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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Java 1 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.59% 5.70% 9.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% 16.98% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 15
10th Percentile - £350 £393
25th Percentile - £406 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile - £613 £700
90th Percentile - £710 -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £402 £500
% change year-on-year -10.89% -19.65% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
East Midlands median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 36 53 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 21.30% 33.54% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 46
10th Percentile £380 £413 £350
25th Percentile £394 £469 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £525 £518 £650
90th Percentile £648 £575 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £425 £474
% change year-on-year -2.94% -10.29% +5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +169.51%

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 16 October 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
Nottingham -12 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python