Java Contracts in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 193 262 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.86% 5.49% 6.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.73% 21.60% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 199 302
10th Percentile £358 £375 £415
25th Percentile £400 £428 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £510 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -9.73% +7.62%
75th Percentile £551 £586 £625
90th Percentile £615 £650 £700
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 11
10th Percentile - £45.88 £31.25
25th Percentile £76.25 £48.43 £37.80
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +25.00% +35.93%
75th Percentile £88.75 £72.50 £66.88
90th Percentile - £82.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

All Programming Languages
North of England

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
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 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 +5 118 £475 -4.04% 250
Yorkshire -18 49 £525 - 100
North East +15 27 £390 -22.08% 55
Java
England

Java
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 17 (8.81%) Confluence
2 8 (4.15%) JBoss
2 8 (4.15%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.63%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.11%) Camunda
5 5 (2.59%) NetWeaver
6 4 (2.07%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.55%) Apache
7 3 (1.55%) CICS
8 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.52%) CMS
9 1 (0.52%) Documentum
9 1 (0.52%) FileNet
9 1 (0.52%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.09%) AWS
2 21 (10.88%) Serverless
3 17 (8.81%) Azure
3 17 (8.81%) GitHub
4 15 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (6.74%) GCP
6 12 (6.22%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (4.66%) Slack
8 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.63%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.11%) Kong
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.59%) CloudBees
11 5 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.07%) Amazon Glacier
12 4 (2.07%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.07%) Apigee
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) HTTP
2 3 (1.55%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.04%) SMS
4 1 (0.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.76%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (13.99%) MongoDB
3 23 (11.92%) Relational Database
4 22 (11.40%) MySQL
5 15 (7.77%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.63%) DB2
8 6 (3.11%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.11%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.07%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 50 (25.91%) Git
3 34 (17.62%) JUnit
4 32 (16.58%) JIRA
5 26 (13.47%) Cucumber
5 26 (13.47%) GitLab
6 21 (10.88%) Selenium
7 20 (10.36%) Maven
8 17 (8.81%) Gradle
9 15 (7.77%) Jasmine
10 11 (5.70%) IntelliJ
10 11 (5.70%) Mockito
11 10 (5.18%) Liquibase
12 9 (4.66%) gulp
13 8 (4.15%) SonarQube
13 8 (4.15%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (3.63%) Postman
15 6 (3.11%) Bitbucket
15 6 (3.11%) HP UFT
15 6 (3.11%) REST Assured
General
1 56 (29.02%) Public Sector
2 33 (17.10%) Finance
3 20 (10.36%) Social Skills
4 17 (8.81%) Banking
5 13 (6.74%) Electronics
5 13 (6.74%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.74%) Marketing
5 13 (6.74%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.04%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (43.01%) Developer
2 49 (25.39%) Java Developer
3 26 (13.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 26 (13.47%) Senior
4 20 (10.36%) Lead
5 19 (9.84%) Architect
6 17 (8.81%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.29%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (6.22%) Java Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (5.70%) React Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Java Architect
11 10 (5.18%) Tester
12 9 (4.66%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.63%) Scrum Master
15 6 (3.11%) Java Technical Architect
15 6 (3.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (31.61%) Spring Boot
2 54 (27.98%) Spring
3 40 (20.73%) Kafka
4 37 (19.17%) Node.js
5 29 (15.03%) React
6 28 (14.51%) RESTful
7 22 (11.40%) Swagger
8 21 (10.88%) OpenAPI
9 19 (9.84%) AngularJS
10 18 (9.33%) HTML
11 17 (8.81%) CSS
12 13 (6.74%) REST
12 13 (6.74%) SOAP
13 11 (5.70%) Spring Security
14 10 (5.18%) Express.js
14 10 (5.18%) HTML5
14 10 (5.18%) Spring Batch
14 10 (5.18%) Web Services
15 9 (4.66%) J2EE
15 9 (4.66%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (3.63%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.63%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.63%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.59%) PKI
6 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.07%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.55%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.55%) VSAM
8 2 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.03%) Linux
2 17 (8.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (6.22%) Unix
4 3 (1.55%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.55%) Windows
5 2 (1.04%) Android
5 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.04%) Solaris
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.49%) Agile
2 81 (41.97%) Microservices
3 73 (37.82%) CI/CD
4 52 (26.94%) TDD
4 52 (26.94%) Test Automation
5 43 (22.28%) Software Engineering
6 42 (21.76%) Containerisation
7 39 (20.21%) DevOps
7 39 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (17.10%) BDD
9 31 (16.06%) Event-Driven
10 30 (15.54%) Scrum
11 29 (15.03%) SDLC
12 26 (13.47%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (12.44%) Mentoring
14 22 (11.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 19 (9.84%) Migration
16 17 (8.81%) Code Quality
16 17 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.91%) SQL
2 45 (23.32%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.06%) Python
4 20 (10.36%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.81%) Bash
6 10 (5.18%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.59%) ABAP
7 5 (2.59%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.07%) Go
8 4 (2.07%) Groovy
9 3 (1.55%) Clojure
9 3 (1.55%) COBOL
9 3 (1.55%) JCL
9 3 (1.55%) Perl
9 3 (1.55%) REXX
10 2 (1.04%) C#
10 2 (1.04%) PHP
10 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.04%) Ruby
10 2 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 47 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.59%) Degree
4 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.55%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.47%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.59%) WCAG
3 2 (1.04%) GDPR
3 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (35.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (23.83%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.36%) Terraform
3 9 (4.66%) Grafana
4 8 (4.15%) Ansible
4 8 (4.15%) Progress Chef
4 8 (4.15%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.07%) Packer
6 3 (1.55%) Kibana
6 3 (1.55%) Puppet
6 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.04%) Control-M
7 2 (1.04%) Istio
7 2 (1.04%) Kiali
8 1 (0.52%) Graylog
Vendors
1 21 (10.88%) Virgin Media
2 18 (9.33%) SAP
3 16 (8.29%) Oracle
4 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.15%) Google
6 7 (3.63%) ForgeRock
7 5 (2.59%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.59%) Splunk
8 3 (1.55%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.55%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.04%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.04%) Databricks
9 2 (1.04%) Informatica
9 2 (1.04%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.04%) Parasoft
9 2 (1.04%) xMatters
10 1 (0.52%) VMware