Java Contracts in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 249 294 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.79% 6.08% 5.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.63% 23.63% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 216 247
10th Percentile £349 £375 £412
25th Percentile £380 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £507 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -11.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £537 £587 £650
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 9
10th Percentile £71.05 - £29.48
25th Percentile £72.63 £45.88 £37.80
Median hourly rate £80.75 £70.94 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +13.84% +74.76% -45.88%
75th Percentile £90.31 £76.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £93.13 £82.35 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +2.25%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,011 1,244 1,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.56% 25.73% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 843 1,099
10th Percentile £323 £316 £356
25th Percentile £383 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £612
90th Percentile £611 £625 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 52 29
10th Percentile £31.32 £37.55 £22.19
25th Percentile £36.82 £41.25 £37.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -2.06% +28.31%
75th Percentile £87.69 £69.44 £56.40
90th Percentile £95.36 £80.82 £64.15
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 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
North West +11 165 £420 -15.15% 240
Yorkshire -26 57 £515 -6.39% 108
North East +10 28 £455 +7.06% 40
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 23 (9.24%) Confluence
2 18 (7.23%) JBoss
3 14 (5.62%) Tomcat
4 8 (3.21%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.01%) CICS
6 4 (1.61%) NetWeaver
6 4 (1.61%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.20%) CMS
7 3 (1.20%) Documentum
7 3 (1.20%) FileNet
8 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.80%) Drupal
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.40%) Apache
9 1 (0.40%) Camunda
9 1 (0.40%) Mule
9 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (39.36%) AWS
2 24 (9.64%) GitHub
2 24 (9.64%) Serverless
3 17 (6.83%) OpenShift
4 16 (6.43%) GCP
5 15 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (5.62%) Azure
7 9 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.01%) Apigee
9 5 (2.01%) CloudBees
9 5 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.01%) Kong
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) HTTP
2 3 (1.20%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.24%) Relational Database
3 27 (10.84%) MongoDB
4 24 (9.64%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.83%) MySQL
6 10 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.61%) DB2
8 8 (3.21%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.81%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.41%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.01%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.80%) Big Data
13 2 (0.80%) Bigtable
13 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.80%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 89 (35.74%) Jenkins
2 68 (27.31%) Git
3 56 (22.49%) JIRA
4 51 (20.48%) GitLab
5 44 (17.67%) JUnit
6 36 (14.46%) Maven
6 36 (14.46%) Selenium
7 29 (11.65%) Cucumber
8 28 (11.24%) Gradle
9 25 (10.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (8.84%) SonarQube
11 15 (6.02%) Postman
12 14 (5.62%) IntelliJ
13 13 (5.22%) Bitbucket
13 13 (5.22%) Mockito
14 12 (4.82%) REST Assured
15 11 (4.42%) Cypress.io
15 11 (4.42%) Liquibase
16 9 (3.61%) Artifactory
17 8 (3.21%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (18.88%) Public Sector
2 36 (14.46%) Finance
3 34 (13.65%) Social Skills
4 26 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.04%) Banking
6 10 (4.02%) Electronics
6 10 (4.02%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.02%) Marketing
6 10 (4.02%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.61%) Military
7 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
8 2 (0.80%) Legal
8 2 (0.80%) Retail
8 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Billing
9 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (39.36%) Developer
2 52 (20.88%) Java Developer
3 27 (10.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (10.44%) Architect
5 25 (10.04%) Software Engineer
6 23 (9.24%) Lead
7 20 (8.03%) Senior
8 14 (5.62%) Test Engineer
8 14 (5.62%) Tester
9 12 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (4.82%) React Developer
9 12 (4.82%) Software Developer
10 11 (4.42%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.02%) Java Architect
11 10 (4.02%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.21%) Scrum Master
13 8 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.12%) Spring Boot
2 59 (23.69%) Spring
3 50 (20.08%) Kafka
4 46 (18.47%) React
5 41 (16.47%) Node.js
6 36 (14.46%) RESTful
7 35 (14.06%) REST
8 27 (10.84%) HTML
9 25 (10.04%) CSS
10 24 (9.64%) AngularJS
11 22 (8.84%) SOAP
12 18 (7.23%) Web Services
13 14 (5.62%) Playwright
13 14 (5.62%) Swagger
14 13 (5.22%) OpenAPI
15 12 (4.82%) Hibernate
16 11 (4.42%) J2EE
16 11 (4.42%) Jest
17 10 (4.02%) .NET
17 10 (4.02%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.81%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.41%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.01%) PKI
7 5 (2.01%) VSAM
8 4 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.05%) Linux
2 18 (7.23%) Unix
3 10 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.21%) Android
4 8 (3.21%) Windows
5 6 (2.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.80%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (47.39%) Agile
2 107 (42.97%) Microservices
3 101 (40.56%) CI/CD
4 66 (26.51%) DevOps
4 66 (26.51%) Test Automation
5 57 (22.89%) TDD
6 55 (22.09%) Scrum
7 44 (17.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (17.67%) Software Engineering
8 39 (15.66%) Containerisation
9 35 (14.06%) SDLC
10 34 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (13.25%) Migration
12 31 (12.45%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (11.65%) Event-Driven
14 26 (10.44%) BDD
15 22 (8.84%) Code Quality
16 21 (8.43%) API Testing
16 21 (8.43%) Mentoring
17 18 (7.23%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.30%) JavaScript
2 59 (23.69%) SQL
3 47 (18.88%) Python
4 22 (8.84%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.63%) Kotlin
6 14 (5.62%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.21%) Bash
7 8 (3.21%) Scala
8 6 (2.41%) COBOL
8 6 (2.41%) Groovy
8 6 (2.41%) Perl
8 6 (2.41%) Ruby
9 5 (2.01%) C
9 5 (2.01%) C++
9 5 (2.01%) Go
9 5 (2.01%) JCL
10 4 (1.61%) ABAP
10 4 (1.61%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.61%) Swift
11 3 (1.20%) REXX
Qualifications
1 53 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.61%) Degree
4 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.06%) QA
2 9 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.41%) WCAG
4 3 (1.20%) SEPA
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (27.31%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.03%) Terraform
3 15 (6.02%) Grafana
4 12 (4.82%) Progress Chef
5 9 (3.61%) Ansible
5 9 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.41%) Kibana
6 6 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.01%) Control-M
8 3 (1.20%) Istio
8 3 (1.20%) Kiali
8 3 (1.20%) Puppet
9 2 (0.80%) Packer
10 1 (0.40%) Graylog
Vendors
1 26 (10.44%) Oracle
2 21 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.02%) SAP
3 15 (6.02%) Virgin Media
4 10 (4.02%) Google
4 10 (4.02%) Splunk
5 9 (3.61%) AppDynamics
6 8 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.81%) ForgeRock
8 6 (2.41%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.20%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.20%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.20%) Veracode
10 3 (1.20%) xMatters
11 2 (0.80%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.80%) Informatica
11 2 (0.80%) Parasoft