Java Contracts in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 270 377 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.84% 6.65% 7.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.80% 22.86% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 284 383
10th Percentile £395 £413 £400
25th Percentile £432 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £643 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £586 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.29% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 10
10th Percentile £45.88 £31.25 £31.58
25th Percentile £48.43 £37.80 £53.56
Median hourly rate £68.75 £54.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.31% -25.52% +66.67%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.88 £80.13
90th Percentile £82.05 £70.00 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £64.31
% change year-on-year -0.76% +1.85% +15.35%

All Programming Languages
North of England

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,184 1,649 2,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.61% 29.07% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 1,208 1,742
10th Percentile £324 £359 £325
25th Percentile £401 £424 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 29 52
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £38.50 £21.71
Median hourly rate £47.75 £49.00 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +12.41% +67.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.97 £70.00 £77.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
North West +1 144 £500 -9.09% 81
Yorkshire +5 116 £525 -8.70% 27
North East -22 10 £501 -12.96% 11
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.33%) Apache
3 8 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.59%) Confluence
5 6 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.48%) Mule
7 3 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (1.11%) IIS
7 3 (1.11%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.37%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.37%) Camunda
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.37%) Site Server
Applications
1 6 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.11%) Maximo
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 120 (44.44%) AWS
2 37 (13.70%) Azure
3 24 (8.89%) GCP
4 18 (6.67%) Serverless
5 16 (5.93%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.70%) GitHub
9 8 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.96%) Apigee
10 6 (2.22%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 6 (2.22%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (1.85%) Kong
11 5 (1.85%) SaaS
12 4 (1.48%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.48%) CloudBees
12 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.96%) HTTP
2 6 (2.22%) SSL
3 5 (1.85%) FTP
4 4 (1.48%) Firewall
5 2 (0.74%) DNS
5 2 (0.74%) LAN
5 2 (0.74%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.37%) NAS
6 1 (0.37%) Network Security
6 1 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 24 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.78%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.93%) Big Data
5 14 (5.19%) MySQL
6 12 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.07%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (4.07%) Hadoop
8 9 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.96%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.59%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.85%) OLAP
11 5 (1.85%) OLTP
11 5 (1.85%) Oracle OLAP
11 5 (1.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (16.30%) Jenkins
2 42 (15.56%) Git
3 30 (11.11%) Selenium
4 25 (9.26%) JIRA
5 24 (8.89%) JUnit
6 14 (5.19%) Android Studio
6 14 (5.19%) JMeter
7 12 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.44%) Mockito
8 11 (4.07%) GitLab
9 7 (2.59%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.59%) Maven
9 7 (2.59%) Postman
10 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.85%) Gatling
10 5 (1.85%) Liquibase
10 5 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.48%) Log4j
11 4 (1.48%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.78%) Banking
3 21 (7.78%) Finance
4 12 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (42.96%) Developer
2 69 (25.56%) Java Developer
3 34 (12.59%) Senior
4 32 (11.85%) Architect
5 21 (7.78%) Software Engineer
5 21 (7.78%) Test Engineer
6 20 (7.41%) Android Developer
7 17 (6.30%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.19%) Lead
9 13 (4.81%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.81%) Java Engineer
9 13 (4.81%) Tester
10 12 (4.44%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (4.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 12 (4.44%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.96%) Automation Tester
14 7 (2.59%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (23.70%) Spring
2 57 (21.11%) Spring Boot
3 48 (17.78%) RESTful
4 35 (12.96%) React
4 35 (12.96%) REST
5 32 (11.85%) Kafka
6 28 (10.37%) Web Services
7 26 (9.63%) Node.js
8 25 (9.26%) Hibernate
9 23 (8.52%) JPA
10 21 (7.78%) XML
11 19 (7.04%) .NET
12 17 (6.30%) OAuth
13 16 (5.93%) HTML
14 13 (4.81%) JSON
14 13 (4.81%) OpenID
15 12 (4.44%) AngularJS
16 10 (3.70%) J2EE
16 10 (3.70%) JWT
17 9 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.19%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.85%) DataPower
5 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.48%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.11%) IoT
7 3 (1.11%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Derivative
8 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.48%) Android
2 16 (5.93%) Unix
3 14 (5.19%) Linux
4 8 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.22%) Mac OS X
5 6 (2.22%) Windows
6 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.74%) zOS
8 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (45.19%) Agile
2 64 (23.70%) Microservices
3 56 (20.74%) Test Automation
4 54 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 48 (17.78%) DevOps
5 48 (17.78%) Software Engineering
6 39 (14.44%) Scrum
6 39 (14.44%) Unit Testing
7 34 (12.59%) TDD
8 29 (10.74%) Containerisation
9 27 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 26 (9.63%) Design Patterns
10 26 (9.63%) Front End Development
11 25 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (8.89%) Full Stack Development
13 23 (8.52%) Mentoring
14 22 (8.15%) SDLC
15 21 (7.78%) Android Development
16 19 (7.04%) High Availability
16 19 (7.04%) OO
Programming Languages
1 56 (20.74%) Python
2 54 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 32 (11.85%) SQL
4 24 (8.89%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.52%) Kotlin
6 17 (6.30%) C#
6 17 (6.30%) Scala
7 10 (3.70%) Groovy
7 10 (3.70%) PHP
8 8 (2.96%) C
9 6 (2.22%) Go
10 4 (1.48%) Perl
10 4 (1.48%) Ruby
10 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.74%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.04%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.70%) Degree
5 6 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.15%) QA
2 17 (6.30%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.33%) WCAG
4 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.85%) GDPR
5 4 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (12.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.37%) ACF2
3 1 (0.37%) IAG
3 1 (0.37%) RACF
3 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.26%) Terraform
3 11 (4.07%) Ansible
4 9 (3.33%) Grafana
5 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.11%) Kibana
6 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Anchore
7 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (7.04%) Google
2 18 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.19%) Oracle
4 8 (2.96%) IBM
5 5 (1.85%) Informatica
5 5 (1.85%) Talend
5 5 (1.85%) TSYS
6 4 (1.48%) SAP
7 3 (1.11%) Adobe
7 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.11%) Nintex
7 3 (1.11%) Pega
8 2 (0.74%) AVEVA
8 2 (0.74%) Databricks
8 2 (0.74%) ESRI
9 1 (0.37%) Ariba
9 1 (0.37%) Brio
9 1 (0.37%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.37%) Teradata
9 1 (0.37%) VMware