Java SE Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Java SE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java SE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.016% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £519 £391 -
% change year-on-year +32.59% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Java SE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,309 673 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.46% 20.31% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 481 616
10th Percentile £362 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.85% -3.90%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 7 32
10th Percentile £52.25 £65.25 £14.56
25th Percentile £55.75 £67.63 £21.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £82.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +78.65% -26.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £100.28 £69.44
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java SE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Java SE job vacancy trend in the North of England

Java SE
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Java SE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Java SE

Java SE
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Java SE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Java SE

Java SE
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 SE within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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 - 1 £613 -
Java SE
England

Java SE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JCE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode