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 £457, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 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
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 114 117
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 48 72 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.38% 1.46% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.58% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 66 82
10th Percentile £351 £373 £489
25th Percentile £380 £389 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £700
90th Percentile £545 £650 -
England median daily rate £530 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -11.67% -7.69% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -6.90% +13.06%

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 3,246 4,562 5,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.80% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,143 2,757 3,634
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 463 165
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £24.10 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -9.06% +34.18%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.16 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.55 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.99% -12.11% +87.30%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 0 32 £464 -11.57% 35
Yorkshire -8 12 £513 -6.82% 20
North East +2 5 £380 -13.14% 6
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 48 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (66.67%) Microservices
3 30 (62.50%) Spring Boot
4 28 (58.33%) Spring
5 21 (43.75%) Agile
6 20 (41.67%) TDD
6 20 (41.67%) Jenkins
6 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
7 19 (39.58%) Kafka
7 19 (39.58%) JUnit
8 18 (37.50%) SQL
8 18 (37.50%) AWS
9 17 (35.42%) React
10 15 (31.25%) Docker
11 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (29.17%) Git
12 13 (27.08%) JIRA
12 13 (27.08%) GitLab
13 12 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (25.00%) RESTful
13 12 (25.00%) REST
13 12 (25.00%) Python
14 11 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (22.92%) Gradle
14 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
15 10 (20.83%) Migration
16 9 (18.75%) Finance
16 9 (18.75%) Scrum
16 9 (18.75%) GitHub
16 9 (18.75%) SDLC

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 5 (10.42%) JBoss
1 5 (10.42%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) GitHub
3 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.33%) Serverless
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.25%) Azure
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) npm
7 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.25%) MySQL
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (39.58%) JUnit
3 14 (29.17%) Git
4 13 (27.08%) GitLab
4 13 (27.08%) JIRA
5 11 (22.92%) Gradle
6 8 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (14.58%) Maven
7 7 (14.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (12.50%) Mockito
9 5 (10.42%) Liquibase
10 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
11 2 (4.17%) Selenium
12 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
12 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
12 1 (2.08%) HP UFT
12 1 (2.08%) IntelliJ
12 1 (2.08%) Jasmine
12 1 (2.08%) NetBeans
12 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Electronics
3 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.42%) Marketing
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 28 (58.33%) Spring
3 19 (39.58%) Kafka
4 17 (35.42%) React
5 12 (25.00%) REST
5 12 (25.00%) RESTful
6 8 (16.67%) Node.js
7 7 (14.58%) CSS
7 7 (14.58%) HTML
8 6 (12.50%) OpenAPI
8 6 (12.50%) Swagger
9 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.42%) Jest
9 5 (10.42%) SOAP
9 5 (10.42%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (4.17%) Express.js
10 2 (4.17%) Hibernate
10 2 (4.17%) Redux
10 2 (4.17%) Spring MVC
11 1 (2.08%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) Microservices
2 21 (43.75%) Agile
3 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 20 (41.67%) TDD
4 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (20.83%) Migration
7 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.75%) DevOps
7 9 (18.75%) Scrum
7 9 (18.75%) SDLC
8 8 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (12.50%) Release Management
10 6 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (10.42%) Clean Code
11 5 (10.42%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (37.50%) SQL
3 12 (25.00%) Python
4 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.25%) Clojure
7 2 (4.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.08%) Groovy
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Control-M
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) Istio
2 1 (2.08%) Kiali
2 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) Virgin Media
3 5 (10.42%) SAP
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.08%) Perforce
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) Veracode
5 1 (2.08%) xMatters