JCE Contract Job Trends in the North West

Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JCE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.033% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £613 - £550

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

JCE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 619 420 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.54% 20.95% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 310 396
10th Percentile £350 £360 £356
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £564 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 4 23
10th Percentile £52.50 - £39.28
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 £46.03
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.62%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £71.87
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

JCE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JCE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

JCE job vacancy trend in the North West

JCE
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JCE

JCE
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 JCE within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
Cheshire - 1 £613 -
JCE
England

JCE
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode