Java Contracts in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Java 256 393 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.37% 6.73% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.17% 23.14% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 300 384
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 6
10th Percentile £45.88 £31.25 £28.88
25th Percentile £48.43 £37.80 £33.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +35.93% -8.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £66.88 £42.62
90th Percentile £82.20 £70.00 £46.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
North of England

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,209 1,698 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.38% 29.09% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,265 1,746
10th Percentile £319 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £680 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 27 44
10th Percentile £37.63 £27.71 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £38.15 £19.66
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year - +19.56% +52.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £50.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 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 -3 145 £495 -10.00% 76
Yorkshire +6 101 £525 -4.55% 25
North East -24 10 £501 -12.96% 22
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 11 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.73%) Confluence
3 7 (2.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (2.34%) Apache
5 4 (1.56%) Mule
6 3 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 3 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.39%) Site Server
Applications
1 6 (2.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 107 (41.80%) AWS
2 23 (8.98%) Azure
3 12 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (4.69%) GCP
3 12 (4.69%) GitHub
3 12 (4.69%) Serverless
4 10 (3.91%) Amazon S3
5 8 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (3.13%) Apigee
6 7 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.34%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (1.95%) Kong
9 4 (1.56%) BrowserStack
9 4 (1.56%) CloudBees
9 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.13%) HTTP
2 6 (2.34%) SSL
3 5 (1.95%) FTP
4 4 (1.56%) Firewall
5 2 (0.78%) DNS
5 2 (0.78%) LAN
5 2 (0.78%) WAN
6 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) Network Security
6 1 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.94%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.20%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.08%) MySQL
3 13 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.52%) Big Data
6 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.95%) OLAP
6 5 (1.95%) OLTP
6 5 (1.95%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (1.95%) SQLite
7 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.56%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.17%) Bigtable
8 3 (1.17%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.17%) HBase
8 3 (1.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.50%) Git
3 28 (10.94%) Selenium
4 26 (10.16%) JIRA
5 22 (8.59%) JUnit
6 16 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 14 (5.47%) Android Studio
8 13 (5.08%) GitLab
8 13 (5.08%) JMeter
8 13 (5.08%) Mockito
9 8 (3.13%) Maven
10 7 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.73%) Gatling
10 7 (2.73%) Postman
11 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.95%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.56%) Gradle
12 4 (1.56%) Log4j
12 4 (1.56%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (13.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 14 (5.47%) Finance
4 13 (5.08%) Banking
5 7 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.56%) Retail
9 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (47.66%) Developer
2 71 (27.73%) Java Developer
3 38 (14.84%) Senior
4 21 (8.20%) Android Developer
4 21 (8.20%) Architect
4 21 (8.20%) Senior Developer
5 18 (7.03%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.03%) Test Engineer
6 14 (5.47%) Java Engineer
6 14 (5.47%) Tester
7 13 (5.08%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.08%) Lead
8 12 (4.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 12 (4.69%) Senior Test Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (3.52%) Automation Tester
11 7 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (23.83%) Spring
2 53 (20.70%) RESTful
2 53 (20.70%) Spring Boot
3 35 (13.67%) REST
3 35 (13.67%) Web Services
4 27 (10.55%) Kafka
4 27 (10.55%) React
5 25 (9.77%) Hibernate
6 23 (8.98%) JPA
6 23 (8.98%) Node.js
7 21 (8.20%) OAuth
7 21 (8.20%) OpenID
8 18 (7.03%) XML
9 13 (5.08%) HTML
9 13 (5.08%) JSON
10 12 (4.69%) .NET
11 11 (4.30%) OAuth2
12 10 (3.91%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.52%) SOAP
14 8 (3.13%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.69%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.95%) DataPower
5 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.17%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.17%) IoT
7 3 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) Derivative
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.39%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.55%) Android
2 16 (6.25%) Unix
3 14 (5.47%) Linux
4 6 (2.34%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.95%) Windows
6 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.78%) zOS
8 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (43.36%) Agile
2 59 (23.05%) Microservices
3 52 (20.31%) Test Automation
4 46 (17.97%) CI/CD
5 42 (16.41%) Software Engineering
6 40 (15.63%) DevOps
7 37 (14.45%) Scrum
8 36 (14.06%) Unit Testing
9 32 (12.50%) TDD
10 26 (10.16%) Design Patterns
10 26 (10.16%) Front End Development
11 23 (8.98%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (8.98%) Mentoring
11 23 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (8.59%) Android Development
13 20 (7.81%) OO
14 19 (7.42%) BDD
15 18 (7.03%) SDLC
16 17 (6.64%) Data Pipeline
17 16 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.14%) JavaScript
2 43 (16.80%) Python
3 24 (9.38%) Kotlin
3 24 (9.38%) SQL
4 21 (8.20%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.25%) Scala
6 14 (5.47%) C#
7 10 (3.91%) Groovy
7 10 (3.91%) PHP
8 8 (3.13%) Go
9 4 (1.56%) Perl
9 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.56%) Ruby
9 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.17%) C
11 2 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.64%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.52%) Degree
5 6 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.42%) QA
2 17 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.52%) WCAG
4 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.39%) GxP
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (10.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.78%) IAG
4 1 (0.39%) ACF2
4 1 (0.39%) RACF
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.47%) Terraform
3 12 (4.69%) Ansible
4 9 (3.52%) Grafana
5 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) Anchore
7 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (6.25%) Oracle
2 13 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.91%) Google
4 8 (3.13%) IBM
5 5 (1.95%) Informatica
5 5 (1.95%) Talend
5 5 (1.95%) TSYS
6 4 (1.56%) SAP
7 3 (1.17%) Adobe
7 3 (1.17%) Nintex
7 3 (1.17%) Pega
8 2 (0.78%) AVEVA
8 2 (0.78%) Databricks
8 2 (0.78%) ESRI
8 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.39%) Ariba
9 1 (0.39%) Brio
9 1 (0.39%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.39%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.39%) VMware