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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 7 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 2.79% 4.38% 6.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.58% 14.58% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £463 £406 £381
25th Percentile £481 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +23.86% -32.31%
75th Percentile £531 - £445
90th Percentile £535 £571 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £356 £440
% change year-on-year +15.94% -19.09% -20.00%

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 31 48 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 12.35% 30.00% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 30
10th Percentile £365 £350 £313
25th Percentile £427 £373 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £490 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +22.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £580 £510 £445
90th Percentile £600 £545 £644
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -2.86%
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 £25.42 £15.56 £25.00
% change year-on-year +63.34% -37.76% -34.62%

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 22 February 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 -4 7 £525 -3.67% 3
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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) Gatling
4 1 (14.29%) Gradle
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) Express.js
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (28.57%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Istio
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet