Java Developer Contracts in the North West

Java Developer
England > North West

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North West is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 116 89
Rank change year-on-year +15 -27 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 40 41 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.44% 1.27% 2.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.34% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 75
10th Percentile £343 £438 £425
25th Percentile £425 £485 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £644 £700 £688
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £58.00
% change year-on-year -34.75% +27.16% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,622 3,055 3,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.64% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 2,198 2,821
10th Percentile £281 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 138 178
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.51 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer 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 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North West

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer 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 25 April 2024. 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 +30 33 £525 -20.75% 12
Cheshire -9 4 £311 -43.45%
Lancashire +7 3 £625 +85.19%
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (65.00%) AWS
3 25 (62.50%) Spring
4 24 (60.00%) Agile
5 20 (50.00%) REST
5 20 (50.00%) Spring Boot
6 19 (47.50%) Microservices
6 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
7 18 (45.00%) Hibernate
8 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
9 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
10 14 (35.00%) Front End Development
10 14 (35.00%) JPA
11 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
12 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
12 11 (27.50%) Unit Testing
13 9 (22.50%) Git
13 9 (22.50%) RESTful
13 9 (22.50%) JUnit
14 8 (20.00%) Scrum
14 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
14 8 (20.00%) Spring Security
14 8 (20.00%) Observability
15 7 (17.50%) Design Patterns
15 7 (17.50%) GitLab
15 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
15 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
15 7 (17.50%) DevOps
15 7 (17.50%) Node.js
15 7 (17.50%) High Availability

Java Developer 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 4 (10.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
3 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (22.50%) Git
2 9 (22.50%) JUnit
3 7 (17.50%) GitLab
4 4 (10.00%) Liquibase
4 4 (10.00%) Log4j
5 3 (7.50%) Maven
6 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) Mockito
6 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) Spring
2 20 (50.00%) REST
2 20 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 18 (45.00%) Hibernate
4 14 (35.00%) JPA
5 9 (22.50%) RESTful
6 8 (20.00%) Spring Security
7 7 (17.50%) Node.js
8 6 (15.00%) Kafka
8 6 (15.00%) React
8 6 (15.00%) Web Services
9 3 (7.50%) OAuth
9 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
9 3 (7.50%) OpenID
10 2 (5.00%) J2EE
10 2 (5.00%) WireMock
11 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (2.50%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (5.00%) Derivative
1 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) Agile
2 19 (47.50%) Microservices
3 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (35.00%) Front End Development
5 11 (27.50%) Unit Testing
6 8 (20.00%) Observability
6 8 (20.00%) Scrum
7 7 (17.50%) Design Patterns
7 7 (17.50%) DevOps
7 7 (17.50%) High Availability
8 6 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.00%) TDD
9 4 (10.00%) Low Latency
9 4 (10.00%) Multithreading
9 4 (10.00%) Open Source
9 4 (10.00%) SDLC
10 3 (7.50%) OOP
10 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft