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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 21 6
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +22
Contract jobs citing Java 27 12 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.49% 5.06% 19.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.71% 17.65% 46.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 45
10th Percentile £375 £267 £382
25th Percentile £380 £364 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £410 £565
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -27.43% +2.73%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £700
90th Percentile £575 £520 £751
North East median daily rate £455 £425 £565
% change year-on-year +7.06% -24.78% +15.90%

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 68 68 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 28.94% 28.69% 41.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 87
10th Percentile £327 £325 £370
25th Percentile £380 £393 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -20.35% +7.62%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £700
90th Percentile £575 £550 £775
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £560
% change year-on-year - -19.64% +6.67%
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 £39.34
% change year-on-year +9.47% +20.74% -20.53%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +12 27 £455 +5.81% 87
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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Documentum
2 2 (7.41%) FileNet
3 1 (3.70%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Kong
2 4 (14.81%) Serverless
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (29.63%) MongoDB
2 8 (29.63%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) Cucumber
3 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
3 5 (18.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (14.81%) Artifactory
4 4 (14.81%) gulp
4 4 (14.81%) JIRA
4 4 (14.81%) Maven
5 3 (11.11%) JUnit
6 2 (7.41%) Selenium
7 1 (3.70%) Postman
7 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
General
1 18 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) HTML CSS Developer
4 4 (14.81%) HTML Developer
4 4 (14.81%) React Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Documentum Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) Node.js
2 8 (29.63%) Spring
2 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.81%) Apache CXF
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) Dropwizard
3 4 (14.81%) Express.js
3 4 (14.81%) Hibernate
3 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) JAX-RS
3 4 (14.81%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (14.81%) MERN Stack
3 4 (14.81%) Mongoose
3 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (14.81%) React
3 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 4 (14.81%) Sequelize
3 4 (14.81%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
4 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) API Testing
5 4 (14.81%) BDD
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (14.81%) MVC
5 4 (14.81%) Open Source
5 4 (14.81%) Operational Stability
6 3 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (11.11%) SFIA
7 2 (7.41%) Content Management
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Risk Management
8 1 (3.70%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.70%) TDD
8 1 (3.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) COBOL
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Virgin Media
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) OpenText