Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Java Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Engineer daily rate in the North West is £305, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 114 127
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 4 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.17% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.18% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £515 £413
25th Percentile £303 £538 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% +25.00% -26.67%
75th Percentile £308 - £476
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £619 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -22.66% +33.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.13
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £74.69
90th Percentile - - £76.38
England median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% -4.58%

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 2,061 2,234 2,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 93.59% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,186 1,846
10th Percentile £250 £274 £272
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £680 £650 £674
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 157 178
10th Percentile £13.27 £15.57 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +4.35% +45.83%
75th Percentile £45.29 £55.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.16 £73.89 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 0 4 £305 -44.55% 5
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, 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 West region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab

Java Engineer 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) JavaFX
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Regtech
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle