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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 5 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 2.13% 4.00% 8.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 14.63% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £463 £382 £387
25th Percentile £481 £487 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +23.86% -29.46%
75th Percentile £531 - £647
90th Percentile £535 - £700
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £356 £464
% change year-on-year +12.92% -23.23% -11.67%

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 26 41 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 11.06% 27.33% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 36
10th Percentile £360 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £393 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £495 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% +14.45% -13.50%
75th Percentile £576 £521 £641
90th Percentile £705 £545 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +11.75% -11.11% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £7.58
25th Percentile - - £9.09
Median hourly rate - £12.92 £12.78
Median % change year-on-year - +1.10% -51.74%
75th Percentile - - £16.35
90th Percentile - - £17.79
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £41.75
% change year-on-year +33.87% -57.58% +9.18%

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 23 January 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 -8 5 £525 -3.67% 13
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Istio
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet