Java Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 6
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +22
Contract jobs citing Java 27 11 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 12.74% 5.47% 20.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.91% 16.67% 47.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 45
10th Percentile £375 £364 £382
25th Percentile £380 £404 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £430 £565
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% -23.89% +5.12%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £700
90th Percentile £575 £525 £751
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £455 £410 £565
% change year-on-year +10.98% -27.43% +5.12%

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 66 66 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 31.13% 32.84% 43.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 30 86
10th Percentile £326 £348 £385
25th Percentile £380 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -20.35% +7.62%
75th Percentile £497 £501 £700
90th Percentile £575 £555 £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £565
% change year-on-year - -20.35% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +9.47% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Java in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Documentum
2 2 (7.41%) FileNet
3 1 (3.70%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Kong
2 4 (14.81%) Serverless
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (29.63%) MongoDB
2 8 (29.63%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) Cucumber
3 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 5 (18.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (14.81%) Artifactory
4 4 (14.81%) gulp
4 4 (14.81%) JIRA
4 4 (14.81%) Maven
5 3 (11.11%) JUnit
6 2 (7.41%) Selenium
7 1 (3.70%) Postman
7 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) HTML CSS Developer
4 4 (14.81%) HTML Developer
4 4 (14.81%) React Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Documentum Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Node.js
2 8 (29.63%) Spring
2 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.81%) Apache CXF
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) Dropwizard
3 4 (14.81%) Express.js
3 4 (14.81%) Hibernate
3 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) JAX-RS
3 4 (14.81%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (14.81%) MERN Stack
3 4 (14.81%) Mongoose
3 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (14.81%) React
3 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 4 (14.81%) Sequelize
3 4 (14.81%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
4 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) API Testing
5 4 (14.81%) BDD
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (14.81%) MVC
5 4 (14.81%) Open Source
5 4 (14.81%) Operational Stability
6 3 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (11.11%) SFIA
7 2 (7.41%) Content Management
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Risk Management
8 1 (3.70%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.70%) TDD
8 1 (3.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) COBOL
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Virgin Media
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) OpenText