POJO Contracts in the North West

POJO (Plain Old Java Object)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring POJO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POJO over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing POJO 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
England median daily rate £510 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

POJO 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 439 385 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.03% 16.01% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 271 451
10th Percentile £313 £350 £337
25th Percentile £374 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £611 £611
90th Percentile £614 £825 £650
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 21
10th Percentile £27.20 £42.11 £37.80
25th Percentile £29.00 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -23.88% +45.08% -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.69 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £72.92 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £58.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.15% -2.33% -

POJO
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing POJO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for POJO in the North West

POJO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for POJO in the North West

POJO
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 POJO within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Merseyside - 4 £510 - 1
POJO
England

POJO
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes