Java Contracts in Northern Ireland

Java
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 8 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 27 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.98% 6.71% 10.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.00% 27.78% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 3 13
10th Percentile £252 £465 £400
25th Percentile £325 £488 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £493 £575 £600
90th Percentile £548 - £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 36 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.74% 24.16% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 38
10th Percentile £273 £318 -
25th Percentile £325 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £517 £505 £530
90th Percentile £627 £575 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £27.03 £19.02 -
25th Percentile £33.86 £23.37 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.85 £31.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% +131.48% -28.95%
75th Percentile £64.47 £31.88 £13.75
90th Percentile £72.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +4 27 £410 -25.45% 29
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) GemFire
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 3 (11.11%) Big Data
2 3 (11.11%) Flink
2 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (7.41%) HBase
3 2 (7.41%) Impala
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) DB2
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 14 (51.85%) Banking
3 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (29.63%) Investment Banking
5 6 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (18.52%) Front Office
6 5 (18.52%) Law
7 3 (11.11%) Financial Institution
8 2 (7.41%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Developer
2 20 (74.07%) Java Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Java Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Software Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Core Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Junior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Junior Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Junior Java Software Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Junior Java Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Junior Software Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Junior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 9 (33.33%) JSON
1 9 (33.33%) React
2 8 (29.63%) Kafka
2 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
3 7 (25.93%) RESTful
3 7 (25.93%) Web Services
3 7 (25.93%) XML
4 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 6 (22.22%) Spring
5 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Equities
2 7 (25.93%) Derivative
3 6 (22.22%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
5 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
5 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
6 3 (11.11%) Credit Risk
6 3 (11.11%) Fixed Income
6 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
2 10 (37.04%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 8 (29.63%) Microservices
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (22.22%) User Experience
7 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (18.52%) Low Latency
7 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.81%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (11.11%) Change Management
9 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.11%) Data Management
9 3 (11.11%) High Availability
9 3 (11.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Kotlin
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Sybase