Java Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Java
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 24 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -20 +18
Contract jobs citing Java 26 8 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.66% 3.29% 25.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.10% 11.27% 50.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 74
10th Percentile £350 £269 £420
25th Percentile £375 £403 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -21.74% +2.00%
75th Percentile £473 £501 £688
90th Percentile £523 £530 £725
North East median daily rate £390 £501 £575
% change year-on-year -22.08% -12.96% +12.20%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 81 71 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 33.20% 29.22% 49.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 139
10th Percentile £325 £351 £398
25th Percentile £358 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £452 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -20.00% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £665
90th Percentile £575 £549 £760
North East median daily rate £438 £465 £565
% change year-on-year -5.81% -17.79% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year +9.47% +16.56% -4.12%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Tyne and Wear

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Java in Tyne and Wear

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Tyne and Wear

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Tyne and Wear

Java
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 within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 26 £390 -17.94% 70
Java
North East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.85%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Kong
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (15.38%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
1 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.69%) Metadata
2 2 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
1 7 (26.92%) GitLab
2 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (15.38%) Artifactory
4 4 (15.38%) gulp
4 4 (15.38%) JUnit
4 4 (15.38%) Maven
4 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 4 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 15 (57.69%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Electronics
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Marketing
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 5 (19.23%) Test Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (15.38%) HTML CSS Developer
4 4 (15.38%) HTML Developer
4 4 (15.38%) React Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.69%) Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Node.js
2 6 (23.08%) Kafka
2 6 (23.08%) Spring
2 6 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 4 (15.38%) Apache CXF
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) Dropwizard
3 4 (15.38%) Express.js
3 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) JAX-RS
3 4 (15.38%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (15.38%) MERN Stack
3 4 (15.38%) Mongoose
3 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (15.38%) React
3 4 (15.38%) Sequelize
4 3 (11.54%) WireMock
5 2 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 6 (23.08%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) BDD
3 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy
4 4 (15.38%) API Testing
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (15.38%) Microservices
4 4 (15.38%) Open Source
4 4 (15.38%) Operational Stability
4 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
5 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (11.54%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
5 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
5 3 (11.54%) Service Management
6 2 (7.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Virgin Media
2 3 (11.54%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft