Java Developer Contracts in Northampton

Java Developer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Java Developer daily rate in Northampton is £326, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 20 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.07% 0.79% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.46% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £281 - -
25th Percentile £298 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £326 £398 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% - -
75th Percentile £364 £406 -
90th Percentile £387 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £326 £398 -
% change year-on-year -17.99% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 112 123 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 96.85% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 94 96
10th Percentile £266 £333 £200
25th Percentile £358 £356 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +11.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £500
90th Percentile £560 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £433 £400
% change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.16% +24.13%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
% change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Northampton

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Northampton

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Northampton

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Northampton region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) JUnit
3 3 (60.00%) Maven
3 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Confluence
3 3 (60.00%) Node.js
3 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Gradle
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (40.00%) Kafka
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
2 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
3 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (60.00%) Node.js
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) J2EE
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Kafka
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) JPA
5 1 (20.00%) React
5 1 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (20.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (20.00%) Veracode