Java Contracts in the North West

Java
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 146 176 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.45% 5.67% 7.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.86% 19.30% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 134 243
10th Percentile £398 £413 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +0.92% +14.74%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £636
90th Percentile £639 £675 £675
England median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £45.88 £27.03 £26.85
25th Percentile £48.43 £33.95 £28.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.30 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% +16.80% -21.59%
75th Percentile £74.50 £43.39 £43.25
90th Percentile £82.20 - £47.15
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.50 £63.50
% change year-on-year -2.67% +3.15% +15.45%

All Programming Languages
North West

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 668 912 1,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.93% 29.37% 35.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 678 1,071
10th Percentile £328 £325 £320
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 30
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £16.83
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% +31.48% +11.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Manchester +10 108 £500 -14.46% 59
Cheshire -9 28 £475 -13.64% 10
Lancashire +8 9 £638 +21.43% 7
Cumbria - 1 £575 -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.48%) Apache
3 6 (4.11%) Confluence
4 5 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.74%) Mule
6 3 (2.05%) IIS
7 1 (0.68%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.68%) Camunda
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (4.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.05%) Maximo
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 75 (51.37%) AWS
2 16 (10.96%) Azure
3 10 (6.85%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.16%) Serverless
5 8 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.11%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.42%) Apigee
7 5 (3.42%) Kong
7 5 (3.42%) SaaS
8 4 (2.74%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.05%) GCP
9 3 (2.05%) GitHub
9 3 (2.05%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.68%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.42%) FTP
1 5 (3.42%) HTTP
2 3 (2.05%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.85%) MySQL
4 9 (6.16%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.79%) Big Data
6 5 (3.42%) OLAP
6 5 (3.42%) OLTP
6 5 (3.42%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.42%) SQLite
7 4 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.05%) DB2
8 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.05%) HBase
8 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.05%) Power BI
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.01%) JIRA
3 18 (12.33%) Git
4 14 (9.59%) Android Studio
5 13 (8.90%) JUnit
6 11 (7.53%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.85%) Mockito
8 8 (5.48%) GitLab
8 8 (5.48%) Selenium
9 5 (3.42%) Maven
10 4 (2.74%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.74%) Gatling
10 4 (2.74%) Liquibase
10 4 (2.74%) Log4j
10 4 (2.74%) Postman
11 3 (2.05%) Gradle
11 3 (2.05%) JMeter
11 3 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.05%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
General
1 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Banking
3 15 (10.27%) Finance
4 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.05%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (47.95%) Developer
2 37 (25.34%) Java Developer
3 26 (17.81%) Senior
4 18 (12.33%) Android Developer
4 18 (12.33%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.27%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.22%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Architect
7 10 (6.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (6.16%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (4.11%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) AWS Architect
11 5 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.08%) Spring
2 34 (23.29%) Spring Boot
3 33 (22.60%) RESTful
4 26 (17.81%) REST
5 25 (17.12%) React
6 19 (13.01%) Node.js
6 19 (13.01%) Web Services
7 18 (12.33%) Hibernate
7 18 (12.33%) Kafka
8 17 (11.64%) JPA
9 13 (8.90%) XML
10 12 (8.22%) .NET
11 8 (5.48%) HTML
11 8 (5.48%) JSON
11 8 (5.48%) Spring Security
12 7 (4.79%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.79%) J2EE
12 7 (4.79%) OAuth
12 7 (4.79%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.85%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.42%) DataPower
3 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.05%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.05%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.37%) Derivative
6 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.12%) Android
2 6 (4.11%) Unix
3 5 (3.42%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.05%) Linux
5 2 (1.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.52%) Agile
2 46 (31.51%) Microservices
3 32 (21.92%) CI/CD
3 32 (21.92%) Software Engineering
4 29 (19.86%) Test Automation
4 29 (19.86%) Unit Testing
5 23 (15.75%) Design Patterns
6 22 (15.07%) DevOps
7 21 (14.38%) Scrum
8 18 (12.33%) Android Development
8 18 (12.33%) Front End Development
9 17 (11.64%) OO
10 14 (9.59%) TDD
11 13 (8.90%) Containerisation
12 12 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (8.22%) SDLC
13 11 (7.53%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (6.85%) API Management
14 10 (6.85%) Observability
15 9 (6.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.75%) Python
2 20 (13.70%) Kotlin
3 17 (11.64%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.90%) SQL
5 12 (8.22%) C#
6 11 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.85%) PHP
8 8 (5.48%) Scala
9 4 (2.74%) C
9 4 (2.74%) Groovy
9 4 (2.74%) Perl
10 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.11%) Degree
5 5 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (8.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.48%) Terraform
3 4 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.05%) Grafana
5 2 (1.37%) Ansible
5 2 (1.37%) Kibana
6 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (8.22%) Oracle
2 8 (5.48%) IBM
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.42%) Informatica
4 5 (3.42%) Talend
4 5 (3.42%) TSYS
5 3 (2.05%) Nintex
5 3 (2.05%) Pega
5 3 (2.05%) SAP
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.68%) Confluent
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.68%) New Relic
6 1 (0.68%) Teradata