Java Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Java Engineer
England > North of England

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 197 225
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 14 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 16
10th Percentile £413 £543 £503
25th Percentile £422 £563 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% -9.62% +52.94%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £691
90th Percentile £658 - £719
England median daily rate £600 £600 £620
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.80 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £43.39 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +48.57%

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 4,453 5,567 6,937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 95.16% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,811 3,938 5,099
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £382 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 171 296
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.50 £11.09
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.57 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +64.26% +3.29%
75th Percentile £45.94 £48.86 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.39
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +23 12 £538 -17.31% 11
Yorkshire +26 2 £425 -17.87% 1
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 4 (28.57%) Data Security
4 4 (28.57%) PHP
4 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Kafka
5 3 (21.43%) MySQL
5 3 (21.43%) Retail
5 3 (21.43%) Spring
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (21.43%) React
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
6 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Runbook
6 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
6 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 2 (14.29%) Maven
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) WCAG
6 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting

Java Engineer 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) HBase
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) JUnit
1 2 (14.29%) Maven
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Gradle
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Mockito
General
1 3 (21.43%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (7.14%) Dagger
4 1 (7.14%) GWT
4 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (7.14%) JPA
4 1 (7.14%) Retrofit
4 1 (7.14%) RxJava
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Security
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Data Security
3 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Runbook
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 2 (14.29%) User Stories
6 1 (7.14%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) WCAG
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.14%) Confluent
1 1 (7.14%) New Relic