Senior Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Java Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Java Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.10% - 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £533 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.62%
75th Percentile £640 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £560 £750 £775
% change year-on-year -25.33% -3.23% +21.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 6,222 3,212 4,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.51% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 2,122 2,721
10th Percentile £313 £258 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £663
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 177 456
10th Percentile £17.03 £12.76 £11.12
25th Percentile £25.49 £14.13 £13.19
Median hourly rate £45.56 £22.14 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +105.76% -5.69% -13.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.12 £47.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.25 £66.61
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

Senior Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

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

Senior Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Java Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North West - 5 £505 - 2
North East - 2 £640 -
Senior Java Engineer
England

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 June 2026, Senior Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Senior Java Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Confluence
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Docker
5 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (28.57%) Git
5 2 (28.57%) Gradle
5 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
5 2 (28.57%) JIRA
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning

Senior Java Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Gradle
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP