Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Java Developer
North West > Merseyside

The median Java Developer daily rate in Merseyside is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 3.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £430 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -21.82% +22.22% -23.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 225 218 162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.77% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 105 84
10th Percentile £129 £149 £191
25th Percentile £152 £203 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -13.98%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £617 £596
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 16
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.20 £13.13
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.67 £18.07 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -3.65% +14.68%
75th Percentile £49.50 £23.00 £23.38
90th Percentile £51.02 £24.18 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £25.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.00% -27.71% +74.43%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Merseyside

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Merseyside

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Merseyside

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 8 £500 -
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Merseyside region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) JUnit
4 5 (62.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (62.50%) API Development
4 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (62.50%) jQuery
4 5 (62.50%) JSON
4 5 (62.50%) MVC
4 5 (62.50%) POJO
4 5 (62.50%) Postman
4 5 (62.50%) React
4 5 (62.50%) RESTful
4 5 (62.50%) Thymeleaf
4 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (50.00%) Docker
5 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (50.00%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) User Research
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) SQL

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JUnit
2 5 (62.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) jQuery
2 5 (62.50%) JSON
2 5 (62.50%) POJO
2 5 (62.50%) React
2 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 5 (62.50%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) API Development
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (62.50%) MVC
2 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) User Research
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (12.50%) API Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle