Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Java Developer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Java Developer daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 17 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.87% 4.53% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.01% 5.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 0
10th Percentile £444 £369 -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.29% - -
75th Percentile £549 £438 -
90th Percentile £565 £458 -
North East median daily rate £488 £380 -
% change year-on-year +28.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 424 216 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.58% 88.89% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 138 111
10th Percentile £163 £263 £188
25th Percentile £350 £329 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £477
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -10.90% -13.27%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £580
90th Percentile £588 £641 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 39
10th Percentile £14.34 £14.71 £11.50
25th Percentile £19.56 £14.74 £12.13
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.75 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +156.00% +34.02% -20.06%
75th Percentile £55.00 £31.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £41.78 £60.00
North East median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £15.73
% change year-on-year +3.94% +193.58% -56.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Tyne and Wear

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 17 £488 +21.12% 3
South Tyneside - 1 £450 -
Java Developer
North East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Tyne and Wear region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) TDD
3 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
4 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
4 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
5 7 (41.18%) AWS
5 7 (41.18%) GitLab
5 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
5 7 (41.18%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Pair Programming
5 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
6 6 (35.29%) BDD
6 6 (35.29%) Docker
6 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 6 (35.29%) Terraform
7 5 (29.41%) Scrum
7 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
8 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
8 4 (23.53%) Argo
8 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
8 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
8 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
8 4 (23.53%) Kafka
8 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (23.53%) Node.js
8 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
8 4 (23.53%) QA
8 4 (23.53%) Quarkus

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
3 3 (17.65%) Mockito
4 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
1 4 (23.53%) Node.js
1 4 (23.53%) Quarkus
1 4 (23.53%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (17.65%) JAX-RS
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Express.js
3 1 (5.88%) Flask
3 1 (5.88%) MERN Stack
3 1 (5.88%) React
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Mac OS X
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) TDD
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Pair Programming
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) BDD
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) Scrum
6 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
7 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
7 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
7 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
7 4 (23.53%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (23.53%) Sprint Review
8 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat