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 £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 111 97
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 64 113 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.34% 1.94% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 2.03% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 96 132
10th Percentile £311 £483 £426
25th Percentile £417 £517 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +12.47%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £643 £720 £688
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% - -
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £58.00
% change year-on-year -34.75% +27.16% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,446 5,553 6,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.10% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,815 3,925 5,141
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £381 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £590 £550
90th Percentile £674 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 172 298
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.55 £11.12
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.57 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.64 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +65.62% +2.78%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.40 £30.44
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.98 £50.23
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 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 +12 37 £525 -4.55% 8
Yorkshire +6 25 £544 -9.38% 4
North East -7 2 £475 -26.88% 2
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 64 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (56.25%) AWS
3 33 (51.56%) Agile
3 33 (51.56%) Spring
4 29 (45.31%) Spring Boot
5 26 (40.63%) Microservices
6 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
7 21 (32.81%) REST
8 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
9 19 (29.69%) Hibernate
10 17 (26.56%) CI/CD
11 14 (21.88%) Front End Development
11 14 (21.88%) JPA
12 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
13 12 (18.75%) Jenkins
13 12 (18.75%) TDD
14 11 (17.19%) Scrum
14 11 (17.19%) Git
14 11 (17.19%) Unit Testing
15 10 (15.63%) RESTful
15 10 (15.63%) Docker
15 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
15 10 (15.63%) JUnit
16 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
17 8 (12.50%) DevOps
17 8 (12.50%) React
17 8 (12.50%) GitLab
17 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
17 8 (12.50%) MongoDB
17 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering

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 4 (6.25%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) AWS
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.56%) Azure
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.56%) GCP
4 1 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.56%) DB2
6 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.56%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.19%) Git
3 10 (15.63%) JUnit
4 8 (12.50%) GitLab
5 4 (6.25%) Liquibase
5 4 (6.25%) Log4j
6 3 (4.69%) JIRA
6 3 (4.69%) Maven
6 3 (4.69%) Mockito
7 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.56%) JMeter
8 1 (1.56%) Selenium
8 1 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Banking
4 4 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) Spring
2 29 (45.31%) Spring Boot
3 21 (32.81%) REST
4 19 (29.69%) Hibernate
5 14 (21.88%) JPA
6 10 (15.63%) RESTful
7 8 (12.50%) React
7 8 (12.50%) Spring Security
8 7 (10.94%) Node.js
8 7 (10.94%) Web Services
9 6 (9.38%) Kafka
10 4 (6.25%) OAuth
10 4 (6.25%) OpenID
11 3 (4.69%) J2EE
11 3 (4.69%) OAuth2
12 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
12 2 (3.13%) HTML
12 2 (3.13%) WireMock
13 1 (1.56%) .NET
13 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) iSeries
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Unix
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Agile
2 26 (40.63%) Microservices
3 17 (26.56%) CI/CD
4 14 (21.88%) Front End Development
5 12 (18.75%) TDD
6 11 (17.19%) Scrum
6 11 (17.19%) Unit Testing
7 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.50%) DevOps
8 8 (12.50%) Observability
8 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 7 (10.94%) Design Patterns
9 7 (10.94%) High Availability
10 6 (9.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 5 (7.81%) SDLC
12 4 (6.25%) Coaching
12 4 (6.25%) Low Latency
12 4 (6.25%) Multithreading
12 4 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) SQL
5 1 (1.56%) C
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.69%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) WCAG
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) Google