Java Contracts in the North West

Java
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 36 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 141 168 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.13% 5.21% 7.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.64% 17.99% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 129 241
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £633
90th Percentile £628 £682 £675
England median daily rate £575 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile £45.88 £27.03 £28.88
25th Percentile £47.79 £33.95 £33.50
Median hourly rate £68.75 £40.30 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +70.62% +1.43% -9.71%
75th Percentile £74.63 £43.39 £42.62
90th Percentile £82.35 - £46.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
North West

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 683 934 1,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.85% 28.97% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 715 1,075
10th Percentile £325 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £588
90th Percentile £610 £656 £663
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 32
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £36.40 £19.66
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -3.36% +23.53%
75th Percentile £69.53 £50.87 £54.38
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.01 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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 +13 106 £495 -15.53% 65
Cheshire -14 25 £489 -11.09% 5
Lancashire +10 9 £638 +70.00% 10
Cumbria - 1 £575 -
Java
England

Java
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 9 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.26%) Apache
2 6 (4.26%) Confluence
3 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.84%) Mule
5 3 (2.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.77%) AWS
2 13 (9.22%) Azure
3 10 (7.09%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.38%) Serverless
5 8 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.55%) Apigee
7 5 (3.55%) Kong
8 4 (2.84%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.13%) GCP
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub
9 3 (2.13%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.71%) Collibra
11 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.71%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) FTP
1 5 (3.55%) HTTP
2 3 (2.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.71%) DNS
3 1 (0.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.06%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.67%) MySQL
3 7 (4.96%) Big Data
4 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.55%) OLAP
5 5 (3.55%) OLTP
5 5 (3.55%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.55%) SQLite
6 4 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.84%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.13%) HBase
7 3 (2.13%) Power BI
8 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (19.86%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.18%) JIRA
3 16 (11.35%) Git
4 15 (10.64%) Android Studio
5 13 (9.22%) Cucumber
6 11 (7.80%) Mockito
7 10 (7.09%) JUnit
8 9 (6.38%) GitLab
9 7 (4.96%) Selenium
10 5 (3.55%) Gatling
10 5 (3.55%) Maven
11 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.84%) Liquibase
11 4 (2.84%) Log4j
11 4 (2.84%) Postman
12 3 (2.13%) Gradle
12 3 (2.13%) JMeter
12 3 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (2.13%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.42%) TestCafe
General
1 26 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.22%) Banking
3 11 (7.80%) Finance
4 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (49.65%) Developer
2 37 (26.24%) Java Developer
3 29 (20.57%) Senior
4 20 (14.18%) Android Developer
5 17 (12.06%) Senior Developer
6 16 (11.35%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Data Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Java Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (7.09%) Test Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Architect
12 6 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
13 5 (3.55%) AWS Architect
13 5 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 4 (2.84%) AWS Developer
14 4 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.66%) RESTful
2 35 (24.82%) Spring
3 25 (17.73%) Spring Boot
4 23 (16.31%) REST
5 22 (15.60%) Web Services
6 18 (12.77%) Kafka
7 15 (10.64%) Hibernate
8 14 (9.93%) JPA
9 12 (8.51%) React
10 11 (7.80%) Node.js
10 11 (7.80%) OAuth
10 11 (7.80%) OAuth2
10 11 (7.80%) OpenID
10 11 (7.80%) XML
11 8 (5.67%) JSON
11 8 (5.67%) Spring Security
12 7 (4.96%) .NET
12 7 (4.96%) J2EE
13 6 (4.26%) HTML
13 6 (4.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.55%) DataPower
3 5 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.42%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.42%) Derivative
5 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.60%) Android
2 8 (5.67%) Unix
3 4 (2.84%) Linux
4 2 (1.42%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (41.84%) Agile
2 36 (25.53%) Microservices
3 29 (20.57%) Software Engineering
4 27 (19.15%) CI/CD
5 26 (18.44%) Test Automation
5 26 (18.44%) Unit Testing
6 22 (15.60%) Design Patterns
7 20 (14.18%) Android Development
8 19 (13.48%) DevOps
8 19 (13.48%) OO
9 18 (12.77%) Scrum
10 15 (10.64%) Front End Development
10 15 (10.64%) TDD
11 12 (8.51%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (7.80%) OOP
13 10 (7.09%) API Management
13 10 (7.09%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.09%) Observability
14 9 (6.38%) Data Engineering
14 9 (6.38%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.31%) Python
2 22 (15.60%) Kotlin
3 14 (9.93%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.09%) C#
4 10 (7.09%) PHP
4 10 (7.09%) SQL
5 9 (6.38%) Scala
6 5 (3.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.84%) Go
7 4 (2.84%) Groovy
7 4 (2.84%) Perl
7 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.13%) C++
9 2 (1.42%) C
9 2 (1.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.55%) Degree
5 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.71%) GxP
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.84%) Ansible
3 4 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.42%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (8.51%) Oracle
2 8 (5.67%) IBM
3 6 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.55%) Informatica
4 5 (3.55%) Talend
4 5 (3.55%) TSYS
5 3 (2.13%) Nintex
5 3 (2.13%) Pega
5 3 (2.13%) SAP
6 2 (1.42%) Google
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.71%) Confluent
7 1 (0.71%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.71%) New Relic
7 1 (0.71%) Teradata