Java Developer Contracts in the North West

Java Developer
England > North West

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North West is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 98 118
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 26 39 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.32% 1.42% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.50% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 35 32
10th Percentile £400 £337 £440
25th Percentile £481 £431 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £569 £625 £666
90th Percentile £588 £645 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £48.13 £73.75
% change year-on-year +35.06% -34.75% +19.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +8 23 £530 +0.95% 17
Cheshire -2 2 £268 -13.83% 8
Lancashire +1 1 £525 -16.00% 5
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (61.54%) Microservices
3 14 (53.85%) Docker
3 14 (53.85%) Spring Boot
3 14 (53.85%) Spring
4 13 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
5 11 (42.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (42.31%) Kafka
5 11 (42.31%) Relational Database
6 10 (38.46%) TDD
7 9 (34.62%) Agile
7 9 (34.62%) SQL
7 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
7 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven
7 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
7 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (30.77%) Virgin Media
8 8 (30.77%) JUnit
8 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
8 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
9 7 (26.92%) Node.js
9 7 (26.92%) Finance
9 7 (26.92%) Swagger
9 7 (26.92%) OpenAPI
10 6 (23.08%) Gradle
10 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
10 6 (23.08%) Azure
10 6 (23.08%) AWS

Java Developer Skill Set
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 5 (19.23%) Camunda
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) AWS
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (11.54%) Serverless
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.69%) Slack
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (42.31%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JUnit
2 6 (23.08%) Gradle
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (19.23%) GitLab
3 5 (19.23%) Liquibase
3 5 (19.23%) Mockito
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
5 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) Git
5 2 (7.69%) Jasmine
6 1 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (3.85%) HP UFT
6 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
6 1 (3.85%) Maven
6 1 (3.85%) NetBeans
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Electronics
3 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
3 5 (19.23%) Marketing
3 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) Spring
1 14 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 11 (42.31%) Kafka
3 7 (26.92%) Node.js
3 7 (26.92%) OpenAPI
3 7 (26.92%) Swagger
4 5 (19.23%) React
5 4 (15.38%) RESTful
6 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.69%) Express.js
6 2 (7.69%) Spring Batch
6 2 (7.69%) Spring Security
7 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.85%) J2EE
7 1 (3.85%) Java EE
7 1 (3.85%) Jest
7 1 (3.85%) Spring Integration
7 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
7 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Microservices
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (38.46%) TDD
5 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven
5 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Build Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (19.23%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Programme Management
8 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven Programming
9 3 (11.54%) Scrum
9 3 (11.54%) SDLC
9 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 4 (15.38%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) Clojure
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Virgin Media
2 5 (19.23%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central