2 35 (33.02%) CI/CD
3 29 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (25.47%) TDD
5 25 (23.58%) Containerisation
5 25 (23.58%) Software Engineering
6 22 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
8 19 (17.92%) Event-Driven
9 18 (16.98%) BDD
9 18 (16.98%) DevOps
10 17 (16.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (15.09%) Design Patterns
12 15 (14.15%) Mentoring
13 14 (13.21%) SDLC
14 13 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (11.32%) API Design
16 11 (10.38%) Clean Code
16 11 (10.38%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) Python
2 17 (16.04%) SQL
3 7 (6.60%) Bash
3 7 (6.60%) C++
3 7 (6.60%) Kotlin
4 6 (5.66%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.72%) C#
5 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) C
7 2 (1.89%) Groovy
7 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.94%) Clojure
8 1 (0.94%) R
8 1 (0.94%) Rust
8 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.77%) IEC 61508
2 4 (3.77%) ISO 26262
2 4 (3.77%) WCAG
3 3 (2.83%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 32 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.26%) Terraform
3 4 (3.77%) Ansible
4 3 (2.83%) Podman
4 3 (2.83%) SELinux
5 2 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) Argo
6 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.94%) SCCM
6 1 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Virgin Media
2 6 (5.66%) Gigya
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.77%) Confluent
3 4 (3.77%) SAP
4 3 (2.83%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.89%) Adobe
5 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle
6 1 (0.94%) Pega
6 1 (0.94%) Rapid7