Java Developer Contracts in the North of England

Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North of England is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 49 71 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.49% 1.49% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.60% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 65 88
10th Percentile £380 £337 £476
25th Percentile £400 £403 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £700
90th Percentile £588 £650 £722
England median daily rate £550 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.57% -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.13 £73.75
% change year-on-year +35.06% -34.75% +19.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
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 Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +4 26 £530 +0.95% 30
Yorkshire -4 17 £525 -4.55% 7
North East +4 7 £380 -15.56% 3
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (57.14%) Spring
2 28 (57.14%) Microservices
2 28 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 26 (53.06%) Docker
4 22 (44.90%) TDD
4 22 (44.90%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (42.86%) CI/CD
6 20 (40.82%) SQL
7 19 (38.78%) Kubernetes
8 18 (36.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (34.69%) Containerisation
10 16 (32.65%) Public Sector
10 16 (32.65%) JUnit
11 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
11 15 (30.61%) Agile
11 15 (30.61%) SC Cleared
11 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
11 15 (30.61%) BDD
12 13 (26.53%) Swagger
12 13 (26.53%) MySQL
13 12 (24.49%) MongoDB
13 12 (24.49%) Kafka
13 12 (24.49%) OpenAPI
13 12 (24.49%) Virgin Media
14 11 (22.45%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (22.45%) Bash
14 11 (22.45%) Test Automation
14 11 (22.45%) RESTful
14 11 (22.45%) Relational Database

Java Developer Skill Set
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 8 (16.33%) Confluence
2 5 (10.20%) Camunda
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Slack
3 7 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (12.24%) Azure
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.20%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.90%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (26.53%) MySQL
3 12 (24.49%) MongoDB
4 11 (22.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (22.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) JUnit
2 10 (20.41%) JIRA
3 9 (18.37%) Cucumber
3 9 (18.37%) Jasmine
4 8 (16.33%) Git
5 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 6 (12.24%) Gradle
7 5 (10.20%) GitLab
7 5 (10.20%) Liquibase
7 5 (10.20%) Mockito
8 1 (2.04%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (2.04%) HP UFT
8 1 (2.04%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.04%) Maven
8 1 (2.04%) NetBeans
8 1 (2.04%) Selenium
8 1 (2.04%) Subversion
General
1 16 (32.65%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Electronics
4 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.20%) Marketing
4 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (57.14%) Spring
1 28 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 13 (26.53%) Swagger
3 12 (24.49%) Kafka
3 12 (24.49%) OpenAPI
4 11 (22.45%) RESTful
5 10 (20.41%) Spring Security
6 9 (18.37%) Node.js
6 9 (18.37%) Spring Batch
7 7 (14.29%) React
8 5 (10.20%) CSS
8 5 (10.20%) HTML
9 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
10 3 (6.12%) Jest
11 2 (4.08%) Express.js
11 2 (4.08%) Micronaut
11 2 (4.08%) Spring MVC
12 1 (2.04%) Java EE
12 1 (2.04%) JPA
12 1 (2.04%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
1 11 (22.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) Microservices
2 22 (44.90%) TDD
3 21 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 18 (36.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (34.69%) Containerisation
6 15 (30.61%) Agile
6 15 (30.61%) BDD
6 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) Test Automation
8 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven
9 9 (18.37%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (18.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (16.33%) API Design
10 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (16.33%) Kernel Tuning
10 8 (16.33%) OWASP
10 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (14.29%) Integration Testing
11 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 6 (12.24%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (40.82%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) Bash
4 8 (16.33%) Python
5 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.12%) Clojure
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) SC Cleared
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 26 (53.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (38.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Virgin Media
2 5 (10.20%) SAP
3 4 (8.16%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace