Java Contracts in Northamptonshire

Java
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Java 27 19 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 18.49% 9.69% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.37% 43.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 0
10th Percentile £251 £391 -
25th Percentile £273 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.96% - -
75th Percentile £412 £519 -
90th Percentile £532 £548 -
East Midlands median daily rate £397 £451 £538
% change year-on-year -12.13% -16.05% +7.50%

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 57 44 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 39.04% 22.45% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 37 40
10th Percentile £269 £356 £212
25th Percentile £322 £381 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £435 £313
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +39.20% -21.88%
75th Percentile £440 £500 £400
90th Percentile £499 £521 £500
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -64.29%
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Northamptonshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Northamptonshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Northamptonshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Northamptonshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northampton +3 27 £357 -19.78% 40
Java
East Midlands

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (14.81%) Confluence
3 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.70%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon S3
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (18.52%) Serverless
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Apigee
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.70%) Kong
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Big Data
1 5 (18.52%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Hive
2 4 (14.81%) HBase
2 4 (14.81%) Impala
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospike
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (33.33%) Selenium
3 7 (25.93%) Cucumber
4 5 (18.52%) JIRA
4 5 (18.52%) Maven
5 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 4 (14.81%) JUnit
6 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 3 (11.11%) IntelliJ
7 2 (7.41%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Gradle
7 2 (7.41%) HP UFT
7 2 (7.41%) Introscope
7 2 (7.41%) LoadRunner
7 2 (7.41%) Mockito
7 2 (7.41%) NetBeans
7 2 (7.41%) REST Assured
7 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
7 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (7.41%) Subversion
General
1 7 (25.93%) Banking
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Automotive
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Junior
4 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Scala Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Junior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) HTML
1 10 (37.04%) Kafka
2 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (22.22%) CSS
3 6 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 6 (22.22%) Spring
4 5 (18.52%) RESTful
5 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 4 (14.81%) J2EE
5 4 (14.81%) jQuery
5 4 (14.81%) Node.js
5 4 (14.81%) Web Services
6 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (11.11%) REST
7 2 (7.41%) .NET
7 2 (7.41%) Ajax
7 2 (7.41%) HTML5
7 2 (7.41%) JPA
7 2 (7.41%) Spring Integration
7 2 (7.41%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Life Science
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) AIX
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) Microservices
3 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
5 6 (22.22%) ETL
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (18.52%) Data Transformation
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
8 3 (11.11%) Budget Control
8 3 (11.11%) Contingency Planning
8 3 (11.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 3 (11.11%) Open Source
8 3 (11.11%) Project Planning
8 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Scala
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.81%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.41%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) HDFS
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) CA Wily
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
1 2 (7.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Splunk
1 3 (11.11%) Veracode
2 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
2 2 (7.41%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (7.41%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.70%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft