Java Software Engineer Contracts in the North West

Java Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Java Software Engineer daily rate in the North West is £305, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 8 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% - 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £303 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.67%
75th Percentile £308 - £564
90th Percentile - - £638
England median daily rate £750 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £59.56
% change year-on-year +14.29% +17.54% -9.08%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,034 2,319 2,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 95.16% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 1,377 1,828
10th Percentile £268 £275 £288
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.62%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £659 £675 £670
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 199 158
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £15.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.90 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% +7.33% +34.71%
75th Percentile £50.19 £53.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the North West

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Java Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Java Software Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Software Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 8 £305 - 5
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Java Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) JUnit
3 6 (75.00%) Gradle
3 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (62.50%) React
4 5 (62.50%) Liquibase
4 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
4 5 (62.50%) Docker
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Kafka
4 5 (62.50%) Mockito
4 5 (62.50%) SAP
4 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (62.50%) Electronics
4 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
4 5 (62.50%) Finance
4 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing

Java Software Engineer 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Gradle
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) JUnit
2 5 (62.50%) Liquibase
2 5 (62.50%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (12.50%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (62.50%) Electronics
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
2 5 (62.50%) Marketing
2 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (62.50%) Kafka
3 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
3 5 (62.50%) React
3 5 (62.50%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) JavaFX
4 1 (12.50%) Swing
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
4 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 5 (62.50%) Programme Management
4 5 (62.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) UML
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle