Java Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Java
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 7 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.84% 1.25% 4.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.07% 5.88% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile - £419 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £438 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -18.60% -8.51%
75th Percentile - £456 £653
90th Percentile - - £726
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £362 £478
% change year-on-year +10.65% -24.41% -6.68%

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 58 34 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 15.26% 21.25% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 32
10th Percentile £306 £380 £414
25th Percentile £412 £394 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £541
90th Percentile £597 £674 £609
East Midlands median daily rate £470 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +14.63% -8.89% -3.01%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Java job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
Nottingham -12 6 - - 19
Java
East Midlands

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) Ant
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Java Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Architect
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Lead
5 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ADO
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) PLM
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet