Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Java Developer
England > North West

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North West is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 94 118
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 60 29 24
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.45% 1.29% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 1.39% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 20 21
10th Percentile £333 £421 -
25th Percentile £370 £445 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +22.22% -23.40%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £600
90th Percentile £556 £601 £625
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -7.41%

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 2,235 2,084 2,486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.75% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,478 1,142 1,731
10th Percentile £213 £263 £285
25th Percentile £358 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 137 164
10th Percentile £16.43 £15.44 £16.20
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -27.71% +74.43%
75th Percentile £51.02 £46.18 £46.35
90th Percentile £69.80 £68.81 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 13 December 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 -6 27 £450 -20.00% 3
Cheshire +1 25 £430 +24.28% 4
Merseyside - 8 £500 -
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Java Developer 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 West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (71.67%) Spring Boot
3 40 (66.67%) Spring
4 34 (56.67%) Microservices
5 30 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 26 (43.33%) Agile
7 25 (41.67%) SQL
7 25 (41.67%) TDD
8 23 (38.33%) Test Automation
9 21 (35.00%) AWS
9 21 (35.00%) Git
9 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
10 20 (33.33%) Docker
10 20 (33.33%) RESTful
11 19 (31.67%) Azure
11 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (28.33%) JUnit
13 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
13 16 (26.67%) React
14 15 (25.00%) DevOps
14 15 (25.00%) GitLab
15 14 (23.33%) JIRA
16 13 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (21.67%) Kafka
16 13 (21.67%) REST
17 12 (20.00%) Hibernate
17 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
17 12 (20.00%) QA
18 11 (18.33%) API Development
18 11 (18.33%) GitHub

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) AWS
2 19 (31.67%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) GitHub
4 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) Apigee
5 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.67%) GCP
5 4 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) HTTP
1 4 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) MySQL
1 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 21 (35.00%) Git
2 17 (28.33%) JUnit
3 15 (25.00%) GitLab
4 14 (23.33%) JIRA
5 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 9 (15.00%) Cucumber
6 9 (15.00%) Postman
7 8 (13.33%) Mockito
8 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
9 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.00%) Maven
9 3 (5.00%) Selenium
9 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.33%) Gradle
11 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
11 1 (1.67%) Grunt
11 1 (1.67%) gulp
11 1 (1.67%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (36.67%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (71.67%) Spring Boot
2 40 (66.67%) Spring
3 20 (33.33%) RESTful
4 16 (26.67%) React
5 13 (21.67%) Kafka
5 13 (21.67%) REST
6 12 (20.00%) Hibernate
7 10 (16.67%) JSON
8 8 (13.33%) JAX-RS
9 7 (11.67%) AngularJS
9 7 (11.67%) JMS
9 7 (11.67%) Node.js
10 6 (10.00%) jQuery
10 6 (10.00%) OAuth
10 6 (10.00%) OAuth2
10 6 (10.00%) Spring Security
11 5 (8.33%) HTML
11 5 (8.33%) POJO
11 5 (8.33%) Spring MVC
11 5 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Microservices
2 30 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 26 (43.33%) Agile
4 25 (41.67%) TDD
5 23 (38.33%) Test Automation
6 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 15 (25.00%) DevOps
9 13 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (18.33%) API Development
10 11 (18.33%) SDLC
11 10 (16.67%) AI
11 10 (16.67%) API Design
11 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 10 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (15.00%) MVC
13 8 (13.33%) BDD
14 6 (10.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (41.67%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.33%) Python
5 2 (3.33%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.67%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) Clojure
6 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (16.67%) Degree
2 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.00%) ISO 20022
2 6 (10.00%) PSD2
2 6 (10.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Argo
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 7 (11.67%) Virgin Media
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) Splunk
4 3 (5.00%) Veracode
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Perforce