Java Contracts in the North West

Java
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing Java 161 147 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.48% 5.45% 5.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.27% 23.56% 18.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 115 121
10th Percentile £335 £374 £410
25th Percentile £367 £418 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -13.91% -
75th Percentile £500 £550 £625
90th Percentile £568 £650 £680
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £71.05 £44.89 £28.56
25th Percentile £72.63 £45.88 £37.80
Median hourly rate £80.75 £68.75 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% +69.38% -44.01%
75th Percentile £90.31 £72.34 £43.39
90th Percentile £93.13 £75.35 £55.60
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.61
% change year-on-year -25.93% +2.89% +0.93%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 550 624 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.55% 23.12% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 455 638
10th Percentile £315 £334 £332
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -8.65% +1.46%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £593
90th Percentile £622 £613 £675
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 33 23
10th Percentile £27.12 £37.56 £27.68
25th Percentile £48.75 £45.88 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% +10.98% +22.17%
75th Percentile £86.63 £71.87 £54.69
90th Percentile £91.25 £82.23 £65.35
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +15.74%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Cheshire +10 85 £384 -14.67% 21
Manchester 0 66 £500 -3.85% 101
Lancashire 0 3 £600 -7.69% 67
Merseyside +7 2 £600 - 15
Cumbria - 1 - -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (11.18%) JBoss
2 15 (9.32%) Confluence
3 14 (8.70%) Tomcat
4 8 (4.97%) WebSphere
5 5 (3.11%) CICS
6 4 (2.48%) NetWeaver
6 4 (2.48%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.62%) Apache
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.62%) Camunda
8 1 (0.62%) CMS
8 1 (0.62%) Documentum
8 1 (0.62%) FileNet
8 1 (0.62%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.62%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.86%) AWS
2 18 (11.18%) Serverless
3 16 (9.94%) OpenShift
4 13 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.35%) Azure
5 7 (4.35%) GitHub
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.11%) Apigee
7 5 (3.11%) GCP
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.86%) BrowserStack
9 3 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.62%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) HTTP
2 3 (1.86%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.53%) Relational Database
2 19 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.45%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.59%) DB2
5 9 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.11%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.24%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.24%) MySQL
8 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.62%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 59 (36.65%) Jenkins
2 39 (24.22%) JIRA
3 38 (23.60%) Git
4 34 (21.12%) JUnit
5 30 (18.63%) GitLab
6 24 (14.91%) Gradle
7 17 (10.56%) Maven
7 17 (10.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (9.94%) Selenium
9 15 (9.32%) Cucumber
10 13 (8.07%) Mockito
10 13 (8.07%) SonarQube
11 12 (7.45%) Bitbucket
12 10 (6.21%) Liquibase
13 8 (4.97%) CA Release Automation
14 7 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (4.35%) TeamCity
15 6 (3.73%) REST Assured
16 5 (3.11%) CircleCI
16 5 (3.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 32 (19.88%) Finance
2 26 (16.15%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (13.04%) Banking
6 10 (6.21%) Electronics
6 10 (6.21%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.21%) Marketing
6 10 (6.21%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.48%) Military
7 4 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.24%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.24%) Retail
8 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Billing
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (37.89%) Developer
2 35 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 22 (13.66%) Software Engineer
4 17 (10.56%) Architect
5 16 (9.94%) Senior
6 11 (6.83%) Lead
7 9 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.97%) Scrum Master
8 8 (4.97%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.35%) AWS Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (4.35%) Java Architect
9 7 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (4.35%) React Developer
10 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (35.40%) Spring Boot
2 45 (27.95%) Spring
3 40 (24.84%) Kafka
4 34 (21.12%) React
5 31 (19.25%) REST
6 27 (16.77%) RESTful
7 22 (13.66%) SOAP
8 21 (13.04%) Node.js
9 20 (12.42%) HTML
10 18 (11.18%) CSS
11 15 (9.32%) Web Services
12 14 (8.70%) AngularJS
13 13 (8.07%) Swagger
14 12 (7.45%) OpenAPI
15 11 (6.83%) J2EE
16 9 (5.59%) JSON
17 8 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
17 8 (4.97%) Hibernate
17 8 (4.97%) Middleware
17 8 (4.97%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.59%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.97%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.73%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.73%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.11%) PKI
6 5 (3.11%) VSAM
7 4 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.48%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.86%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.24%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.04%) Linux
2 13 (8.07%) Unix
3 8 (4.97%) Windows
4 7 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.73%) Android
6 4 (2.48%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (51.55%) Agile
2 81 (50.31%) Microservices
3 67 (41.61%) CI/CD
4 48 (29.81%) Scrum
5 46 (28.57%) DevOps
6 35 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 34 (21.12%) Test Automation
8 33 (20.50%) TDD
9 31 (19.25%) Containerisation
9 31 (19.25%) Migration
10 29 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (18.01%) SDLC
11 23 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (13.04%) Event-Driven
12 21 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (10.56%) Mentoring
14 16 (9.94%) API Development
15 15 (9.32%) Coaching
16 14 (8.70%) User Experience
17 13 (8.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.84%) SQL
2 33 (20.50%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.77%) Python
4 19 (11.80%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.59%) Kotlin
6 7 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.73%) Perl
7 6 (3.73%) Scala
8 5 (3.11%) COBOL
8 5 (3.11%) JCL
9 4 (2.48%) ABAP
9 4 (2.48%) Bash
9 4 (2.48%) C
9 4 (2.48%) C++
9 4 (2.48%) Objective-C
9 4 (2.48%) Ruby
9 4 (2.48%) Swift
10 3 (1.86%) REXX
11 2 (1.24%) Clojure
11 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.73%) Degree
4 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.07%) QA
2 3 (1.86%) SEPA
3 2 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (26.71%) Docker
2 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (16.77%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.45%) Progress Chef
3 9 (5.59%) Terraform
4 8 (4.97%) Grafana
5 6 (3.73%) Kibana
5 6 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.11%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.48%) Ansible
8 3 (1.86%) Puppet
9 1 (0.62%) Graylog
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (13.66%) Oracle
2 15 (9.32%) SAP
3 14 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.35%) Virgin Media
5 6 (3.73%) AppDynamics
5 6 (3.73%) Cloudera
5 6 (3.73%) Splunk
6 5 (3.11%) ForgeRock
6 5 (3.11%) Google
7 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.86%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.86%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.86%) Veracode
9 2 (1.24%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.24%) Informatica
9 2 (1.24%) Parasoft
10 1 (0.62%) Perforce
10 1 (0.62%) VMware