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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 214 273 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.48% 5.90% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.06% 22.96% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 206 283
10th Percentile £358 £397 £413
25th Percentile £400 £433 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -11.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £650
90th Percentile £615 £653 £700
England median daily rate £550 £588 £601
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.16% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 11
10th Percentile £74.05 £45.88 £31.25
25th Percentile £74.88 £48.43 £37.80
Median hourly rate £82.50 £68.75 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +27.31% -25.52%
75th Percentile £91.88 £74.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £93.75 £82.05 £70.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% -0.38% +2.57%

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 928 1,189 1,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.10% 25.70% 28.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 843 1,188
10th Percentile £350 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £569 £600
90th Percentile £615 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 51 29
10th Percentile £35.66 £37.63 £30.42
25th Percentile £58.63 £43.57 £38.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.32% -3.06% +12.41%
75th Percentile £91.88 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.62 £74.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +22.91%

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 16 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
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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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 +6 138 £471 -5.90% 262
Yorkshire -23 50 £520 -1.00% 105
North East +14 27 £413 -17.58% 54
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 19 (8.88%) Confluence
2 9 (4.21%) JBoss
3 8 (3.74%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.74%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.80%) Camunda
5 5 (2.34%) NetWeaver
6 4 (1.87%) CICS
6 4 (1.87%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.40%) Apache
7 3 (1.40%) Documentum
7 3 (1.40%) FileNet
8 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.47%) CMS
9 1 (0.47%) Mule
9 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (33.64%) AWS
2 24 (11.21%) Serverless
3 18 (8.41%) Azure
3 18 (8.41%) GitHub
4 16 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (7.48%) GCP
5 9 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (3.74%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.74%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (2.80%) Kong
9 5 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.34%) Apigee
9 5 (2.34%) CloudBees
9 5 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.87%) Slack
11 3 (1.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) HTTP
2 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.93%) SMS
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.29%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.68%) Relational Database
3 24 (11.21%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.94%) MySQL
5 16 (7.48%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (3.74%) DB2
7 7 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.80%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.87%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.93%) Big Data
11 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.93%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (27.57%) Jenkins
2 49 (22.90%) Git
3 37 (17.29%) GitLab
3 37 (17.29%) JIRA
4 32 (14.95%) JUnit
5 28 (13.08%) Selenium
6 26 (12.15%) Cucumber
6 26 (12.15%) Maven
7 18 (8.41%) Gradle
8 12 (5.61%) IntelliJ
8 12 (5.61%) Postman
9 11 (5.14%) Mockito
9 11 (5.14%) REST Assured
10 10 (4.67%) Jasmine
10 10 (4.67%) Liquibase
11 9 (4.21%) Cypress.io
11 9 (4.21%) gulp
11 9 (4.21%) SonarQube
11 9 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (3.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 56 (26.17%) Public Sector
2 33 (15.42%) Finance
3 23 (10.75%) Social Skills
4 20 (9.35%) Banking
5 12 (5.61%) Electronics
5 12 (5.61%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.61%) Marketing
5 12 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.40%) Retail
9 2 (0.93%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Billing
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (38.79%) Developer
2 46 (21.50%) Java Developer
3 27 (12.62%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (12.62%) Senior
4 21 (9.81%) Architect
5 20 (9.35%) Lead
6 18 (8.41%) Software Engineer
7 16 (7.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 13 (6.07%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.07%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.61%) React Developer
10 11 (5.14%) Tester
11 10 (4.67%) Java Architect
11 10 (4.67%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (3.74%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Scrum Master
13 8 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.27%) Engineering Manager
14 7 (3.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.10%) Spring Boot
2 50 (23.36%) Spring
3 42 (19.63%) Kafka
4 38 (17.76%) Node.js
5 31 (14.49%) React
6 26 (12.15%) RESTful
7 19 (8.88%) AngularJS
8 18 (8.41%) HTML
8 18 (8.41%) Swagger
9 17 (7.94%) CSS
9 17 (7.94%) OpenAPI
10 14 (6.54%) REST
10 14 (6.54%) SOAP
11 13 (6.07%) Playwright
12 10 (4.67%) Express.js
12 10 (4.67%) HTML5
12 10 (4.67%) J2EE
12 10 (4.67%) Web Services
13 9 (4.21%) jQuery
13 9 (4.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.14%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.27%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.34%) Mainframe
4 5 (2.34%) PKI
5 4 (1.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.87%) VSAM
6 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.40%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.55%) Linux
2 14 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (6.54%) Unix
3 3 (1.40%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.40%) Windows
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (44.86%) Agile
2 86 (40.19%) Microservices
3 80 (37.38%) CI/CD
4 59 (27.57%) Test Automation
5 51 (23.83%) TDD
6 50 (23.36%) DevOps
7 42 (19.63%) Containerisation
7 42 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 42 (19.63%) Software Engineering
8 39 (18.22%) Scrum
9 32 (14.95%) Event-Driven
10 31 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
11 30 (14.02%) BDD
12 28 (13.08%) SDLC
13 22 (10.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 22 (10.28%) Migration
14 20 (9.35%) Mentoring
15 19 (8.88%) API Testing
15 19 (8.88%) Code Quality
16 18 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.36%) JavaScript
2 47 (21.96%) SQL
3 33 (15.42%) Python
4 21 (9.81%) TypeScript
5 14 (6.54%) Bash
6 10 (4.67%) Kotlin
7 7 (3.27%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.34%) ABAP
8 5 (2.34%) Groovy
9 4 (1.87%) COBOL
9 4 (1.87%) Go
9 4 (1.87%) JCL
10 3 (1.40%) Clojure
10 3 (1.40%) Perl
10 3 (1.40%) REXX
10 3 (1.40%) Rust
10 3 (1.40%) Scala
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
11 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.34%) Degree
4 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.02%) QA
2 10 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.67%) WCAG
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
3 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 70 (32.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.75%) Terraform
3 14 (6.54%) Grafana
4 10 (4.67%) Ansible
5 9 (4.21%) Progress Chef
5 9 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.87%) Control-M
6 4 (1.87%) Packer
7 3 (1.40%) Istio
7 3 (1.40%) Kiali
7 3 (1.40%) Kibana
7 3 (1.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.47%) Graylog
Vendors
1 21 (9.81%) Virgin Media
2 20 (9.35%) Oracle
3 17 (7.94%) SAP
4 12 (5.61%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.21%) Google
6 7 (3.27%) ForgeRock
7 6 (2.80%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.80%) Splunk
8 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.40%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.40%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.40%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.40%) xMatters
10 2 (0.93%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.93%) Databricks
10 2 (0.93%) Informatica
10 2 (0.93%) Parasoft
11 1 (0.47%) Confluent