Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Java Developer
England > North East

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North East is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 18 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.77% 3.66% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.93% 4.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 0
10th Percentile - £369 -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.29% - -
75th Percentile £533 £438 -
90th Percentile £565 £458 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £39.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year +60.26% -34.65% -18.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 458 297 294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 90.55% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 172 157
10th Percentile £163 £275 £163
25th Percentile £350 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £569
90th Percentile £596 £650 £636
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 56
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.93 £11.07
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.72 £12.13
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +193.58% -56.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £46.82
90th Percentile £60.00 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North East

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North East

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North East

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North East

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
Tyne and Wear -9 17 £488 +28.29% 3
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, 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 North East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) TDD
3 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) AWS
4 8 (44.44%) GitLab
4 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
5 7 (38.89%) Microservices
5 7 (38.89%) Pair Programming
6 6 (33.33%) BDD
6 6 (33.33%) Docker
6 6 (33.33%) SDLC
6 6 (33.33%) Terraform
7 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 5 (27.78%) Scrum
7 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
8 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
8 4 (22.22%) Argo
8 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
8 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
8 4 (22.22%) Kafka
8 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
8 4 (22.22%) Node.js
8 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
8 4 (22.22%) QA
8 4 (22.22%) Quarkus

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 3 (16.67%) Mockito
4 2 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) Node.js
1 4 (22.22%) Quarkus
1 4 (22.22%) Spring
2 3 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) Express.js
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) MERN Stack
3 1 (5.56%) React
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) TDD
2 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Microservices
4 7 (38.89%) Pair Programming
5 6 (33.33%) BDD
5 6 (33.33%) SDLC
6 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) Scrum
6 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 4 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (22.22%) Sprint Review
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (22.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat