Senior Java Developer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in the North of England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 156 192
Rank change year-on-year -17 +36 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 10 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.34% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile £501 £375 £540
25th Percentile £510 £400 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £491 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -29.82% +7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £534 -
90th Percentile £690 £656 -
England median daily rate £575 £713 £750
% change year-on-year -19.30% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,674 3,824 5,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.37% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,338 3,390
10th Percentile £251 £273 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £639 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 278 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.38 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.84% +15.09% +32.07%
75th Percentile £47.12 £51.90 £45.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £58.73
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -43.73% +7.40% +63.16%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Java Developer in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Java Developer in the North of England

Senior Java Developer
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 Senior Java Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -9 5 £510 -12.26% 5
Yorkshire -14 4 £650 +44.44% 5
North East 0 1 £488 +14.71%
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, Senior Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) Microservices
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Spring
4 5 (50.00%) JUnit
4 5 (50.00%) Docker
4 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (40.00%) Postman
5 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
5 4 (40.00%) User Research
5 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (40.00%) API Development
5 4 (40.00%) React
5 4 (40.00%) Thymeleaf
5 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (40.00%) MVC
5 4 (40.00%) JSON
5 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
5 4 (40.00%) RESTful
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) POJO
6 3 (30.00%) MongoDB

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JUnit
2 4 (40.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Mockito
4 1 (10.00%) Ant
4 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (10.00%) NUnit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 4 (40.00%) JSON
3 4 (40.00%) POJO
3 4 (40.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) Thymeleaf
4 3 (30.00%) Kafka
5 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (20.00%) JAX-RS
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET
6 1 (10.00%) Ajax
6 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) J2EE
6 1 (10.00%) JSTL
6 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) API Development
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (40.00%) MVC
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) User Research
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Web Development
6 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
6 1 (10.00%) Fintech
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform