POJO Contracts in the North of England

POJO (Plain Old Java Object)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring POJO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POJO over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing POJO 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.100% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
England median daily rate £510 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

POJO 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 805 754 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.05% 17.91% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 515 785
10th Percentile £338 £361 £363
25th Percentile £382 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £538 £610 £619
90th Percentile £621 £740 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 23
10th Percentile £27.60 £14.14 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £36.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £70.95 £64.75
England median hourly rate £54.88 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.49% -0.80% +4.17%

POJO
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for POJO in the North of England

POJO
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

POJO
DemandTrendContract 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 POJO within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 4 £510 - 2
POJO
England

POJO
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes