Java Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Java 523 329 236
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 6.88% 8.40% 5.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.89% 29.22% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 248 182
10th Percentile £393 £324 £356
25th Percentile £425 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -7.80% -14.89%
75th Percentile £600 £545 £575
90th Percentile £669 £656 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 4 2
10th Percentile - £71.05 £39.35
25th Percentile £62.50 £72.63 £44.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.75 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +49.54% +17.70%
75th Percentile £75.25 £90.31 £64.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.13 £70.65
England median hourly rate £69.75 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +39.50% -28.57% +7.69%

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 1,875 1,126 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.68% 28.76% 24.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 798 701
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £607 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 10 27
10th Percentile £28.50 £29.28 £35.85
25th Percentile £47.15 £40.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £69.50 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £71.33 £80.88 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £89.38 £76.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +1.56%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Java job vacancy trend in the North of England

Java
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 15 September 2026.

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 15 September 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
Yorkshire 0 224 £500 - 120
North West -14 220 £525 +24.41% 274
North East -1 84 £450 -7.69% 76
Java
England

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (3.82%) Confluence
2 10 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.34%) Apache
4 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.15%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.96%) Camunda
5 5 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) CICS
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Mule
8 1 (0.19%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 226 (43.21%) AWS
2 121 (23.14%) Azure
3 96 (18.36%) GCP
4 62 (11.85%) GitHub
5 46 (8.80%) OpenShift
6 32 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 29 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.40%) Serverless
9 18 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (1.91%) Kong
14 9 (1.72%) Apigee
14 9 (1.72%) Azure AKS
14 9 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.06%) Firewall
2 12 (2.29%) HTTP
3 5 (0.96%) Network Security
4 3 (0.57%) DNS
5 2 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) IPsec
6 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.84%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.16%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.29%) Redis
7 11 (2.10%) MySQL
8 9 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.53%) Big Data
9 8 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.53%) Metadata
10 7 (1.34%) Ataccama
11 5 (0.96%) Flink
11 5 (0.96%) Hazelcast
11 5 (0.96%) Power BI
11 5 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (19.50%) Jenkins
2 51 (9.75%) Git
3 47 (8.99%) GitLab
4 44 (8.41%) SonarQube
5 38 (7.27%) JIRA
6 34 (6.50%) Selenium
7 33 (6.31%) Maven
8 30 (5.74%) Cucumber
9 24 (4.59%) Gradle
9 24 (4.59%) REST Assured
10 22 (4.21%) Gatling
11 20 (3.82%) Mockito
12 17 (3.25%) JUnit
13 16 (3.06%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.91%) Postman
14 10 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (1.34%) Cypress.io
15 7 (1.34%) JMeter
15 7 (1.34%) Serenity BDD
15 7 (1.34%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.12%) Finance
3 69 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.80%) Banking
5 33 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.10%) Military
7 8 (1.53%) Front Office
8 7 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.34%) Retail
9 6 (1.15%) Publishing
10 5 (0.96%) iGaming
11 4 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.76%) Games
11 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.57%) Legal
13 2 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.38%) Law
13 2 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 197 (37.67%) Developer
2 143 (27.34%) Java Developer
3 90 (17.21%) Senior
4 85 (16.25%) Software Engineer
5 73 (13.96%) Java Engineer
6 55 (10.52%) Lead
7 50 (9.56%) Senior Developer
8 41 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
9 40 (7.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 33 (6.31%) Architect
11 30 (5.74%) Test Engineer
12 22 (4.21%) Software Developer
13 21 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (3.44%) Security Engineer
15 18 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.25%) Senior Java Engineer
17 16 (3.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (30.21%) Spring
2 150 (28.68%) Spring Boot
3 102 (19.50%) Kafka
4 97 (18.55%) REST
5 95 (18.16%) Terraform
6 75 (14.34%) React
7 53 (10.13%) AngularJS
8 52 (9.94%) Node.js
9 45 (8.60%) RESTful
10 37 (7.07%) Quarkus
11 33 (6.31%) Playwright
12 30 (5.74%) HTML
13 21 (4.02%) OAuth
14 19 (3.63%) Hibernate
15 18 (3.44%) Redux
16 17 (3.25%) JWT
17 15 (2.87%) .NET
17 15 (2.87%) JPA
17 15 (2.87%) JSON
17 15 (2.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 63 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.02%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (3.82%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.87%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.53%) Equities
10 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.15%) Fixed Income
13 5 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.18%) Linux
2 20 (3.82%) Unix
3 19 (3.63%) Windows
4 17 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.53%) Android
6 5 (0.96%) VMS
7 4 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.76%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.57%) AIX
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (50.48%) CI/CD
2 224 (42.83%) Agile
3 185 (35.37%) Software Engineering
4 183 (34.99%) Microservices
5 178 (34.03%) DevOps
6 154 (29.45%) Test Automation
7 88 (16.83%) Observability
8 76 (14.53%) Event-Driven
9 74 (14.15%) Scrum
9 74 (14.15%) SDLC
10 72 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 67 (12.81%) Containerisation
12 67 (12.81%) TDD
13 66 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (11.85%) DevSecOps
15 60 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (11.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 57 (10.90%) AI
18 51 (9.75%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 143 (27.34%) Python
2 85 (16.25%) SQL
3 74 (14.15%) JavaScript
4 46 (8.80%) Kotlin
5 44 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.69%) Bash
7 26 (4.97%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.02%) C#
9 17 (3.25%) Scala
10 10 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.72%) Groovy
12 8 (1.53%) Bicep
12 8 (1.53%) Go
13 3 (0.57%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.57%) Rust
13 3 (0.57%) Swift
14 2 (0.38%) C++
14 2 (0.38%) COBOL
14 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 115 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.93%) Degree
4 22 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.63%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.68%) CISSP
8 10 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.19%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.13%) QA
2 29 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.53%) WCAG
4 6 (1.15%) NIST
4 6 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.76%) GDPR
5 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.38%) MiFID
7 2 (0.38%) SEPA
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) PSD2
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (25.62%) Docker
2 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.57%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.19%) Ceph
6 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 195 (37.28%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.69%) Argo
3 26 (4.97%) Grafana
4 23 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.87%) Progress Chef
6 12 (2.29%) Ansible
7 10 (1.91%) HAProxy
8 9 (1.72%) Control-M
9 4 (0.76%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.57%) Istio
11 2 (0.38%) Consul
11 2 (0.38%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.19%) Kiali
12 1 (0.19%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (8.60%) Red Hat
2 39 (7.46%) Google
2 39 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.63%) Oracle
4 14 (2.68%) Splunk
5 10 (1.91%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.72%) Okta
7 8 (1.53%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.34%) Databricks
8 7 (1.34%) Sonatype
9 6 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.96%) IBM
10 5 (0.96%) SAP
10 5 (0.96%) Veracode
11 4 (0.76%) Adobe
11 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.57%) Mistral
13 2 (0.38%) Checkmarx
13 2 (0.38%) Solace
13 2 (0.38%) VMware