Java Contracts in Northern Ireland

Java
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 7 23 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.79% 11.50% 15.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.88% 38.33% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 17
10th Percentile - £400 £444
25th Percentile - £445 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +16.01%
75th Percentile - £600 £538
90th Percentile - £650 £554
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +21.05%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 32 60 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 21.92% 30.00% 36.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 40
10th Percentile £318 - £346
25th Percentile £353 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.22% +12.53%
75th Percentile £500 £535 £500
90th Percentile £525 £620 £551
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £19.02 - -
25th Percentile £23.37 £13.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £13.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £13.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% +21.88% +14.94%

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
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 23 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
County Antrim -9 7 - - 26
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 1 (14.29%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
1 1 (14.29%) Spatial Data
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) NUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
2 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Tester
2 2 (28.57%) QA Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) GIS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
1 2 (28.57%) System Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
1 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ESRI