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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Java 52 19 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 28.73% 8.44% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.18% 35.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 47 16 0
10th Percentile £237 £391 -
25th Percentile £269 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £459 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% - -
75th Percentile £402 £533 -
90th Percentile £449 £593 -
East Midlands median daily rate £361 £453 £588
% change year-on-year -20.33% -22.98% +20.20%

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 85 54 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 46.96% 24.00% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 46 39
10th Percentile £260 £356 £211
25th Percentile £313 £377 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £430 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +14.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £430 £500 £416
90th Percentile £488 £588 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -5.41% -2.86% +5.42%
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 21 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 21 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 +10 52 £340 -25.89% 16
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 (9.62%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Confluence
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (3.85%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.92%) Apache
5 1 (1.92%) CICS
5 1 (1.92%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 7 (13.46%) GCP
3 5 (9.62%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (9.62%) Amazon S3
3 5 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (9.62%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) Serverless
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.92%) Apigee
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.92%) Kong
6 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTP
2 3 (5.77%) HTTPS
2 3 (5.77%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) DMZ
3 2 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
1 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.62%) Big Data
2 5 (9.62%) Hadoop
2 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.69%) Apache Hive
3 4 (7.69%) HBase
3 4 (7.69%) Impala
4 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospike
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) DB2
6 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (40.38%) Jenkins
2 16 (30.77%) Selenium
3 14 (26.92%) Cucumber
4 8 (15.38%) Maven
5 7 (13.46%) Git
6 6 (11.54%) JUnit
7 5 (9.62%) JIRA
7 5 (9.62%) REST Assured
7 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
8 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
8 4 (7.69%) GitLab
8 4 (7.69%) Gradle
8 4 (7.69%) IntelliJ
8 4 (7.69%) Mockito
9 2 (3.85%) HP UFT
9 2 (3.85%) Introscope
9 2 (3.85%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.85%) NetBeans
9 2 (3.85%) Subversion
9 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (26.92%) Banking
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Automotive
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Java Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Automation Tester
3 10 (19.23%) Tester
4 8 (15.38%) Architect
5 7 (13.46%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.62%) Junior
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Junior Automation Tester
7 3 (5.77%) Junior Tester
7 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) Spring
2 16 (30.77%) HTML
3 14 (26.92%) Hibernate
4 13 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 12 (23.08%) Kafka
5 12 (23.08%) RESTful
6 10 (19.23%) jQuery
7 9 (17.31%) CSS
7 9 (17.31%) REST
7 9 (17.31%) Web Services
8 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
9 6 (11.54%) J2EE
9 6 (11.54%) OAuth
9 6 (11.54%) OpenID
10 5 (9.62%) DOM
10 5 (9.62%) JPA
10 5 (9.62%) LDAP
10 5 (9.62%) RAML
10 5 (9.62%) React
10 5 (9.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.77%) State Machine
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Life Science
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
2 2 (3.85%) AIX
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Agile
2 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (40.38%) CI/CD
4 17 (32.69%) Test Automation
5 16 (30.77%) Microservices
6 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.38%) ETL
7 8 (15.38%) Scrum
8 7 (13.46%) DevOps
9 6 (11.54%) API Development
9 6 (11.54%) API Testing
9 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (9.62%) Data Transformation
10 5 (9.62%) Design Patterns
10 5 (9.62%) Scenario Testing
10 5 (9.62%) Service Delivery
11 4 (7.69%) Event-Driven
11 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.08%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.62%) Scala
4 4 (7.69%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.85%) C
7 1 (1.92%) COBOL
7 1 (1.92%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) GDPR
1 3 (5.77%) HIPAA
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) HDFS
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (3.85%) CA Wily
3 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Oracle
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) IBM
3 5 (9.62%) Ping Identity
4 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 3 (5.77%) Veracode
5 2 (3.85%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.92%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.92%) HP
6 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.92%) Solace
6 1 (1.92%) Teradata